The location is excellent. The apartment is situated in the small Piazza, about 20 minutes walk to San Marco. But you’ll enjoy the walk with plenty of shops and restaurants. We didn’t cook during our stay, but the kitchen was full of supplies for cooking. If you travel light, walking is feasible to the apartment from the train station or parking garage. It's about a 20-minute walk with some stairs to the bridges. We took the water taxi on arrival (a $60-$80 10 minutes ride) but walked to the garage on the day we checked out.
The apartment is nicely decorated, and the size is suitable for a two-bedroom apartment. The host is easy to communicate.
There are rooms to improve privacy, one of the bedrooms was only partially divided from the living room by adding a partition wall in the middle with no door. In the other bedroom, the lock does not latch to close. The half-bath next to the kitchen has no lock. The window watching the gondola was nice, but the curtain only covers 1/3 of the window. It's there for decoration. There are shops across the canal and gondola and commercial boats going rapidly.
On the house rule, the guests must take the trash out or penalty. I feel the penalty is a bit harsh unless it's an extended stay, especially since the cleaning fee was paid. Unlike most apartments, it has a dumpster; you can dump the garbage outside. The instruction was a set time for daily trash pick-up (I guess by boat). We had a tight schedule; we only stayed there for three days; we rushed to the airport at 7 am on the third day, and we couldn't catch the garbage guy at 7:30 am. Good thing that the host agreed for us to leave the trash, which wasn't a lot since we didn't do any cooking. After all, the apartment is lovely if privacy is not a high factors.