If you go to Venice you must stay at Laura’s place. Full stop. The apartment is amazing: beautifully restored with amazing architectural and design touches, great amenities, thoughtful extras, etc. The host is also amazing: the most thoughtful, communicative, generous Airbnb host I’ve ever had. She even deduced from our documents that my mom’s birthday fell during our stay and bought her a little present. The neighborhood is great, unless you actually want to be in the thick of the tourist hordes closer to the center. You can never get away from tourists/tourism in Venice (and you too are a tourist after all) but Cannaregio is a nice compromise. When I go back, I won’t even have to think about where to stay.