A great little flat, really centrally located for getting into Venice quickly and easily. It has everything you need (note the key to the bathroom also opens the cupboard next to the front door, where you'll find the sun umbrella and the fuse box!) and is in a quiet block of flats. Lovely sunny balcony for breakfast and dinner (we found it too hot for lunch!) and plenty of space for the four of us. We had a very friendly and helpful welcome from Silvia's friend, who gave us lots of tips. Having a parking space was really useful.
The tram stop couldn't have been handier, and you don't really hear it from the flat. Turn right out of the flat for a newsagent that seems to be open most of the time to sell you tram tickets. Mestre is much bigger than we first thought, which meant it had everything we needed, although we didn't spend that much time there, spending much of our time in Venice (15 mins on the tram) or going out on day trips to Verona, Treviso, Sirmione and Aqualandia (water slide theme park). We also spent an afternoon at the park at San Giuliano, which is huge. A wander into the old centre of Mestre is worth doing, though.
Would certainly recommend Aladino's pizza place at no. 15c and the ice cream shop a few doors up from the flat (turn right) was good too. We cooked for ourselves most of the time and the kitchen is well equipped for everything we needed, although there's no oven.
We had a wonderful time here.