Well - this kind of apartment is the best that you can find in Venice for a short or a long term stay. We have spent here a week that was just fabulous. We are frequently coming to Venice - have stayed in different luxury hotels (including Aman, Gritti, Bauer, etc.) and also apartments in different parts of the city and can rate this apartment as the most comfortable, silent and well positioned compared to all of our previous stays. First - of course Giudecca - don't be nervous on that it is a separated island - you can get to most of the attractions even faster from here that from the part of the Grand Canal from Rialto to Cannaregio for example. The cross of the Giudecca Canal from Palanca station (5 min walk from the door) takes just 2-3 minutes and you are on Zattere with a 5 minutes walk to the Museums of Academia and +10 minutes walk to the San Marco area. Also you can take the opposite direction from Redentore station (4 min walk from the door) and get to San Marco directly in 10 minutes approx and just 2 stops + 2 more stops and you are near Arsenale and further to Giardini for the Biennale and further to Lido, Murano, etc. But then you get back to your silent and residential Giudecca, go to one of the supermarkets - Coop on your way from Palanca station for the wider choice of products compared to Prix just next to Redentore station that is also very nice, spend some money for the finest Italian dishes that are already cooked even better that in some restaurants and priced really reasonable compared to the restaurant prices that are really high in Venice, take a bottle of wine and go home to have a wonderful dinner in a huge living room with fully equipped kitchen that we used for breakfast and dinner every day. We never went to a restaurant during our stay here - no need - the pasta that we cooked with the sauce, vegetables and cheese from Coop spending 7-15 Euro including a bottle of wine was even better than a compared minimum 50 Euro dinner in a restaurant. Once we had a pizza in a family run pizzeria on the way from Palanca station and it was very nice. An important life-hack is that you can buy local Veneto wines from the producers for a price of 2,2 Euro per liter - we passed by this kind of shop next to San Basilio station and came back there once again - the wine was just great. But getting back to the apartment - the view could not be better - a silent garden! Yes - to see trees from the window is priceless in Venice + the top of the Redentore cathedral + old gondolas that stand in the garden below. Absolutely best view in the city as any water view that we have...