I will start by saying that the apartment itself is very nice and is in a very convenient area of Venice. Our experience wasn’t great, but it was a series of unfortunate events that neither the host or I could fully take responsibility for. Our flights to Venice were delayed by over 8 hours, so our trip started out rough. Because of this, we arrived in the evening after the phone stores were closed, so we were not able to get a SIM card that first night. Venice is a maze and very difficult to navigate, so we struggled to find the door to the apartment (it’s down a very narrow, dark alley that you wouldn’t assume is meant for walking down at all). Once we arrived, the only option was to call the host to let us in, and we had no service. We ended up having to borrow a waiter at a nearby restaurant’s phone and even then, we had to go back a couple more times to get straight what we needed to do to get inside. Then as we were plugging in our electronics to charge for the night, I put a converter into an outlet and the power in the entire apartment went out. We tried fiddling with the circuit breaker to no avail, and of course, I couldn’t call the host because I had no phone service and the WiFi was down without power to the router. So we had to sleep and get ready in the morning with no power. Also, at 2:00am, the woman upstairs kept buzzing our door to get let in for some reason. We didn’t know who she was or who lives there, so we didn’t feel comfortable unlocking the door, but she kept buzzing the loud buzzer constantly in the middle of the night until we let her in. I also asked the host for recommendations on how to get to the train station from the apartment and did not get a response. Simply put, the experience could have been a lot better, especially for the price!