The apartment is perfect , the location is excellent. Cannaregio is a great area with everything you'd ever need. Great restaurants and local shops, supermarkets and coffee/pastry shops. Follow the Via Strada along and your easily into the San Marco area with all the sites to see. We bought the weekly Vaperetto ticket which is great value as we were going to to do the islands also and very easy rather than buying individual tickets each trip but we easily could have just walked everywhere as we enjoyed doing a lot of walking also.

On arriving late because of a delayed flight we were given help including phone calls to to our evening reservations to make them aware we were going to be late and advice on how to get there. Thank you Olympia who also arranged a water taxi for our return to the airport at a better price than through the tours.

Great advice on the area and great restaurants. I do have to recommend Paradiso Perduto just a short stroll away with fabulous seafood and live music. Monday night you'd have thought it was a Saturday, very popular for its great atmosphere and food. Real Italian family hustle and bustle inside but we waited for a candle lit table outside and then enjoyed watching as more and more people arrived for drinks to add to the atmosphere.

The kitchen is well equipped with full size fridge freezer, dishwasher, washing machine, oven and hob and the cupboards stocked with great coffee, sugar and condiments. We did sit on the balcony at various times of day and even when it rained you kept completely dry and watched the world go by and that is very interesting in Venice on the Grand Canal. Thanks Francesca for a lovely place to stay, we'll be back.