It is an attractive quirky flat, situated in a pleasant area not far from the Piazzale Roma the big bus station connecting the airport, the train station and the People Mover to the Cruise terminal. If you plan on walking, it’s quite a difficult journey with luggage going over 4-5 busy bridges, so it might be good to travel light, and suggest other apartments might be more accessible if you are in an older age bracket!
It was quite tricky finding the house, but that is probably the same for any newcomer to Venice!
The terrace would be lovely in the summer, and the apartment was quite spacious. The whole apartment was spotlessly clean.
It would have been nice to have some starter provisions.
We struggled to find the the light switches which were hard to find in the dark, and in very strange places. For example, the kitchen light switch was in the bedroom, some switches didn’t turn any lights on and there were many light switches around.
There is a brand new sauna in the middle of the sitting room.
The shower room and toilet were hard to use! The toilet is very high with a wobbly seat that’s too small. There is a glass box arrangement which you have to assemble to have a shower.
We were very cold the second night and there seemed to be no option to turn the heating up, and we could not find enough blankets.
We could have left our bags in the apartment for 20 Euros, but the bus station has a bagagli (left luggage) for 7 euros, there was also a charge of 20 Euros per night for linen for the sofa bed.
Paola was very helpful, however as a newcomer to Airbnb, some of our messages crossed and got lost, and we could have used more information. For example, we had told her we were taking a cruise, and really needed to know about the people mover to get to the cruise terminal, which is actually an exhausting and unnecessary trial without it. I did ask lots of questions, some of which the answers had already been sent, but on a different method, so suggest just using AIRBNB for messages so they are just in one place. Sorry if I was a nuisance!!