I definitely recommend staying here if you want to escape from the main tourist areas of Venice. The apartment is ideal, especially the cute little balcony in the double room. There are great restaurants about a 3 minute walk away - ask where the Argentinian restaurant is! There is also yummy Italian restaurants where you can sit near the canal. It's about a 40 minute walk (slow whilst taking in the sites and snapping photos etc) to St Mark's Square. Masa was really friendly and was so helpful when we asked lots of questions about Venice :-)