Our family of 4 had a great stay in Venice at Martina's Rialto Market apartment. We arrived in the early afternoon after an overnight flight from the US and were exhausted, but Martina was kind enough to meet us at the Rialto dock and walk us over the bridge to her apartment. Venice is very hard to navigate, particularly on limited sleep, so we were grateful for the help.
The apartment has 2 bedrooms one bathroom (shower, no tub), and a small kitchen/eat in area. The larger bedroom has a queen size bed and balcony overlooking the busy street below. The smaller bedroom has 2 twin beds, so the layout was perfect for our family.
Martina has put together a large folder with all the details you need to maximize your time in Venice, including maps, instructions on using the washer, directions to the nearest supermarket, and restaurant tips in neighborhoods near and far. Her restaurant suggestions turned into some of the best meals we had on our visit.
The apartment location has its positives, and one negative. One positives is that it's just a few steps to the Rialto Market, which is a great destination first thing in the morning for fruit and snacks for the day. We didn't buy any fish but it was always fun to visit the fish market each morning to see the day's catch. There are many nearby cichetti bars that utilize what's available at the market each day... some of these places are even open at breakfast time, so when we tired of brioche, we found ourselves eating cichetti throughout the day. By the end of our stay we were drinking wine for breakfast, so it's probably a good thing we left when we did...
The location is also perfectly centrally located in the city as a whole. We could walk to basically every major site in Venice within 15 minutes (assuming we didn't get lost, which we did). The nearest vaporetto stop (Rialto Mercato) is about 2 minutes away.
The only negative is the crowd noise. People use the street below the apartment to walk from Rialto to San Polo and it's very crowded late into the night. It's nice to experience the nightlife, but with the kids we had an early bedtime, and there were a couple of nights when we were awoken by the hooting and hollering of random passersby after midnight.
That said, the apartment was a great value and Martina is a superhost in every sense of the term. We can't wait to go back to the city and hope we can stay there again when the time comes. Thanks Martina!