Buckle up, it's going to be a long review. Our stay was two nights. Night one we arrive by plane at 2130. We inform the host, days in advance, of our arrival time who then immediately starts asking for more money for a late check in and keeps asking until we pay it, quickly. No patience at all.
The morning of the day we are to arrive the hosts sends us a message saying that her man, Arrigo, has been trying to call us. We received no calls, no texts, no emails. Nothing. She informs us that if we don't make contact with Arrigo that our check in "can not be guaranteed". This is a highly unnerving message to receive as we are packing our bags for our flight and don't want to be canceled last minute. We immediately contact Arrigo via whatsapp, something he could have easily done for us if he actually had tried to.
We arrive at Venice Airport and after gathering our luggage and taking a bus from the airport we arrive to the area by 2300. After dealing with a completely rude water taxi guy we chose to walk to the Google location we had been provided. Big mistake. Google sent us to the waters edge with no way to cross to the other side. We are in frequent contact with Arrigo as we try to find our way across the main waterway. By 0000 he is telling us that he isn't going to wait anymore. I ask what is it he wants us to do? Sleep in the street? He seems totally unaffected by this possibility and when I ask when we can check in the following day, in case we do stay up and outside all night, he says check in is at 1600. He doesn't even say he will let us enter in the morning.
When I told Arrigo that if he didn't wait longer for us that I would write a scathing review of our experience he became angry, saying that I am threatening him. He goes as far as to say he will report me to Airbnb and show them the messages. What is he going to report? That I'm going to write about my horrible experience of being left in the street overnight or forced to find other accommodations at additional cost?
I ended up offering Arrigo more money to wait a few minutes longer, which he accepted. We eventually found our way across by asking someone in a boat to ferry us to the other side. Had we known of the "Acedemia" bridge I would've first set my GPS to that bridge and then secondly to the GPS of the property. That would've made it work with less headache.
After a night of little sleep we were woke at 6am by the trash boat which parked directly below our window where men threw seemingly endless amounts of garbage and glass into this boat. Needless to say it was quite loud and irritating to listen to. Morning two wasn't the trash boat, but boats delivering supplies to the restaurants. Still a noisy operation with loud banging and men talking and shouting. Don't be a late sleeper if you stay at this property.
The bed is a foldout couch that squeaks like crazy and is only moderately comfortable.
There is a posted sign over the kitchen sink that reads, verbatim... "The cleaning of the kitchen is not included. We will charge on your credit card in case of dirty kitchen."
All in all the studio itself was lovely, the location is lovely, a 10am check out is a little bit early, a late check in could be fatal and we don't like the hosts.