The accommodation
Marika’s mother Karin checked us in and is a mine of information and was most helpful. Great thoughtful and easy directions to the accommodation too.
It’s very clean, very modern and spacious for Venice, we are a family of 4 with a 6’4” 16 year old son and a fashion conscious 20 year old daughter and we weren’t on top of each other.
Marika has thought of every little thing that you might need, if we had forgotten it, Marika had a spare somewhere.
The accommodation has a small safe, although we used it, it felt just as safe not to.
The air con was very much needed and the property has brilliant blackout blinds.
Although the property has no real outside areas, you are at the end of one of the quietest and desolate streets in Castello, apart from one of the locals who is nursing a baby seagull back to health, but you only see it fly in once a day .... this is one big baby seagull. There is a collapsible table and chairs in the main hall, that you can just put out on the cobbled street and chill with a coffee in the morning or wine in the evening .... we did on many occasions and the only people we met were those who came round the corner and were lost ... sorry it’s a dead end here.
The location
In our opinion Castello is the best.
You are 10 mins walk from St Marks square, but you would not guess it and less from the quiet end of Arsenale and all the boat trips. If you want to get to the main touristy stuff quickly, but get away from it all quicker at the end of the day .... this area is a must. You will get lost in Venice, but that’s the fun of it, if you find something you want to buy, get it there and then as you may never find that place again!!