The photos were definitely taken with special lighting and a wide angle lens. In reality, the apartment is a little on the drab side without all those special touches you see in the listing.
The apartment is just a couple streets from that area.Saint Marks Square which, if you want to be located there, it’s great. However that area is the most tourist loaded area in all of Venice and it’s almost hard to move through the crowds -there are that many people in that area.
The windows of the apartment faced a private courtyard so it provided a quiet atmosphere except for the normal living and construction work going on in any neighborhood.
The day we arrived much of the public transport was shut down for a regatta. We managed OK, the woman in charge of our check- in stayed in good communication with us and had made easy key provisions ahead of the chaos of our arrival date.
All in all this stay was fine.
Were we to visit Venice again, we definitely would NOT stay in the immediate area of Saint Marks Square but would stay in any other of the districts of Venice-since they are really short walks from each other.Cannareggio would be a nice choice.
Also, if you’re lugging a lot of suitcases, you might want to pick a place near a water taxi dock- Venice is a town of many bridges with steps and of course the cobblestone streets. Regarding that, this apartment had easy access to the water taxi taking us to either the bus or the railway station or the ferry to the mainland.