Fantastic location! You can definitely explore the city by starting walking from there. You will get lost but that's actually enjoyable in Venice. 😄Some tips here: don't rely on your smartphones GPS; mark your location in an old fashioned paper map and keep it with you or at least write down the name of the apartment location -> tell people "S. Basilio" and they will understand. We got badly lost the first night. Both phones died and I couldn't remember the exact name of the location. We were wandering around for 3hours (from San Marco - it's 25min straight way back to the apartment :)). Learnt our lesson. There is a water bus stop close by the apartment. Venice is a beautiful and super romantic place! We will definitely come back! The only downside for this spacious place was that it was very very hot (we were there in the beginning of August). So we couldn't actually enjoy staying there. But I can't and won't downvote for this because the place is advertised without AC. I just didn't expect it to be so hot in Venice that's why I didn't care about it when booking the place. But to be fair an AC seems to be uncommon for private homes in Venice for what we saw. One small minus I would give this place for not having a lock (or at least no key for it) on the bathroom door. When we come back we just wont come in summer - then we'll definitely try to stay here again! Thank you! Ulrich