Let’s start with Valentina. What a wonderful host, super responsive and extremely helpful. We had a few last minute challenges which Valentina resolved for us immediately, despite a slight inconvenience to herself.
The flat is very clean and spacious, with everything you need for a few days stay. Valentina provided us with very clear instructions for remote check-in which was great and reassuring. Location is fantastic , lots of restaurants , bakeries and bars within minutes. Just north of the location by Rio della Misericordia are some really nice bars/ restaurants.
Everything worked as we needed it to, I have seen comments about the noise and the stairs - well if you want to be in the heart of things then that is expected. The stairs are wide and easy to navigate as the apartment is on the first floor and the noise is that rare person walking past below and being extremely loud. You do not hear loud music and there is no bar below where people converge - so for us we had a very peaceful and restful stay. If we come back to Venice again we will definitely stay here again.