We had a great stay at Marco and Laura’s apartment. The apartment had a ton of space, lots of amenities (ex. kitchen and washing machine), was clean, and was in a wonderful, less touristy location. Marco was great at communicating and gave lots of good advice like getting to the train station and restaurants to visit.
A few tips:
- Venice is a maze no matter where you stay - so take the hosts up on the offer to meet you in the square (Campo San Polo) nearby
- bring/own your own laundry detergent if you want to do laundry
- Pasticceria Rizzardini nearby is great for a morning coffee and pastries and the gelato stand in the square nearby has great and inexpensive gelato
- think about getting a multi-day ACTV transit pass, it’s likely worth it if you will use the vaporetto (public transit water bus)