Once you get oriented to Venice, this place is in a good location, close to the major sights, but off the noisy tourist trail. There is an excellent restaurant very near by, Osteria de santa guistiana.
However, I would recommend staying with a different host, because Silvia did not make me feel welcome. I apologise for the many details but I think they are necessary.
In the listing, two different boat stops are suggested, but there were no directions for the one I chose. I wrote a message to the host to ask for directions. I got a reply of "get a map and ask people for directions. It's only 5 minutes."
My train was very late arriving and I sent Silvia what's app and Airbnb messages (as she suggested before 2:30) and got no answer.
Venice is very confusing for a first time visitor, and despite asking several people for help and using my GPS, I was lost for over an hour, with a heavy backpack.
I called and messaged Silvia and her mother at least 7 times and got no answer until I was at the bridge next to her house.
A woman put her head out a window and said just a minute, which I thought meant that someone would come down to open the door.
Five minutes later, Silvia put her head out the window and said, why aren't you coming in? In a very angry voice. you have the address, just push the door!
Once inside the apartment, I said I was troubled about being lost and that no one answered my calls for an hour. She proceeded to tell me that "it is impossible that you got lost!", "No one told you to use that stop", "Venice is very easy". She took the map that someone had given me and wanted to point out the way. The print was very small and I was tired and said, can we talk about this later.(I was still carrying my backpack). She continued. Why would you ask strangers for help?? And I never said to use that stop.
I showed her the message i had gotten. She said, oh that was my mother.
NO apology.
I finally put down my pack and asked if I could please use thebathroom and have a glass of water. When I came out she continued to try to argue. I said, look please don't tell me that this is my fault. She said, "but you can't blame me. I don't want you writing a bad review because you got lost". To which I said, no it's not your fault that I got lost, but I can write a review about how unresponsive you've been."
She took me out for five minutes to get more oriented and I never saw her in the apartment again or got any reply to any other messages for three days except for when I wrote to say I would not need breakfast one morning.
Her mother was in the house.
The description shows a queen sized bed, but there were just three very small single beds.
The lighting in the room was very poor, and if you plugged in your phone, the bedside lamp had to be unplugged.
Wifi did not work in the bedroom, just in one small location in the sitting area.
There was a tea kettle but no cups or glasses except for the glass of water I'd first requested.
There was less than half a roll of toilet paper so I had to ration it my first night, because Silvia's mother had already gone to bed when I realized i was running low.
It didn't feel like Silvia enjoyed hosting and I did not feel welcome.
Stay some place else