We came to Venice as our third stop after Rome and Florence for our Honeymoon vacation.
GREAT LOCATION!
Beautiful apartment, yet disappointing. First impression of this apartment was that it was on the top floor and we knew there was going to be a lot of stairs but there was supposed to be a “chair lift”. We thought a chair lift would be an elevator that would allow for at least one person to sit and be lifted to the top floor. It was more of a luggage carrier that went up only the longest flight of stairs, can carry a person standing (<125kg) so my husband was not able to ride it. He needed lift more than me. With lift, still have several flights to climb.

When we arrived in Venice it was very hot and humid and we knew the apartment was air-conditioned yet when we arrived it was over 90˚F and it took us over 12 hrs to cool it down to a comfortable temperature. It would have been nice it the hostess would have cooled the apartment down for us, or at least started it.

The vaporettos were on strike the day we arrived so we had to take a taxi, and Veronica met us down by the water to walk us up to the apartment promptly. She was very easy to get in touch with on the free texting app Whatsapp. Although she started pestering us about 4 weeks before our arrival date for the time of our train arrival time. I kept telling her that we hadn’t booked out train yet, but she kept messaging me asking over and over, meanwhile I’m worried about preparations for my wedding and now I’m getting pressured to book our train tickets.

I highly recommend downloading this free app so that you don’t get charged because she will message you a lot.

Another thing we didn’t think was very cool was that she made us pay cash 50 euros for cleaning fee and cash for tourist tax while every other apartments that we rented included all those fees into the cost of the rent per night. The first thing I look for if they make sure things are “cleaned” before you arrive is the bathroom and the shower looked scummy and there was water in the bottom and it looked gross. It was nice like a hotel that she provided robes, especially since the bath towels were so small I couldn’t even wrap my hair up in them.

Big nice Tv but disappointed there was only Italian tv. It would be nice that for the price we paid per night to stay here that there was NetFlix or satellite tv or some other option for tourist to watch tv or movies, since its most likely most tenants are tourist.

No welcome basket like all other apartments we stayed. I would have thought for the price it would be nice if she included a few staples or some snacks.