Staying at B&B Canal was overall a good experience with a few minor obstacles. We arrived during a public transportation strike (which happens frequently in Italy), so the vaporettos were not running. We were left with two options- 1) Walk about 40 minutes down several streets and over many bridges (they have stairs) to make it to a particular vaporetto that is guaranteed during the strikes to take you to the island of Guidecca (location of the B&B). It is literally just across the grand canal. We attempted to walk to that location but decided after lugging our bags up the staired bridges, we had enough. Option 2 was taking a water Taxi for 60 euro- yikes! But much better than lugging our bags. We arrived at Guidecca (Sacca Fisola stop) in about 5 minutes. Francesca was not ready for us even though we were late, so we waited for her to clean the bathroom for about 45 minutes. Our room was fairly nice- spacious and clean- and directly looking out towards the water. Francesca was very helpful in suggesting restaurants because the food in Venice is really overprices and not as good of quality compared to Rome/Florence. She was also very helpful with directions. Vaporettos 2 & 42 get you back to Guidecca. Breakfast was not what we anticipated after coming from another Air B&B host in Florence who made us a delicious breakfast each morning. Still, staying on Guidecca was nice as it's quieter than the main island of Venice, but still easy to get over to Venice city center.