Sebastiano’s “sunny on canal a/c wifi apartment was not a great place to stay. Yes, it is in a quiet place and not too far a walk from station Academia sea bus in the Grand Canal and a 3min walk to Zattere sea bus station. It is not run down and has been remodeled but we felt that Sebastiano’s description was off. Sebastiano claims A/C but when you get there you have to pay a surcharge for using the air conditioning of 20€ per day. It stated that it had soap and shampoo, which it didn’t. Some towels had red stains. We paid for a cleaning fee yet the place was not as clean as he claims. Our indoor sandals were black from day 1 and place was dusty. This place is right on the canal so it’s infested with mosquitoes — no screens available on windows so it was impossible to open them and get cool air in. It felt muggy at night & the Upstairs loft was super hot. My cousin had to sleep in sofa downstairs one night since it was unbearable. A few nights you could smell a strong sewer odor. We opened windows the first night and paid dearly. We had to bath with repellent to try to make it through the night. We had to buy tablets to repel the mosquitoes. Knowing this, Sebastiano could have provided a few of them — as they are not that expensive. The clothes washer stunk bad and had mold in the tray for detergent and on the door rim. We decided to not use it and looked for laundromat —that was a useless amenity!
Sebastiano gave us directions to his place which were horrible. He could’ve given us options or guided us to get to his place.
We found out later that Zattere sea bus station is a 3min walk from this place and would have take us to Ferrovía train station in less than 15 mins. We used his directions with “g”maps which took us 45 minutes with luggages.(carry-ons). There were countless rules and guidelines. We were warned about a hefty fine of 167€ of which we would pay 50€ from our deposit if we didn’t take garbage out. We had to take our own garbage out daily. We didn’t feel at home and would not recommend this place.