Venice city centre holiday apartment

What a wonderful place to call home for our 6 days in Venice. The apartment was cosy, immaculate (at least before our 3 kids moved in) and had all we needed (toilet paper, towels, dish soap, other necessities). After our apartment in Florence, which offered a single saucepan as its cooking supplies, I was thrilled to find a really well-stocked kitchen with plenty of plates, pots, pans, and also staples, like olive oil and salt. Although we ate out some, we also shopped at the local markets (including the fish market in Campo Santa Margherita) and had some wonderful meals! We also enjoyed the garden, where my daughter kept an eye on a bird hatching her eggs right in the jessamine vine. And we even got maid service in the middle of our stay! Sleeping 5 would be a bit of a squeeze long-term since we have 2 teenagers but it was very do-able for a short-term stay.

And the location in Dosoduro could not have been better. We had wanted to avoid the tourist crush of San Marco during Easter week, and we did! We were in a neighborhood where the kids walked to school in the morning, the nonas walked to the market, and Venetian life went on all around us. We walked a little further to see the sights than we would have had we been in San Marco, but the evening quiet and the chance to see a living Venice far outweighed the additional 10 minutes of walking. It's delightful to be near the Zattere, and the best gelato in Venice at Nico's, which we visited every day. Plenty of markets nearby, good local restaurants (La Bitta was special!), and a church with stunning art on every canal corner. The housekeeper arranged a water taxi for us to get to the airport for our early morning flight -- an exciting way to leave Venice if you have to. I would recommend this apartment to anyone, and will make every effort to stay there again when I return to the magical world of Venice. Barbara, the owner, was wonderful to deal with, as were Maria and Natasha.