We stayed at this inn for four nights in March and what a pleasant experience it was. I think the…read moremost charming aspect here is their location. About a two minute walk from the Rialto Market and Grand Canal and minutes from many of the main sites, this was an ideal spot for us to begin our adventures in Venezia. We stayed in the Vivaldi room which was a top floor, almost attic type room. It was cozy and perfect for our stay. It had an attached bathroom (important to know this when booking a room in Italy) and our little section of the inn was very quiet. Our ceiling window opened to let in the cool breeze and ringing of church bells. Amazing. Breakfast was downstairs in a lovely dining room. Our server (his name escapes me) was so kind and by the second morning remembered how each of us took our coffee. He also came to let us into the B&B when we managed to lock ourselves out one evening, talk about customer service. Our host, Barbara, was incredibly helpful during our visit. She recommended restaurants, offered to call in reservations, mapped out our day-to-day activities and helped us check in to our online flight reservation. One word of caution...this inn is on the third floor with no lift so if you aren't a fan of stairs or are unable to climb them, I would suggest finding different accommodations. Venice was our first stop in Italy and this B&B was really so instrumental in our stay. I look forward to the day that we return to Venezia and say ciao to La Villeggiatura.

I recommend Hotel La Villeggiatura. Even though I had problems which required me to cut my time in…read moreVenice short and head back home I enjoyed my short stay in the hotel and would stay there again. The room was beautifully decorated. It was quite large and pleasant especially by European standards. The hotel is well located for touring yet just enough out of the main areas where tourists congregate to be a little quieter and calmer. It is also located a fairly short distance from the dock where the water taxi will drop you or pick you up (60€ from the Venice train station and 100€ from the boat dock at the airport). One of the things to consider if you are carrying very much luggage is how many of those picturesque but steep little Venetian bridges there are between your arrival point and your hotel. There are none between the water taxi point and this hotel.

Fantastic accommodation in venice, our room was clean and very comfortable…read more Big suite with 4 beds, ideal for our family. Price ok.

Beautiful guesthouse in Venice, near St. Mark's square. Room was very well furnished, Wifi was free…read moreand breakfast aboundant. Overall a very good impression.

Not sure why there are so many bad reviews, this place has been amazing! Great location in the…read moreheart of Venice and within very short walking distance to San Marco Square. Little tricky finding the main entrance, but Venice itself is somewhat of a maze! Nice, clean and cozy room with a great view over a square and restaurant. Very old-timey style in the lobby and room with Italian artwork and fixtures-- it had so much personality and fits right in with the city. Great price for the location as well, one of the most affordable in the area. Highly recommend!

We booked this spot on Hotels.com, just because it was extremely cheap. Basically, we had to choose…read morebetween a janky, semi-gross spot in the center for cheap (Citta), or spend more for something nicer. We were only staying one night before we switched hotels, so we chose Citta di Milano. So this place is extremely hard to get to (like everything else in Venice). Once you're there, it's definitely not much to look at. HOWEVER, the check-in guy was the HOTTEST MAN I've ever seen in my life! Seriously, he was a classically good looking Italian man. Anyway, back to the hotel. The lobby is tiny, you have to climb up a bunch of stairs and the public toilets were kind of gross. Our room was kind of grim (yellow bedsheets, plain bathroom, old furniture) and was located on the 2nd floor. All in all, I was kind of disappointed with the room but sucked it up, because we were only there for one night. HOWEVER! We were traveling in March and didn't realize that there are mosquitos everywhere, but it's not time to turn on the air conditioner. On top of that, the staff had the heater in the bathroom on FULL BLAST and wouldn't turn it off when we asked. The result is an extremely stuffy room and disgusting room. We tried to make the best of it, but no dice. After a nap, we went downstairs to ask for a fan or something. The lady behind the counter spoke 0 English, and her solution was to change our rooms. The result? We had a master suite on the 1st floor! Lesson learned: If you stay at the Citta, stay in one of the meh rooms on the 2nd floor, then wait awhile and ask to switch to the first floor where it's possible to turn off the bathroom heaters. Absolute score, but I wouldn't stay here unless I had another one of those fancy rooms again.

We certainly chose well when booking the Hotel Gorizia. Our "pros" were the excellent value -…read moresuper convenient location between Rialto and San Marco - large bathroom - great water pressure in shower - large bath sheets - nice breakfast. Our "cons" were few - very spotty Wi-Fi - hairdryer weak (bring your own, especially if you have long hair) - no place to put clothes in the bedroom - had to live out of suitcase - hard bed. We were on the third floor in room 51. We were concerned that there might be noise from the street, but it was fine at night. The staff were extremely accommodating and friendly, especially Veronica at the front desk and Ken in the breakfast room.

I am a fan, a nice hotel on the island. The rooms are small, but well appointed, there is no…read moreelevator so you will tote luggage upstairs. Great place for the money! The breakfast is good and tasty, cute view of other buildings and quaint. The lobby doesn't look like much, but you will be out walking or should I say strolling.

The place looks lovely but do not book through Vacation Apartments Venice. (Not sure if they are…read moreeven a legitimate company) Two months ago, I booked a room for 8 nights over Easter weekend. We negotiated a good price and settled everything through Whats App. I paid and received an invoice and was told that it was non-refundable for any reason. We purchased air tickets (also non refundable) Less than a week before arriving, I receive a bizarre text that they have to cancel my reservations because a "family of 9" had covid in the building and they have to shut down for 14 days. Oddly enough, we have a friend staying there during the same time and the place is open and full. They obviously double booked or got a much better offer as prices are through the roof this Easter weekend and almost everything is booked up. They do not respond to phone calls or messages. We're stuck now with non refundable flights and no reasonable lodging options for our long planned vacation. Do not book here.

Beautiful boutique hotel ten minutes walk from the Rialto bridge…read more The rooms are spacious and nicely furnished, with generous en-suite facilities. Breakfast was OK, but nothing to write home about. The staff were friendly and native English speakers, happy to recommend places to eat or visit.

My wife and I were treated to a two night stay at the Majestic Toscanelli as part of a business…read moretrip. We came to Padova after an incredible stay at the Urban Hotel in Trieste, Italy. I must saw we were not impressed. Right from the beginning the staff at the check in was not welcoming, nor friendly, frankly. The junior suite was nice, clean but dated. Lighting was poor. Each time we went in and out of the hotel we were never greeted with a welcoming "good morning" or "good afternoon" and at check out we were just told the bill was all settled. We left with the distinct impression that hotel does not need our business and we will surely take it elsewhere in our next visit to the nice city of Padova. The breakfast was disappointing; scrambled eggs looked reheated, boiled eggs were left out overnight, milk was overly warm,... The only bright spot were the cleaning and serving staff who were a pleasure to talk to and made our stay comfortable.

Lovely boutique hotel in the heart of the historic part of Padua surrounded by the ancient cobbled…read morestreets of the city. Try and get the Giotto suite as it is well worth the extra (great bath tub).. Service is friendly and rooms comfortable and clean. We did not eat in the hotel as the offerings and choices around about the restaurants near the hotel are endless and delicious. Parking is available for a fee.

This was a pretty little hotel, which was more like a B&B. We let the owner know when we were…read morearriving and a young man met us and carried our bags to our room. We had a spacious and very comfortable room on the canal, which provided lovely breezes. The breakfast room was cozy and had the continental breakfast options that you would expect in Italy. The staff was friendly and attentive. Carlotta loved practicing her English skills in conversation with us and was quite helpful with transportation and directions. I would definitely stay here again.

I really, really wanted to love it here, but I just didn't…read more Murano doesn't have a lot of places to stay, but I was keen to spend the day before and the day after our cruise on Murano instead of in Venice proper, so we needed 2 separate nights in a hotel. I booked Murano Palace for both but ended up cancelling the second night and going elsewhere. Basically it is a small, family-run place that is much more like a B&B than a hotel. The owner wanted us to call when we were at the airport but that would have been expensive, so we just emailed and said we were on course for our arrival time. You see, they don't staff the building except when they know people are coming. So that's awkward. We got to the hotel about half an hour early and the door was locked, so we buzzed and waited and waited and buzzed and knocked and nothing. Finally I emailed and said we were waiting and the door was opened for us. There's no lift and the stairs a bit awkward when you're dragging luggage and there's no offer of help. The lights have to be pushed on every time (and you need a special key to have them on in your room). The lady who checked us in was nice but didn't really speak English. Our room was not the cheapest in the hotel but wasn't a canal view - it was, in fact, right next to the reception desk. The window opened up onto nothing, except the kitchen window - so they could see right in our room if we didn't have the curtains drawn. And it was warm but the air conditioning wasn't on so we wanted the window open... not great. But the bed was comfortable, and the bathroom large. The TV is tiny and doesn't have any English channels. There is a minibar with a few free items which is nice. When we checked in we had to decide what time we wanted breakfast the next day, which was annoying. As it was, we didn't much want to get up for breakfast after a terrible sleep - the walls are paper-thin, and there was a late check-in, and people talking in the corridor throughout the night (not at all loudly but they might as well have been right in our room). So we traipsed to our unwanted breakfast and met the male owner, who was friendly but a bit overbearing. As we don't drink coffee we might as well not have bothered - we were each given a warm bread roll and there were a few pastries but that was pretty much it. But that's to be expected, and Italians don't really do breakfast. Long story short - if you like the B&B feeling, want to feel 'part of the family', and have good earplugs, you'll love it here. We didn't.

We chose DHG thinking it would be nice to have a relaxed hotel away from the maddening crowds of…read moreVenice. What we didn't think about was transportation to the main center. Yes, it's a 20 min boat ride to Piazza di San Marco - and you have to take the boat from there it seems. So, if you're at the northern parts of the islands in the evening, it's a 30 min walk through Venice to get there. Having said that, can you really give a 1 star review based on location? Hmm, maybe, but here there's more. What really put me off with this hotel was that when we got our rooms, the sheet was dirty. Right next to my pillow. Maybe it was makeup that had been smeared out, maybe it was something else, who knows. Either way, I don't want it next to my head when sleeping. Thus, I went out and asked them to change it. Sure, no problems, they will change it tomorrow during the cleaning. Eh, WHAT?? No understanding, no excuse, no attempt to fix it. I ended up changing the sheets myself, which is not really a problem - except that I expect not having to do that in a 100euro/night room... So, service was mixed. What about the room itself? It was good sized and nicely decorated. The bed was comfortable and the pillows as well. It was really cool to have the canal just outside the window. Big minus that the AC only had an on/off mode (where the on mode was several celcius too cold - yes, we asked them to have a look at it, and they did. Nothing happened with it.). Free Wifi in the lobby, no wifi at all in the room (outlet for ethernet cable available). Come on, this is 2014?! Breakfast was probably the highlight of the hotel, best one we had in Italy by far. Was especially impressed that they also had dark rye bread! Minus for nothing being labeled - the plain croissants mentioned in one review were really nice, but they were easily mistaken for the ones with a sweet filling (same box, different shelves, looked identical). Coffee, as in all other Italian hotels I've stayed in was from a machine - ironically enough with all Italians having good espresso all the time.

The best way to the hotel is taking the water bus and get off at Guidecca. You'll have to walk…read morethrough a narrow alley to get to the hotel. The rooms are really small for 3 people. It cost about $200 a night USD during the weekend I'm staying at in May. Free breakfast every morning. The free wifi doesn't work in our room. You'll have to stay in the lobby to get connect. They make you return the key to the lobby everytime you leave your room in order for them to clean it. Our blow dryer wasn't working properly bit we were too busy to complain. There is only one person working at the front desk. A short walk from the hotel to the water bus. Most stores in the area are closed on the weekends. The water bus will take you to San Marco in about 10 mins and it runs very frequent. If you're taking the water bus to the airport, you have to buy a separate water bus ticket. The water bus terminal to the airport is about 15 min walk from the hotel and the ride takes about an hour.