Those of us fortunate enough to be return visitors to Venice, will know one thing about rental apartments – location is king. You may have drooled over photographs of the lovely décor, the trendy artwork but most of this goodwill evaporates in after you have struggled to drag your luggage over a few Venetian bridges, “aided” by all the tourists. In this apartment, you have the perfect solution to your Venetian adventure – a great, easily accessible location, allied to a quite lovely, all amenities provided apartment.

Situated a few short steps from the Fondamente Nove water bus stops and up an easily manageable flight of stairs to the “piano nobile” floor - and you’re there. The Alilaguna water bus from the airport is almost as close – but you do have one, easily-crossed bridge to navigate. Even closer than the water-bus stop is one of Venice’s premium restaurants, where you can also take breakfast “over the water”. Catching a water-bus to Murano/Burano/Torcello couldn’t be easier. In the evening the area is very quiet, so you are not disturbed in your slumbers.

The apartment itself is equally good. I have discovered to my cost that a lot of the photographs of rental properties flatter the actual apartment - but not here. As stated in the description, the apartment is in excellent decorative order and everything works as it should. The beds are very comfortable, the kitchen and living area has all you need and the bathroom has a wonderfully efficient shower, plus all the necessary amenities. The wi-fi has decent download speeds and I connected without any problems whatsoever.

Paulo is a wonderful host and supplied us with all the information we needed, including some excellent, good value restaurant and bar recommendations. He was even good enough to text us with a warning of “high-water”, which potentially saved us from getting our feet wet.

My wife and I like to stay in different areas of Venice on our trips, but the quality of Paolo’s apartment will make it very hard not to book here for our next visit.

Grazie Paolo!