Advantages: Lively, interesting and different. Disadvantages: A bit expensive
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There are over one hundred islands and over 150 canals, these are all divided into six districts. The wise traveller will look at a map of Venice before they book up their apartments. One couple I spoke to at the airport had a terrible journey and ended up in a hotel outside of Venice and had to travel in every day, not an exciting prospect for a short trip.
A cheap Ryan Airways flight will take you to the small Treviso airport which is 19 Kilometres from Venice; however a 10 euro return bus ticket will take you straight into Venice and fortunately for us a five minute walk to our accommodation. It is possible to fly into Venice's Marco Polo airport but with a different airline costing more money.
We were close to the bus station and water station which one would think was noisy but we were in the opposite direction with no cars ...
teacherofhooch 18.02.2006
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Advantages: Absolutely breath taking views around every corner. Disadvantages: Very expensive packed during the day with day trippers.
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I was under strict instructions to make sure I was off duty for my birthday but unfortunately I was unable to arrange to have the time off until the following week for what was supposed to be a special birthday surprise.
Unfortunately due to a couple of circumstances beyond our control I actually found out that my birthday treat was to be a trip to Venice. I couldn?t believe it as I have always wanted to go there but never imagined it would happen this way. I would have probably gone into heart failure had I found out about it at the airport so it was probably for the best I found out about it anyway.
Unable to cancel the trip we decided to go ahead with the visit and boy was I surprised and excited.
The night before the trip to Venice we had gone to London to see a show and to have dinner and due to an oversight ...
garymarsh86 24.09.2009 (26.10.2009)
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Advantages: Great location, comfortable, quiet, secure Disadvantages: Single bedroom a little basic
Last November I took my third trip to Venice. It hadn?t been my intention to go at all; this holiday was a joint birthday present from me to my parents but they insisted that I go along with them to show them around. Venice is a beautiful and unique city, so how could I refuse?
◄Discovering Hotel Campiello►
I discovered the Hotel Campiello on my second trip to Venice a few years ago. We were on a 10 day trip to Italy and had decided to spend most of the time in Rome and Florence, trying to leave 2 or 3 days free to include Venice. We had booked our hotels in Rome and Florence in advance but left the booking of the Venice leg until we were in Rome. We were staying at Hotel Paba in Rome (itself a gem of a place) and told the owner that we were thinking of booking into one of the big luxury hotels in the Venice Lido for 2 ...
