Advantages: Well located and an excellent price Disadvantages: Very hard to find and lack of facilities
We've been enjoying taking advantage of some very cheap budget flights recently and my girlfriend found us a couple of cheap seats to Venice (okay, Treviso, but it's only a bus ride away!)
Having never been to Venice and having no idea of where to stay I needed to find a cheap hotel and found this place on Hotels.com/Expedia for around £45 a night. That's a cheap price as far as I'm concerned so I went ahead and booked, using a voucher for the booking site brought the cost down to £40 a night, a price I was certainly happy with.
Hotel Background
The hotel was opened in late 2008 and is located in the area of Castello. The building is a former palace, dating from 1362, but you won't find a lot of ancient features. They like to point out that Casanova has stayed at the palace in the past. The name 'Bragadin' is from the man who ...
Advantages: Nice pool, pleasanr helpful staff, appartment very clean Disadvantages: Bathroom stunk of drains, kitchen antiquated, no kettle, toaster or hairdryer
in the car and go and explore for a while.
SUNSHINE MAKES EVERYTHING LOOK GOOD:
We made our way up to the pool area and were pleasantly surprised by a couple of big pools, lots of sun loungers and umbrellas, a couple of quiet bars and a restaurant. It all looked quiet, sunny and inviting. We sat down and enjoyed an iced tea and toasted sandwiches. We had been up since 2am and I had only had a cup of coffee and water so I was quite hungry by now. The waiter was lovely and the food was fine. We were getting quite positive vibes and when we went back to reception they said our apartment was ready we were almost on a high.
MAYBE I SPOKE TOO SOON:
We drove around to near our apartment and went up to the top floor, no lift but we are quite fit so that is not a great problem. We struggled with the old key in the lock and eventually got in. It ...
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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