Hotel Locanda Gaffaro, Venice

Advantages: LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION
Disadvantages: NONE

...We actually stayed in the Anex of Hotel Colombia that is called LOCANDA REMEDIO. You use the checkin of the Colombina, then they take you thru the back yard, DO NOT LET THIS DETER YOU. You then enter the Anex climbing a stone stairway that opens into a Beautiful Salon, this is where you will have breakfast, superb compared with small breakfast room in the main Hotel. The staff come across in the morning and set the tables in the Salon. The rooms around the Salon vary in size, some quite small (This is Venice) but all encharting. Location, 100 yards from Saint Marks. Cost we usually get a Double with Breakfast in March for about £40 to £50 a night. 2008 cant wait.... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, Clean, central
Disadvantages: Can be a bit noisy if you are a light sleeper

...I recently stayed in a great little 1 star hotel in Venice for two nights. The hotel was called the Locanda Fiorita. It is about 5 mins walk from St Marcs square (THE hub of Venice) and is easily accessible from the airport from waterbus. We arrived very late, (1am ish), and it appeared that the front desk is manned 24 hours a day as there was someone there again on the last day when we left particularly early. The rooms are large and comfortable and I think ours was a bit larger than most as we also had a lounge, (when do you get a lounge in a hotel room of any calibre let alone a 1 star!). The room was quite quiet with occasionally a bit of noise, and all the amenities you require (i.e. bathroom / soaps towels / wardobe / BED!) plus a TV above the bed with about 50 channels. Breakfast was included and we were given vouchers... Read review

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Advantages: Great hotel, great location?
Disadvantages: Perhaps too big!

...Last year in the Sunday supplements I read about the new Hilton Hotel that had just opened in Venice and they had comments on the wonderful views and the roof terrace. As we had booked to visit Venice in March of this year, and had been several times before this was an opportunity to see another view of Venice from a different area. I had read that it is a large hotel and thinking about Venice and the size it must be out of the main Venice tourist area, we had not seen any building work on that scale the year before. The Hilton hotel is in the Giudecca area of Venice away from St. Mark's Square. We had to catch a water bus from San Zaccaria, over to Zitelle and then just wondered along until we arrived at the Hilton which is the other end of Giudecca Island. They do say that Elton John has a house in this part of Venice... Read review

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