Kappa Hotel, Mestre

Advantages: Well-maintained, cheaper than central Venice, goos bus links, comfortable, spacious
Disadvantages: Variable service, not a very picturesque location

...I've just come back from a three night stay in this hotel, which is situatued in Mestre - a sort of suburb near Venice. Having never been to Venice, I really wanted to visit, but travelling with four meant hotel rooms are not cheap and hotel rooms in Venice are especially not cheap. So this hotel provided an excellent solution - a few kilometres outside Venice itself makes all the difference to affordability, and clearly Mestre is working on this principle as there are a lot of hotels there. ROOM This one, the Ambasciatori, is four star, and we stayed in what they call a suite. First point - it's not! It is a nice large executive double with a queen sized bed and a walk in wardrobe but it does not have a separate sitting room, so in my book it is not a suite. It has a sitting area in the room separated from the bed by a lattice... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap and cheerful
Disadvantages: A short bus ride from Venice proper

...We booked a trip to Venice on a whim and a bit of a last minute whim at that. There were three of us travelling which is not necessarily the best number for accommodation, we were on a budget, and we were going in July, peak tourist season. In other words, we had to take what we could get. Venice has a huge number of accommodations but they do get booked up quickly and those that are left, one supposes, must either be hideously expensive or have something wrong with them. For this reason, we ended up at the Delfino which looked like a very reasonably 3* place that didn’t cost the earth. The hotel is in Mestre which is a suburb just across the water from Venice, and as such is served by taxis and buses as well as a train station (there are no cars or other road-requiring vehicles on the main island because there are no roads... Read review

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Advantages: cheap food, free transport
Disadvantages: not much to do, the smell of the sewers

...Me and my boyfriend took a short break last month to Venice. We got our flight cheap with Ryanair, £20.00 return each, including taxes which was amazing and we booked our hotel separately. We stayed in a hotel just outside Venice actually in a place called Mestre which was a nice place, plenty of shops. However I did find them quite expensive compared to what we have here in Britain.Mind you I find that when I go to most clothes shops abroad. Anyway we got to Venice ok and asked for some help to find our hotel and got there. We had a nice and warm welcome from the receptionist and she even helped us carry some luggage upto our room. We stayed in the hotel Kappa which was a three star hotel and cost £58.00 for the room on the sat and £52.00 on the sunday to the weds. This also included our breakfast which was good. The hotel... Read review

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