Hi – So I’ve searched and read the reviews and have narrowed my Venice hotel selections (for March 11—14) to these hotels. I know there is still too many on my list. Please advise me on these. I am putting total prices here so you can judge if these appear “good" for the rates. I expect that these are all nice hotels from the positive reviews, but now I'm wondering about value.

FYI -- I will be staying with my sister – we are looking for a good location, nice hotel (not expecting luxury, but as close as we can get to it), service etc. A view would be great, but not at the expense of staying at a much nicer hotel. Venice is our city where we will spend relatively more than in Rome or Florence.

- Hotel Bouvecchiati, Double Superior, 490E for 3 nights (all prices are based on my 3 night stay)
- Hotel Ala, still awaiting rate
- Hotel Antico Doge, Junior Suite, 545 E
- Hotel Principe, Double Grand Canal View, 510 E
- Hotel Marconi, Double Superior, 470 E
- Hotel Giorgione, Double Superior, 420 E

Thanks in advance!

Hi t,

We have stayed at the Marconi.

Excellent location, very nice staff, pleasant rooms, decent Italian bkfst.

We have stayed at the Ala and definitely will again. It is nicely located on a small canal and a quiet piazza about 10 minutes walk from St. Marks Square and about 1 minute from a vaporetto stop. THe staff is great.

I know you have a long list already, but I'd recommend you consider the Foscari Palace. For the prices you're quoting you would be staying in a luxury hotel (right down to the frette linens and sound system), in a fantastic location right next to the Ca'd'Oro vap stop. This hotel is on the Grand Canal and the staff is super. Also, I have never encountered a breakfast buffet anywhere that would even come close to theirs. Check out the reviews on tripadvisor.com. I spent 6 nights in Nov. with my DH but am planning a solo return for this Nov.

In 2003, my travel companions and I stayed at the Hotel Principe. One of my favorite photos is the one I took from their patio of the sun rising over the Grand Canal.

Great hotel - good breakfast. Definitely a good deal. It's close to St. Mark's Square and Vaporetti Stop #1, which is a good launching point.

Enjoy your trip to Venice!!!! It's a great city.

We *loved* the Marconi....cannot comment on the others.

Hope you receive good advice as I'm flagging this post for future reference.

We absolutely loved the Pensione Accademia, where we had a nice room with a lovely view of the small garden. (Their canal view rooms are of a small canal, not of the Grand Canal.) It is much less expensive than the places you are considering. The breakfast was great in June 2004. The staff was great. If I return to Venice I will definitely stay there again. It's in the dorsoduro area of Venice, just a short vaporetto ride from the crowded San marco area.

I vote for Foscari Palace. We stayed there last year and it was/is one of the nicest hotels we have ever experienced. The breakfast is excellent as well as the staff. Great location.

Try the following hotels:

La Calcina (www.lacalcina.com)

Ca Del Dose (www.cadeldose.com)

Both hotels are very inexpensive and the staff are very nice and will help with all your needs.

We stayed in a junior suite at the Antico Doge in June of 2004. It was lovely - friendly, knowledgable staff, terrific quiet location, but still a very pleasant walk, about 10 minutes to San Marco. Our room had a lovely bedroom, a small separate room with a single bed for our son, and a beautiful bathroom. And it was perfectly air conditioned - crucial that month! Breakfast was good, not outstanding. But I must say those prices are high! I think we paid 375e in June . . . maybe 400e. Wow, inflation. About the view - even in March, I think I prefer a quiet room to risking the noise from a piazza or canal . . .

I believe texstout's price quotes are for all three nights combined, rather than per night.

I can only comment on the Hotel Ala. We stayed there on our honeymoon in '99, and are staying again in March. Both times, we got a VERY good rate for a canal view room. Huge room, smallish bathroom but quite adequate. Good breakfast. The hotel is attractive and the staff was friendly. We really look forward to going back.

I checked the Accademia and La Calcina for this trip, and the rate for the superior room at Ala was less than each of those, so it was an easy choice for me.

Wow, good reading comprehension there on my part, huh!

Thanks everyone. This is so exciting/stressful. Incidently, Hotel Ala is supposed to be 130E a night for a superior room...

I guess I am going to forward all of this information to my sister and let her come up with the final answer.

See soon more questions I have on my trip

Hotel Basilea. Near the railway station. Quiet side canal. Small. Much less cost than the ****.