Venice Hotel
 

Hello all,
I'm planning a short 5 day suprise birthday trip with my wife to Venice in June. We've never been there and wonder where you folks would recommend we stay. Time is short so we want to be in the center of the fun. Budget is flexible but we don't need to waste money either.
Thanks for any recommendations!
Fred

If you use the "search this forum" box, you can bring up a lot of good threads on the topic. Some general things to consider: places tucked back away in the city can be surprisingly hard to find, even mid-range hotels may lack elevators, you want to be in Venice proper rather than Lido or Mestre, Venice hotels are expensive. Some nice central ones: Gabrielli, Danielli, Gritti Palace, Londra Palace. For more moderate hotels, you might look around on venere.com to see what you find. We stayed recently at Wildner Hotel (convenient location, great view, decent breakfast, but 4 flights of stairs, 220e per night).

One of the nicest hotel experiences I've ever had: Locanda Orseolo.

Does this hotel have balconies overlooking the canal or just windows?
http://www.locandaorseolo.com/en/rooms.htm
This one looks great too
www.lacalcina.com
Anyone else familiar with these?
Thanks for all the great help. This is my first post. Lots of help!!!
Fred

If you mean June this year, you're unlikely to get in at either of those. Do you mean this year ?

Yes. In three weeks. I'm in dreamland huh?
Any other suggestions?

Yes, I have stayed at Pensione La Calcina twice (that's why I posted the link). It is fabulous, reasonably priced, but very popular so I'd be surprised (pleasantly, but surprised) if they could fit you in. Fax or telephone and ask about your dates TODAY, is my best advice.

Definitely check out Venere.com. They offer accommodations at all price levels in all areas of the city. You can check out customer ratings there as well ... and they are not always positive. We booked most of our hotels through Venere last Spring and were very pleased with all of the hotels ... reading the reviews meant there were no suprises.

Check out Casa Rezzonica. It's not real fancy but in a nice neighborhood with nice rooms and bathrooms and a nice garden out back.
http://www.invenicehotels.com/carezzonico/rooms.htm

Sorry, Redsled : when I stayed at La Calcina last June, I'd booked the previous October - and still had to move rooms halfway through our stay. Venere.com is a good tip, though - I've used them several times & as well as showing you what's available in your preferred area, they can be quite a bit cheaper than the hotel's own rates.

Redsled:

We really enjoyed the Locanda al Leon (http://www.hotelalleaon.com) which was quite near the Piazza San Marco. No view per se, but the room we were in had a little balcony with a view over the rooftops. They appear to have availability from 11-14 June, if that fits with your plans.....

Apparently last minute accomodation in Venice in summer is a bit hard to come by. Good luck with Venere!

carrie

Great help THANKS!
Anyone ever stay here www.casaverardo.it
Hotel Casa Verardo?
I found it on Venere.com .
Looks nice and they have a nice canal-view room.
Should I book it now?
Fred

Check www.tripadvisor.com for hotel reviews.

It looks nice and is very central : if there's nothing much negative on Tripadvisor, I'd say go for it.

We're staying at Ca'Angeli. It has good reviews and wasn't outrageously expensive. We even got a view of the Grand Canal.

Fred, I hope you booked Casa Verardo. It looks very nice and the tripadvisor reviews were pretty uniformly great. Please post a review here when you get back.

We stayed at the Hotel Arcadia in the Carnareggio section of Venice. Just around the corner from the train station. Spacious room, quiet and nice location. Hope this helps

Fred- With a trip in June, I would book whatever you have found as long as it looks nice enough and is reasonably located.

I second hotel Locanda Orseolo.

They do not have balconys but the rooms are very romantic and big. But he thing that sets this hotel apart is the staff they are UNBELIEVABLE!! They will do anything for you and make all arrangements, they call you by your first name from the start to finish and never forget it making you feel like your not another guest.

I wouldn't stay anywhere else in Venice but here!

My husband and I are planning a trip to Italy in August. After hours and hours of searching, reading this forum, and checking out reviews on TripAdvisor, we decided on Ca' del Dose for our Venice time.
http://www.cadeldose.com/index.htm
Check it out; and have a GREAT time.

It would take a miracle to get a room at Locanda Orseolo for June.

How many years in advance does one make a reservation at Locanda Orseolo now? :)

It is very difficult to get a reservation nowadays.

Well,I wouldn't say years,but more than one month!

We just stayed for 3 nights at the Ca'San Trovaso in the Dorsoduro sestiere almost smack-dab between the Zattere vaporetto stop and Ca'Rezzonico - a nice walk to the Accademia bridge, short stroll to Campo San Margherita, and nice hop to both of the San Trovaso trattoria, the Taberna & Giardina. We ponied-up for one of the canal view rooms (2 windows!) at 130 Euro/night. The collazione was basic (roll, croissant, juice, espresso coffee), but delivered to our room at a time we'd requested, nice! We had a few skeeters buzz us, but it was nice sleeping with the windows open - the morning sounds weren't a rude awakening as I'd heard on some of the busier canals. btw, you're as close to anything you'd like to see here in the Dorsoduro - in fact a lot closer to the Guggenheim - and you can reach anything by hopping the vaporetto from the Accademia stop.

On a side note - the woman working the daytime desk gave me one of the best Italian lessons I got on this trip: "succo d'aranjia" is more like s-s-s-soookoh dee-arahn-cha ;-) still not sure if I should stick with the "shock-a-trah" pronounciation for the wine! http://www.casantrovaso.com/

I think it's more than one month in advance for L. Orseolo's reservations now. Of course, it depends on the season. But I tried requesting about 6 mos. in advance and still they were booked.

Forget it. All these people who give you references to places like :a Calcina re wasting your time. Decent places in Venice are fully booked 4-6 monthes in advance.