Recommendations For a Hotel - Venice, Italy [closed]

Venice is an expensive and small place. You can pay thousands of euros a night to stay steps (and they mean steps) from San Marco. But even if you're within sight of the train station, you're no more than an hour from San Marco on foot, quicker with the vaporetti. When you're searching the various travel sites, any hotel that is actually in Venice itself as opposed to the mainland will be close enough to everything for you.

When I went, we were lucky - we found a place that many people literally cannot find. We downloaded a YouTube video showing the walk from the vap stop to the hotel. Without it we would have been one of the unhappy people who won't use this hotel. It was less than a one minute walk from Marco Polo's house, super close to everything we wanted to go to, quiet and luxurious. (The hotel was Cà Bragadin Carabba for those who want to know, but that's not the point.) The point is to search the travel sites, look where the hotel is, and choose one within your budget that is in the right section (sestiere) of town. For example, Castello is the closest to "normal" with less restaurants, tourist sites etc. San Polo and San Marco are the most touristy. If you locate the things you want to go to, you will get an idea of the "vibe" of the different parts of the town.

Some people don't want to stay on Guidecca because you need to take a vap to get to anything. I didn't think that would be an issue for me - then again I didn't stay on Guidecca. We were just 5 minutes from Rialto and that made it trivial to find restaurants, stores of every kind, whatever we wanted. Just understand the scale you're dealing with - you walk everywhere, and its very small.

I assume that the max EUR150 is for 1 room, per night.

Hotel Le Isole

Campo San Provolo - Castello 4661, Castello, 30122 Venice

The hotel gets a review score of 9.4 from booking.com and quite classy. If you book from booking.com, it will be exactly EUR150 pernight. But note that city tax is not included.