Venice hotel?

dk143

Can anyone please help me find a cheap hotel (or recommend good bargain websites!), as close to the centre of Venice as possible?

There are 4 of us (2 couples) going on 20th May for 2 nights, if that helps! Self catering is fine too. Our budget is about £55 per room per night.

Any help would be much appreciated!

K. x

teddie2003

We stayed at Hotel Salieri, https://www.hotelsalieri.com, in March last year. At the top of Venice near Piazzale Roma. Basic hotel, nothing fancy no house bars/lounge, just clean room with shower & WC. Most of the time we were are out and about, so it suted us. Realy good location when you get off the bus from Marco Polo, only two bridges to cross to get to the hotel.

Breakfast is in the restaurant next door & loads of inexpensive restaurants in the area. Great Pizza restaurant along the Corte Dei Amai on the left hand side walking away from Campazzo Tolentini.

Only 15-20 mins walk from Rialto bridge, but only 5 mins from main waterbus connection at the start of the Grand Canal, so you just buy a 24hr or 36hr bus pass and travel up & down the Grand Canal to all the main sites or even get a different boat and go over to Murano & Burano.

Get a good book/map on Venice before you go. we used the Lonely Planet Italy, good maps and easy to use.

Steve

dk143

Hotel Salieri require a minimum stay of 3 nights on the night we're checkng in (we're only there for 2 nights), so that hotel doesn't work out. Cheers anyway, and thanks a lot for the other info!

Can anyone else help please?

goldentouch

I'm going then too!

I'm staying here...

http://www.villadellepalme.com/index.html?source=

It's on the Lido near the beach. The other hotels I've been looking at look well tatty. See Tripadvisor for more advice.

wigginsmum

The one I usually stay in is 10 minutes by vaporetto No. 1 from the Piazza San Marco across the lagoon on Lido (about 1 hour direct from Piazzale Roma), but very easy to get to 24 hours round and has wonderful views:

http://www.hotelgiardinetto.com/

We find it good to get away from the madness of the centre. If that one's full the group has two others on Lido; the Hotel Reiter is just round the corner, but the Villa Parco is 15 minutes walk from the seafront.

Jules

dk143

It's going to be our first time in Venice.... is Lido a good place to stay? Is it near all the main attractions?

I've come across decent value hotels in "Mestre" while I've been surfing.... how is that area?

Thanks in advance,
K x

davidlizard

Went to Venice in November (as well as in 1995 as part of our honeymoon).

Venice sits in the middle of a lagoon. Lido forms the barrier between Venice and the Adriatic Sea, and is about half a mile wide, but several miles long. The Vaperetti (regular boats) call at a single boat stop on the Lido, and takes about 5 minutes or so to get to Venice, and probably about 15 to get to the St Marks Square stop. You will probably not have to wait more than a few minutes for a vaporetti (boat tickets were 22 euros for a 3 day ticket).

If your hotel is near this boat stop on the Lido, then geographically it will be fine, however, I know of people whose hotel on the Lido has been up to 3 miles from the Vaporetto stop, and have had to get a bus to get the boat (not expensive in itself, but inconvenient). In short, find out exactly where the hotel is on the Lido before booking.

Venice is joined to the mainland by a long causeway carrying road and rail. Mestre is just about the first town on the mainland side, and is the "industrial" bit of Venice that you fly over if you land at Marco Polo. Saying that, we stayed there 10 years ago during our honeymoon as the hotel run a courtesy bus to Piazzo Roma (at the Venice end of the causeway), and was ideally placed to drive to other places such as Verona and Lake Garda. But I would not recommend staying there if the intention is to see Venice.

One advantage about having a hotel in the hustle and bustle of Venice is that the town is so confined, you are never more than a short boat trip or walk from it if you want to change your shoes or whatever. And you don't have to worry about traffic noise !

Have a good trip, wherever you stay.

Dave

teddie2003

Hello DK

Shame about Saleri.

But have a look on Venere.com web site, that has a section on Venice & has loads of hotels etc. From Five star through to sensible prices. I think that is where we found out about Saleri. Another one in the same road is Palazzo Odoni, has good reviews and similar prices.

Mestre is the industrial town at the end of the causeway to Venice, like the Lido it is cheaper. But if you are only there for a couple of days, personally I would stay in Venice, then you can see it and not spend too much time travelling into the main area. Plus wandering around St Marks square and through to the Rialto in the evening once all the daytripers have left, is one of the best bits of going to Venice.

Steve

dk143

Cheers for all the advice guys!

Central Venice seems pretty expensive!

teddie2003

Central around St Marks & Rialto is expensive, but just go two or three streets away from there and prices are OK certainly cheaper than London

elisebutt65

No specific advice I'm afraid but my Mum and Dad go to Venice every year.

They never stay in the centre as it's much more expensive. They stay in Murano which is a LOT cheaper and then get 3 day water bus tickets for about €22 each(just get them stamped immediately or get fined €30) restaurants and Cafes shut about 6pm in Murano though so you have to get the vaporetto bvack into the city if you want to eat later.

It's about €4.5 each just to sit in St Marks Sq and a further €10 for a cup of coffee!!! Possibly the most expensive coffee in the world! Even a coffee on the Champs Elysee was only €4.5.

It's ususally cheaper to sit inside the cafes and even cheaper if you sit at the bar.

Mum and Dad usually book on Expedia in January,foi March and get goof prices - Dad wouldn't go if they didn't lol - now he really is an Old-Style MS!!