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Venice Guesthouse review: Soderini Palace

Typical of smaller hotels in Venice, our room was not in the main building, but rather in a nearby apartment. No big deal, but since there was no phone in the room, we had to walk to the "lobby" which was about a block away through narrow streets. There was a burned out light bulb in the bathroom which was not replaced during our three day stay, and the maid left a wet towel on the bathroom floor. Another issue is the TV. It did have flat screen TV (very rare in most smaller Italian hotels) but had only Italian channels. Earlier, we stayed in a similar hotel in Florence and it had both CNN International and BBC. Its always nice to stay abreast of world affairs in your native language. Interestingly, we were there when the earthquake hit Aquila, and we had to try to follow the disaster in Italian. Despite the foregoing, this is an excellent value hotel and it is located just a two minute walk off the Grand Canal, and five minutes from Piazza San Marco. My wife and I would highly recommend this hotel, and since the only English language programming was songs on MTV Italia, we actually were able to catch up on the latest toons! Both in our 60's, we forego watching MTV when we are home in Canada.

Overall

3

Location

5

Cleanliness

5

Value

5

Facilities

4

Service

4

btuele stayed here in Apr 2009
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