Castello Apartments In-Town Apartment - Family Vacations

Character: Ultramodern, spotless apartments in a restored historical palazzo. Advantages: Mere steps from everything, but in an authentic Venetian neighborhood with great local eateries. There are also B&B rooms in the same palazzo, if your group is too large for an apartment. Elegant furnishings, very friendly staff. Location: In Castello, the residential neighborhood just east of St. Mark's. This means the Grand Canal, San Marco and Rialto are all within easy walking distance, but the location is free of tourist crowds. A picturesque side canal runs right beneath the palazzo. Click here to see a map. Size: Five apartments. One is a studio with living room, orthopedic sleep sofa, kitchenette and bathroom with shower. Two also have a double bedroom, two others have two bedrooms. Features: Beautiful Venetian terrazzo floors, luxurious Venetian fabrics and antiques. Elevator, air conditioning, direct-dial telephone, satellite TV, private bathroom with hair dryer and courtesy set. Some of the apartments have canal views. Price includes breakfast foods brought to your door each morning. Minimum stay: Two nights. Disadvantages: One of the two-bedroom apartments does not have a sofa in the living/dining room. Car needed: Never.

The area just behind St. Mark's Square is called Castello. Traditionally it has been a working class neighborhood but now, as more and more "workers" flee to relatively easier and cheaper housing on the mainland, Castello is becoming more and more gentrified, and along with the new tenants come interesting eateries, boutiques and workshops. Similar to Rome's Trastevere, this is quickly turning into the trendy part of Venice - and yet the real Venetians are still there, shopping for seafood and vegetables in the morning, hanging out their laundry above the paved-over canals and campi, calling their kids home at night when the pasta has been tossed into the pot to boil.

Our building has occupied a beautiful corner of Castello since the 1200s, back in the days when the Venetian Republic built all her world-conquering ships at the nearby Arsenal. Take your choice of five apartments, each of which has beautiful Venetian marble floors, comfortable classic furniture, modern kitchen and bathroom, direct-dial telephone, satellite TV, hair dryer, wall safe, independent heating and central air conditioning.

San Giorgio is perfect for a single person or a couple. It has a large living room with double sofa bed, fully-equipped kitchenette with table and chairs, mini-fridge and stove, and a modern bathroom with shower. Canal view.

Tintoretto has a spacious living room with double sofa bed, dining room, kitchenette with mini-fridge and stove, separate bedroom with two single beds (or one double bed), and bathroom with stall shower. The bedroom overlooks a quiet courtyard.

Carpaccio has a spacious living room/dining room with wood-beamed ceiling and double sofa bed, separate kitchen, two bedrooms with two single beds (or one double bed), and bathroom with shower. Canal views.

Tiepolo has a spacious living room with double sofa bed and kitchenette, dining area, separate bedroom with two single beds (or one double bed), and big bathroom with stall shower. The bedroom overlooks the nearby scuola di San Giorgio.

Vital information:
In Castello, ten minutes' walk from Arsenal and St. Mark's Square;
food shops, a drug store and supermarket are all within five minutes' walk
Nearest vaporetto stop: San Zaccaria
Ground, first or third floors (elevator)
Living room with double sleep sofa
One bathroom with stall shower, hair dryer and courtesy set
Kitchenette
Independent heating
Central air conditioning
Direct-dial telephone, satellite color TV
Iron and ironing board

For this property:
If you have more people in your group than can comfortably stay in one apartment, they can stay at the B&B in the same building.

Prices include: taxes, services, utilities except telephone (by meter), daily cleaning, linen change every three days, fresh continental breakfast foods daily

Optional extras:
Daily dishwashing: 8 Euro
Laundry service
Fax reception

Check-in: 1-6pm
Check-out: by 11am
Refundable security deposit: 100 Euro

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