Riva de Biasio

Travelling around Europe for a month with my wife and two sons 8&12 years old from Scotland. Budget was a key driver, as well as locality to the train station. Bit of a strange arrival coming into a big dark hall way but quickly appreciated that this is quite normal in many properties in Venice. Room was traditional but had effective air con, was very clean and was functional (and very large). Bathroom was in excellent condition; other reviews talk of rooms using a shared bathroom. This is the case for at least some of the other rooms but ours was en-suite. I found the online check in a bit strange but worked very well and know that more places that don’t have a reception are doing this similarly. it does mean you need to upload your families passports and photos of them with their passports which is a bit of a faff, but didn’t take away from our stay. Location was excellent - canal boat service straight outside the front door and only a 5-7 min walk from the train station . We managed to get in slightly early (through messaging the administrators on ***********) so dropped our bags before seeing the city. This is not plush accommodation but we have a rule of as long as we feel safe, the air con is effective and it is clean we’re happy. This accommodation did all of this as well as being spacious and in an excellent location

Positives include: well located, bed was big and comfy and the breakfast is included at a great bar around the corner (coffee and croissant, bar is called Cip e Ciop). Also was affordable compared with most other options. However: we arrived and the room was completely infested with mosquitoes. We asked to change room (via the online chat) but there wasn't another free, so they put a repellent in our room. We had to crush all the mosquitoes (which the previous inhabitant had clearly done as there were already lots squashed on the walls that hadn't been cleaned off). There was a mosquito net with a huge slash in it, and a hole in the other window that we had to block up. It felt like the only part of the room that had been cleaned was the bed - other than the mosquitoes all over the walls, the room was dusty, the curtain rail had fallen down and not been put back and there was a huge crack down the wall behind the bed. There is no physical host or staff, but they did reply promptly via the ******* chat. I received 11 emails asking me to complete the online check-in in the week leading up to our stay (which requires 3 photos each of everyone's documents and is a faff), and you need an internet connection to access the building as all is done electronically. (Strange but it did work). The shared bathroom was fine except that we were sharing with a family who flooded it, and who arrived back at the B&B after midnight shouting and whistling (noise really travels) so it felt more like staying in a hostel. We stayed in the Rialto room and it looked onto a building site. There is also no fridge. Wouldn’t recommend and wouldn’t stay again.

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Positiv: günstig und zentral gelegen Negativ: Dusche funktionierte nicht (zuerst nur schwaches Rinnsal von kaltem Wasser und irgendwann kam gar nichts mehr) Checkin funktionierte nicht. Auf unsere Anrufe reagierte niemand, freundlicherweise versuchte es die Empfangsdame vom benachbarten Hotel dann noch für uns - da nahm der Besitzer sofort ab. Ausländische Nummern, hinter der ein Kunde mit einem Problem stecken könnte, nimmt er wohl lieber nicht entgegen... Fazit: Das Hotel ist wahrscheinlich ok, solange alles reibungslos funktioniert. Gibt es ein Problem, ist man möglicherweise ziemlich aufgeschmissen, da niemand vor Ort ist und niemand das Telefon abnimmt. Dass in der Beschreibung steht, es gebe eine Dusche ist irreführend, wenn es eine ist, die gar nicht läuft. Was nicht eingehalten werden kann, soll lieber gar nicht erst versprochen werden.

Potrebbe bastare il punto o (come dicono quelli che parlano bene) la location per esprimere un giudizio positivo sulla struttura ma sarebbe riduttivo perché alla vista incantevole che appare agli occhi del visitatore che si affaccia dalla finestra, si accompagna una camera, arredata con gusto e sobrietà, all'interno di un immobile storico ristrutturato. Ho trascorso qualche giorno con la famiglia nell'unica camera della struttura dotata di bagno privato (le altre hanno il bagno comune) e sono rimasto soddisfatto anche della pulizia giornaliera con cambio biancheria. L'immobile è situato in zona centrale con adiacente fermata del vaporetto (a proposito consiglio di informarsi bene sul relativo costo, una corsa 7€). Per la colazione vengono consegnati dei voucher del valore di sette euro da spendere in una catena di bar (majer) che offrono una varietà di prodotti da forno dolci e salati per accontentare tutti i palati. L'accesso alla camera avviene in maniera del tutto autonoma tramite un link inviata alla propria email dopo la registrazione (fate attenzione a tenere il telefono carico per evitare di rimanere fuori). Infine la camera è dotata di un climatizzatore portatile in quanto, come si legge dal pieghevole presente in camera, essendo un immobile sito nel centro storico non si possono installare climatizzatore fissi. Unico neo che vorrei rilevare alla proprietà è che i lettini aggiunti (presenti come in tante altre strutture) possono andare bene se si viaggia con dei bambini ma se vengono utilizzati da ragazzi o adulti purtroppo risultano scomodi. Nel complesso bella struttura con un rapporto qualità prezzo più che buono. Dimenticavo Venezia vale sempre il prezzo del biglietto.