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kendra-manycats.livejournal.comI have a friend that was in Venice about 2 years ago. She didn't like her hotel and I wanted to let the peeps know about it. I'm thinking of booking through a travel agent we know. I'm so uptight that the following antics would interfere w/ my enjoyment.
Casa della Corte:
- Booked a room with en suite bath; arrived & were shown a room without bath and much puzzlement on the part of the (very nice) girls who spoke no English. Had to get ahold of the owner via phone who spoke relatively good English, but were told he'd still charge us for our reservation if we went to another hotel. Compromise given: ascension to the top floor for 2 days, which had a bath/washing machine/kitchen/balcony. Then we had to come back because that room was booked afterwards.
- Until we got to that room, we piled our stuff in the non-bathed-room; noticed dark coffee rings on the sheets.
- 2 days later when we returned to that room for the remainder of ours stay, the same sheets were there, only flipped over!
- Two baths down the hall, not bad, really; but the "bath" part was a shower nozzle and a drain beneath, in between the sink and other appliances.
- The top floor suite was expansive, yes, but not very clean...mostly red decor, so bits and pieces of things showed up everywhere. I did love the balcony.
- We did like having the courtyard setting and nipping down it off the tourist track after an evening out. And the construction going on after 8 AM didn't bother us as we were up anyway.
- And we found a 5 minute route to San Marco from where we were. And a shop around the corner that had a chess set with Cthulhu-like beasties (which we bought).
The non-English-speaking part wasn't actually that much of a hassle; I had enough Spanish still and had absorbed enough lingo to get by.
But their little credit card machine didn't work so on check-out day we had to get cash when the exchange opened on San Marco. Got almost their entire supply too.
Casa della Corte:
- Booked a room with en suite bath; arrived & were shown a room without bath and much puzzlement on the part of the (very nice) girls who spoke no English. Had to get ahold of the owner via phone who spoke relatively good English, but were told he'd still charge us for our reservation if we went to another hotel. Compromise given: ascension to the top floor for 2 days, which had a bath/washing machine/kitchen/balcony. Then we had to come back because that room was booked afterwards.
- Until we got to that room, we piled our stuff in the non-bathed-room; noticed dark coffee rings on the sheets.
- 2 days later when we returned to that room for the remainder of ours stay, the same sheets were there, only flipped over!
- Two baths down the hall, not bad, really; but the "bath" part was a shower nozzle and a drain beneath, in between the sink and other appliances.
- The top floor suite was expansive, yes, but not very clean...mostly red decor, so bits and pieces of things showed up everywhere. I did love the balcony.
- We did like having the courtyard setting and nipping down it off the tourist track after an evening out. And the construction going on after 8 AM didn't bother us as we were up anyway.
- And we found a 5 minute route to San Marco from where we were. And a shop around the corner that had a chess set with Cthulhu-like beasties (which we bought).
The non-English-speaking part wasn't actually that much of a hassle; I had enough Spanish still and had absorbed enough lingo to get by.
But their little credit card machine didn't work so on check-out day we had to get cash when the exchange opened on San Marco. Got almost their entire supply too.
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