In news:[email protected], SCovey wrote:

    > Many thanks for everyone's help. I have booked at Hotel
Galleria -
    > its a double room with a window (alas, no balcony) on the Grand
Canal.
    > I do believe the location is fairly decent - next to the
Accademia and
    > at $145 US per night it is within my budget. Keep your fingers
    > crossed for me.


I don't know the particular hotel, but if it's next to the
Accademia, I think the location is excellent. It's very close to
the main tourist attractions, and yet it's not, for example,
right on the Riva dei Schiavoni, with its incredible crush of
tourists. I like staying in Dorsoduro.

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Ken Blake
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