We'll be in Venice for a couple of days the week before Easter. I know
hotel rooms in Venice are some of the most exorbitant in Europe. On some of
my Euro-trips I've gone without reservations and either found somewhere
myself or used the booking service at the train stations. Is this a good
idea in Venice?

We're looking for a small walk-up hotel, not a 4-star palace for 175+ Euros
a night or more. Are small, simple hotels plentiful in central Venice? Is
the listing service a good place to find them? A friend told me lots of
private families greet the trains with their own rooms for rent. Anyone
have any words of wisdom on this?

I'm also getting "The Rough Guide to Venice" too.

Thanks for any help

JimS.
Seattle

Inquire w/dates of this hotel: http://www.hotelmarconi.it
Good luck, s

JimS. wrote:
    > We'll be in Venice for a couple of days the week before Easter. I know
    > hotel rooms in Venice are some of the most exorbitant in Europe. On some of
    > my Euro-trips I've gone without reservations and either found somewhere
    > myself or used the booking service at the train stations. Is this a good
    > idea in Venice?
    >
    > We're looking for a small walk-up hotel, not a 4-star palace for 175+ Euros
    > a night or more. Are small, simple hotels plentiful in central Venice? Is
    > the listing service a good place to find them? A friend told me lots of
    > private families greet the trains with their own rooms for rent. Anyone
    > have any words of wisdom on this?
    >
    > I'm also getting "The Rough Guide to Venice" too.
    >
    > Thanks for any help
    >
    > JimS.
    > Seattle
    >
    >

"JimS." wrote:
    > We'll be in Venice for a couple of days the week before Easter. I know
    > hotel rooms in Venice are some of the most exorbitant in Europe. On some of
    > my Euro-trips I've gone without reservations and either found somewhere
    > myself or used the booking service at the train stations. Is this a good
    > idea in Venice?

Going to a site recommended in this forum, I was told that there was
nothing available in Venice for under 300,000 Lire, an absurd sum, and
the least expensive was on Lido, a very inconvenient place.

    > We're looking for a small walk-up hotel,

That's what we got for, if memory serves about $60. We had no
complaints about the place or location.

    > Are small, simple hotels plentiful in central Venice? Is
    > the listing service a good place to find them?

Plentiful? I don't know. We went to the train station booking office
and were in our hotel in a few minutes. There were many hotel touts at
the station but we ignored them.
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"Stephen Cain" wrote in message
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    > Inquire w/dates of this hotel: http://www.hotelmarconi.it
    > Good luck, s
    > JimS. wrote:
    > > We'll be in Venice for a couple of days the week before Easter. I know
    > > hotel rooms in Venice are some of the most exorbitant in Europe. On
some of
    > > my Euro-trips I've gone without reservations and either found somewhere
    > > myself or used the booking service at the train stations. Is this a
good
    > > idea in Venice?
    > >
    > > We're looking for a small walk-up hotel, not a 4-star palace for 175+
Euros
    > > a night or more. Are small, simple hotels plentiful in central Venice?
Is
    > > the listing service a good place to find them? A friend told me lots of
    > > private families greet the trains with their own rooms for rent. Anyone
    > > have any words of wisdom on this?
    > >
    > > I'm also getting "The Rough Guide to Venice" too.
    > >
    > > Thanks for any help
    > >
    > > JimS.
    > > Seattle
    > >
    > >

"JimS." wrote in message
news:MZ0%9.37411$G83.129@sccrnsc04...
    > We'll be in Venice for a couple of days the week before Easter. I know
    > hotel rooms in Venice are some of the most exorbitant in Europe. On some
of
    > my Euro-trips I've gone without reservations and either found somewhere
    > myself or used the booking service at the train stations. Is this a good
    > idea in Venice?
    > We're looking for a small walk-up hotel, not a 4-star palace for 175+
Euros
    > a night or more. Are small, simple hotels plentiful in central Venice?
Is
    > the listing service a good place to find them? A friend told me lots of
    > private families greet the trains with their own rooms for rent. Anyone
    > have any words of wisdom on this?
    > I'm also getting "The Rough Guide to Venice" too.
It would be most unwise to turn up in Venice during Holy Week hoping to find
an inexpensive hotel on the spot. It's a very busy time for travelling, it's
school and college holiday, and there will be thousands of people wanting to
visit and stay in Venice. You'll find an enormous line at the tourist
office, and all decent places will have been taken long ago by those who
booked months ago. Yes there are plenty of hotels near Santa Lucia station,
but it's not the best place to stay and better hotels will be found all over
Venice, often only a few blocks away from the main tourist drag between the
Rialto bridge and San Marco square. You may well be too late now, but try
looking at www.venere.it, a reliable listing of hotels in all price ranges.
The least you'll pay for a habitable pensione is around 100 euro, and 150
euro is more usual for one with private facilities. Venice is by far the
most expensive city in Europe for accommodation.

Alec

This site is slow, but there are hundreds of Venice small hotels
listed here.

http://www.veniceinfo.it/


On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 04:17:48 GMT, "JimS."
wrote:

    >We'll be in Venice for a couple of days the week before Easter. I know
    >hotel rooms in Venice are some of the most exorbitant in Europe. On some of
    >my Euro-trips I've gone without reservations and either found somewhere
    >myself or used the booking service at the train stations. Is this a good
    >idea in Venice?
    >We're looking for a small walk-up hotel, not a 4-star palace for 175+ Euros
    >a night or more. Are small, simple hotels plentiful in central Venice? Is
    >the listing service a good place to find them? A friend told me lots of
    >private families greet the trains with their own rooms for rent. Anyone
    >have any words of wisdom on this?
    >I'm also getting "The Rough Guide to Venice" too.
    >Thanks for any help
    >JimS.
    >Seattle

"JimS." wrote:
    >
    > We'll be in Venice for a couple of days the week before Easter. I know
    > hotel rooms in Venice are some of the most exorbitant in Europe. On some of
    > my Euro-trips I've gone without reservations and either found somewhere
    > myself or used the booking service at the train stations. Is this a good
    > idea in Venice?
    >
    > We're looking for a small walk-up hotel, not a 4-star palace for 175+ Euros
    > a night or more. Are small, simple hotels plentiful in central Venice? Is
    > the listing service a good place to find them? A friend told me lots of
    > private families greet the trains with their own rooms for rent. Anyone
    > have any words of wisdom on this?
    >
    > I'm also getting "The Rough Guide to Venice" too.

I found a very inexpensive small hotel near the train station in Let's
Go. It was called the Minerva. Nothing special, but there were lots of
others in Let's Go at the same price. Some sounded nicer, but they were
all booked up when I tried for a last-minute booking during Carneval.

There are basically lots of little basic hotels near the station. I
don't know about the tourist office.

Barbara

Alec wrote:

    > It would be most unwise to turn up in Venice during Holy Week hoping to find
    > an inexpensive hotel on the spot. It's a very busy time for travelling, it's
    > school and college holiday, and there will be thousands of people wanting to
    > visit and stay in Venice. You'll find an enormous line at the tourist
    > office, and all decent places will have been taken long ago by those who
    > booked months ago. Yes there are plenty of hotels near Santa Lucia station,
    > but it's not the best place to stay and better hotels will be found all over
    > Venice, often only a few blocks away from the main tourist drag between the
    > Rialto bridge and San Marco square. You may well be too late now, but try
    > looking at www.venere.it, a reliable listing of hotels in all price ranges.
    > The least you'll pay for a habitable pensione is around 100 euro, and 150
    > euro is more usual for one with private facilities. Venice is by far the
    > most expensive city in Europe for accommodation.

I disagree; there are numerous hotels in the 50-60 Euro range. However,
you won't find them listed on the web, as don't spend money on
advertising.

Barbara

"JimS." wrote in message news:...
    > We'll be in Venice for a couple of days the week before Easter. I know
    > hotel rooms in Venice are some of the most exorbitant in Europe. On some of
    > my Euro-trips I've gone without reservations and either found somewhere
    > myself or used the booking service at the train stations. Is this a good
    > idea in Venice?
    >
    > We're looking for a small walk-up hotel, not a 4-star palace for 175+ Euros
    > a night or more. Are small, simple hotels plentiful in central Venice? Is
    > the listing service a good place to find them? A friend told me lots of
    > private families greet the trains with their own rooms for rent. Anyone
    > have any words of wisdom on this?
    >
    > I'm also getting "The Rough Guide to Venice" too.
    >
    > Thanks for any help
    >
    > JimS.
    > Seattle

when i went to Venice (this was almost two years ago so i might not be
very updated on this)we stayed at a place called Al Gambero in San
Marco. The rooms are pretty simple and I think for some rooms you
have to share a bathroom. (but some rooms have views over the canal)
What's great about this place is that it's close to the main shopping
streets, the Piazza, and Basilica di San Marco. The price range is
about $50 to $100. we did the reservation via email ([email protected]).
hope this helps.

It's some years since I was in Venice, but at that time the tourist offices
at Santa Lucia station and at the main car park both had computer systems
listing all vacant hotel rooms (I don't know about other kinds of rooms) in
Venice proper and could book it for you according to your reasonable
specification. I got the idea that the cheapest hotels (as often seems the
case in Italian cities) were clustered around the station. It may not be the
nicest area, but the whole area, other than that requiring a boat to reach,
is not very large.

At that time, other tourist information was not offered at the station but
at the main San Marco office, which did not book accommodation.

--
Andrew Nightingale of Cambridge (UK)