Oceano Mare B&B

Perfect location for exploring Venice! A 15 minute walk to San Marco but totally quiet and in a residential neighborhood. Also a short walk to vaporetto stops

Shower a bit small for a big person

Lovely area near main attractions

caring owner and great location - not in the noisy San Marco but still very close to it, as well as Arsenale.

the ac wasn't really cooling, but was offered a fan instead, great service.

The location is great and there is plenty of storage for clothing in the main rooms, although no storage/limited counter space in the bathroom because it's so small. Noise is less than I expected for an older building, you can hear conversations in the street outside as well as noise from the staircase and adjoining rooms but they were tolerable. The room was cleaned daily and the breakfast room was refilled in the evenings. It's in a quiet local neighborhood away from the tourists and close to the water buses/fairly close to the airport Alilaguna stop.

Room needs a lot of TLC. While the room/lodging was very clean, the room itself was clearly old and had seen better days. The heater was not working well and to compensate, they have a lot of extra blankets you can use. The bathroom is small and the shower while functional was in a state of minor disrepair (drain grate was ajar, sliding shower door handle comes off, the low flow toilet flush button was not working, tiles on wall splitting from the wall, towel warmer wasn't working etc.). The mattress was also sagging in the middle, but fortunately it didn't affect my back/sleep since I was busy for most of the day. The internet is also not great. Even though I was close to the router, the signal was so weak that my tablet was unable to pick it up even when forced with manual network entry. I had to rely on my own phone network for wifi half of the time. The breakfast is also pretty bare-bones which consisted of a coffee machine and a small assortment of prepackaged sliced meats, cheeses and grocery store packaged breads/pastries. While the variety is alright by comparison to other similar B&B's, the quality left much to be desired. You're left to your own devices and the lack of labeled light switches, for example in the Dining Room, had me searching and toggling every switch on the ground floor to find it. While Nicola the host was available and responsive via messaging when I checked in, my questions/issues became too numerous and occurred during late hours/early hours of the day where I ended up deciding against reaching out to avoid bothering him. The propery is rated very highly on more than one site but I believe this mostly has to do with the hospitality of the host himself who was unfortunately unable to be there in person during my stay.