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 | Continental Hotel: Our stay was fine!!!
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Ok, all i hear about this hotel is bad stuff, whcih is so uncanny! Our stay was perfect!!! we must have been reall lucky. It is in a great location, close to station (far from St. Marks and the Rialto Bridge, but you cant have both: for carrying luggage, take a hotel close to the station, the canal bridges are not made for suitcases). I realise that the hotel has undergone major renovation and we recieved a renovated room, clean, comfortable (no odour) and roomy. We were on the street side, which explains why we had no sewage smell. The setup is weird, the hotel mus have bout the neigboring building, which is older and the steps setup is complicated, and i suppost that side had the bad rooms. If you will go to the hotel, ask for a street side room, which has a nice but still quite quiet nightlife, but no smell...You can take the risk, i think we were just lucky!!! Theme: HotelPrice: US$80-120 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageDirections: Very close to station and Rome square (bus), hard to miss, great area, shopping street, restaurants etc.
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| Continental Hotel: A room with a view
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 Hotel seen from across Canal
Grande by Gard
Location
We arrived by train in Venice and when we got out of the train station I found Venice just the way that I Had imagined it to be: sunny, Canal Grande, lots of boats and lots of tourist. Fortunately the hotel is not very far from the train station so after a 5 minute walk we were there. The hotel didn’t look very impressive on the outside. It looked grayish and some of the building was covered due to construction work. But the hotel is located by the shore of Canal Grande and it is close to the vaporetto stop (vaporetto is the boat “bus” that goes up and down Canal Grande) and close to Scalzi bridge (bridge crossing Canal Grande from Cannaregio to Santa Croce/San Polo)
In the hotel area you will find lots of shops, restaurants, internet cafes, a laundry place, ice cream shops, markets, mask shop and so on.
Reservation
According to the guide book you have to book a hotel pretty early when going to Italy. We didn’t plan it very well so we didn’t book a hotel until 1 week before we left for Italy. When booking this late you either get something that is really bad or something that is a bit expensive. I guess you can say that we got a hotel room that was pretty expensive because we paid 150 € per night including breakfast. We booked the hotel room using http://www.holidaycity.com
The lobby at the hotel was small but with air condition so it was really nice to get inside. We had 35 degrees Celsius on some days and I guess that explains why I appreciated the air-con J The people working at the front desk where polite and spoke several languages (Italian, English, Spanish). In the lobby we also found different newspapers (USA Today). The hotel has 107 rooms by the way.
The room
When we got to the hotel the porter carried our luggage to our room and we were excited when he headed for the room located on the canal side. And we did get a room with a view to Canal Grande at it was very nice. We had two large windows facing the canal and 1 window in the bathroom which didn’t have much of a view.
The room was not tiny as I had expected it to be. Instead we got a room that was above average in size. The room had a carpet, a king size bed (which was a bit too hard for me), a sofa, two chairs and a small table, a wardrobe with a few hangers, a small color TV (with quite a few German, Italian and English channels…but with a remote that wasn’t really working that well) and a small safe. With the air condition in the room we could control the temperature. The only thing that would have been nice to have was a small minibar.
The bathroom we got had tiles and included toilet, bide and a bathtub. The only problem with the bathtub was that there was no shower curtain and we ended up splashing water all over the floor when taking a shower. Apart from this there was a hair dryer mounted on the wall and little bars of soaps and shampoo in small bags.
The breakfast
Breakfast was included and we enjoyed this every day. When it comes to warm stuff the hotel offered scrambled eggs, boiled eggs and bacon. And they had a toast machine and a selection of both white and dark bread. And with toast you get a selection of jam, honey, cheese and ham of course. They also had quite a selection of sweet stuff. Apart from this there was a couple of choices when it comes to cereal and they also had canned fruit mix which I enjoyed. They had a few choices of juice but it wasn’t great. And we got tea or coffee served at the table.
When we were there they were doing some sort of construction work on the outside of the hotel and it got pretty noisy in the breakfast room area. Theme: HotelPrice: US$80-120 » Currency ConverterComparison: more expensive than averageDirections: 5 minute walk from the train station, located at the shore of Canal Grande
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