Hotel Arlecchino

Opulence!
Decadence!
Somewhat limited space!
This hotel straight up rules, it rules harder than Mussolini. (Too soon?) For starters, it’s a short stagger from the bus, train and ferry station at the main entry point into Venice. Much convenient!
As with everywhere in this city, space is at a premium, but Arlecchino handles the problem beautifully. There are chandeliers, mirrored cupboards, marble, gold furnishings. It’s total class, a top bit of totty. There’s free wi-​fi, the concierges are mega helpful, and the small bald fellow that organises the (included) breakfasts every morning takes more pride in his work than any human being I’ve ever seen, he’s a total hellman. And the brekky is all time, too — pastries and cereals and juices and coffees and cold cuts and cheese and fruit and look just go see for yourself.
Oh and big bathrooms! They went hard on the bathrooms. Wonderful stuff.

We choose this hotel because it’s close to cruise port, train station and bus station, we walked from the station to the hotel and crossed 2 bridge, if walking is not an issue to you do it, or pay water taxi. 20 minutes walk to San Marco, friendly staff ask everything you need to know in venice.

Never being to Europe before, I was faced with choosing a hotel in Venice for our one night stay on November 1. Since we were only there for a night we decided to splurge a bit and get a room with a canal view. Most of these rooms are pretty pricey but since Hotel Arlecchino isn’t in the center of everything it was a bit cheaper ($ 175 USD), breakfast included but we decided to sleep in and skip breakfast.
We got there by train, the train station is in town which was very convenient. If you have luggage take a water taxi or ferry to the hotel, if you have no bags its a short walk to the hotel.
Good, quiet, safe location on the canal. With plenty of restaurants just steps away. All the shopping, restaurants, and attractions are with in walking distance.
The staff was very friendly and spoke English very well. The room keys weigh a lot and are huge and clunky, so the staff will hold it for you whenever you come and go.
The hotel had a quaint Venice feel without looking old. Our room was large, clean and comfortable. The bathroom was big too, the only strange thing was the tub/​shower had no shower curtain or door, so water splashed all over the place. We had two large windows that open up to beautiful view of the canal. Bonus… Italian beer in the mini bar, yum!
I would definitely stay there again and would recommend it to anyone planning to visit Venice.