Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Venice - UNA Hotel Venezia


Hotel selection:
We researched so many hotels, and we picked this :) The room was very clean and elegantly furnished. A lot of other hotels in Venice looked kind of old, we were looking for a convenient location and a clean washroom.


Washroom basic in Italy:
Most washrooms in Italy have two "toilets", but the second one is not really a toilet, it's a bidet.  The purpose of the bidet is to clean off the back/butt after using the toilet.  Italians really enjoy their time in their washrooms, so usually they keep them very clean. (learn how to use a bidet)

It was hard to shower for me, as you could tell the bath tub only had half of the glass.  I still don't get the purpose of that.  Most hotels in Italy didn't provide hair conditioners, they only provided shampoo and soap.  We had to call for conditioner separately, along with bath ropes and bath salt :)  They provided a list for us if we needed any extra supplies.  Pretty good service.

The room was quite expensive, probably about $200-250 Cad per night.  They didn't have free internet; internet was $14.95/day.



Common area:
Lounge: breakfast buffet and happy hours that provided free goodies

The lounge was amazing.  It opened from 7:30am - 10:30am for excellent breakfast buffet.  Then the lounge was re-opened from 2:30pm - 10pm for happy hours where they provided free pastries, coffee, drinks, alcohol, fruits, water....etc.  Water in Europe was very expensive!  Their yoga juice was super good, so fruity and smooth.  We kept drinking them and took a few bottles when we went out for the day!

Expresso machine was available with illy capsules.....pretty good! except the foam function didn't really work....
We would definitely come back for this hotel, only at a reasonable price!  Hotels on the actual island were usually quite expensive, but it was well worth it for us.  The hotel was located away from the main tourist area, we like the quietness.   The location of the hotel was quite convenient that we always walked back when we forgot something.

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