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1 Night in Venice - Stay? Eat? Do?
We only have one night in Venice - does anyone have a great place to stay or dinner/breakfast recs?
Re: 1 Night in Venice - Stay? Eat? Do?
Don't remember the name of our hotel. It was decent but no big deal. But I agree with pp. pick a place that's in a good location and very easy/close to get to.
If I only had one day I would probably buy a day pass on the water bus thing (sorry, I suck at remembering this kind of stuff). Look at the route maps in advance and plan to just hop on a few routes that will take you by the tourist stuff. If you're into history take the tour of the Doge's Palace, bridge of sighs, St. Mark, etc. (all in one area) and def. take the time to go to the top of the Campanile (I think that's what it's called). Best 360 views of Venice.
Near there but across the canal is the Peggy Guggenheim Museum. Beautiful location, easy to find, great collection - but might not be worth your time if you aren't into modern art.
Burano and Murano are both great little islands to visit and the water buses go there also. However I don't think there's any way you can do both and Venice in one day. If you like the wandering around small, quaint little villages thing, I think you'd love Burano. Murano is worth it if you like blown glass, want to see it done, etc.
Food - I read somewhere (and found it to be true) that there's not a lot of great fine dining in Venice. We also don't generally like fish so that didn't help. One tip we got was to follow the gondoliers going on break. We did that 3-4 times and always found the best, biggest servings, cheap eats.
We've stayed at Hotel Galleria twice now and loved it. Request one of the rooms overlooking the grand canal and it's one of the best deals in the city. The rooms are small even by European standards but they serve you homemade hot chocolate and coffee with breakfast in your room in the morning and you can enjoy it watching the city come to life.
Definitely check out P. San Marco and if you can take a ferry over to the little island (san giorgio maggiore?), because from there you can get a fantastic view back to San Marco.
Ditto the pp on eating causally. Our best meals there were cichetti(?) which is similar to happy hour - bars with tapas/small bites. We followed the recs in the Rick guidebook.