Hotel Albergo Best Western San Marco - Venice

Very reasonably priced for a basic tourist hotel in a building of character a few steps from St. Mark's Square. Very comfortable beds in fair-sized rooms with tiny bathrooms. Nice furnishings in public areas. Adequate buffet breakfast. Staff have seen too many tourists to be friendly, but remain polite.

The hotel was in a good safe location. I did like the view from our window. The staff were nice and helpful and made us feel welcome. I liked that the room came with a safe. What was tough were the several steps we needed to climb to get to our room. But I guess this is common in all the hotels in venice. There was a musty smell I could not help but notice. The structure is old so I guess thats expected.

Very good hotel, professional staff, I stay here each time visiting Venice

Only stayed for one night. Very convenient location just behind St. Mark's square. Breakfast was very basic and disappointing but the location made up for it.

We booked these rooms months ahead and got an incredible rate. I had some doubts because of previous mediocre reviews, but this hotel was truly excellent. We were actually given two beautiful rooms on the top floor, both with balconies overlooking the campanile of San Marco. The staff was among the most courteous we encountered in Europe, and the location couldn't have been better. One just gets off at the San Marco vaporetto stop, walks across the square, takes one of the couple of tunnels leading through the shopping gallery on the other side, crosses a bridge, and the hotel is there. The Cathedral is five minutes away, and so are many, many good restaurants and shops. We will definitely return.

You cannot find a better location for the sites of Venice. This hotel is literally steps from the Piazza San Marco and easily walkable to Ponte di Rialto!

At nearly $600 / night ,tiny stuffy room facing a wall,I was hoping that internet might be included .but alas NO -well, yes if you throw in another $20 --for 1 hour! A totally over priced hotel -the worst decision I have made in my travels- in relation to my travel dollars

A really efficiently run, no nonsense, comfortable hotel, with informed and helpful staff. If you are planning to spend most of your time sight-seeing, and want a comfortable, all-facilities, centrally-located hotel, this is the one.

The hotel was convenient to Piazza San Marco and the room was clean and comfortable. The only problem was the air conditioning unit that was portable and extremely noisy. The breakfast was well stocked and the staff friendly and helpful.

Nice hotel, very close to san marco place... but very noisy!!!!

Very very close to san marco. 15 steps and you are in the piazza. very very good breakfast. we had a quad that actually had two seperate rooms. perfect stay. thank you

LA LOCALIZAcion es dificil de mejorar y las instalaciones/servicios del hotel son correctos, por lo que le convierte en un hotel recomendable para hospedarse en Venecia. El único inconveniente es que si la habitación está en un piso bajo, se oyen demasiados ruidos de la calle

Air conditioning was poor. Room was small and somtimes smelly. Surroundings were great.

The staff was unfriendly and surprisingly rude. The room was small but satisfactory and the hotel is in a good location, however I did not receive the quality of service for the price that I paid.

Location of hotel excellent. Staff competent and nice, but not overly friendly or welcoming. Room was fine but very noisy every morning; there was a lot of noise on the corridors. Also the picture of the bedroom on Venere was slightly misleading; the room was not as nice as it looked on the website in reality. Also we paid extra for a 'double superior' room and i'm not sure how the room we stayed in was any different from a regular 'double room'. When we asked at reception we were given a vague answer. Breakfast facilities great.

Horrible characterless surroundings; instant coffee and very poor quality breakfast; horrible cheap + nasty! overpriced

Location in venise very good but the rooms are not well insulalted and the sound of the street is too loud. impossible to sleep before 12,am, Not good ventilation too, only an old pinguino who do not work realy.

The hotel is conveniently located 50 meters from San Marco Square, which makes it easy to get to when your dropped off at on the Grand Canal water taxi stop. The rooms and bathroom are clean, but very small. Youll be bumping into each other quite a lot. The breakfast was adequate. I would strongly advise against taking the Morono glass factory tour arranged by the front desk. You feel somewhat preasured to make a purchase due to the individual salesman assigned to each party. If you go don't buy anything at the factory! I did and saw the exact same piece in Venice for 1/3 of what I paid.

The suite 503 was far better than expected.

Fantastic location. If using Alilaguna getting off at the Zattere stop means one less set of steps to lug your baggage over. Friendly service

Hotel is in a great location - just steps from the Piazza San Marco and in the middle of lots of shopping and restaurants. We began our gondola tour from the canal directly beside the hotel. We were traveling as a family and had a spacious two-bedroom suite overlooking a courtyard - very comfortable. A variety of foods were served at breakfast in a pleasant room on the street.

Expensive but Venice is expensive. Personal response to correspondence to clarify services and facilities excellent. Found exact location on a map from another website: would be useful if that was on website of the hotel.

This is a hotel for those whose criteria are "location, location and location". We had a superior room which looked onto a central courtyard and was quiet. The area is not quite so quiet - the extra cost was worth it.

Nous etions 2 couples l hotel nous a propose au depart 1 suite avec 2 chambre et 1 salle de bain alors que nous etions pas de meme famille mais apres nous nous sommes arrange l autre couple a eu une autre chambre

We really enjoyed our experience here,from the welcome at the front desk to check-out, everyone was professional and friendly. The breakfast was delicious and the service more than good. We had a corner room with a nice view but it was noisy at times. Overall we would recommend this hotel to anyone.

The hotel itself is good,the location is excellent! but the attitude of the staff is poor. also, i need to wait for a long time to get the hot water!

Very sympathetic hotel really very close to the St Marco plaza! In november the hotel was very quiet, so I don't knwo what the situation is in full tourism period.

Eventhough the hotel in Venice is very near by, it is also noisy outside the hotel until late night, otherwise the stay in these hotels is good as said initially through the web pages

Excellent value for money. We were suprised to find a hotel of this quality and price so close to the city centre. The staff were friendly and helpful and the rooms very clean.

I would not stay at this hotel again. The only thing it has is location just off Piazza San Marco. I don't recommend anyone stay at this hotel unless they are deaf or the last one to go to sleep in Venice. Way too much street and hotel noise. We stayed here out of necessity after staying at the All'Angelo earlier in the week. The All'Angelo had it's faults but was still twice the hotel at almost half the price.

The hotel is well located and indeed very close to Piazza San Marco. It is a bit far to get there on foot from the train station (40 minutes walk). But it is ok if you catch a boat. The room is a bit small but comfortable.

Venice - always expensive, but booking through venere.com saved us over €100 a night! Superb location right behind St. Marks Square. Our room overlooked a canal - charming and always interesting. The only problem was 'Acqua Alta' which meant finding some devious routes around St. marks to keep our feet relatively dry.

The location, across a canal behind Piazza San Marco was ideal. At night you could hear the orchestras. In fact, I usually had a nightcap at the Caffeé Florian. The street the hotel is on leads directly to good shops and restautants. The food at breakfast was excellent. However, the coffee was terrible. We only ate in the hotel the first morning and went to nearby places the rest of the stay.

Location and general features of the hotel were very good. The only fault was the very poor quality breakfast which resulted in us eating breakfast out of the hotel.

We had a wonderful stay, but more detailed directions as to how to find the property (i.e where to look on St Marks Square to find the access road) would have been useful.

Disappointing room with an uncomfortable bed. Needs oil on its cupboard doors and the tiny shower leaked very badly all over the small bathroom. Great location just off St Marks. Breakfast was ok. It is fine for a place to sleep-no great luxury! Enjoy.

Welcoming property in a terrific location. Attentive, friendly staff.

An excellent hotel, immediately off St Mark's Square, and yet quiet and peaceful. Fantastic position for exploring Venice, and very helpful staff. Would happily stay there again.

I WISHED THAT THE STAFF HAD INFORMED ME THAT EXTERNAL BUILDING WORK WOULD RESTRICT MY USE OF OPENING ANY WINDOWS OR SHUTTERS. PERMANENT DARKNESS IN THE ROOM DIDNOT PERTURB ME VERY MUCH AS IN VENICE ONE IS OUT DOOR MOST OF THE TIME, BUT OUT OF CURTESY I SHOULD HAVE BEEN WARNED AND A REDUCTION SHOULD DEFINATELY HAVE BEEN MADE. GREAT LOCATION FOR AN OLD HOTEL.

My stay was generally pleasant, the only exception being one rather sour lady in the restaurant (shortish blond hair) who made it obvious to all that she did not like 'tourists' of any kind and was backed up by other guests during my stay. The other two girls (of filipino descent) were very courteous. It spoiled what was in other respects a good experience of venice. I suggest that you caution her appropriately regarding her general attitude, as that would be the only reason why I (and others) would not return to that hotel for future visits to venice. I am sorry I could not give a better report, but I'd rather be honest so that you can give a better service to others in the future. All the best Richard Brister

San Marco is a lovely hotel and the staff and courteous, helpful and do all they can to ensure you have a lovely stay. I do feel for the size of the room the price was a little high but its probably as its just off St. Marks Square which is ideal. A lovely hotel!

The air conditioning in our room was basically non-existent. We did ask for a fan, which they provided, but still were unable to sleep because the room was so hot. The rooms were very clean and the hotel is in a great location. Be prepared to wander and ask local people for directions. It took us 1.5 hours to find the hotel. The best directions we got were as follows: Go to St. Mark's Square. Find Cafe' Quattro and turn right down the first small street you come to. The hotel will come up on your left. Sounds easy, but without explicit instructions in Venice it was very difficult and frustrating especially hauling luggage in 32 degree weather.

Very expensive hotel for not such a good quality (elevator broken & air conditionned very noisy and sometimes off...)

Breakfast was poor bar shut at 10pm but otherwise it was very good and ideal for st marks square.

The hotel is quite ok, the rooms are clean. You can reach Marcus place within 1 min by walking, and you are quite near to the main tourist highlights. We were unlucky and got a room with a minimum noise level during the late evening and night due to the customers in a bar below, and due to the entrepreneurs closing their shops in the small street below.

Airconditioning promised was not available - non operational and broken unrepaired. On complaint offered fan - broken and replaced with another on complaint. Breakfast poor and barely adequate. No discount to compensate lack of A/C.

Breakfast fully inappropriate Price far too expensive

Can't you write the questionnary in french ? that's all. Your site is a good site and the price good when i have seen the real price in the room. Thank's

We arrived very late due to Flight delays.We found it very difficult to find the Hotel and walked around for ages.We suggest that the Hotel puts a deatiled map of where exactly they are and this would help a great deal.Our Room was very small and on the 5th Floor, however lift only went to the 4th Floor .This was a pain as we had two heavy bags. Breakfast was plain Continental and fine. the staff were excellent.

This was my second stay at the hotel. I would return to the property again.

One of the nicest places in Venice to stay - next to St. Mark´s!

Inspite of arriving very late we were still made very welcome. We were given very good directions when we phoned from the bus station.Overall the stay was very good

The location of the hotel is perfect, right behind St. Mark's Square. We stayed in a standard double room the first 2 nights. The room was very tiny, not enough room to open 2 suitcases. The wall paper was old and stained. There was a small window but no view at all. The third night we upgraded to a superior room which was 1000 times better. The room is much more spacious with nice furniture and no ugly wall paper. The bathroom is very spacious and clean. There were 2 tall windows looking out to the street. I would recommend this hotel only if you book the superior room.

The rooms were extremely small, smelled terrible, with another building so close you could here people snoring! Also there was a roof of a shop just outside my window that was covered with garbage. The only positive thing about the hotel was its proximity to St. Marc's Square.

The room was small but only because the bed was so big! There was a good shower and a bath as well. Comfortable, clean, friendly and perfectly situated.

Due to the fact that it was just around the corner of the Markus Place the price and the hotel facilities are ok. If the hotel would be anywhere else it would be too expensive and too bad for its price.

I stayed here during Carnival and the location was just perfect. It was right off San Marco square. For what I paid (it was a superior room at 234 Euros a night) the bathroom was a little small and the shower door was broken, making the space even more cramped. Other than that the stay was wonderful. Breakfast was excellent and as I mentioned before, the location was perfect.

Overall a very enjoyable stay.The location of this hotel is second to none.The rooms are adequate and very clean, not too spacious but you can opt for a larger room.The staff are pleasant and helpful.I would certainly stay again....overall stay was 10/10

Disappointing breakfast. Ideal Location

Excellent location. I better guide to finding the hotel would be good as it is hidden away just off St Marks Square.

A very good hotel for the price we paid, a slight premium for being so close to the square, the deluxe room was of good standard and the hotel is generally ok, by Venice standards. No complaints. Great location! Would recommend.

The location of this hotel is perfect - just a few steps to the main tourist sites. Rooms are nicely decorated with all modern amenities. Professionally run establishment with clean, friendly and affordable accomodation.

A nice hotel very near San Marco. A good hotel overall, just beware of noise from the cafe down the hotel although acceptable... and the rooms wich are relatively small but still acceptable. we got a good price for a short stay.

Website gave us a better price than best western website/brochure. was please with central location and no hassle experience.

A satisfactory hotel, in a great location, adequate accomodation, helpful staff, clean & comfortable at a reasonable price

The floor of room leaned.

Is an excellent service in an excellent and well located hotel with very special rates. I really recomend it.

It´s a good choice. Great Location. Clean Nice service

As one of many hotel rooms in Europe, this superior triple was rather spacious and I was satisfied with this and the location standing just behind Saint Marco Piazza. These were the best parts of this hotel. I felt they didn't provide good service. Though breakfast was included in the price, they did not mention it and this breakfast restaurant didn't open on time so we only use once while staying 3 nights. No concierge. Public space was so small.

Noise at night is, perhaps, a price to pay for being located so close to the Piazza San Marco. However, the location is an ideal base.

Very central location, small but well equipped rooms. Very good breakfast, pleasant, helpful staff. Ideal for a moderately priced short stay in Venice.