Whoo Hoo!
I'm doing the happy dance!
Booked our FF business seats to Venice for late May. (We got them for 100K miles flying through Amsterdam.)

The plan is to take an apartment for a month and do some days (or maybe a few) out of town.

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Anybody know of a fabulous apartment that rents for a month? We would love to be on a canal and have 1 bedroom (not a studio), and air conditioning.

Nan? Anyone else?

jan

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Way to go, Jan!! I'm dancing with ya!!

Gail

whooo hoo!! Now that I got back from Italy yesterday, its time to start working on the "next" trip. Oct 2010 for the GTG in Venice & Florence...just marked my calendar to get FF tickets in November of this year

Anne

We stayed here for three months. It is along a canal across from the Frari.

Luxrest has a lot of rentals and Barbara is great to work with.

http://www.cortetiepolo.com/eng/appart.php

The Tiepolo apartment is on the Grand Canal and the Passi family is wonderful to work with. We just stayed in one of the garden apartments and absolutely loved both the apartment and area. See my review for the Querini Apartment, (we needed an apartment for three.)
http://www.slowtrav.com/italy/vr/review.asp?n=4100

Sharon J

Thanks for the suggestions so far... I'm going in april for a conference and planning on getting a large place with 2 other colleagues. Looking for a 3BR/2 bath apartment which I thought would be impossible, though thithis from luxrest s looks passable. Any other ideas for large places? keep em coming!

Ca'Bianca We stayed here and loved it.

You can find our review of Casa Bianca.

For a 3 bedroom apartment - we stayed here for 3 months. It is a wonderful location and a great apartment. Here's my review

I have always found that there is a significant discount for stays of more than 2 weeks for any apartment. So even if the weekly price seems above your budget, it's worth asking for the monthly price.

Thanks for all the responses.

Sharon, I actually stayed in the Tiepolo apartment last summer. Although, I loved it, I feel it would be a little small for a whole month with my husband. I think we need a separate bedroom, not just a studio.

Is the Querini apt the one also called Valier, on the Passi site? It has no canal view, right???

Thanks,
jan

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s the Querini apt the one also called Valier, on the Passi site? It has no canal view, right???

That is correct, no canal view, but we sure enjoyed that garden.

I know there is another apartment in there with a grand canal view because I saw the door open and a family with two children, (fairly older children) staying there. Perhaps, you could write and ask? Also, I never saw Querini on the Passi sight and actually rented it through another rental agency. I did talk to the Passi family about it and she gave me her email address to contact her in person next time. Would you like that information?

Querini is not the Valier apartment and she said the one we stayed in had only been added recently, so it's worth asking her about another as well, I think.

Sharon J

Jan, I have no suggestions, but I'm doin' the happy dance for you! I know how happy you and Ken are right now!

Jan, what is your budget?

I haven't stayed in any of them (yet) but this agency has some great looking apartments and some of them are very reasonable. Gabriele has been very quick to answer questions. You might have a look and then write to him to see if there are special deals for a month's stay.

Truly Venice

I have also bookmarked this place, because it is cute and at a great price.

http://www.vrbo.com/33142

I hope our paths cross when you are there!

I've stayed here several times and love it. It is not on a canal but has a nice small balcony overlooking a large private garden. I have also seen the Ai Pugni apartment listed on the website and it is lovely also. Anna is the owner and great to work with.

jan,
Last night I had dinner with slow travelers Sue and David, who stayed in this apartment in Venice about 3 years ago. I mentioned your search, and Sue said she really liked the apartment, it was in a great location, well designed, and she highly recommends it.

If you recall, there was some discussion on the forum a few years back between a dissatisfied guest and the owner, but Sue said they had no problems at all.

Good for you and Ken, Jan! And here's to finding a wonderful apartment.

Thanks for all the good wishes and thoughts.

I am strongly attracted to this: apartment

It has everything we want but no canal view.

It seems SO far away to be booking but I will probably go ahead with it unless one of you sees a major obstacle that has escaped me.

Thanks,
jan

Jan, I'm jealous! Here Ca' Cerchieri3 is an apartment I reviewed after we stayed there the first time. We returned a year later and still loved it. May be just what you are looking for.

Jan, that place looks great - it is about two doors down from where I used to live. I can tell you that you will love that neighborhood. I certainly did.

The only thing that is sketchy, to me, is that it looks to be right above the main calle there and that might get a bit noisy. It's a fairly major thoroughfare.

I think you have enough time to ponder a bit - but if there is something calling out to you, go for it.

My friends rented that apartment, Jan! They said it was wonderful and the terrace was amazing. Their review is here. In terms of noise, they were there at the end of November/December so noise was not really an issue.

Thanks, JS,
That's how I discovered the apartment, from the review.

I sent Steve W a PM but he didn't respond (yet).

Can you, please, ask him about the noise and get back to me here? I would appreciate it.

Shannon thanks for the heads up.

jan

There IS a canal there, Jan - maybe you can see it from the terrace.

Da Alberto is right there. Might be worth any noise issues.

Hi jan,

My friend asked me to reply here to you as he does not check the site very often. He did not seem to recall any issue with the noise, but also said to say that it was winter time. There are some cafes just across the street but he did not see tons of people spilling out of them (even at that time of year) like in other areas of the city, such as the Rialto. He loved that apartment and hopes to return at a time when he can really enjoy the terrace in better weather! This thread reminds me that I should bookmark the apartment for myself. It's in one of my favorite areas of the city. Good luck with finding something. Just a thought,have you considered writing the owners and inquiring about the noise?
JS

I'm late to this party but I am certainly doing the happy dance for you too - a whole month in Venice sounds so wonderful.

We can book on July9th for our trip next June, and while it won't be a month, we will be returning to Italy. Of course on July 9th we will be away for wedding week so this could be interesting.

Guess we won't be crossing paths after all - hope you find that apartment soon.

Quick update--

We have decided on the Giovanni and Paolo apartment.
The price is great, I think--2,400 Euros for the full month. We get an extra day since May has 31.

Planning to still go to Bologna for 3 or 4 nights and maybe an over night to somewhere in the Dolomiti.

jan

Another update:

I finally got around to booking our return flights on Delta and it was a bit of a nightmare.
I literally spent hours on the phone with them on 2 separate calls. So, we had to bump up to 150,000 miles for my ticket and 175,000 for Ken's. In order to do it, I had to transfer miles from our kids' accounts and it will take a few days to be posted and then we can get Ken ticketed.
Also, we are ending up spending 4 nights in Amsterdam (should be great fun!) and having to fly there from Linate. They could find nothing out of Venice to AMS for us!!! So we will have one crazy travel day--training to Milan and then taking a cab to Linate, I imagine, in order to fly to Amsterdam.
I was a little bummed yesterday about the arrangements but today I'm keeping my eye on the prize: A month in Venice.

jan

Jan, despite the getting back to Amsterdam complication, I'm sure you'll have a good time. That's just a minor chink - hey, you've got to have at least a few of those, right? Congrats!

So, more drama with Delta.
I looked at our tickets and itineraries this morning. I was already ticketed with the flight from Linate to AMS totally missing. Ken's itinerary was available online but was only the return--no outbound flight at all. I was really upset

After another l e n g t h y phone session, including speaking to "the supervisor" They finally booked us both on a return from MXP to Atlanta to Tallahassee--really much better and for 150K miles.

So, now we get the pleasure of figuring out our 4 extra nights somewhere in Italy. Yes!

I am going to put this trip on the back burner for a while.

jan