We booked online based on price, location and the images online. The location was excellent, the price was as listed and the images were accurate. Our room was lovely and overlooked the piazza where, in the afternoon, we could hear the opera rehearsing. In the evening there were small performances of operas in the palazzo across the piazza. It was perfect. If you don't wish to buy tickets and attend the performances you need only open your windows and listen!
Do be prepared for the rise and fall of tide as the canal does flood the walkway to the inn. That's Venice! Breakfast was fine. These are VERY old buildings with period decor. If you are looking for something new, modern and shiny I don't recommend this experience. (Nor do I recommend Venice .) If you want to feel this city, Locanda Barbarigo place is perfect.

I would like to start this review off on a positive note as there are a number of great features about this little hotel in the heart of Venice. Myself and three friends shared the superior room last week and to all intense and purposes it was an ideal accomodation choice - great value for money, amazing location just a five min walk from San Marco square and even a free audio opera everynight from the operahouse next door. Yes it was abit rough around the edges in terms of the furnishing in the rooms and the breakfast did leave a lot to be desired (I don't know if it would be worth them abandoning the slices of plastic cheese, sweet rolls and aweful coffee and replacing with a plain old piece of toast), however we WOULD have definatly reccomended this hotel if we had not had our money stolen whilst we were out for the day. Obviously we should not have left it in the draw in the room, however we had divided out exactly how much we each owed for the accomodation and went to pay it on the first evening, realising that the desk was not manned until the morning we left it in our locked room to pay the next day. When attempting to pay the next day we realised that the round sum of e600 which we had counted out was stil in the same place but e90 short. As we were all on very tight budgets we were very aware of our spending and would have known if we had spent it elsewhere, which was impossible as it had been in our room. On questioning the staff as to wheather anyone had been in our room we were told our room had been cleaned, which is strange as we had only checked in three hours before and had yet to sleep in our beds when the money went missing. On explaining our situation the staff on the front desk seemed uninterested in our query. For this reason I could not reccomend this hotel, for all of its charm and great location, not being able to trust th staff is a big concern for us!!!!!

I really don't know where to start with this review.. Our experience here was so awful.

The photos provided do not give a very accurate "picture" of what the actual rooms looked like. Even though we selected and paid for the "deluxe double" which was a) the most expensive and b) shown in pictures as a very large room, turned out to be incredibly small. It was barely big enough for two people and looked absolutely nothing like the photos. When we asked the owner about the photos provided, she stated that they were in fact for their Family room, which has five beds. False advertising?

The room we stayed in was no bigger than a shoe box. The place smelt a little strange - the room was dindgy and dark. The Wi-fi was hopeless. The owner had zero personality. When we told her we had paid for the deluxe (larger room) she simply just said "well the photos you saw were for the family room, there are no other rooms for you to move into..thats all we have" - My response is - "What is the point of a reservation then?"
Venice is such a beautiful place, and there are so many other hotels, B&B's and hostels to stay in - Please don't pick Locanda Barbarigo!!

We are easy-going in our travel expectations and have never written a negative review until today. We had the upstairs "suite" with sitting room. It was the most depressing room -- A hollow low-ceilinged dark room lit with three 15 watt bulbs, underfurnished with left-over prison furniture and a lumpy scratchy pull-out couch that my travel partner refused to sit on. The furniture was dusty and there were hairs in the bed linens, although the sheets felt clean. The bathroom was not clean; the room phone was grimy and only worked to call the front desk. The WiFi didn't work. The breakfast rated a 1 out of 5 stars in part because the self-serve coffee machine produced less than a tablespoon of coffee with each serving and they served white tasteless cheese wrapped in plastic in case you were preparing your kid's lunch.