The hotel discription of location is VERY misleading! We had to take a cab from the train station to the hotel 28Euro! Then the statement about shuttle services forgets to spell out restricted times and how much it costs to take the shuttle outside those times!

Our room was DISGUSTING! A hole in the wall, broken toilet seat, torn pillows, the list goes on!

We had to stay one night because they REFUSED to refund our money! The woman behind the counter kept saying she could not refund us because we did not cancel 2 weeks before check in date....I told her 2 weeks before check in date I believed their false advertising and didn't find out how horrible the place truly was unitl we got there!

I could not handle a 2nd night in that dump, so we went into Venice and stayed at the Best Western right across the street from the train station!

****The Best Western Hotel Bolgna was very accommodating, clean, safe and great breakfast!

Experience of this hotel was the ONLY horrifying thing that happened to us at Italy. Till we landed in this place, Italy was such a great experience. The staff is rude and arrogant. The rooms were not well maintained and we had to ourselves go down to the desk for getting simple amenities like towels. Breakfast was in a place which can resemble very close to dungeon. In particular, Asians should certainly not go to this hotel as we experienced racial discrimination too.

First of all it took me just over 2hours to find the hotel from the airport as I went for the public transport option probably my fault but i didn’t expect the hotel to be in the middle of nowhere. After travelling for such a long time I was greeted by a cold and rude receptionist, who shrugged her shoulder and said I should have paid for the shuttle bus from the airport after I told her how long it had taken me to find the place and then pointed me in the direction of my room, the room was another shock it smelled and looked old, when I booked it I was told the room will have a mini-bar and a safe first of all the fridge wasn’t working and the safe was broken, I went and told the receptionist who acted like I was disturbing her and told me there was nothing they could do as I went to walk off back to my room she said that I could use their safe behind the desk.

I was woken up every morning just after 7am as I noticed my room was next door to the laundry room. i almost cried from the lack of sleep i got there, It was very noisy at night because it was such a old building I could hear the guests upstairs from my room using the toilet. Nothing was good about Hotel Villa Dori as you've probably gathered I did NOT enjoy stay there and would not recommend it.

If Venice wasn’t such a beautiful place this hotel could seriously ruin your holiday.

This could be a nice hotel, if only... many things were different.

First of all staff were not helpful at all, neither arranging a group booking for 18 nor when we stayed at the hotel! At times the were outright rude! I never before experienced a receptionist telling a travel agency to f... off and book on the Internet, when they wanted to place a group booking, what obviously happened here and our experience while staying there was not much different.
The hotel is in lovely rural surroundings which may provide a pleasant contrast to buzzing Venice during high season. In late October we did not notice any unpleasant smells from the nearby canal as other reviews stated but the rooms on the ground floor clearly have a mould problem and I preferred to have the window wide open in spite of chilly night temperatures.
Other than that many of the rooms are nicely decorated and sufficiently spacious- however not as nicely as shown on the Internet.
The public transport to Venice is by no means as good as described on the Internet and their shuttle bus requires 24 hours notice if you want to be sure to get on.

The breakfast for 6 Euros offered a variety of choices although some seemed a bit strange for breakfast, which however is down to personal taste. There was sufficient of everything at 8 am when we had our breakfast.

I would not specifically want to recommend this hotel due to the points described but if someone was dependent on cheap accommodation in the vicinity of Venice it is one option as long as you make sure you avoid the ground floor rooms with the mould problem and know sufficient Italian to return any rude comments straight away.