Living in Milan, we decieded to spend a weekend in Venice. We booked a double room in this college. Because it was a last minute decision there was even less choice of budget accomodation in Venice than there usually is.
The college is only about 15 minutes walk to the Rialto Bridge and it is a beautiful walk. Right next to the college is a square full of restaurants and little cafe bars which serve extrelmly cheap delicious Italian wine (1.10 euros a large plastic cup). The more a place looks like a cafe rather than a bar, the cheaper it appeared to be for a glass of wine! So we were very pleased with the location..... but.......
The room was horrible. At first we thought it wasn't too bad. Just like a very basic youth hostel with twin beds and clean sheets and towels. When we went to bed that night we were freezing, the heating was turned off and we shivered all night. There are signs everwhere asking for quiet because the walls are so thin we could hear the guy in the room next door snoring really clearly! The windows are covered with hankerchieves rather than curtains so the light came in really early. This wouldn't have mattered if we had got a good night sleep, but with the noise form other rooms, the bells chiming on the steeple next to the college and the cold we slept terriably, it was a horrible night. The worst thing was deffinitly the cold. We did find some blankets in the wardrobe in the middle of the night but they were really dirty!
The bathrooms are shared. There are 3 girls and 3 mens loos between 20 rooms on each floor. Th girls was far away from our room and i had to walk (run) down a scary dark corridoor to get there. The shower was a cold trickle of water. Supposedly the men's were a bit better! Take flipflops!
This college could be amazing, it had old ballrooms and big stone pilars and big gardens but it is run down and cold and dirty. It was dark and quite scary at night!
This place was horrible to stay in, it was very close to ruining our trip to Venice. Luckily Venice is an amazing beautiful city and we had a fantastic time and spent no time at all in the college.
This college is cheap compared to other accomodation in Venice. If anyone, I would only recommend it to groups of young people going in the warmer weather. Deffinite no for any one that dosn't like lots of stairs and couples!
I won't be going back!