Short walk from santa Lucia train station, no need to walk through the bridges and the canals. Just 3-5 minutes walk from the station, isn't it perfect! Located in the alley but many restaurants nearby. When your tired of Italian food, I'll recommend you kome- the Japanese restaurant in front of the hotel. Super good! The hotelitself doesn't have elevator, so yah you need to work out with your luggage. We stayed on 3rd floor at the time and got the big room with the bath tub. Very clean and very nice and comfortable. Reception and check in check out process was fast. No complaint. Receptionist was also funny and nice. Internet connection and TV was good. They have multiple international TV channel. To go to San Marco, you'll need to walk around 30 minutes or you can take the water taxi. personally, I love the city so even though I need to walk for a while, it's very enjoyable. If you want to go to Murano Burano you can also take ferry, 10 minutes walk from the hotel. It also has couple of supermarkets nearby, so pretty convenient to buy drinks, snacks, or prosciutto and salami. breakfast on the other hand, it was not satisfactory. so probably best to book without breakfast and get breakfast somewhere else. overall: still recommended though!