We just stayed in Venice for two nights, August 22-24, 2007. We were taking our teenage son on his first trip to Europe. First we went to Paris, then Venice and on to Rome.
Palazzo Schiavoni was terrific...the best part of our stay in Venice!
Room was huge and well-appointed and clean, clean, clean! A/C was so welcoming after a day of pedestrian, bumper-to-bumper traffic in Venice.
The directions to the hotel from their website were easy to follow...just dealing with luggage..even the small amount we traveled with..wasn't easy on the bridges and with the crowds.
The area around the hotel is nice and quiet and still an easy walk to St. Marks and the Grand Canal....
In the end we really wished we had skipped Venice...both my husband and I had been there twice before and it has changed so much....lots and lots of tee shirt stands and tons of graffitti. Our tour guide..strugged off a question about the tagging and seemed to defend it as kids just having nothing to do?

We were pleasently surprised when we entered the lobby after our first sighting of the hotel had us wondering just what we were in for, (a pink building that dosn't look at all like a hotel that we are used to) after meeting Antonio the wonderful person on duty and then being shown to our beautiful rooms all our misgivings were dispelled. We could not have been booked into a better hotel in Venice thanThe Palazzo Schiavoni. A couple of stone throws from St Marks Square with fantastic little drinking and eating places placed all around the area made the stay all the more unforgetable, the Supermarket just across the canal was another treat we didn't find until later, but once found it was well used. Nothing was a problem for Antonio from booking a Gondola ride for 6 (including Champagne) to booking a Taxi for 6 with luggage to the Shipping Termial it was a truly wonderful start to a wonderful holiday, I would recomend this little hotel to the world as a gem.

Our party of 4 enjoyed the lovely balcony rooms for 3 nights. The location is out of the tourist area but a short walk (10 minutes) to St. Mark's. The managers and breakfast hostess were helpful and courteous and made our stay most enjoyable. I enthusiastically recommend this hotel.

Good location and very nice room. The room was on the smaller side but everything was new and clean. You can tell they paid attention to detail. Located within walking distance to San Marco's Square. We stayed at four different hotels during our Europe vacation and this was by far the nicest.