Albergo al Gambero

Midway along a main strip connecting Piazza San Marco and the Rialto Bridge, this was once a budget hotel, but after a full renovation, it now caters to a slightly better-heeled crowd. Surrounded by striped damasklike bedspreads and curtains, you can slumber in one of the 14 canal-side rooms (5 have bathrooms, including no. 203, which also has a small balcony). Rooms on the first two floors have higher ceilings, though upstairs rooms are more newly renovated. The entire hotel is nonsmoking. By Venice standards, the budget-level Gambero has all the trappings of a midscale hotel at moderate prices. Guests receive a 10% discount in the lively ground-floor Bistrot de Venise.

Facilities:
Restaurant (Le Bistrot de Venise); bar (in restaurant); concierge; smoke-free rooms

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