Venice

Pros: Gorgeous architecture. Great food.
Cons: Can be expensive.

I recently returned from a 3-week fly/drive trip of Italy with my sister. We travelled from top to bottom and Venice remains, in my mind, the one place I would really love to re-visit. This is the first of several reviews, including places to stay in...

Pros: Quite simply, the most uniquely beautiful city in the world
Cons: Crowds, prices

Venice is one of the most-visited destinations in the world. People complain about the tourist overcrowding, but it's not going away anytime soon...Henry James complained about the tourist overcrowding, too. How can you make the most of this magical,...

Pros: a lot of history charmingly interwoven among the network of canals
Cons: extortionate restaurant prices, frequent flooding from November to March

We arrived at the station ready for further adventures, scorning the advice of the Information Desk employee who recommended we take a Vaporetto (water bus) around to our youth hostel, which was situated on the island of Giudecca, south of the Venice...

Pros: friendly people, easy to navigate, terrific shopping
Cons: very crowded during peak tourist season, canals add humidity and odor in the summer

As a travel agent, I organize my clients travel arrangements with an eye towards detail and full itineraries. I seem to make my personal vacations one of adventure and keep the arrangements somewhat loose. My stay in Venice is certainly a good example...

Pros: nice to walk around and get lost, the Jewish ghetto
Cons: pigeons, getting lost

When I was there I heard that Venice is sinking. I'm not sure how true this is and, even if it true, how long it will take for it to dissapear off the planet; either way, go see it. It's a wonderful city that can be enjoyed by couples, students and...

Pros: Almond granitas and chocolate-hazelnut calorie bombs
Cons: None

With regards to certain other gelato guides to Venice--I beg to differ, as I have never been particularly impressed with the gelato at Squero. My favorite gelaterie would have to be:

1) The one in Campo Santa Margherita. Everyone should come...

Pros: beautiful
Cons: could be expensive

Being born and raised in Venice I can say for sure that this city is one of the most beautiful in the world. It is a city built over a bunch of little islands connected through bridges so if you decide to go visit be prepared for long walks and lots of...

Pros: Beauty, Beauty, Beauty!, Affordability
Cons: Limited Bathrooms, Food not very memorable

I found Venice to be an extremely charming place to visit. The perfect place for lovers, history buffs, seekers of beauty, and more. Traveling light makes it an even more enjoyable experience. Fortunately, I visited along with two other friends during...

Pros: No Tourists, Dramatic Winter Nights, Winter Mist -The Nebbia
Cons: Sharp Winds, Closed Restaurants

Venice in the winter is quite different from the way it is in summer. The lemming-rush for the city's culture is not in season. Even the afternoon-ebbing light is more private than public. The sky is an eggshell color and the sunlight is sharp but thin...

Pros: The most beautiful city I've ever seen
Cons: very few that I can remember

This past summer, I got the opportunity to travel all over Italy. My friends and I spent two weeks there and saw most of the major cities and many small towns. Of course, we only managed to get little tastes of everything, but it was still one of the...

Pros: very romantic, plenty to see and do
Cons: lots and lots of walking, dirty water in the canals

Venice was my absolute favorite city in Italy. The only thing that would have made it better was a special someone to share the romance with. So here we are...my last journal excerpts of this amazing trip...

Walking, walking, and...

Pros: Beauty of architecture,marvel of engineering
Cons: price are highway robbery

Venice is truly enchanting. It is set on 119 small islands and has been called the "Queen of the Adriatic." The only city that brags that it
decays more each day and sinks on the wooden stakes about an inch a year.

When you...

Pros: unusual and beautiful city
Cons: easy to get lost, canal water is disgusting!

I visited Venice as a backpacking, hostel-staying, $30 a day spending recent high school graduate. Of all the cities I saw in Europe during my whirlwind 2-week Eurail adventure, Venice was the most beautiful and unique.
I had a very limited...

Pros: ombra culture
Cons: acqua alta

Venice stinks.

Better yet, the canals stink. The bouquet of the very thing that makes Venice unique among cities, is redolent of fifteen hundred years of shit. The thousands of boats that ply the Canal Grande every day have contributed...

Pros: A city without roads
Cons: Very crowded and expensive

I was in Venice for 4 days and then for another 2 in May 2000. I think its the type of city you go to once and never again, but read on...

LIKES:
1. Venice is the only city in the world that has rivers instead of roads and boats instead...