Hotel Mondial

Clean, basic, ideally situated for Venice Mastre railway station and services to/from Marco Polo airport and into city. Helpful, friendly service with local advice. Reasonably priced. Seems to have enjoyed a bit of a refurbishment judging by some previous reviews.

Okay, so, let's start with the positive things (this will be quick) the location is excellent and the service was decent. now for the problems: I am not a fussy guy, I usually travel in hostels or even camping so I don't expect much, however, when you pay 80 euros for a night, you expect a level of confront and cleanness that you won't expect from an hostel and in here, this hotel fails miserably. The bed was terrible, very uncomfortable, the pillows were paper thin, the room was dimly lit (it has the ambient light of a funeral) and the walls stained and scratched, our window didn't close properly so all the noise outside would come inside. I've stayed in hostels where you would pay less 20 euros for a private room that was way better than this. As for the bathroom, it was clean (thank you gods) but very poorly designed, the shower was weird, it was like they wanted to make a bath tub but changed their minds half way through and it was prone to flood the bathroom. The toilet was to close to the sink and if you wanted to sit on it you needed to sit kind of sideways because there was no leg room at least for me (I am a tall person). There was also an ant infestation in our room. Finally, the breakfast, it was simple, they advertise it as continental breakfast but there wasn't even cheese or cold meats available, just bread and sweets to out on it, not that bad, but once again, I've stayed in places where I would pay less than a quarter of what I payed here with much better options. Mind you, those places were in the Netherlands and other European capitals, so the excuse of paying 80 euros because Venice is expensive is no good. Bottom line is, avoid this place like the plague, for the money they charge you I am sure you can find much better. Oh, one last thing, there was a safe in our room, bit there was no door, speaking of doors, ours was dented as if someone punched it several times for some reason.

Nothing special, good enough if you just need a place to sleep, it is clean , but everything is old. Although we did not need a tv it still was ridiculously small. The worst part of the room was the bathroom, it has a really bizarre and uncomfortable design. However the location is the Pearl of this place.