"hotel the Locanda Art Deco (and I do loves me a bit of Art Deco! and with rooms like these would you want to stay anywhere else?). "
Hotelier Judith Boulbain is gradually extending her empire: as well as the one-star San Samuele and Salieri, and the ever-popular Locanda Art Deco, she now offers self-catering apartments at her Residenza Art Deco. The Art Deco properties are chic and simple, with the occasional 1930s and ‘40s touches in the Locanda, and pleasant surprises such as computers and DVD players in many of the rooms in both locations.
We finally abandoned my bag at a spacious, split level apartment close by. Annexed to the ‘Locanda Art Déco’, this residenza was fragranced with Tuscan pot pourri from 12th century ‘Farmaceutica’, ‘Santa Maria Novella’. Cool and comfortable, the couth accommodation had gleaming Terrazzo, a nifty kitchenette, and rugged beams tamed by stencils.
Located just five-minute's walk from saint Mark's Square, this property puts you right in the heart of the action at a very affordable price. Here's where you can book lady gondolier, Alexandra Hai, for short excursions.
Locanda Art Deco has a perfect location in the center of the city, just five minutes' walk from Piazza San Marco. The rooms are comfortable, featuring genuine Art Deco forniture, and the welcome is friendly. The Locanda Art Deco has a several sister hotelsof varying price dotted around Venice, all in excellent locations
Ms. Hai rattled off her suspicions, which are provocative but unproven: that in one test, she was forced to use an oar that was as “light as a cigarette” and that in another, her route was littered by an unusually high number of moored motorboats. After the Locanda Art Deco hotel hired her privately, she was regularly pulled over by the police to make sure her passengers were from that hotel, she said.
Down a busy side-street stuffed with antique shops, equidistant from Accademia and the theatrical Piazza San Marco (10 minutes), Locanda Art Deco is owned by Frenchwoman Judith Boulbain, whose impeccable taste has turned this tall, thin slice of a building into a showcase for her passion for Deco pieces and furniture from around the world. Such is her perfectionism, Judith aims for quality over quantity, with just six rooms ready at the moment (though more are soon to be opened).
Se si cerca un albergo di charme, centrale: la Locanda Art Deco (2966 Calle delle Botteghe, Campo Santo Stefano, tel 041 2770558, da 155 Euro) è aperta da poco