written by Justine409 on 17/03/2018
We loved Italy! So glad you booked the Lagare Hotel Venezia Mgal on Murano. We had boat service right up to the front of the hotel at 11 p.m. Don't think we would have ever found our hotel down the narrow streets of Venice. I would give the Hotel Venezia 5 Stars - very nice accommodations, great breakfast and staff.
In Rome the Cardinal Hotel St. Peter was adequate. It was clean but cheaply run - no mattress pad or pillow protectors on the bed - cheap breakfast items but the staff was nice. It was not very centrally located to anything in Rome except Vatican City - which was about a mile and a half walk.
Our high speed train to Venice was delayed 3 hours due to snow in Venice - can't do anything about the weather but it made for a long day.
I would love getting reservation confirmation of our trip sooner than 4 days before we leave - I was getting a little nervous - wondered if this trip was really going to happen. I called a week before our trip to check on our reservation but your computers were down.
Overall - with the round trip airfare, one excellent and one average hotel, and the high speed train - I thought this trip was a great value for the money.