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Residenza Santa Croce

Venice

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Address
Santa Croce 555, Venice Veneto, Italy   Map
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From US$24.14/€16.00/£14.97 per person. Price may vary by season - Check Current Prices by Date Here
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The Hostelz.com Review
Santacroce Residence is in a great location (just across the bridge from the train/waterbus station and the main bus station). It's a little hard to find at first because there are valances hanging in front of the number, but it's located between a shoe shop and a gelato bar and has a big red door.

One thing that you might want to check out when you book a room is if you're going to be staying at this location or at a different location. My six-bedroom mixed dorm was located an extra fifteen-minute walk from the check-in desk (there are no taxi's, just the water boat, so lugging lugage that far was very tiring). I know that they have a few rooms upstairs from check-in. They allow you to use the internet for ten minutes for free, but it's a really slow computer and internet connection so don't bother using it.

The front desk staff have been there for a while, and they are very helpful, accommodating, and friendly. They know a lot of great places to visit and see. The rooms themselves are super clean, spacious, and have their own bathroom -- bonus, no bunk beds! The bathroom is really clean with hot showers and no push button, it's an actual lever. The rooms also have small lockers with locks and keys provided, as well as a large closet to hang jackets and stuff.

They serve "breakfast" as part of the price. It's only cookies and a pack of toasted bread with jams, instant coffee, and tea. But there's a fridge in the rooms and a supermarket located just over the bridge.

There is no common area in the hostel so it sometimes feels lonely, but that said, it's very quiet. The hostel itself is just off the main road (which is a pedestrian street) so you're close to everything and you don't need earplugs.

— Exclusive Hostelz.com Review
December 2005

How is Residenza Santa Croce rated on other websites? (NEW)
Hostelworld
 Overall: 83% 
 Cleanliness: 90% 
 Staff: 85% 
 Location: 91% 
 Fun: 65% 
 Atmosphere: 77% 
 Security: 89% 
Hostels.com
 Overall: 83% 
 Cleanliness: 91% 
 Staff: 83% 
 Location: 90% 
 Fun: 66% 
 Atmosphere: 77% 
 Security: 89% 
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Ratings & Comments

4.4 Average from 10 Ratings

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Comment by Loretta Keesee, United States
July 2009
5 Fantastic
We came and stayed in May on the 20/21st and had a wonderful time. What a lovely place we had it was #28 Bldg. We had a great time and are planning to stay here again. What a lovely place to stay and everyone was so helpful and friendly.
Comment by Jules, Canada
May 2009
5 Amazing!
this hostel was super chill. we had a room a couple floors above the reception and we had the most amazing view of the main canal. the rooms were really clean, and the staff was super helpful about telling you exactly what needs to be seen in venice and where the cheapest food was. there was no curfew and no lockout which was perfect, and the hostel is perfectly situated within two minutes of the train station, and right across from the water bus stations. i would definitely stay there again and would recommend it to any friends going to venice!
Comment by TJC, Canada
July 2008
5 Amazing, like a Hotel
Stayed for three nights. very good hostel, one of the best on the entire three-month trip. the place is essentially like a hotel! they give you a TV, towels, coffee maker, and minifridge! location could not be better if you tried, right across the river from the station. everyone has trouble finding the door, i recommend you google map it before arriving.
Comment by Jacki, USA
June 2007
5 Great place!
Great place, really close to train and bus stations. Very clean, even gives you clean towels per day. Nice hot shower. Fun roommates. Just a lot of stairs, and internet very slow, but at least it's free and it works. "Breakfast" was pretty much make-your-own coffee/tea, some biscuits, and some cookies. Overall, pretty good place, and a view of the grand canal from the window.
Comment by Olesita, Canada
June 2007
5 Excellent
Venice Santa Croce Hostel was an excellent hostel. Friendly and very helpful staff, excellent location, free internet access, free locker, and free luggage storage after check-out, two towels included, big bathroom, super clean, and safe rooms. I wouldn't stay anywhere else but in santa croce residence. I recommend it to everyone!
Comment by Yulia
October 2006
5 This was the cleanest and the quietest hostel I stayed at through my entire three-week Italian jorney. The staff is simply excellent -- extremely helpful and friendly, especially Elena. They give you a map of the city, which comes very handy, because you really need a map in Venice, it's a labyrinth kind of city that awaits your discovery. They also give a tiny venetian glass souvenir, and this was really sweet. You end up doing lots of window shopping of the Venetian glass, and here you go -- you got a little piece of Venice to take with you. They can even charge your credit card, if you do not want to pay cash. My advice is -- take advantage of this, because many museums accept cash only. The room for six people is quite spacious, with individual, and not bunk beds! Two beds by the window have their own individual kind of "corners" for extra privacy. The linens and big towels are included for free, and so is a small breakfast that consists of croussants, crackers, and tea or coffee. They also have a small fridge, if you end up buying food. I didn't use it, for the place is really close to a cheap eatery, on the other side of the Grand Channel, right by the train station, maybe three minutes' walk from the hostel. If you end up eating there, take their free map of the city, it was very handy and a bit more detailed than the one from the hostel. The hostel location is ideal. It is really just three minutes' walk from the train station, two-minute walk to the vaporetto station, if you want to buy a twenty-four-hour unlimited pass, five minutes from the bus station, if you need to get to/from the airport. If you want to get to St.Mark's square, you can take vaporetto and enjoy your slow thirty-five-minute cruise along the Grand Canal on vaporetto #1 (worth every cent!), or you can venture into walking those lovely narrow streets and following "arrow" markers "To Realto / St. Marks" and finally you will find it. The funny thing is it will probably take the same amount of time by either walking or by vaporetto, depending on your route. I loved walking in Venice. And you cannot really get lost when you are trying to find your way back, simply look for the "Train Station/ Ferrovia" markers, and you'll get back to hostel. In the hostel room there are individual lockers of a fairly large size (you can place in a small to medium-size backpack with your valuables), there is a spacious room with really good shower (good temperature control!) and a toilet. They have free internet (only one computer, though, and kind of slow). They try to keep quiet hours, so you can really get some sleep after 11 p.m. The only downside I can think of is that the place does not have any common room for socializing, so you don't get to meet lots of people and might feel a bit lonely, if you are traveling by yourself. But I ended up meeting a very cool girl in my room, Melissa from Chicago, unfortunately, I lost her contact information. All other roommates were very nice (and quiet and friendly). I would definitely stay here again. The staff was exceptional, and the location was unbeatable, it is in Venice itself, what else can you ask for?
Comment by Jeff
September 2006
5 Very friendly & helpful staff. Exceptionally clean. Free internet is slow but essential, as internet cafes are 6 euros per hour. 7 bed dorm is a snoring risk, but has fridge, tea pot, towls, free snacks, and is climate controlled. And I doubt any other hostels are closer to the train station. btw, Some of the girls who work the desk are just beautiful.
Comment by Raul
November 2005
1 Be careful when booking at this hostel. Our experience was horrible. The hostel in theory is well situated but in our case we were sent to a horrible humid ground floor house on the other side of the river, in the middle of the old Jewish Ghetto. Needless to say it's not a good experience to arrive in the middle of the night and have to walk with your suitcases for 15 minutes to reach your tacky accommodation. We spent a bad, cold night. Not recommendable at all.
Comment by Anonymous
June 2005
4 This is a good place, right near the train station. It doesn't offer anything special, but in a place like Venice where everything is expensive, it is a nice place to stay. The room had a large bathroom, eight dorm-style beds, and was overlooking the river. There is a nice park nearby to chill in, and it is really easy to get to all the sights from this hostel.
Comment by Anonymous
April 2005
4 I really liked this hostel. It's right across from the train station (that is if they don't send you to their other apartments, but even then it's not very far at all). The people are really nice and very helpful. The Internet is dial-up and super slow, and the free "breakfast" that they talk about is packaged toast and jam and instant coffee and tea. The bathrooms were clean and the beds are comfortable. It was all about location with this hostel.
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