Residenza Santa Croce

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.

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.

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!

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.