Antica Locanda MontinEditor's Pick

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Talk about charm! The Antica Locanda Montin is a family-run restaurant and inn, a throwback to the days when travelers were accustomed to dining downstairs before retiring to their upper chambers.

Enter through the Antica’s 100-year-old restaurant and head up the old wooden staircase. (Or stay downstairs and enjoy a meal. The restaurant is well regarded for its typical Venetian cuisine and guests enjoy a 10% discount.)

All 11 rooms open onto an expansive, dimly-lit salon, where paintings cram the walls and a heavy wooden table and cozy arm chairs beg for a good, serious discussion. The paintings mostly date from the 1940s and 1950s, when they were used by artistic guests to pay off their hotel and restaurant tabs.

Art is also the dominant theme in the rooms, as the walls are covered in canvases. Antiques mix with wrought iron headboards, floral bedspreads, original parquet floors and miniature Oriental rugs. All but three of the rooms are air-conditioned, and two "special" rooms sport small balconies overlooking the canal. Bathrooms are clean, tiled in blue and white and quite standard.

The staff is friendly, if not entirely fluent in English. Breakfast is included and served in the restaurant.

» Tom Meyers

Note: This hotel was visited by a EuroCheapo editor and is recommended based on cleanliness, location, price and overall quality. EuroCheapo did not charge this hotel to be listed.