Marina Di Venezia Reviews

Marina Di Venezia is in a fantastic location. It is located across the water from the city of Venice and is sat on a beautiful sandy beach. From our static home, we were about 5 minutes walk from the beach. The resort had fantastic facilities including a supermarket, good restaurants, bars, cafes and a fantastic swimming complex with 5 different pools.

Marina di Venezia has a mixture of fixed buildings, mobile home and tent pitches. The facilities are generally excellent and the location is perfect, right on a wide, clean, sandy beach, 5 mins drive from the Vaporetti into central Venice. The supermarket on site is excellent, and on-site + local restaurants were all excellent, reasonably-priced and child-friendly.

We had a caravan, which was OK, but on a noisy main road down to the beach, so even during Siesta time (and all evening), you always had the sound of someone bouncing a ball or talking loudly on the way past. The Children slept through it though, so it didn't spoil anything. I should also say that security of the camp seemed excellent, but friendly.

I'd thoroughly recommend staying here, perhaps with Thomson Al Fresco or someone like that, but I'd recommend avoiding booking with Hoseasons from the UK. We booked with them - there was a 45 min mix-up on arrival where my young family was left stewing in the heat because nobody had heard of us or Hoseasons. Not really what you need after a 24 hour journey with small children. We eventually ended up in an area run by a company called ";Happy Camp";. The manager is a bit of a Basil Fawlty character, who was obsessed with the final inspection of the accomodation at the end of the week. In the end it wasn't funny, as repeated threats to retain our deposit began to irritate us. We left the caravan spotless and abided by every silly rule he set (incidentally, I have never been on a holiday before or since where we were expected to renovate the accommodation).

Still, we had a great holiday, and would love to return. I'd say that, as an English family, we felt a bit alone, it was all Germans when we were there because of a holiday in there. They were all friendly enough and I like the Germans and speak a bit of the lingo, although if I'm honest, I might naively have been looking forward to an altogether more Italian experience.

One slight frustration was that - because of the effort and friendliness of the Italians, I spoke to them in Italian which I'd been practicing for weeks, and they replied in German. It was to be expected really as I'm 6 foot 1 with blone hair, and looked exactly like the other 90% of guests there at the time.

Great place. Avoid ";Happy Camp"; and ";Hoseasons";, unless they've changed their management.