Name: Silk Road Hostel
Address: 1420 E Calle Dei Cortellotti Dorsoduro, Venice, Venice, Venice, 30123, Italy
Rating: 9

Smoke-free property

Heating

All Spaces Non-Smoking (public and private)

General

Non-smoking rooms

Hairdryer

Rooms

Common kitchen

Kitchen

Meals

Free Wi-Fi

Internet access

Internet

English

Languages Spoken

First Aid Kit

Beauty and wellness

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At the hostel

Zattere

Academy Gallery

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Confraternity of St. Roch

Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari

San Rocco

Santa Maria della Salute

Teatro La Fenice

Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo

Santa Lucia Railway Station

Rialto Bridge

St Mark's Clocktower

Doge's Palace

St. Mark's Square

St Mark's Basilica

Port of Venice

Bridge of Sighs

Church of San Giorgio Maggiore

San Giuliano Park

Forte Bazzera

Bosco dell'Osellino

Venice Marco Polo Airport

Porto Marghera

Piazza Ferretto

Municipal Tower of Mestre

Toniolo Theatre

Ca' Noghera Casino of Venice

Villa Salus Hospital

Treviso Airport

Silk Road Hostel

Venice

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treatment

no-window

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bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

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annex

basement

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not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

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breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

I was very impressed by the cleanliness of this facility. Amazing canal view with clean and comfortable bed. Friendly staff who really looks after the building with care and love. This is a place well loved by travellers. Will stay again.

Amazing

I slept there two nights. After a problem, I arrived at 10: 00 without reservation. The girl who was working the service was still there. She welcomed me with great kindness. She explained how it works. The hostel is 5 - 10 minutes from the station or bus station. Nearby, we find good pizzerias or restaurants and the bars quarter, there is a nearby supermarket and atm to withdraw money. The beds and rooms are very good and the bathroom is clean. There's a kitchen available to cook. We shared a night with the other people at the hotel and the staff.
Best experience for me in venisa!

It’s the best hotel

Really cost, smal hostel with funny Maria reception girl. I will come back if I visit Venice! She let me leave luggage untill time I ask. Was very helpful. Room is nice and clean. I chose room for girls. And price is very good.

Nice clean hostel

Lovely manager
Large room with no bunk beds so you can enjoy more having your little space to sleep. 
Everything is super clean
Kitchen is small but there is almost everything you need to eat/cook
The location is not difficult to find
Few restaurants around
Easy access from the main bus station
20min walking from the center

I stay 2 nights and it was super nice. I loved to talk with the manager, she is a lovely person and she will try her best for you to have the best experience possible.
If you're kind she will be super kind with you!

Lovely stay at Silk Road

It's a bit tricky to find this hostel the first time, down a narrow laneway, but it's right off a main, touristy street, so it's very safe. Once you know where it is, you'll have no trouble finding it again later. It looks right out over the water and the views are incredible. One night a cruise ship sailed past the window, and it was so enormous that it felt like it was the hostel that was moving!

The room was spacious and bright, no bunk beds, huge nightstands with a reading lamp on top and a locker inside. The room was warm, despite chilly temperatures outside. There is a small vanity with a great big mirror, right next to the window, perfect for doing hair and makeup. I felt so relaxed and happy in this room.

Bathrooms are shared between the rooms, but they are individual (no cubicles) so they are private. They're very nice, well-decorated, clean. Showers are good. There's one on each floor, so I rarely had to wait. If one was occupied, the other was free.

There's no lift, but the staff helped me get my giant suitcase upstairs, which I appreciated. The staff were incredibly helpful and friendly in general.

The kitchen is tiny, but very clean and well-organized. When I was there, almost nobody else was using it--they all must have eaten out or eaten later in the evening--so I usually had it to myself. There was always a clean, fresh sponge at the sink--full marks for hygiene!

The only real drawback is that there is no laundry at this hostel, and no reasonably priced laundromats anywhere nearby. Make sure all your clothes are clean when you get here! I was down to one pair of clean underwear when I arrived, and ended up having to handwash some in the sink! Ugh :( But with a little bit of planning ahead, you can overcome that, and don't let it deter you from staying in this absolutely gorgeous hostel.

Gorgeous and relaxing

I stayed at this hostel for one night with my mum. The receptionist was very friendly and seemed like a happy person to me. We were pleasantly surprised by the room we got. It was in the house next door and it was basically a house. Bathroom, fully equipped kitchen and a living room on the ground floor and two rooms upstairs - one for us and one for another guest, almost like a holiday flat with a roommate.
What I didn't like was that the shower head was located very high up in the shower and I could hardly reach ist. There was a broken hold that was at a normal height and it got replaced with one above the tiles. If you are a small person, you won't be able to reach it.
We were told that it was not possible to store our luggage at the hostel after check-out, so we had to pay for luggage storage somewhere else. It would have been convenient to just leave it there for half a day.

Almost like a holiday flat

I stayed one night in June. The only good thing about this hostel is it is next to a few restaraunts and is clean. The staff is very friendly.

Besides that, I found this hostel to be way too hot. No a/c, just fans and windows. When the window is open, you can hear noise from boats and people walking through the alleyway. The room is too hot to just use the fan. Kitchen has limited hours which is unfortunate if you want a glass of water or to cook something during certain hours. Breakfast is not included. For the price, I would not book here again. I would do a night in an AirBNB or stay elsewhere.

Clean but not worth the stay

I recently stayed here and the place definitely wasn't up to a good standard. They didn't supply any soaps or toilet paper. Sleeping was a nightmare as there was a mosquito problem so had to sleep with the sheet above my head and covering down to my toes just to avoid being bitten and having them buzz in my ear every 5 seconds. 

Stiff sheets and mosquito's 

I had a terrible stay here, the receptionist gave me no information about the stay & only handed me the key. The beds are very thin and uncomfortable, I was also not given a towel. Bathrooms are unclean and mouldy.

Terrible

The hostel owner is rude and impolite. 

I booked 3 nights stay in hostel, but due to some issue, I arrived on the second day morning. I did try to inform the hostel via Booking.com but she said didn’t receive it. 

The front door is always locked and mentioned the opening hour as 9:00-22:00, but the woman didn't show up until 9:20 after I called her twice.  When I tried to do the check in the second day morning, she talked to me in a very rude way, said need to charge me extra because I was late for check in. I tried to explain to her and showed her the msg I sent to her, but she didn’t want to listen to me. 

Worse still, she was mad without listening and even said won’t do my check in , don’t wanna provide me the stay and opened the door to ask me out... it doesn’t make any sense and she gave me the worst first impression of Italian people and Venice. As I was with a local friend, he helped me solve the conflict between me and the woman and finally I can check in,, but overall it’s definitely the worst hostel experience I’ve ever had. Imagine What would happened if I don't know any local here..  

Please stay away from this hostel if you wanna enjoy your travel in Venice.  

PS: this is not a well organised hostel, it’s like just a house owned by a woman to rent you a stay, don’t expect anything from here.

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