# Is Giudecca a Good Area to Stay in Venice? Map & Verdict

Verdict: Mixed. Fine for some travellers, wrong for others.

Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/giudecca
Every Venice district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice.md

A separate island four minutes across the water from the Zattere. Bigger rooms for less money and the best view of Venice there is, in exchange for a vaporetto timetable that runs your evenings.

Facts: 20 min walk to Piazza San Marco; 60 min to the airport; 35 min to the beach; price €€; best for quiet, couples, longer stays; lines Vap 2, Vap 4.1, Vap 4.2, Vap N.

Giudecca is the long island facing the Zattere across a 300-metre canal. It is administratively part of Dorsoduro and practically a different place: a working island with a boatyard, social housing, a couple of ordinary bars, the Redentore church, and at the western tip the Molino Stucky, a converted flour mill that is now the biggest hotel in the city.

What you buy here is space and the view. Rooms are larger and cheaper than the equivalent across the water, and from the fondamenta you look at the entire Venetian waterfront, which is a thing the waterfront itself cannot do. There are no day-trippers at all.

What you pay is the boat. Every trip out and back is a vaporetto with a wait at each end, four minutes of crossing bracketed by up to twenty minutes of standing about. Line N covers the night, so you will get home, but you will get home slowly, and almost nothing on the island is open late, so dinner usually means crossing back. With luggage it means a boat at both ends of the journey. Book it for a quiet second visit, not a first one.

What works:
- Rooms are larger and cheaper than the same standard across the canal in Dorsoduro.
- Lines 2, 4.1 and 4.2 cross to Zattere in about four minutes, and line N runs through the night.
- You look at the whole Venetian waterfront, which is a view the waterfront itself does not get.
- Actual residents, no day-tripper flow, and the quietest nights in the historic city.

What does not:
- You cannot walk to Venice at all. The 20 minutes to San Marco is a boat plus two waits, not a walk.
- Miss a boat and you wait 20 minutes on an unlit fondamenta, longer after midnight.
- Almost nothing opens late on the island, so dinner usually means crossing back and returning.
- Arriving and leaving means a vaporetto with luggage at both ends of the trip.

Hotels in Giudecca: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D1069%26dest_type%3Ddistrict%26group_adults%3D2%26no_rooms%3D1

## Other districts in Venice

- [San Marco](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/san-marco): Mixed. The sights are here and so is everybody else. You pay the top rate in Venice to be five minutes from the Basilica, and you share every street with the day-trip crowd from 10:00 to 18:00.
- [Cannaregio](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/cannaregio): Recommended. The best value inside Venice. Residents, the oldest Jewish ghetto in Europe, and a canal-side strip of bars that is still busy at midnight, with the station five minutes away when you leave.
- [Dorsoduro](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/dorsoduro): Recommended. Art at one end, students at the other. The Accademia and the Guggenheim, the sunny Zattere promenade, and the only square in Venice that is still loud at 01:00.
- [Castello](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/castello): Recommended. The largest sestiere and the only one where you can watch Venetians buy their groceries. The western edge is minutes from San Marco; the eastern end is where the rent is cheap and the Biennale happens.
- [San Polo](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/san-polo): Recommended. The smallest sestiere and the one Venetians still shop in. The Rialto market at one end, the densest run of bacari in the city in the middle, and twelve minutes on foot to San Marco.
- [Santa Croce](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/santa-croce): Mixed. Two districts wearing one name. The Piazzale Roma end is a bus station and a multi-storey car park; the eastern half around San Giacomo dell'Orio is one of the quietest corners of the old city.
- [Mestre](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/mestre): Mixed. The mainland city where most Venetians actually live. Rooms cost a fraction of the island's and the train takes 11 minutes, but you will never see Venice at 07:00 or at midnight.