A room on the Grand Canal—On a budget

The Hotel Galleria in Venice, Italy

Hotel Galleria

Fling open your window right onto the Grand Canal for less than $135. That's what you get—along with antique Venetian styling and breakfast served in your room—at Luciano Benedetti and Stefano Franceschini's 17th-century palazzo at the foot of the Accademia bridge, across a square from the Galleria Accademia.

Of the six rooms with a view, the best are intimate no. 8 with a raised sitting nook set into the curved canal-vista window, no. 10 with its frescoed ceiling, and cheaper (but smaller and bathless) no. 5 on the corner. Other rooms with partial views overlook the bridge past a noisy canalside café (annoying to anyone hoping to sleep before the bar closes). Viewless 2 and 4 are also nice, with stuccoed decorations on the ceiling.

Dorsoduro 878a, left at the foot of the Accademia Bridge

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