please suggest a good hotel in Venice

It's always amusing to read a post which provides no context. So, for anyone to be more helpful the more information you can provide would result in better replies and recommendations.

When are you traveling - what time of year
How many nights
How many people
How flexible are you with location

Stay away from general or vague terms like "good" or "nice", etc. Everyone is very helpful, and would never recommend the opposite, for example... "here is a bad hotel you might like"

Also, the rate will be in euros, not dollars. Stars are really meaningless- you would be better reading hotel reviews. I have seen smaller modest properties billing themselves with more "stars" than luxury hotels.

Lastly, have you done any research on your own? Your post gives no indication.
If you have, what have you found that was or wasn't suitable for your needs?

If you haven't done any research on your own, you do realize that you can visit any number of hotel or B&B websites and put in your dates and budget and find a list of hotels. You can then check the reviews and get a better sense of what is available.

What TravelGuy said. But try Booking.com. |t's the first place I look.

Pensione Guerrato has an apartment they let. Not stayed there, but have stayed at Guerrato many times and based on that I'd not hesitate to check with them about the apt.

do you mean Italian stars or stars from some other country?

For example - you don't say what country you are from in your profile - stars in the USA reflect customer comfort and quality. Itaian stars reflect amenities. A lousy hotel providing a crummy breakfast and an ancient tiny elevator will get more stars than an excellent property with a room up a flight of stairs.

we need answers to the questions in the first reply above before we can even begin to give sensible answers.

Another difficulty, I'm afraid, is working out how much you would like to pay per night (how many nights??). You ask for 180 to 230 dollars a night. The currency in Italy is Euro, and that is how the place will be priced. We don't know if we are converting from New Zealand Dollars, Australian Dollars, US Dollars, Caribbean Dollars or Canadian Dollars. They all have very different exchange rates. Even your name, forshamina, doesn't give a clue.

Help us out here, please.

I edited it. See if it works

When?
How many people (and ages of kiddoes)

What do you mean by "good"?

2 adults, no kids

Have you looked at this one?

http://www.booking.com/hotel/it/cadoroimmobiliaresrl.en-gb.html?label=gen173nr-1FCAEoggJCAlhYSDNiBW5vcmVmcgV1c19pbIgBApgBLrgBB8gBDdgBAegBAfgBC6gCAw;sid=6fd3c30ae6399c21174f29e6d6a717c4;dcid=4;checkin=2016-09-14;checkout=2016-09-17;room1=A%2CA;matching_block_id=8297810_88157219_0_0_0;nflt=pri%3D4%3Bht_id%3D201%3Bdi%3D621%3Bdi%3D620%3B;m_occ=2

I'm curiously wondering why the need for a microwave and so much space for only a 3 day stay (and in Venice to boot).

This could be a very frustrating exercise for everyone. People can suggest their favorite hotels, but---as you have already learned---many will already be booked. It is late to be looking for September---a very popular time in Venice. There is a major festival in September but I did not check the exact dates.

What you describe---two rooms, one with living area and a separate bedroom--is a suite and will likely be much more expensive than your stated budget. Space in Venice is at a premium. And a microwave is a very unlikely amenity unless you book an actual apartment.

I suggest you use a booking site like booking.com to find what is still available for your dates. Use the filters to narrow the choices---you can filter for apartments and also limit the price. Once you find some that look appealing, you can go to the actual websites and book direct. If you have questions about location, etc., you can ask here.

Try giogiovenice.com. We enjoyed our stay there in 2012, great location, no bridges to haul luggage over & host met us at the waterbus.

And in the second week ofSeptember, that place only has vacancy at the end, Sept. . 13-15.

forshamina I noticed your Dolomites question disappeared after spent quite some time answering it. Where did you decide to stay?

Laurel, it is residence gran tubla. it was the only place we found a room for all 3 days of our stay

@DJP Please dont laugh at me. The answer is - slight claustrophobia and the microwave is for hot tea anytime my way. Did I mention I come from Texas where everything is unnecessarily big?

OK, go to booking.com and in room facilities, click on kitchen/kichenette. Lots of places available in your budget. Most are in Canareggio or Castello, not in the prime tourist districts, but will be quieter and have more local residents living in the neighborhood. Most might say that is a good thing.

Gran Tubla is great. No car, right? If that is the case take a taxi to Gran Tubla when you arrive. It's not a bad walk uphill without luggage, but it's a slog dragging a bag.

No, not laughing at all. As I said, just curious.

forshamina, if all you want a microwave for is tea, there are other ways around that. We are very early risers, and coffee FIRST THING in the morning is almost a necessity for us so we travel with a small electric kettle for making cups of instant joe: not ideal but better than nothing. I've also used it for tea a few evenings when coming down with a cold, hot chocolate, and for instant oatmeal as well. It's very lightweight, boils water in just a few minutes, and doesn't take up a lot of space (pack the tea/coffee, sugar and spoon inside.)

You'll want to purchase one that's dual voltage, though, as standard U.S. kettles will fry and blow fuses abroad without a converter. I seem to remember a previous thread about various travel kettles people were using but can't lay my hands on it right now.

All you need for heating water for tea is an immersion coil.

https://www.amazon.com/Travel-Immersion-Water-Heater-Voltage/dp/B000AXS0UE

I have one that is 240 volts (not dual) and a European plug, but the dual-voltage with a plug adaptor is fine too. Just make sure you unplug it BEFORE you lift it from the heated water or it may overheat and burn out.

I traveled with one ( and my own mug) all the time before we started booking apartments.

Appreciate the suggestions for tea/coffee. I am a tea addict so that is very helpful.

So far, I have found a apartment-like place for our 2 days in tuscany, and 3 days in dolomites. We sometimes get tired after a day of sight-seeing and pick up food for dinner later so we dont have to leave the comfort of our hotel for dinner. Microwave has been very helpful in the past.

A question: agriturismo I found in Tuscany has great reviews but the price is quite low 90 euros per night. Is it typical for agriturismos? The place looks clean and nice, but I am worried 90 euros means that it may not be as nice as it looks in the pictures? Tripadvisor reviews, as I mentioned before, were great. The place is so cute, it looks something out of my childhood dreams. But is there a catch?

I don't have experience with agriturismos, but I believe they are considerably less expensive than hotels. If it gets good ( and credible) reviews on Tripadvisor, it should be fine.

Getting back to Venice-- you did not say which dates in September, but I chose three nights at random and searched on booking.com for places in your price range ( I set filters for $160-220). Many options came up, including lots of attractive apartments.

http://www.booking.com/searchresults.en-gb.html?aid=356980;label=gog235jc-city-en-it-venice-unspec-us_wa-tab-L%3Aen-O%3AosSx-B%3Asafari-N%3AXX-S%3Abo-U%3Ac;sid=0fe13a8ca60ea59c446538654b5511f4;dcid=4;checkin_monthday=11;checkin_year_month=2016-9;checkout_monthday=14;checkout_year_month=2016-9;city=-132007;class_interval=1;dtdisc=0;group_adults=2;group_children=0;hlrd=0;hyb_red=0;inac=0;label_click=undef;nha_red=0;no_rooms=1;postcard=0;redirected_from_city=0;redirected_from_landmark=0;redirected_from_region=0;review_score_group=empty;room1=A%2CA;sb_price_type=total;score_min=0;src=city;ss_all=0;ssb=empty;sshis=0&;;nflt=pri%3D4%3B;filter_used=pri-4

As I noted above, I like to search availability on booking.com, but then I book directly with the hotel or apartment. And in Venice I always go for a rooftop terrace, but that is just my personal taste.

Things to watch out for: many of the prices quoted on booking.com are a reduced price based on advance booking and a non-refundable payment in full at the time of booking. Also, some of the apartment agencies will show an attractive photo of one apartment, but that one is not available. So look carefully at the name of the apartment and the description. And note that many buildings have no lift ( elevator). You could end up on a third or fourth floor with steps to climb.

As for Gran Tubla, I second Laurel's suggestion for a cab to the residence. We stayed there in May and enjoyed it, but it is up a somewhat steep hill.
Ask Carmen, the owner, about access the the electric stairs the will bring you up and down from the town center. They are basically a series of 3 flat escalators that move people from the town center to the upper levels of the town. The walk down to town is fine, but sometimes a lift up could be helpful.
The top of the escalators is near the Rasciesa funicular, that bring you to the hiking trails on that side of the valley.
Ortesei is beautiful and the cable car up to Alpe di Siusi is a must!

we will have a car in Dolomites, we only plan to return it before we leave for Venice.

We will also have a car in Tuscany and return it before we reach florence
We will travel long distances with trains where fast connections are available. It takes us much longer to drive on European roads so we have found out that this approach (train/car combo) works best for us