Hotel Olimpia

I’ve stayed in Venice proper twice, and did not enjoy it, though Venice itself is stunning. Any mid-​priced hotel in the city of Venice is typically mediocre. Staying comfortably in Venice is quite expensive.
The solution is to stay outside the area, generally to the east, where there are brand name hotels in the suburbs and hop on the train back to Mestre and then across the Laguna Veneta. On one trip, these hotels were booked, so I was pushed further out to the general Lido di Jesolo area, a beach location on the Venetian arc and east of Venice.
I’m giving them 4 stars largely because the hotel is fairly comfortable, the continental breakfast provided some good food to get the day started, the prices are reasonable, but mostly because proprietors are excellent hosts. Here, one gets the great combination of Italian hospitality with the more restrained yet genuine friendliness found in regions of northern Italy such as the Veneto and Emilia-​Romagna.
The one thing that is odd, by American standards, is the tall ceilings of the hallways and the rooms, and smaller rooms with tall ceilings feel odd to us, but this is fairly normal throughout Italy. They don’t build the same way in Italy that they do in the U.S.
Jesolo’s beach is walkable from the hotel. The beach, like other beaches at the «cul de sac» of the top end of the Adriatic, are by no means crystalline as they are in the southern Adriatic, but they are clean and the water was surprisingly warm. It is better than the beaches found on Venice’s barrier island. So, here, you can both go to the beach and visit Venice as well. Not only that, merchants in this town are similarly nice people.