| Flashbooking is a growing youth hostels and hotels | | | | guides, written for giving the essential information |
| directory in Venice (Italy) specializing in budget | | | | about the most visited cities in the world. Especially |
| accommodation for independent travellers, students, | | | | created for a quick visit, a week end, a city break, |
| backpackers, families and all the ones that travel on a | | | | these free pocket guides are printable and |
| pocket. Flashbooking is becoming a recognized source | | | | downloadable online. The staff efforts concentrate |
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| the processed data and guarantees that this will not | | | | Venice is relatively small and the majority of the city |
| be read, used or modified by other parties. | | | | is easily reached on foot. Using a street guide makes |
| Venice is situated in the Veneta Lagoon, on an | | | | it impossible to get lost in the maze of streets. All |
| archipelago of 120 islands, separated by 160 | | | | the buildings are numbered, based upon the district to |
| canals,which in their turn are spanned by 400 bridges. | | | | which they belong and not to the street. Each house |
| The city, connected to the mainland by both a rail | | | | is indicated initially with the name of the district |
| and road bridge, is divided into six districts (sestieri): | | | | followed by the number. |
| San Marco,Dorsoduro, Cannaregio, Castello, Santa | | | | There is a wide choice for those who wish to take a |
| Croce and San Polo. These zones are divided up by a | | | | boat trip. tickets are available from all the boat stops |
| dense network of canals (rii) and an intricate system | | | | and in some bars, shops, and tobacconists who show |
| of narrow and windy streets (calli and Salizade) which | | | | the ACTV sign. |
| open out onto the canals and campielli (small Venetian | | | | See Flashbooking database of selected |
| squares). The historic centre borders the Grand Canal, | | | | accommodations worldwide and help us enlarging the |
| which is crossed by the Academy bridge, the Ponte | | | | hostel offer by reporting the contacts of some |
| di Rialto and the Ponte degli Scalzi. | | | | accommodations, lodgings, BandB, youth hostels and |
| A Skype account has been recently added in order | | | | budget small hotels where you personally stayed. In |
| to give more assistance to our travellers and | | | | fact, Flashbooking policy tends to privilege small and |
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| database is easily available online and comes | | | | tourism respectful of cultures and different societies. |
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| location, description, contacts, prices, instant real | | | | or even manage a youth hostel or a hotel |
| availability, customer ratings, facilities and pictures. In | | | | accommodation, and are interested in the travel city |
| particularFlashbooking provides a large selection of | | | | guides, you can collect all of them and put at your |
| cheap or low cost accommodation offers in Florence | | | | visitors' disposal. Other city pocket guides of top |
| where there are plenty of low cost solutions for | | | | European cities are: the London guide, the Rome |
| backpackers in budget youth hostels, Bed and | | | | guide, the Amsterdam guide, the Paris guide, the |
| Breakfast, family run guesthouses, cheap hotel deals. | | | | Prague guide, the Barcelona guide and more coming |
| Recently, Flashbooking staff and management have | | | | on soon!So mates, we are looking forward to finding |
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