Day 23-Princess for a night

We took the Eurostar train again from Florence to Venice, and this time we got busted for not having a "reservation," so we had to pay an 8 Euro fee (it should have been 20, but he cut us a break). We arrived in Venice around 11pm, and followed the directions of our guidebook and about 24 people on the street to navigate the pick-up sticks style street patterns towards the hostel we selected. After finding it, we learn that they were booked full. We had been walking around with our motherload backpacks on for about a half hour at this point, and stopped at a bar/cafe to figure things out for a minute over some refreshing gelato. A nice man there escorted us to another hotel that was full, then we got directions to a fourth hotel from the front desk man. It took us over an hour of aimless wandering to finally just hop on a water taxi and go directly to the bridge by our hotel. Fifteen minutes and a group of young Venetian escorts later, we arrived at our hotel safely around 2am.
The hotel is a three-star beauty called Hotel Americano (which I would usually never stay at a hotel with a name like that, but at this point we were not at all picky) for 100 Euro. We were put in a suite (the only room they had left) that usually costs 300 Euro. This place had upholstered walls, matching bedspreads and chaise lounge, and a full sized bathtub (not at all common in Europe). We took turns taking steaming hot baths, I talked to my family (finally!), then slept like happy little rocks-Bob Ross style.
This morning, we woke up in time for the free breakfast and feasted like princesses (or piggies) like we havent done in nearly a month. They had fruit (apples, kiwi), croissants filled with apricot, rolls, jams, nutella (chocolate spread thats very popular here), tea with honey, coffee and steamed milk, rye bread, soft cheeses, ham, hard boiled eggs, granola cereal, yogurt, juices, milk, and more. We ate and swiped a few items in Hannahs bag for lunch, and thought that after the bath, sleep (could have used more), and breakfast, the 50 Euros each seemed pretty worth it, and agreed that going to a hostel dorm from here may be a little difficult. Tonight we are going to try to find a less expensive place, though we discovered that we happened to arrive here during high season.
Today we will see the Peggy Guggenheim Collection museum, and some gardens. We are definitely churched-out for the time being and will be taking it easy today.