Advantages: Clean your house and get rid of bacteria at the same time!
Disadvantages: Quite expensive

...I purchased a Polti Vaporetto just a few weeks ago, and I haven't looked back since. What an amazing and versatile product. It is advertised as an appliance that you can use on a daily basis, if you so wish, and I can understand why, although it is perhaps a little bulky to get out if you just wish to wipe over the worktops. I would prefer to do that by hand with a cloth and some Dettox. However, the steam that is produced from the Vaporetto is extremely hot (don't worry though, it is only this hot right at the tip of the steam output, so just don't put your hand there!) so it is very good at ridding surfaces of bacteria. You use ordinary tap water to fill it, hand-tighten the cap and wait for it to heat up to the right temperature. When it is ready, you click on the handle on the 'gun' and the steam comes out at variable... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to use
Disadvantages: Not knowing how much water left in the tank

...I have had the Vaporetto for several years and it is still working fine. When I bought it I had carpets; it didn't actually clean them (maybe they were to old!) but just sterilize them and, if used with just the brush without any rug, was able to bring, the flattened pile, up again. Now that I have laminated floors I use it to clean them, on low steam, and they clean beautifully. What else I use it for?For all the other cleaning around the house. The ceramic tile floor in the kitchen and bathroom and the wall tiles come really nice only that the floors do not need drying but I have found that is better to do a small area of wall tiles at the time and dry them immediately soon after. I use the same method (with the right hand spray and with the left I dry) on any painted surfaces, on work tops and inside and out the kitchen cabinets... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful city
Disadvantages: Smell in winter, and crowds

...The Venice carneval, which has been in existence since the middle ages still draws the crowds in abundance. In fact St Mark's will probably be more packed during the carneval that at most or less anytime of the year. The vaporetto system works well although there are some streets which get clogged up to bursting point, and the order of the day is single pile not single file, so is not recommended for people suffering from claustrophobia. The atmosphere is freindly but relatively there is not that much to see at the carneval, and there are only so many masks that you can admire. Having praised the vaporetto service, if you are armed with a good Freytag and Berndt map of the city you can get from Mestre coach station to St Mark's on foot quicker than by vaporetto, whilst seeing some hidden nooks and crannies of Venice insodoing.... Read review

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Advantages: cleans without chemoicals
Disadvantages: none

...I bought a wonderful cleaner. A vaporetto steam cleaner. This little machine is a marvel it cleans anything. I boughjt it originally to clean my carpets. It cleans them without leaving any ,marks or getting them wet. It cleans, sterilises and deodorises anything. IHighly reccomend it if you have animals, children, a kitchen or a bathroom. It is the easiest way to defrost your freezer, clean a greasy cooker, diinfect the toilet,or worktops, unblock sinks, and clean anywere without nasty chemicals.I have used it to clean the carpets after spilling coffee, no stains left. It cleans windows, tiles baths.In fact I haven't found anything that it will not clean. It works by generating a stream of high pressure steam, the safe thing is that only the 1" from the end of the tool gets hot, as soon as you are away from the end no heat or danger.... Read review

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Advantages: The sense of absolute cleanliness after using the Polti is unmatched with any other product.
Disadvantages: It is quite a bulky item, like a vacuum cleaner, so needs its own storage space.

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Advantages: the polti vaporetto will clean carpets without wetting them too much, and restore crushed clothes back to looking new.
Disadvantages: the polti vaporetto is rather big and heavy if you have to leave it in its box to store away.

...I bought my polti vaporetto from the qvc shopping channel, it looked really great, it was presented as if it could do everything but wash the dishes,on buying it however you soon realized you had to work rather harder then the salesman had told us,the polti vaporetto does need to have some sort of cleaning agent for it to work properly,the way it was shown it looked as if all you had to do was use the polti vaporetto on its own for it to be successful,not true,I bought my polti primerally for cleaning carpets,but you have to use a carpet cleaner as well, the good thing about the polti is that you dont have to wet the carpets too much,particularly in the winter when drying things is a problem,(christmas time) when you have to clean the carpets, i was delighted with the polti,the only drawback,if you can call it that is the polti is rather... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent for cleaning kitchens and bathrooms.
Disadvantages: Only partly effective in cleaning carpets.

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Advantages: COOL
Disadvantages: TOURISTS

.... Below is a list of some places to spend the night away in Venice, together with the relevant addresses. Ai Postali. Santa Croce 821, Fondamenta Rio Marin (041 715 156) Vaporetto Riva di Biasio/San TomGBP. Open 10am-2pm, 5pm-2am, Mon-Sat. Cheap place, popular with young people and students. You can stay out in summer on the banks of the Canal. You can have 31/32 a litre of beer for 7,000 liras. Music is mainly fusion and jazz. It can be a bit smoky. Caf• Blue. Dorsoduro 3778, Salizada San Pantalon (041 710 227) Vaporetto San TomGBP. Open 8am-2am Mon-Fri; 5pm-2am Sat. In Italy there are many pubs with board games, where parties meet to play the night away. Caf• Blue is one of these. The Monopoli board may be lacking some pieces, but they have a fairly large array of board games there. You need to know how to play it, since... Read review

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Advantages: a very interesting city with a lot of history charmingly interwoven among the network of canals
Disadvantages: extortionate restaurant prices, frequent flooding from November to March

...We arrived at the station ready for further adventures, scorning the advice of the Information Desk employee who recommended we take a Vaporetto (water bus) around to our youth hostel, which was situated on the island of Giudecca, south of the Venice proper and across the San Marco Canal. Our enthusiasm faded after only a few minutes’ walk in the afternoon sun, laden with our 70-liter backpacks. Venice was probably the most humid (i.e. uncomfortably hot) place I had ever encountered in Europe, and the stagnant canals (beautiful as they were) did not help matters at all. It was July, which was supposed to be peak season - when tourists swamped the place even more decisively than did the waters in the flooding season. However, we had picked the siesta hour for our little hike; and at this time, much of Venice appeared little more... Read review

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Advantages: Strips wallpaper
Disadvantages: Expensive, not practical, does not do job

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