6 hotels · Italy
The great hotels of Venice
6 luxury hotels in Venice are documented in this guide, ordered by international renown. The oldest, Hotel Danieli, opened in 1822; the most recent, The St. Regis Venice, in 2019. For large events, Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel receives up to 300 guests. Each page gives the history, the key figures and a direct line to the events team.
Hotel Danieli
George Sand and Alfred de Musset wintered at the Hotel Danieli in 1834, twelve years after Giuseppe Dal Niel opened it in the Dandolo family's palace.
Aman Venice
Twenty-four rooms in Palazzo Papadopoli on the Grand Canal, under ceilings painted by Tiepolo, where George Clooney married in 2014.
24 rooms
Hotel Excelsior Venice Lido Resort
The Venice Film Festival began on its terrace on 6 August 1932; the Moorish palace on the Lido beach had opened in 1908 as the flagship of CIGA.
The St. Regis Venice
Monet painted the Grand Canal from the Hotel Britannia in 1908; the same palazzi, facing the Salute, reopened as The St. Regis Venice in 2019.
169 rooms
Ca' Sagredo
A 15th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal, seat of a doge's family from 1661, whose Longhi and Tiepolo decorations survive in a 42-room hotel.
42 rooms
Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel
Giuseppe Cipriani opened his hotel on the Giudecca in 1958 with the only Olympic-size pool in Venice, and the saltwater pool still sets the house apart.
55 rooms · Events up to 300