Top 10: the best Venice honeymoon hotels
An expert guide to the best Venice honeymoon hotels, including the top places to stay for romantic suites, Grand Canal views, discreet five-star service, gourmet dining, top-notch spas and easy access to the sights, near Saint Mark's Basilica, Doge's Palace and Piazza San Marco.
Ca Maria Adele
Venice, Veneto, Italy
8Telegraph expert rating
Ca Maria Adele takes Venetian style to Gothic extreme in its five statement concept bedrooms. It’s tucked away behind the Salute in the pleasantly quiet, gallery-filled Dorsoduro sestiere, and has its own water entrance. Rooms are all delightfully decorated with subtle tones, beautiful dark-wood furniture and marble bathrooms. The Sala Noire with its black Murano glass chandelier is deliciously decadent. There’s no restaurant but guests order breakfast each evening, selecting not only what they want on their tray but where they want to have it: in their rooms, on the terrace or in one of the stylishly cosy salons. Read expert review From £223per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Aman Canal Grande
Venice, Veneto, Italy
8Telegraph expert rating
The Clooneys opted to spend their wedding night in this 16th-century Grand Canal-side palazzo, which says it all. Contemporary furnishings mix with sumptuous chandeliers and burnished mirrors in the 24 ultra-luxe suites. If money is no object, most striking is the Alcova Tiepolo suite with a Chinese painted sitting room and ornate bedroom ceiling reliefs painted by eighteenth-century Venetian painter, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Dinner is served in the grand 'Red' dining room; the wooden 'altana' is a small decked roof terrace overlooking pantiled rooftops, and perfect for romantic sunset drinks. Read expert review From £998per night Check availability Rates provided by Mr & Mrs Smith
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Novecento Boutique Hotel
Venice, Veneto, Italy
8Telegraph expert rating
This is one of those places that turns a holiday into a special experience. It’s in a quiet corner, just off a busy street leading to St Mark’s Square, and you’ll be made to feel like a treasured guest. Décor is influenced by Mariano Fortuny, the eclectic Spanish designer who made Venice his home in the late 19th century, but far from aping the standard Venetian Fortuny model, his north African and middle Eastern touches mostly inspire the interiors. Bedrooms are supremely comfortable and decorated in richly glowing earthy colours with lovely fabrics. Read expert review From £98per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Al Ponte Antico
Venice, Veneto, Italy
8Telegraph expert rating
This hotel right on the Grand Canal is a joyful pastiche of Venetian style both in its bedrooms (think lots of velvet and brocade) and in the central living room which gives onto a delightful balcony with a view over the Grand Canal and bridge. The seven rooms and suites are very heavy on the brocade – on walls, beds and windows – but the rooms are large by Venetian standards and some have lovely views over the Grand Canal. There’s no restaurant, but the terrace is a fantastic place to enjoy a romantic drink while gazing at the Rialto. Read expert review From £212per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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AD Place Venice
Venice, Veneto, Italy
8Telegraph expert rating
AD Place is on a canal by the La Fenice opera house, in the San Marco district, and generally blissfully quiet. Attention to detail and friendly, well informed staff make this a stylishly relaxing place to stay. There’s a lovely roof terrace from which to survey the Venetian cityscape. There’s a canopied bed in the large top-floor suite, making it ideal for a romantic honeymoon break. Elsewhere, rooms vary in size but each is individually decorated in unusual colours. Though there’s no restaurant as such, a formal tea is served from 5pm to 6.30pm. Read expert review From £101per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Belmond Hotel Cipriani
Giudecca, Venice, Italy
8Telegraph expert rating
The feel here is luxuriously elegant modern classic with lots of Venetian touches, rather than atmospheric historic pile. A spa, exclusive on-site boutiques, extensive gardens and a huge swimming pool complete the picture. All rooms feature private balconies, gorgeous fabrics, Fortuny light fittings and sumptuous bathrooms. A light lunch, consumed poolside or on the terrace overhanging the lagoon, is always pleasant. The Cip’s Club restaurant, on the lagoon-side walk of the Giudecca canal, is an informal dining option; for a special supper a deux, there’s the Oro restaurant inside. Read expert review From £589per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Hotel Metropole
Venice, Veneto, Italy
8Telegraph expert rating
Wonderfully decadent and very quirky, the Metropole has been in the Beggiato family for generations, and the museum-standard family collections — of antique corkscrews, fans and nutcrackers among other items — are displayed in halls and corridors. Though the 67 rooms all offer beautiful brocade soft furnishings and antiques — from 18th century pieces to Art Deco and Eastern items — each has its own very particular look and feel. The Oriental bar is open throughout the day, serving light meals and snacks dreamed up in the kitchens of the Metropole’s Michelin-starred MET restaurant, as well as some truly excellent cocktails. Read expert review From £294per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Palazzo Venart
Venice, Veneto, Italy
7Telegraph expert rating
The big draw of this five-star in the pretty Santa Croce district is the 18 sumptuous rooms. Their décor varies, while remaining very much in the Venetian vernacular, with glorious fabrics and colours. Some have original wall or ceiling frescoes, others have wonderful terrazzo flooring. Four suites enjoy Grand Canal views. An inner courtyard shaded by magnolia trees and a pretty garden stretching down to the Grand Canal – where water taxis can pull up at a private dock – give Palazzo Venart an edge in this very urban city. After breakfast, the dining room becomes Glam, the Venetian outpost of two-Michelin-starred chef Enrico Bartolini. Read expert review From £229per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
The Gritti Palace
Venice, Veneto, Italy
10Telegraph expert rating
This 15th-century palazzo occupies one of the loveliest spots on the Grand Canal, looking across to the magnificent Salute church, and has equally sumptuous interiors to match, with priceless antiques and frescoes, and a small but exquisite spa. The Gritti’s intimacy and relatively small size mean that the courteous and charming staff have plenty of time for you. Ask for a balsamic martini or Dama Bianca coffee (with cream and absinthe) in the bar. All rooms are filled with precious antiques, paintings, frescoes, objets d’art and beautiful fabrics. The Grand Canal-view rooms are the perfect romantic setting for a honeymoon stay. Read expert review From £592per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Cima Rosa Boutique Bed & Breakfast
Venice, Veneto, Italy
9Telegraph expert rating
Cima Rosa offers exceptional service, creating a home-from-home feel that draws guests back time after time. There’s a lovely courtyard by the entrance. The ground-floor living room – where breakfast is served in the morning – is filled with light reflecting off the Grand Canal right outside the windows. The five good-sized rooms are beautifully decorated in Farrow & Ball pastels that pick up Venice’s water colours and enhance the classic-contemporary elegance. The sateen bed linen is luxurious; the well-equipped bathrooms are delightful. Three rooms have Grand Canal views. Read expert review From £125per night
