Aman Venice

A 5-star hotel in Palazzo Papadopoli, one of the 8 monumental palazzi on the Grand Canal according to the official site, with Three Keys from the MICHELIN Guide, which calls it Aman’s first city hotel. It has 24 rooms and suites, say the MICHELIN Guide and Tripadvisor; the site does not publish a number.

The contemporary interiors are Jean-Michel Gathy’s; the palazzo’s owners, an Aman feature relates, live in the private apartments at the top of the building. The grand staircase dates from 1874, and the Red Room was once the family’s picture gallery.

11 types, from the rooms to the 3-bedroom apartments: the Palazzo Bedroom at 47 to 60 m², the Chamber Affresco at 50, the Chamber Luminoso at 53 to 61, the Palazzo Stanza Canal Grande at 57 to 89; among the Signature Rooms the Maddalena at 62 m², the Papadopoli at 73 and the Sansovino at 75; the suites, Grand Canal at 97 m² and Alcova Tiepolo at 103; the apartments, Grand Canal at 226 m² and Coccina’s at 290.

All have a king bed, breakfast included, in-room drinks including alcohol, a guided tour of the palazzo and access to the rooftop altana. In the Signature Rooms the ceilings reach 5 metres. On 7 October 2026 the MICHELIN Guide, for the night of 4 November and one adult, showed the Palazzo Bedroom at $2,352.80 and the Alcova Tiepolo Suite at $7,120.30, taxes and fees included.

At Calle Tiepolo 1364, in the San Polo sestiere, on the bank of the Grand Canal opposite St Mark’s: the Rialto Bridge is 472 metres away, Campo San Polo 318. The Google Hotels card puts it 2 minutes from Piazza San Marco, but on foot the Basilica is 1.2 km away.

Inside the palazzo it is quiet: 2 gardens, 24 rooms, and several guests write of finding silence a stone’s throw from the crowds.

On foot, with no ferry: the Rialto Bridge 5 minutes, the Frari 8, the Scuola Grande di San Rocco 10, Piazza San Marco 13 (1.1 km), St Mark’s Basilica 14, La Fenice 14, the Gallerie dell’Accademia 21. For St Mark’s you cross the Grand Canal at the Rialto; by waterbus you leave from San Silvestro, 3 minutes from the door.

The times were calculated on 7 October 2026 on OpenStreetMap’s streets; with acqua alta or the Rialto crowds they take longer.

From Marco Polo airport the hotel arranges, on request, a meet-and-greet in arrivals, a car to the mainland dock and a water taxi to the palazzo, 50 minutes in all, according to the official page, which publishes no price; one guest paid €300 in August 2025. The water taxi moors at the private landing stage.

From Santa Lucia station it is 1.3 km on foot, 16 minutes; the MICHELIN Guide gives 3 miles, close to 5 km, a distance the map does not bear out.

No: in Venice cars stop at Piazzale Roma, 1.6 km and 18 minutes’ walk from the hotel, and you carry on by water taxi or on foot. The Google Hotels card lists «Parking» among the amenities, but no official page describes a car park or a charge.

No: the palazzo stands on the Grand Canal, with a private landing stage. From there leave the boat trips the hotel offers, such as an aperitivo in the lagoon towards the Giudecca or a tour of the islands to Murano, Sant’Erasmo and San Francesco del Deserto, described on the private tours page.

No. The wellness pages list 3 treatment rooms and a gym, and a guest in April 2026 writes that there is no pool, sauna or whirlpool. Google Hotels’ description of a hot tub is not borne out by the site.

At Arva, on the piano nobile, from 12 to 10pm, with dinner from 7pm and Sunday brunch from 11am to 4pm; at The Bar from noon to midnight, with afternoon tea from 3pm to 5pm; at the Palazzo Kitchen Table Tuesday to Saturday, at 7.30pm. From May to October you can also eat in the garden, and everything is open to non-residents, by reservation.

Arva’s menus print no prices. Guests mention a ragù pasta at €36 in 2023, pasta dishes at around €60 in 2025 and a €30 cover charge at breakfast for non-residents in February 2025.

Yes, in the room rates: each room page, such as the Palazzo Bedroom’s, lists daily breakfast, and the MICHELIN Guide showed it included in the rates it displayed on 7 October 2026. It is served at Arva or, in fine weather, in the garden, and many guests praise it.

Small and intimate: 3 treatment rooms, each with a dressing area and bathroom, on a third-floor mezzanine, as the spa menu says. Treatments use the salts, waters and clays of Salsomaggiore Terme and Aman’s own products, and cryotherapy is offered. The gym, on the fourth floor, looks over the rooftops.

The MICHELIN Guide places the spa in an adjoining building; the official pages put it inside the palazzo.

Treatments are charged, and the menu prints no prices, only that tax and service are added. The spa and its treatments are open to non-residents too, but the hotel publishes no day pass, as there is no pool or sauna to use. The gym is used privately and is booked through reception.

From 1 October 2026, daily from 2pm to 8pm, with the last treatment an hour before closing; until 30 September it opened Monday to Thursday from 2pm to 8pm and Friday to Sunday from 10am to 7pm, according to the spa page. Book on extension 750; cancellation is free up to 12 hours before.

On the spa menu: Aman’s Grounding, Purifying and Nourishing rituals of 60 or 90 minutes, and journeys of 180; the Aman Advanced Facial; thermal treatments with Salsomaggiore’s products, such as the 90-minute Lissaggio; massages, including pregnancy and couples’ massages; a massage with a live harpist. There is yoga in the frescoed salons and a personal trainer. No prices are published.

Yes. The Grand Canal Suite can become 2 bedrooms for families, and the apartments have 3. Under the terms of the Extend Your Stay offer, children under 12 sharing with their parents stay free, and from 12 it is €250 plus VAT a night. Google and the MICHELIN Guide list babysitting and cots.

The spa and gym are from age 16. At Christmas there is a mandorlato cooking class from age 8 and a Befana stocking; a family in March 2026 describe their 8-year-old enchanted by the ceilings.

According to Google Hotels and Tripadvisor pets are allowed, and the MICHELIN Guide adds that a charge applies, without saying how much. The official site does not mention pets.

2 gardens, the library with the family’s books, the halls of the first and second piano nobile, the rooftop altana, the restaurant, the bar, the spa and the gym. The hotel arranges private visits, such as the Doge’s Palace after closing, the Rialto market with the chef and the city’s artisans’ workshops, described on the experiences page.

The official offers read on 7 October 2026: Extend Your Stay, with a fourth night free, breakfast and the minibar, valid until 23 December 2027, non-refundable and with blackout dates; Ultimate Discovery, 2 nights with tickets to the Scuola Grande di San Rocco and two 30-minute treatments; Signature Suite Stay, 2 nights in the suites; Journey Across Italy, 5 nights combined with Aman Rosa Alpina, until 18 October 2026. None publishes a price.

Yes: the events page offers a ceremony in the canal-side garden or in the ballroom overlooking the Grand Canal, followed by a candlelit banquet with live opera or a string quartet. The ballroom holds 100 standing and 80 seated, the salon on the second piano nobile 110 seated and 120 standing, the garden 120 at dinner and 150 standing, but only when the palazzo is taken for exclusive use.

For smaller dinners there are the Yellow Room, up to 50, the Blue Room, up to 40, the Tiepolo Room, up to 50, and the altana, up to 10. The hotel publishes no prices.

Yes. The 2026 festive programme sets out, on 31 December from 7pm, an aperitivo over the garden and a gala dinner at Arva with live music; at midnight a boat from the landing stage to the fireworks above the Salute, not included in the package and best booked at least 7 days ahead, and back at the palazzo zampone with lentils.

No price is published. The programme also includes Christmas Eve dinner, the New Year’s concert at La Fenice and brunch on 1 January.

All year, as far as the official pages say: they announce no closure. On Google Hotels, read on 7 October 2026, 82 of the 116 nights from 8 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 had a price; from 7 January onwards none did, which does not mean the hotel is closed.

The garden opens for lunch and dinner from May to October, and the spa changes its hours on 1 October.

Google Hotels, read on 7 October 2026, for 2 adults and one night, taxes and fees included: €3,080 on 8 October 2026, €9,965 on 10 October, €2,375 on 22 October, €1,660 on 9 November, €1,550 on 16 November, €1,275 on 1 December, €2,155 on Christmas Eve, €4,410 on 1 January 2027 and €1,375 on 6 January.

Of the 116 nights read, 82 had a price, between 1,275 and 9,965 euros; the calendar shows the lowest price for one night taken alone, without naming the room or meal plan. A whole-stay quotation differs: 7 nights from 16 November 2026 were €3,009 a night through Google’s lowest seller, read 13 October 2026. On 9 October, 11 and 15 November, 14 to 16 December, 29 to 31 December and from 7 January there was no price. The room pages list breakfast among the inclusions; the calendar itself names no meal plan.

On 7 October 2026 Google showed 4.8/5 from 860 ratings and Tripadvisor 4.7/5 from 335, with a Travellers’ Choice award, 118th of 381 hotels in Venice and value at 4.3; the MICHELIN Guide awards it Three Keys.

Of the 469 Google reviews with text, 88% of those who discuss the staff are positive, and 95% of those who discuss the location. Many come from visitors who stopped for a cocktail or dinner. Those who stayed write about the high ceilings, the frescoes, breakfast in the hall on the piano nobile and attentive, discreet service; the first room categories look onto the garden only, and there is no pool or sauna.

Google Hotels’ figures include taxes and fees: for 8 October, Bluepillow’s link breaks its €3,090 down into €2,800 for the room and €290 of taxes and fees, without saying whether the tourist tax is inside. That tax, according to the MICHELIN Guide, is €5 per person per night from February to November, €2.50 from 10 to 16, and €3.50 in January and December; this guide’s Ca’ di Dio page, from the city’s rates in force since 1 April 2025, has €5 in December too and €3.50 in January alone.

Treatments and drinks carry tax and service on top, the spa menu says; the airport water taxi is charged. An extra guest costs €250 plus VAT a night, under the Extend Your Stay terms.

According to Google Hotels, check-in is from 2pm and check-out by noon; the MICHELIN Guide gives check-in at 3pm. The official site does not publish the times.