Ca’ di Dio

From the hotel door, at number 2183 on Riva Ca’ di Dio, the Arsenale entrance on Campo della Tana is a 5-minute walk (379 metres); the Giardini entrance on Viale Trento is 12 minutes and 873 metres, and the Sant’Elena one 16. The routes were measured on OpenStreetMap’s streets on 27 September 2026, to the coordinates the Biennale publishes for its entrances. ChatGPT, the same day, gave 15 to 20 minutes for the Giardini: that is the time to the Sant’Elena entrance. The Biennale’s Arsenale infopoint is on the same waterfront as the hotel.

On Google Hotels, read on 27 September 2026, a night for 2 on the official site cost €856 for Wednesday 14 October and €1,019 for Saturday 17 October; the cheapest resellers, such as Traventia, went down to €719 and €881. For the nights of November and December the official site was not among the sellers: the lowest price was €408 for Saturday 14 November, a week before the Biennale closes, and €829 for New Year’s Eve. The tourist tax, €5 per person per night, is paid at the hotel.

The official site, at least on the dates we read: on 27 September 2026, on Google Hotels, it cost less than Booking.com, €856 against €1,037 for 14 October and €1,019 against €1,233 for 17 October. On its own page, for 14 October, Booking.com sold the Deluxe at €934 before the 10% VAT and the tourist tax, non-refundable, or at €1,035 with free cancellation until 12 October. Its house rules also mention a 5% contribution for the staff, optional there, which Hotels.com lists among the mandatory fees. The hotel belongs to Small Luxury Hotels of the World and can also be booked through its site.

Not always: it depends on the rate. When it is left out it costs €45 per person, according to Booking.com and Hotels.com, which on the same listing also counts it among the free amenities; Google marks it as free, and Mr & Mrs Smith says its rates usually include it. Guests reckon it is worth it: a buffet at Essentia from 7 to 10.30am, mentioned in over a hundred Google reviews with an average of 4.8.

Not every day: VERO, the waterfront restaurant, opens only Wednesday to Sunday, 7pm to 9.30pm, according to its own site; the hotel’s site says 7pm to 10.30pm, Mr & Mrs Smith 7pm to 11pm. Essentia starts with the breakfast buffet, from 7 to 10.30am according to Mr & Mrs Smith and Hotels.com, then serves lunch in the courtyard and dinner in its indoor room. The Alchemia bar also has 2 sets of hours on the same official site: 11am to 1am on the restaurants page, noon to midnight on the bar’s own page. Hours read on 27 September 2026.

From 3pm to midnight, with check-out by noon, according to Booking.com; Hotels.com and Kayak give the same hours. To leave later, Mr & Mrs Smith says check-out can be moved, for a charge and when there is room. The hotel’s site, read on 15 October 2026, does not publish a minimum age for checking in.

The Lagoon View Junior Suites and Suites, which face San Giorgio and the basin, and the Altana Suite, with its private rooftop altana: the official site puts the view in the name. The Executive Suites Canal View look over the canal, the Premium Junior Suites over the inner gardens, the Deluxe rooms over the courtyard. On how many face the lagoon the sources split: 13 with a frontal lagoon view for Condé Nast Traveler, “most” for Molteni&C, who furnished them.

By boat. From Marco Polo airport the Alilaguna Blue Line stops at Arsenale, outside the hotel: €18 per person with one large bag, an hour and a quarter on board; on the timetable valid until 28 October the first boat leaves at 5.20am. A private transfer booked through the hotel ties up at its own jetty and costs €300 by motorboat or €375 by wooden launch, for up to 4 people. From Santa Lucia station, ACTV line 4.1 reaches Arsenale in half an hour along the Giudecca Canal, line 1 in 50 minutes down the Grand Canal: the ticket costs €9.50 and is valid for 75 minutes. A water taxi from the station costs €210. By car you stop at Piazzale Roma or Tronchetto and book your parking there: Google Hotels lists parking, but no car reaches the hotel.

It is 12 minutes on foot, 869 metres along Riva degli Schiavoni, measured on OpenStreetMap’s streets. In Google reviews guests say 8, 10, up to 15 minutes; Sleeper, when the hotel opened in 2021, said under 5, which takes a brisk stride.

Yes, and the most-cited fee is €40 a day: Hotels.com gives it per pet, and Mr & Mrs Smith, which accepts dogs up to 15 kg and keeps them out of the restaurant, gives the same figure. Booking.com says only that pets are allowed on request and that charges may apply; the official site does not mention them. 3 Google reviews, 2 from 2025 and one from 2021, describe dogs made very welcome, at the terrace bar too.

Yes, although Google notes there is no pool and no source mentions a kids’ club. Booking.com accepts children of all ages and charges those from 12 as adults. Cots are available: children under 2 stay free in their parents’ room with a cot, and triple and quadruple rooms take a third and fourth bed, according to the hotel’s listing on Hilton.com, the channel of its Small Luxury Hotels membership, read on 15 October 2026. The official site does not publish the charge for a child sharing a room: one Google review of June 2025 reports 190 dollars for a 5-year-old, one of October 2025 €400. Babysitting is extra, according to Mr & Mrs Smith, and children under 10 pay no tourist tax.

No, the treatments are extra; and according to Mr & Mrs Smith so are the sauna and steam room, €25 each for half an hour or €40 for both. Booking.com warns that the spa may be charged, Hotels.com that massages and treatments must be booked before arrival; the official site presents the Pura City Spa, the Zoé Cosmetics rituals and the massages, and says nothing about entry. There is a gym, small and bookable, as a guest wrote on Google in 2023.

Yes to both. There are 2 meeting rooms in the courtyard pergolas: the Pergola Antichi Forni, 95 m² for 40 people, and the Pergola Arsenale, 120 m² for 70, according to the hotel’s technical sheet. Wi-Fi is free in the rooms and public areas according to Google, Booking.com and Hotels.com, and on Booking.com guests rate it 9.1 out of 10.

66, according to the official site, SLH and Molteni&C, who furnished them and count 57 suites and 9 Deluxe rooms: nearly the whole hotel is suites. At the opening, in October 2021, Sleeper counted 65 while listing the same 57 suites and 9 Deluxe rooms; the Michelin Guide now says 60.

No: the access fee is for day visitors, and in 2026 its last day was 26 July. Hotel guests pay the tourist tax instead: at Ca’ di Dio, a 5-star in the historic centre, €5 per person per night from February to December and €3.50 in January, for 5 nights at most, and half that from 10 to 16: the city’s rates in force since 1 April 2025. Idealista gives up to €7.50 in high season; in September 2026 the Corriere del Veneto reported the city’s plan to raise the 5-star rate in the historic centre to €8 or €9.

Leave the car at Piazzale Roma or Tronchetto and book parking there; continue to the hotel by boat.