Hotel Cipriani

A seasonal 5-star on the Giudecca, in Venice, with 55 rooms, 20 suites and 4 Signature Suites according to its official page; Expedia gives it 96 rooms. It was founded by Giuseppe Cipriani, the creator of Harry’s Bar: planned in 1956, opened in 1958, and part since 1976 of the group now called Belmond, says the history the group publishes.

The name has changed: until recently it was «Belmond Hotel Cipriani», as Google’s listing still calls it, and the site now writes «Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel». It shares only its founder with the Cipriani restaurants and Harry’s Bar. The MICHELIN Guide awards it 3 Keys.

The official booking engine lists 19 types: 3 of double rooms, from 23 to 47 m², 5 of junior suites, from 33 to 65 m², 7 of suites, from 50 to 103 m², and 4 Signature Suites, the Palladio at 108 m², the Dogaressa at 122, the Laguna at 182 and the Serenissima at 188. They are split between the main building, on the lagoon and the pool, and Palazzo Vendramin, which faces St Mark’s.

All have marble bathrooms and Acqua di Parma toiletries; the site’s home page gives slightly different sizes, suites up to 80 m² and Signature Suites from 107. For the night of 10 June 2027 the site had 9 types on sale, for 10 August 13: the Laguna cost €11,505 in June and €6,610 in August.

At number 10 on the Giudecca, on the tip of the island facing San Giorgio Maggiore and, across the basin, St Mark’s Square, says the Location page. It has its own gardens around it and the lagoon on 3 sides.

Google Hotels’ card puts it 12 minutes’ walk from the Doge’s Palace: between the Giudecca and St Mark’s there is water, about 696 metres in a straight line, and you cross it by boat. On foot from the hotel you reach the church of Le Zitelle in 2 minutes and the Redentore in 10 minutes, 729 metres, measured on 8 October 2026 on OpenStreetMap’s paths.

On the hotel’s free launch: 5 minutes, says the official page. The pages read print no timetable; Expedia describes it as a 24-hour service, and a guest on Booking.com and one on Google in August 2026 say the same.

From the Molo of the Piazzetta, on foot: 2 minutes to St Mark’s Basilica, 8 to La Fenice, 10 to the Rialto Bridge and 16 to the Gallerie dell’Accademia, 1,182 metres away.

From Marco Polo by water taxi, straight to the private jetty: the Location page says 30 minutes, the FAQs 35 to 45. Travellers who prefer public transport take the Alilaguna Blue Line to San Zaccaria and board the hotel’s boat there.

From Santa Lucia station the water taxi takes 20 to 25 minutes; by vaporetto you ride to San Zaccaria and continue the same way. Google Hotels marks the airport shuttle as a paid service, and none of the sources read publishes its price.

No: the Giudecca is an island with no roads or bridges for cars. You leave the car at Piazzale Roma, where Booking.com names a private car park, and the concierge arranges the boat to the hotel.

Google Hotels lists parking and valet parking, and the MICHELIN Guide prints both «valet parking» and «no parking available» on one page: the service concerns the car terminal. Signature Suites include the transfer from there.

Not at the hotel: it is surrounded by the lagoon and has no beach. You swim in the pool, which is filtered and heated sea water, as the FAQs explain.

Venice’s beaches are on the Lido: the hotel takes guests there by bicycle, on a route from Santa Maria Elisabetta to the Alberoni and Pellestrina, according to the experiences page.

There is one, outdoors, between the gardens and the lagoon: salt water, cabanas in Rubelli fabrics, with Bar Gabbiano and Il Porticciolo beside it. The official page calls it the only pool in central Venice, the site’s home page the largest in the city.

It measures 33 metres by 13.5, according to the history Belmond publishes, read on 15 October 2026, which tells the 25-by-50 story as a legend. The page tells the story of the backers who had asked for 25 feet by 50 and found 25 metres by 50; in the history Belmond publishes the manager of the day states that the pool measures exactly 33 metres by 13.5. Expedia calls it Olympic-sized and adds a children’s pool the site knows nothing of.

Yes, to 28–30°C, and it opens from 9am to 7pm, says the official page. It follows the hotel’s season, so in 2027 from 1 June. The minimum age is 4, with a parent.

The cabanas take up to 4 people, with Wi-Fi, sunbeds, towels, fruit and sparkling wine, and you can book a manicure there for €120 or a 30-minute massage for €200; the price of the cabana itself is not published.

In 4 restaurants and 3 bars, says the official page. Oro, one MICHELIN star: a 7-course tasting menu or à la carte in the evening, the Oro Luce menu of 2 to 4 courses at lunch. Cip’s Club, Venetian cooking over the water. Il Porticciolo, by the pool, from May: late breakfast from 10.30am and lunch until 4pm. The San Giorgio: aperitivo from 6.30pm, dinner from 7.30pm to 10pm.

Then Bar Gabbiano, from 11am to 1am, where the Bellini is served only in white-peach season, and Bacaro Dior, Tuesday to Sunday from 6pm to 10pm. At Il Porticciolo pizzas cost €30 to €35 and linguine with clams €44, as the menu prints; Oro’s menu carries no prices. The San Giorgio and Bacaro Dior also welcome people not staying at the hotel.

Breakfast is: on the official site rooms are sold on a «Room with Breakfast» rate, and the FAQs add that it is a buffet with à la carte dishes and comes to the room at no extra charge. Room service runs 24 hours a day.

The site offers neither half board nor full board. For dinner in the price there is the package with the tasting menu for 2 at Oro; the «The Suite Life» offer adds a €200 credit for restaurants and bars, not valid at Oro.

It is the Dior Spa Hotel Cipriani, opened in 2026 in the Casanova Gardens to a design by Peter Marino. The treatment menu describes treatment cabins, a salon for hair, nails and make-up, and a device that measures the skin’s hydration, elasticity and collagen before a facial.

Neither the page nor the menu gives its floor area, and neither mentions a sauna, a steam room or pools: Booking.com, Expedia and Google Hotels list them, perhaps from the previous spa, which the Italian FAQs still call the Casanova Spa. Separately there are the gym, with Technogym machines, and the red clay tennis court.

The Dior Spa works by appointment: each treatment has its price and is booked by telephone or email, says the menu. For hotel guests the pool and the gym are part of the stay, as are the week’s activities, from the tennis clinic to a session with the personal trainer, listed in the programme.

A day pass for non-residents is not published, for the spa or for the pool. Outsiders can come for dinner or an aperitivo, which the site states expressly for the San Giorgio and Bacaro Dior.

The menu says the Dior Spa is open daily, without giving hours, and asks guests to arrive 15 minutes early, already in a bathrobe. Cancelling is free up to 24 hours ahead; after that the full treatment is charged.

The pool does have set hours, 9am to 7pm. The activities included in the stay have to be reserved with the concierge, the weekly programme notes.

The Dior menu opens with 3 signature rituals: Théâtre Corporel, a 4-hand massage of 90 minutes, €650; Mascarade, for the face, 90 minutes, €580; Grand Bal, for face, hair and hands, from €800. Then the Kobi-Dior facial, €290 for 60 minutes and €400 for 90, and the New Look, D-Tissue and Constellation massages, from €280.

There is a pre-natal treatment, 60 minutes for €280; a session on a boat on the lagoon, 120 minutes for €1,200; a personal trainer and private yoga or pilates classes at €250 an hour. At the hairdresser a blow-dry starts at €120.

Yes, within limits. The official page lists a Children’s Club without publishing its ages or hours; the pool takes children from 4 with a parent, the cabanas from 8. The Vigneto, Superior and San Giorgio suites and the lagoon-view suite with balcony take 2 extra beds.

Children are not allowed in the Laguna and Serenissima suites. Booking.com says all ages are welcome and cots are on request, the MICHELIN Guide that under-threes stay free. The included activities feature a meeting with the falconer on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Yes, if it weighs under 10 kg: the room descriptions on the official site say so. Booking.com adds that it is on request and free of charge; Expedia gives the limit in pounds, 18 per pet, about 8 kg.

Gardens with a vineyard, the pool, tennis, the gym, the Dior Spa, the children’s club, boutiques and a private marina, according to the official page. Each week the stay includes a programme of activities: the lagoon cruise with aperitivo, a wine tasting, the Bellini class, a cooking class, a tour of the hotel’s art, tennis.

For a fee the concierge arranges the boat to the islands, a gondola at sunset, a tour of the bacari and breakfast at dawn on the Contarini del Bovolo staircase, for 6 people at most. Check-in is from 3pm and check-out by noon; a late check-out is requested that morning and may carry a charge.

3, on the offers page read on 7 October 2026. «Early Escape» gives the best rate for booking ahead, with a minimum stay, and excludes double rooms and Signature Suites. «The Suite Life», for suites: breakfast at any hour, a welcome aperitif, station transfers and 2 credits of €200, one for restaurants and bars and one for the spa.

«The Grand Tour» rewards guests who book at least 4 nights across 2 or more Belmond hotels in Italy, Spain and Portugal, with a minimum of 2 nights in each. The pages publish no percentage discounts.

Yes: the weddings page offers a ceremony in the Casanova Gardens, in a church in the city or a blessing on a boat, and the reception in the hotel’s own spaces. The Casanova Gardens, 270 m², seat 220 and hold 300 standing; the Granaries of the Republic have 2 sixteenth-century halls, the Longhi Ballroom of 376 m² for 300 guests and the Tiziano of 157 m² for 140.

Outdoors there are also the Fondamenta Terrace, 180 m² for 200 people facing St Mark’s, and the San Giorgio Terrace, 98 m² for 50 seated. The whole hotel can be taken over. Prices are not published; on the Granaries’ capacity the same page writes 340 guests in one place and 440 in another.

Not this winter: on 31 December 2026 the hotel is closed, and it reopens on 1 June 2027, says the official site. The restaurants follow the season too; the last to close is Cip’s Club, on 25 October 2026.

No: no official page offers one and the hotel has no course, although Expedia writes «golfing on site». The house sport is tennis, on a red clay court reserved for guests, with private lessons and a clinic included on Mondays and Wednesdays.

It is a seasonal hotel. The official booking engine says it has been closed since 30 September 2026 and reopens on 1 June 2027: that is 8 months. Cip’s Club stays open until 25 October 2026.

For 2027, on the calendar read on 8 October 2026, the bookable nights ran from 1 June to 29 September; from 30 September onwards none was on sale. Expedia reports a closure from 5 October to 25 April, which the official site does not confirm.

On the official booking engine, read on 8 October 2026, for 2 adults and one night, with breakfast and VAT: €2,650 on 1 June 2027, €3,200 on 19 June, €3,255 on 17 July, €2,045 on 28 July, €1,990 on 10 August, €4,960 on 31 August, €5,290 on 3 September, €8,051 on 18 September and €2,650 on 29 September.

That is the lowest rate of the day: on the nights checked, 10 June and 10 August, it was for the lagoon-view room with balcony. It leaves out the city tax, €5 per person per night. From 16 to 18 July, the weekend of the Feast of the Redentore, which falls on the third Sunday of July, the site asks for at least 3 nights; from 31 August to 5 September for 3 to 5, and 18 September is the dearest night on the calendar. For nights up to 31 January 2027, Google Hotels showed no price at all on 7 October 2026: the hotel is closed.

On 7 October 2026 Google showed 4.7/5 from 689 ratings, 87% of them 5 stars; Tripadvisor 4.7/5 from 1,418, ranked 58 of 381 hotels in Venice, with location at 4.9, rooms at 4.6 and value at 4.1; Booking.com 9.9/10 from 119 and Expedia 9.8/10 from 89.

Guests return to the pool, the gardens, the launch and the staff; those who slept in the renovated suites write about them with enthusiasm. On price, guests write about the rooms and the cocktails; long trousers are asked for in the restaurants in the evening, and not every room has been redone yet.

The city tax: €5 per person per night, which the official site leaves out of the rate. VAT is already in: for the night of 10 June 2027 the room cost €2,400 plus €250 of tax. In the restaurants prices include VAT but not service, Oro’s menu warns.