Venice Hotels

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1. Official Tourism Site: Venice Accommodation Search
2. Concierge.com: Venice Hotels  
3. Frommer's: Venice Hotels
4. Fodor's: Venice Hotels  
5. TripAdvisor: Venice Hotels  
6. Travel + Leisure: Venice Hotels
7. IgoUgo: Venice Hotels

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Venice Luxury Hotels

• Westin Europa & Regina (Near Piazza San Marco) Phone: 39-041-240-0001 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "Guests sitting by the water at this property, an amalgamation of five houses by the Grand Canal, can watch, and hear, the gondoliers singing."

• • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "Hidden down a tiny side alley just 2 minutes from Piazza San Marco, this hotel's Tiepolo and Regina wings sport eclectic early-20th-century European furnishings and modern fabrics."

• • Travel + Leisure 500 Winner: "An enviable location on the Canal—and the best views of Santa Maria della Salute church."

• Bauer Il Palazzo (Near Piazza San Marco) Phone: 39-041-520-7022 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "Carved stucco ceilings, Rubelli fabrics, and Murano glass can be found in individually decorated rooms that 'are so rich they seem museumlike.'"

• • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "Don't let the modern lobby throw you. This inn, just a few blocks from Piazza San Marco, is one of the top deluxe hotels in town."

• • Travel + Leisure 500 Winner: "A boutique vibe with personalized service and up-to-date amenities."

• Hotel Gritti Palace (Near Piazza San Marco) Phone: 39-041-794-611 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "This Gothic palace on the Grand Canal is a former residence of the Vatican ambassadors to Venice. 'You can spend hours just watching the gondolas go by.'"

• • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "Rooms have inlaid antique furnishings, gilt mirrors, ornate built-in dressers hand-painted in 18th-century Venetian style, tented curtains over the tall windows, and real box-spring beds set into curtained nooks."

• • Travel + Leisure 500 Winner: "With an unrivaled air of nobility, it’s long been the de facto destination for the distinguished (Hemingway was a frequent guest)."

• Hotel Cipriani (On Isola Della Giudecca) Phone: 39-041-520-7744 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "The decor in the public spaces and 104 rooms is opulent, with lashings of silk brocade, murals, frescoed and gilded ceilings, and glorious marbled bathrooms."

• • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "The amenities-filled rooms overlook some combination of the gardens and Olympic-size pool, the lagoon, San Giorgio Maggiore, and St. Mark's Square across the wide mouth of the Grand Canal."

• • Travel + Leisure 500 Winner: "Wide-open spaces and exceptional amenities, including the city’s only Olympic-size pool and a red-clay tennis court."

• Luna Hotel Baglioni (Near Piazza San Marco) Phone: 39-041-528-9840 Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "The twelfth-century hotel next to St. Mark's Square was used as lodging by the Knights Templar on their way to Jerusalem."

• • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "[T]his luxury hotel may be Venice's oldest inn, converted into a hotel from a convent in the 1200s."

• • Travel + Leisure 500 Winner: "The city’s oldest hotel, steeped in tradition."

• Londra Palace (Castello/Riva Degli Schiavoni) Phone: 39-041-520-0533 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "Finished in white Istrian marble, the facade and 100 windows overlook Venice's lagoon. Brightly colored interiors feature Biedermeier furniture."

• • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "With 100 windows overlooking the San Marco basin, from the 'deluxe' rooms you can enjoy people-watching, as well as distant vistas of the lagoon."

• Bauer Hotel (Near Piazza San Marco) Phone: 39-041-520-7022 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "Rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows and Italian marble bathrooms. If you opt to dine on Venetian dishes at De Pisis, 'get a table by the window and watch the vaporetti and gondolas float by.'"

• • Travel + Leisure 500 Winner: "A stellar pedigree and a central location 5 minutes from St. Mark’s Square."

• San Clemente Palace Phone: 39-041-244-5001 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "On an island across from St. Mark's, this eleventh-century monastery is today a three-story hotel."

• • Travel + Leisure 500 Winner: "Spacious rooms and a surfeit of amenities, including a pool, tennis courts, and a spa."

Venice Moderate Hotels

• Locanda Orseolo Phone: 39-041-520-4827
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "Guests never feel like they're in the middle of a tourist parade, though—in fact, the Orseolo's secluded courtyard actually makes the hotel difficult to find."

• • TripAdvisor 5.0 Rating  

• Antica Locanda al Gambero (Near Piazza San Marco) Phone: 39-041-522-4834 Google Map
  • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "Rooms on the first two floors have higher ceilings, though upstairs rooms are more newly renovated. The entire hotel is nonsmoking."

• • TripAdvisor 4.0 Rating  

• Hotel Giorgione (In Cannaregio) Phone: 39-041-522-5810 Google Map
  • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "The best rooms overlook the private brick courtyard, a shaded breakfast nook with a small, decorative pool, a hushed oasis save for the splashing of the fountain."

• • TripAdvisor 4.0 Rating  

• Antica Locanda Sturion (In San Polo) Phone: 39-041-523-6243 Google Map
  • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: " The hotel is tastefully decorated with 18th-century-inspired Venetian furniture, parquet floors, red carpeting, and rich damask-like wallpaper."

• • TripAdvisor 3.5 Rating  

• Hotel Violino d'Oro (Near Piazza San Marco) Phone: 39-041-277-0841 Google Map
  • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "The rooms, bathed in rich colors, are compact but graced with nice touches such as gold decoration on the marble-top desks..."

• • TripAdvisor 4.5 Rating  

• Hotel Flora (Near Piazza San Marco) Phone: 39-041-520-5844 Google Map
  • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "[T]he Flora has long been one of Venice's favorite spots and is ideally located just west of the American Express office on a tony shopping street."

• • TripAdvisor 4.0 Rating  

Venice Affordable Hotels

• Pensione Accademia (In Dorsoduro) Phone: 39-041-521-0188 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "The staff tends to be more efficient than warm, but that doesn't keep guests from returning year after year—especially those art-lovers who like the proximity to the Accademia gallery."

• • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "You'll have to reserve far in advance to get any room here, let alone one overlooking the breakfast garden, which is snuggled into the confluence of two canals."

• • Fodor's Choice : "Conservative rooms are outfitted with Venetian-style antiques and fine tapestry."

• La Calcina Phone: 39-041-520-6466
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "A major overhaul in 1997 and continued improvements since have spruced up this family-run pensione overlooking the Giudecca canal in Drosoduro."

• • Fodor's Review : "The Calcina sits in an enviable position along the sunny Zattere, with front rooms offering views across the wide Giudecca Canal."

• Hotel Al Piave (Castello/Riva Degli Schiavoni) Phone: 39-041-528-5174 Google Map
  • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "A savvy international crowd has discovered this classy spot, so even with renovations that have expanded the hotel's size, you'll need to reserve far in advance."

• • Fodor's Review : "This is a stylish little hotel with reasonable rates, set on a busy street but not too noisy inside."

• Hotel Bernardi-Semenzato (In Cannaregio) Phone: 39-041-522-7527 Google Map
  • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "The enthusiastic young English-speaking owners, Maria Teresa and Leonardo Pepoli, offer three-star style at one-star rates (prices get even better off season)."

• • Fodor's Review : "All rooms are very basic, but those in the nearby dipendenza (annex) are larger, with newer amenities"

• Pensione Guerrato (In San Polo) Phone: 39-041-528-5927 Google Map
  • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "The Guerrato is as reliable and clean a budget hotel as you're likely to find at these rates."

• • TripAdvisor 4.5 Rating  

• Al Ponte Mocenigo Phone: 39-041-524-4797
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "This ten-room gem near the church of San Stae is easily one of the best deals in Venice."

• • TripAdvisor 5.0 Rating  

Venice Hostels

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