Hotel Luna Baglioni, Venice

About Hotel Luna Baglioni

Formerly a home to the Templar Knights, the 12th century Luna Baglioni now ranks amongst Venice's top hotels.

Superbly situated in a quiet position, the original site dates back to 1118, and is close to Piazza San Marco and many of Venice's main attractions. For that truly luxurious touch, a water taxi will take you to the hotel's own water entrance via a landing stage.

The interiors are elegant and spacious with beautiful frescoes, ornate stucco ceilings and sweeping marble staircases. The Marco Polo ballroom, where buffet breakfast is taken, has original 18th century frescoes by the famous Tiepolo School. Guestrooms are also wonderfully and luxuriously decorated, with period furniture, silk fabrics and Murano glass.

The hotel's award winning Restaurant Canova is renowned for its excellent cuisine and impeccable service, surrounded by paneled walls and fine still life oil paintings. If heading out to one of the nearby restaurants, enjoy a classic bellini beforehand amongst the ornate décor of its Caffè Baglioni.

An exceptional hotel that occupies a prime location, the Luna Baglioni embodies a Venetian luxury and comfort for that truly refined break.

Accommodation:

Rooms are very luxurious and spacious at around 25 to 30 square metres in size. They have a warm, welcoming atmosphere thanks to the period style furniture, fine draperies and rich brocades in beige and pastel colours. feel. The hotel carries out maintenance in the rooms continuously so they are always perfectly appointed. Facilities include a bath or shower in the marble bathroom, air conditioning, satellite television, minibar, hairdryer and safe. The rooms offer views over either the Venetian roofs and streets, or overlooking the internal courtyard. All rooms have double beds but it is possible to request a twin room. Interconnecting rooms are available and it is possible to book a triple room.

Superior Side Canal View
In addition to the above facilities these rooms offer a side view of the canal.

Deluxe Double
These rooms are around 28 to 35 metres squared and they are well appointed with silk walls and furnishings, fine draperies and period furniture. The view is overlooking the Venetian roofs, streets or internal courtyard.

Junior Suite
The beautiful Junior Suites are around 38 to 45 metres squared and they feature a large bedroom with sitting area and a lavish marble bathroom. The view from the room is either overlooking the Venetian streets or looking into the internal courtyard.

Suite
The suites are between 45 and 68 metres squared and they contain some exquisite pieces of highly valuable furniture. They have a separate bedroom and living room with a large, luxurious bathroom.

Suite Lagoon View
These suites offer a private terrace with a stunning view over the Lagoon and Saint Mark's Basin from where you can enjoy candle lit dinners in the summer.

Supplements (from):

Superior Side Canal View £36. Deluxe Double £21. Junior Suite £56. Suite £98. Suite Lagoon View £207. Weekend (Fri-Sat) £23.

Facilities:

Restaurant Canova
Caffè Baglioni
Lounge
Lift
Private water entrance via landing stage

Please Note:

Waterbus stop: Vallaresso.

Information:

Buffet breakfast.
Minimum stay 1 night (2 nights for Fri & Sat arrivals and for arrivals 30 Dec-02 Jan, Easter and carnival dates).
The hotel has 104 air-conditioned rooms.
Transfer time from Marco Polo airport: 40 mins.
Child prices apply to ages 2-12 years.
Official Rating 5 Star Deluxe

About Venice

Built on stilts and forming an archipelago of 117 small islands, Venice reposes on a liquid tapestry of calm canals and lazy lagoons 2,5 miles (4km) from Venice's mainland. The city's luminous quality is glimpsed from gliding gondolas and explored on foot through narrow calli, linked to one another by ornate stone bridges. Painted palazzi, Byzantine basilicas and Baroque domes compete with the dove-flocked piazzas that reach the ultramarine waters.

The wealth of Venice is evident in Piazza San Marco and alludes to when the Venetian republic was a dominant mercantile power, trading silks, spices and gemstones carried overland by Bedouin caravans and shipped to Mediterranean ports. Nowadays, modern craft navigate between six ancient sestieri, bearing carefree stowaways to St Mark's Basilica, the Palazzo Ducale and on up the Grand Canal to the Rialto, where palazzi lining unhurried channels display architectural styles spanning five centuries.

Become tempted by Venice's food market below the Rialto Bridge and after having enjoyed a meal head to the shopaholic joys of the Mercerie, which runs between Piazza San Marco and the Rialto Bridge. Perhaps cross the short stretch of water that leads to the glass-making island of Murano and the lace and linen enclave of Burano.

Venice Lido is the largest island here and benefits from an 8 mile (13km) long beach, which at the turn of the 19th century, created a premier resort for international aristocrats. Regular vaporetti, exclusive motor launches and public water buses transport visitor to another world in the time it takes to drink a cappuccino. Venice is a permanent carnival, rejoicing in a masked ball in February that swirls visitors into a sensual atmosphere peopled by gallant heroes and bewitching courtesans.