Hotel Cipriani, Venice

About Hotel Cipriani

Owned by Orient-Express Hotels, the 5* deluxe Cipriani is one of the most famous hotels in the world.

It is beautifully situated at the tip of Giudecca Island with some of the city's most magnificent views over the lagoon and St Marks basin. The journey from Piazza San Marco to the Cipriani, being aboard the hotel's private launch to Giudecca Island, is spectacular in itself.

All the guestrooms have been beautifully appointed, with a great amount of care and attention to detail going into their décor and furnishings. Guests can enjoy freshly prepared haute cuisine in the hotel's restaurants and dining terraces, with some extensive views over the lagoon. Built on fertile land overflowing with flowers and vines, the hotel also benefits from an outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts and a new Spa.

This splendid hotel grants the very best of Venetian hospitality, combining luxurious accommodation with the most attentive service in an atmosphere of calm and seclusion.

Accommodation:

Rooms are quiet and well appointed in luxurious pale colours, which gives them a bright and airy feel. From the balcony you will enjoy views overlooking the Casanova garden and vineyard or the pool. Facilities include air conditioning, satellite television, minibar, hairdryer, safe and wifi. The bathroom is equipped with a bath or shower, a heated towel rail, a single vanity and a set of scales. All rooms have a King-size double bed but twin rooms are also available on request and it is possible to book interconnecting rooms.

Double Lagoon View
These rooms are individually decorated and beautifully appointed with spectacular views overlooking the Lagoon and its islands. Interconnecting rooms are available on request

Double Lagoon View & Balcony
These rooms are very spacious and they offer a wonderful view overlooking the open Lagoon and its islands from the private balcony. Interconnecting rooms are available on request.

Junior Suite Garden View & Balcony
The majority of the Junior Suites have recently been refurbished and they are individually styled with a relaxing sitting area. The balconies overlook the Casanova garden and vineyards, which means that the rooms are very quiet and peaceful. Most Junior Suites have two bathrooms. It is possible to accommodate an additional single bed in this room.

Junior Suite Pool View & Garden
These spacious Junior Suites overlook the Olympic size swimming pool from their balcony or private garden. Guests have the luxury of direct access to the pool from the room. The bathroom has twin vanities, separate wc, walk-in showers and a round bathtub. It is possible to request a third single bed in this room.

Suite Lagoon View
These suites are large, comfortable and beautifully appointed; they are located on the higher floors of the hotel, which means that they offer a fantastic view overlooking the Lagoon and its islands. The marble bathrooms have a separate bath and shower. There is a separate bedroom and living room and it is possible to request an additional single bed for a third guest.

Suite Lagoon View & Balcony
In addition to the facilities above, these suites have a private balcony or terrace where you can sit and admire the wonderful view of the Lagoon and its islands.

Supplements (from):

Double Lagoon View £63. Lagoon View & Balcony £131. Junior Suite Garden View & Balcony £244. Junior Suite Pool View & Garden £300. Junior Suite Lagoon View & Balcony or Terrace £372. Suite Lagoon View £476. Suite Lagoon View & Balcony £572. Single £126. Half Board £82. Full Board £158.

Facilities:

Restaurant Fortuny with terrace
Restaurant Cip's Club
Poolside restaurant Gabbiano
Bar Il Gabbiano
Bar Fortuny
Bar Cip's Club
Swimming pool (normally in use May-Sep) and snack bar
Casanova Beauty & Wellness Centre (payable locally)
Tennis court
Lift
Private launch to Piazza San Marco

Information:

The hotel has 104 air-conditioned rooms.
Transfer time from Marco Polo airport: 40 mins.
Child prices apply to ages 2-11 years.
Official Rating 5 Star Deluxe
Buffet breakfast.
Minimum stay 1 night (2 nights for stays including 15 Jul).

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.