Hotel Gritti Palace, Venice

About Hotel Gritti Palace

Originally a 16th century palazzo belonging to the family of Doge Andrea Gritti, the charmingly old-fashioned Hotel Gritti Palace occupies an enviable corner of Venice overlooking the Grand Canal.

Behind the façade's Venetian Gothic windows are gorgeous public rooms adorned with antique furnishings, marble floors, precious paintings and elegant damasks. The Hotel Gritti Palace's guestrooms are Venetian in style, embracing local stucco and Murano designs that reflect the bygone era of the Baroque and Rococo.

Fine culinary delights are available in the Hotel Gritti Palace's Restaurant Club del Doge amongst marble columns and underneath wooden beams. During the summer, the restaurant opens out onto a waterfront terrace with enchanting views of Venice.

The legendary Hotel Gritti Palace has played host to some of Venice's most illustrious visitors throughout the years, including Ernest Hemingway and international Royalty.

Accommodation:

Rooms are individually furnished in an elegant Imperial style with precious fabrics, Murano glass light fittings, beautiful antique furnishings and mirrors. The bedrooms are spacious at around 30 metres squared with high ceilings giving them a bright and airy feel. The marble bathrooms offer a bath or shower and room facilities include air conditioning, satellite television, minibar, hairdryer, safe and wifi. Please note that all rooms have double beds but twin rooms are available on request and it is possible to book a triple room.

Grand Deluxe Double with Canal View
These rooms are very spacious at around 40 square metres and they offer a fantastic view overlooking the canal.

Junior Suite
The large Junior Suite has a real Venetian atmosphere thanks to the luxurious décor. There is a separate sitting area with a sofa and arm chairs and it is possible to accommodate an additional bed for a third guest.

Supplements (from):

Grand Deluxe Double with Canal View £57. Junior Suite £160. Double for Sole Use £88. Weekend (Fri-Sat) £16 (on selected dates).

Facilities:

Restaurant Club del Doge
Bar Longhi
Terrace
Lift

Please Note:

Waterbus stop Santa Maria del Giglio.

Information:

Buffet breakfast.
Minimum stay 1 night (2 nights for Fri & Sat arrivals and 3 nights for arrivals 28-31 Dec and 25 Jan-5 Feb).
The hotel has 91 air-conditioned rooms.
Transfer time from Marco Polo airport: 40 mins.
Child prices apply to ages 2-11 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.