Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel, Venice

We have been there for our weeding anniversary. Amazing stay at the Hotel Cipriani Belmond. Staff was so nice and Professional. Great food and great drinks and such a nice piano bar with a outstanding piano player. We cant wait to come soon again.

This is a summery of my experience at Hotel Cipriani Venice! For me, this is Splendido Portofino together with Hotel Du Cap Eden Roc and a touch of Cala Di Volpe / Porto Cervo! You must have right expectations, though. There are no large luxury buffets like Four Seasons, neither is there any correlation to the grandeur of an oversized Dubai luxury resort, if that is what you are looking for. This is a small Grand Hotel with a huge heart and a fantastic ???repeat guest recognition feeling???, starting immediately at your very first visit. It gives almost the feeling of a small pitoresque village with a residence/hotel in the center. All guests and staff contribute together to create the lovely ambiance, hence, you need to appreciate the unique atmosphere and characteristic guests and a slight demand that you should want to contribute to create the ambiance. You should not expect the new Dubai-ish hotel room. On the contrary, you will just love the small imperfections that makes it all come together in a lovely way. It is a sort of personality that creates true luxury. After visiting a massive amount of high-end hotels and resorts all over the world for more than 25 years, real luxury gets more and more difficult to define and obtain. To me, It is about searching for a special feeling/commitment; the perfect ingredients, the local bottled/filtered water instead of imported from across the world. It is about the perfect mix between personal and professional attitude. It is more about all that, than it is about excess in things and products. Of course, anything you might want is possible to get, if you ask, but it is not on display! The Cipriani Venice has a wonderful team, that will let you feel like its your home. Even when staying only for 1 night you directly get a carte Blanche to feeling that it is your residence. The Olympic size saltwater pool, the views over Venice St Marks, the herb gardens (try the 64 different sallad starter), the private vineyard, the small shops, makes Cipriani just fantastic. There are only a few hotels that knows how to make it all work in a relaxed manner, like Cipriani Venice. You might react to the rates at a first glance, but you need to take into consideration that it is a life experience that you are about to have and you will cherish it for the rest of your life (and probably come back). We had a fantastic upgrade to a terrace suite last time we visited but I can promise, that even a standard accommodation with pool access is fantastic as well. However, I would suggest to book a few categories up from entry level (just as recommendation, depending on budget of course). Thank you Cipriani Venice for a Perfect Stay. //Peter

A very special place and in our view the ideal place to enjoy Venice as you can get in and out at your convenience. A bit old fashioned and a bit run down but in a very sympathetic way. A bit too expensive for what it offers, but that is totally in line with everything else in Venice. Concierge recommendations for reservations outside the Cipriani world are really awful and an insult to the quality of guests.