lifeisforlearning
May 11, 2024
This is a beautiful hotel with excellent service. I upgraded to a deluxe room where the bed was on a raised platform 4 steps up. I had an armoire closet with safe, and a sofa. Bottled water was provided. The walls are a plush gold damask fabric pattern. Lighting in the room was excellent. My bathroom was very large with 2 sinks and a large walk-in shower with a wonderfully strong rain head shower. There is no grab bar in the shower enclosure. The front desk was very helpful in making restaurant reservations, getting a water taxi, and advising on Baroque music concerts (something you should do in Venice!). We loved the breakfast buffet in a lovely room with Murano glass chandeliers and sconces, and many choices of interesting things to eat. The hotel is about a 10-minute walk from both San Marco in one direction and Rialto in the other direction, just the right distance. You would not want to be too close to either due to the crowds and the noise, but this was far enough away yet easily close enough to walk. It is one minute away from the large Campo Maria Formosa, an open space which has a couple of large restaurants/bars and gondola service right there. Many more restaurants in the small alleys and streets around the hotel.