Splendid Venice – Starhotels Collezione
When you book Splendid Venice – Starhotels Collezione in Italy through our Preferred Platinum partnership, your stay includes daily breakfast for two and a $100 hotel credit per stay. You also receive a room upgrade when available. No premium credit card or membership needed: request a quote and our advisor books it at the same rate as booking direct.
Exclusive Booking Perks
These perks are included with your stay at the same rate as booking direct with the hotel.
- Breakfast for Two Daily
- $100 Hotel Credit per Stay (to be used on services such as spa, dining, or selected amenities valued at $100 or more)
- Room Upgrade (subject to availability)
- Priority Check-in and Check-out (subject to availability)
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Guests liked
- Great location
- Polite and professional staff
- Cleanliness and comfort
Points to consider
- Small standard rooms
- High prices in restaurant and bar
Location
Starhotels Collezione brings contemporary refinement to Venice's historic fabric, balancing modern comfort with the city's centuries-old rhythms. The property sits in San Marco, the political and religious heart of the Venetian Republic for nearly a millennium, where the echo of maritime empire still resonates through narrow calli and sudden campi.
Step outside and you're moments from St. Mark's Basilica, the Patriarchal cathedral whose Byzantine domes and golden mosaics hold the relics of Saint Mark the Evangelist, Venice's patron saint. The basilica's eastern flank opens onto Piazza San Marco, the Republic's former ceremonial centre, now a living theatre of café orchestras and clustered pigeons. The Doge's Palace looms alongside, its pink marble facade recalling the power that once controlled silk routes and spice trades from the 13th century onward. Walk west and you'll reach the Rialto, the city's ancient commercial spine where market stalls still spill over the Grand Canal's oldest bridge.
Venice Marco Polo Airport sits eight kilometres across the lagoon, connected by water taxi or bus via the causeway that links the historical islands to the mainland terraferma.
Within the palazzo walls, Glam Enrico Bartolini serves two-Michelin-starred cuisine that reinterprets Venetian tradition through a contemporary lens, its tables overlooking a private garden facing the Grand Canal. The cooking here balances lagoon seafood with seasonal produce, executed with the precision that defines Bartolini's work across Italy. For three-starred ambition, Le Calandre in Padua sits 41 kilometres inland, where the Alajmo brothers have held their stars for decades with avant-garde tasting menus in a softly lit dining room that feels like entering another dimension.
The neighbourhood rewards wandering without a map. Cross the Rialto Bridge at dawn before the crowds arrive and watch fishmongers arrange their catch at the market. The Doge's Palace, built in 1340, opens its state rooms and prison cells to visitors who want to trace the Republic's political machinery. For a quieter afternoon, slip into Museo Fortuny, housed in a Gothic palazzo and filled with the textile designs and curiosities collected by Mariano Fortuny in the early twentieth century. Book a table at Antica Osteria Cera, 17 kilometres away in Lova, where two-starred seafood preparations show what happens when traditional osteria cooking meets technical mastery and impeccable sourcing.
Spring arrives with soft light gilding the Grand Canal, temperatures climbing from 12°C in March to 21°C by May, though April showers can send visitors ducking under stone porticoes. The lagoon sparkles, gardens overflow with wisteria, and the city feels almost breathable before summer crowds arrive.
July and August bring warmth that hovers near 28°C, the air thick and golden, canals reflecting heat back onto medieval stone. Venetians retreat to the Lido's beaches; wise travellers follow. September offers the year's sweetest window: lingering warmth, thinner crowds, and the slanting autumn light that Canaletto captured in his vedute.
Winter sees fog rolling across the lagoon, temperatures dipping to 7°C, the city emptied of tourists and returned to its residents. Acqua alta (high water) occasionally floods Piazza San Marco, but the spectacle of a submerged Byzantine square has its own strange beauty.
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