Honeymoon
Canal-view rooms, palazzo hotels, prosecco on arrival, and a gondola transfer from the hotel jetty at the partners that still run it.
What you actually get
A honeymoon package in Venice is usually four things. A room you would otherwise have to pay up for: canal-view, top floor, tall shutters. A bottle of prosecco or Franciacarta on ice when you walk in. A long breakfast, served in the room if the hotel runs it. And at a handful of palazzo partners, a gondola transfer from the hotel’s own jetty on the first evening, twenty minutes on the small canals rather than the Grand Canal circuit.
The package costs the same as the canal-view rate without the extras. Roughly €60 to €100 of value, added in the right order, so the trip starts properly.
Insider Tip
Ask for a canal-view, not a Grand Canal view. The small canals are prettier, quieter at night, and the rate is €80 to €150 less. Grand Canal is a photo; the rio next door is the one you leave the shutters open on.
The partner palazzos
Palazzo Odoni (San Polo, sixteenth century). Fourteen rooms, tall frescoed ceilings on the piano nobile, private water entrance. Prosecco and a gondola transfer on arrival.
Locanda Le Vele (seventeenth-century palace). Small, family-run, side-canal view rooms with original beams. Prosecco and breakfast in the room on request.
Hotel Al Ponte Antico (San Marco, Rialto Bridge view). Only seven rooms, all facing the Grand Canal or the small rio. The terrace over the water at 7pm is the reason to book it.
Hotel Apostoli Palace (Cannaregio, near Ca’ D’Oro). Quieter than San Marco, a proper palazzo, canal-view rooms on the first floor. A good pick for a longer honeymoon where you want a neighbourhood to come home to.
Booking the honeymoon?
Send us the dates and the preferred sestiere. We will reply with three palazzo options and the current honeymoon package on each.