Luxury bespoke holidays and tours to the Baglioni Hotel Luna, Venice
Facts in brief
Official star rating 5
Location 2 minute walk to St Mark's Square
Annual opening All year
Closest airport Venice Marco Polo Airport
Distance from airport The hotel is about 40-minutes by water taxi from Venice airport
Closest railway station Venice Santa Lucia Station
Distance from railway station About 20-minutes by water taxi
Hotel facilities and services
Canova Restaurant by Sadler, Canova Bistro, Bar, Marco Polo Ballroom, Lift, Room service, Spa, Beadmaking experience, Codega tour, Gold beating workshop visit, Chocolate tasting experience
Complimentary
WiFi.
We can't speak highly enough of Hotel Luna and our room there. We had a great holiday. Thanks again for identifying such good and well-placed hotels, and for organising hassle-free travel and transfers.Mr and Mrs T, October 2016
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Superior double or twin room for 3 nights
From about
£1,080
Holiday Code IE10
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke holidays and tours to the Baglioni Hotel Luna, Venice
The popular 5 star Baglioni Hotel Luna enjoys a splendid location a few yards from the western edge of St Mark's Square and about one hundred yards to the lagoon at the mouth of the Grand Canal. From the landing stage at St Mark's where the water bus from the airport arrives, the Baglioni Hotel Luna can be reached on foot in less than five minutes. The hotel has its own landing stage for private water taxis. On the site of what has been an hotel since the Middle Ages, the present building has recently been refurbished elegantly both inside and outside. As you enter the Baglioni Hotel Luna, the marble floors and wall panelling as well as the galleried, air-conditioned reception area create a feeling of calm, space and coolness. As you move upstairs the marbled flooring gives way to plush carpets that extend to all the bedrooms. The bedrooms vary in size but are all a good size with larger ones being exceptionally spacious. However, they are all consistent in their level of quality furnishing, elegant and tasteful decoration and general comfort. The bathrooms are equipped with hair-dryer, shaving mirror, telephone and such attractive extras as sewing kits etc which you would expect in an hotel of this quality. Non-smoking bedrooms are available on request. Breakfast can be enjoyed as an American-style buffet in the grand, 18th Century breakfast room or continental-style in your room. The Baglioni Hotel Luna can provide cots for babies.
Room descriptions
Baglioni Luna Hotel has 104 rooms with bath and wc, air-conditioning, satellite television, telephone, radio, minibar and safe.
We can't speak highly enough of Hotel Luna and our room there. We had a great holiday. Thanks again for identifying such good and well-placed hotels, and for organising hassle-free travel and transfers.Mr and Mrs T, October 2016
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Superior double or twin room for 3 nights
From about
£1,080
Holiday Code IE10
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke holidays and tours to the Baglioni Hotel Luna, Venice
The journey and how you get there
For a holiday to Baglioni Hotel Luna in Venice, our clients usually either fly to Venice Marco Polo airport or arrive by train at Venice Santa Lucia railway station. From the airport and the station, we recommend a private water taxi which we include in our holiday price. The journey time from the airport to the hotel is about 40 minutes and from the station to the hotel about 30 minutes, depending on the route taken. If you want to arrive in Venice by car (either your own car or a hire-car), you have to leave or park the car at the Piazzale Roma which is at the end of the causeway from the mainland and the furthest that cars can go.
Additional information
Minimum stays: 3 nights minimum stay required over New Year (over 31 December 2023), over Carnival (over 10 February 2024), and over Easter (over 31 March 2024). 2 nights minimum stay required over Redeemer (over 20 July 2024). 5 night minimum stay required over Biennale (15 April to 21 April 2024).
Children: Children under 16 years stay free of charge when sharing a room with 2 adults. Baby cots available free of charge and on request.
Other information: Located just off St Mark's Square - about two minutes from the waterfront. Ecologically, a plus point for the hotel is that it is able to treat its own waste before it enters the canal system.
Special offers
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We can't speak highly enough of Hotel Luna and our room there. We had a great holiday. Thanks again for identifying such good and well-placed hotels, and for organising hassle-free travel and transfers.Mr and Mrs T, October 2016
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Superior double or twin room for 3 nights
From about
£1,080
Holiday Code IE10
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke holidays and tours to the Baglioni Hotel Luna, Venice
About Venice
An Expressions tailor-made holiday to Venice is the chance to visit an enchanting and historical city. Venice, or ‘La Serenissima’ as it has been known for centuries, is truly unique and must be visited at least once in a lifetime. It is essentially a floating museum and was the main centre of trade for the north of Italy from the 13th century right through until the 17th century. The Venetian Republic was one of the richest in Europe and was presided over by the Doge who was elected by the Council of Ten, or the most powerful members of the governing families. The art and architecture that can be seen throughout the city is really a tribute to centuries of patronage and wealth. The Venetian lagoon also has numerous other islands, inhabited and uninhabited which used to grow crops and produce to feed Venice itself and which also used to house some of the cities’ industries such as glass making and lace making.
Cultural highlights of Venice
St Mark’s Square, Doge’s Palace, Bridge of Sighs, The Grand Canal, Accademia, Museo Correr, Rialto Bridge, La Fenice theatre, The Church of the Redentore, The Church of Santa Maria della Salute.
Festivals in Venice
Venice’s most famous festival is the Carnevale in February, the actual dates of Carnevale vary from year to year, but it generally spans three to four weeks ending on Shrove Tuesday. Costumed and masked people parade around the streets of Venice and there are numerous private parties and dances, but the atmosphere on the final night of Carnevale itself is electric. Alternatively, there is the Regata Storica on the first Sunday in September, when boats and gondolas race against each other along the Grand Canal, or the Feast of the Redentore in mid-July to celebrate the end of the plague in the 16th century. A makeshift bridge is constructed to link the Giudecca island with the Dorsodouro island and there is a huge firework display.
Gastronomy in Venice
Venetian food is naturally fish and sea food orientated and popular dishes include the sweet and sour ‘sardee in saor’ or sardine salad, cuttlefish risotto with its black ink and ‘caparossoi a scota deo’, which are large clams cooked with lemon and pepper. Liver is also popular as are several sweet fried delicacies or ‘fritole’, popular particularly around festival time. This area is famous for its Prosecco and is the home of the ‘Bellini’ cocktail.
Travel around Venice
Gondola rides are always popular, but are expensive. The vaporetto and motoscafo services are good and will take you from A to B and are essential to reach the islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello in the lagoon unless you hire a private water taxi. The services can be disrupted at high tide or ‘Aqua Alta’, which usually occurs in the autumn, or if the lagoon is particularly choppy. To cross the Grand Canal the precarious ‘traghetti’ are like large Gondolas, but you are expected to stand up in order for the maximum number of passengers to board, so it is an art, as well as an experience to remember!
