Luxury bespoke holidays and tours to Hotel Bisanzio, Venice
Facts in brief
Official star rating 4
Location 150 metres from the San Marco Zaccaria vaporetto stop
Annual opening All year
Closest airport Venice Marco Polo Airport
Distance from airport The hotel is 40 minutes by water taxi from the airport
Closest railway station Santa Lucia Station
Hotel facilities and services
Breakfast Room, Bar, 2 Reading Rooms, 24-hour Room Service, WiFi, Lift, 24-hour Reception, Luggage Storage.
Out and about nearby
A short 10 minute walk from St Mark's Square and a short distance from many of the major sites of Venice. 30 minutes from the station.
Very clean, very helpful staff, excellent location.Mrs R, August 2015
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Classic room for 3 nights
From about
£960
Holiday Code EXH1027
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 Hotel Bisanzio, Venice
Less than 300 metres from St Mark's Square, the Hotel Bisanzio occupies an ancient 16th-century palazzo in a prime location close to the Riva degli Schiavoni, right in the heart of the oldest and most romantic part of Venice. Hotel Bisanzio has operated as a small hotel since 1969 although it dates back a further 400 years, when the world-famous sculptor, Alessandro Vittoria, purchased and used the building as his home and workshop. Today it offers a warm, family atmosphere with a welcoming and attentive staff, two reading rooms and a bar decorated with the art of early 20th-century Venetian painters, together with 40 rooms situated over three floors all accessible by lift. The rooms are decorated in a traditional 18th-century Venetian style with parquet floors, Murano glass lamps, walnut wainscoting, antique furnishings and open beams adding character and authenticity. The Hotel Bisanzio's superior rooms are more spacious with a corner seating area and views over a private courtyard or the narrow streets beneath, rooms with private terrace provide enviable views over the city rooftops whilst the duplex two-bedroom loft suites are perfect for families.
Room descriptions
Hotel Bisanzio has 40 rooms and suites each with bath or shower and wc, air conditioning, WiFi, LCD TV, safe, mini-bar and hairdryer.
Very clean, very helpful staff, excellent location.Mrs R, August 2015
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Classic room for 3 nights
From about
£960
Holiday Code EXH1027
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 Hotel Bisanzio, Venice
The journey and how you get there
For a holiday to the Hotel Bisanzio 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
Children: Loft Suites are recommended for families with children.
Special offers
Call to make your booking and save an extra £50 per adult Call us instead of emailing us when you are thinking of booking a holiday and save an extra £50 per adult (in addition to any special offers that might be available). We want to talk to you to discuss your requirements and a phone call is usually the best way for you to define what you want enabling us to respond more accurately. We want to talk to you and you save an extra £50 per adult.
Very clean, very helpful staff, excellent location.Mrs R, August 2015
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Classic room for 3 nights
From about
£960
Holiday Code EXH1027
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 Hotel Bisanzio, 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!
