Dei Dogi, A Boscolo Luxury Hotel

Fantastic Location...

Fantastic location in a quieter area of Venice. This claims to be a 5* hotel but isn’t really what you’d expect if you’d paid full price. We booked on a cheaper deal and enjoyed the sumptuous surrounds. The room was quite small and abit tatty but spotlessly clean. The staff are rather frosty and a couple of small glasses of grappa in the bar cost the same a meal for two in a local restaurant. Take a travel kettle if you like a coffee/tea in the morning as there are no facilities in the room or pay big bucks for a coffee or breakfast. Great place to stay if you don’t use the hotel for meals or extras. A very special part of Venice, lovely to explore and wander round. We were there in November and the canals flood onto the pavements and St Marks square becomes water logged...Quite a sight, so make sure your foot wear is water proof. A magical, fascinating place and this hotel is good as a base to start your journeys around Venice.

Go for the Venice bennaille Art .Show, great fun.

Mixed feelings

The outside of this hotel is ordinary, the inside of this hotel is amazingly beautiful. The Desk Service acceptable but not welcoming, the room - large yes, but not sure why it was luxury deluxe!quite plain for a hotel room in such an amazing city. The bathroom small but contained, everything you might want - except a face towel, unusual in a hotel of this calibre. Breakfast was chaotic to the point that they were forgetting to ask room numbers so people were getting free breakfasts - OK for some - not so good for those who had paid 22euros. Restuarant so expensive there was no-one in it on a Sunday night when historically a lot of the restaurants in Venice close, same could be said of the bar which makes it very unwelcoming - that’s if you could even find someone to serve you. Loved Venice, loved Italy but would not stay here again or recommend it to others, there are better 5* Hotels with better amenities at the same or less in cost in this beautiful city.

Traveller's tip on getting the most out of your stay

Stay in an area outside the main tourist area. Every area has somewhere to eat and drink and by doing so you will see so much of the area. Avoid the vaporetto unless you are going to the islands, the walking is not hard even for the unfit. Take it easy and just enjoy the wonderful settings.

THE AIR CONDITIONING BARELY WORKS

BEAUTIFUL HOTEL. BUT THE AIR CONDITIONING WAS TERRIBLE.