Cubicle Dreamin': Luxury Above the Tourists in Venice
Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.
In this episode, Hotel Maven Amanda K let's us know where she wants to go for some romance. Enjoy.
With an anniversary in the wind I've been dreamin' romance this week, and when you think of romance you can't get past Venice, right? Well, what you usually can't get past in Venice is all the gawking, gondola-riding tourists (yeah, yeah, we're different of course), but if you manage to stay in totally luxury perhaps you don't notice them so much.
This time round my dreaming's taken me to Hotel Cipriani--pronounced, as they helpfully announce at the top of the website, as Chipriani. Located in gardens at one end of Giudecca Island, and just a short boat ride from St Mark's Square, and thirty minutes from the airport; for a mere 130 Euro ($170) they'll meet and greet you and get you to the hotel.
And while the name sounds a little unromantic, the Dogaressa Suite sounds like the kind of luxury we're after:
This new Suite is located right opposite St. Mark's square and the world-famous piazza appears through its four gothic windows. The sitting room, the largest in the palazzo, is decorated with original Coromandel screens, antique Chinese lamps, Fortuny and Rubelli fabrics. The imposing, airy bedroom overlooks peaceful gardens; a spacious corridor leads to an elegant pink-marble bathroom.
This sounds like the kind of place you can actually spend your entire holiday in your hotel and still be able to say you've experienced Venice--without having to mingle with the millions of tourists.
[Photo:* * Claire * *]
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