#12 in Top 20 Venice for An Anniversary · ★★★★★
Hotel Bauer Hotel
Campo San Moisè, B Bar terrace — the Grand Canal anniversary base.
Campo San Moisè, B Bar terrace — the Grand Canal anniversary base.
"Campo San Moisè, B Bar terrace — the Grand Canal anniversary base."
Hotel Bauer Hotel is the second of the two connected Bauer properties on Campo San Moisè (the Bauer Palazzo is the historic 18th-century palazzo, the Bauer Hotel is the 1949 contemporary tower addition designed by Marino Meo). One hundred and twenty-six rooms across the modern tower, the upper-tier Bauer Penthouse (the only Bauer suite with both Grand Canal and Campo San Moisè views) is the working flagship. The asset is the same as the Bauer Palazzo (the canal-bend position, the Settimo Cielo rooftop, the De Pisis restaurant access) at a 25-30% rate discount — the Bauer Hotel and Bauer Palazzo share the same lobby, the same restaurants, the same bar, and the same canal-side terrace; the difference is the room product (the Hotel rooms are 1949-modernist rather than the Palazzo's 18th-century historic architecture). Bauer Hotel is the right pick for the anniversary couple where the Bauer position and the rate matter, and the historic-architecture-of-the-room is not the working centerpiece — the trip's working assets (rooftop, restaurant, canal-bend position) are present at a working rate.
Bauer Penthouse (the Grand Canal and Campo San Moisè dual-view flagship) or Junior Suite Grand Canal View for the working couple-of-friends option.
Same Bauer assets as the Palazzo (Settimo Cielo, De Pisis, canal-bend) at a working rate discount. Book the Penthouse for the dual-view working flagship. The 1949 modernist room finishes are the contemporary-anniversary photograph.
Hotel Bauer Hotel sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Venice for an Anniversary list. It scored an aggregate 9.7/10 across the three editorial criteria — competitive against the field but, on an anniversary-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same Venice neighbourhood, see San Marco, Campo San Moisè and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces — the ones that earn this rank — are typically the first to sell out.