#17 in Top 20 Venice for An Anniversary · ★★★★★
Hotel Londra Palace
Riva degli Schiavoni, 100 windows facing San Giorgio Maggiore — the literary anniversary.
Riva degli Schiavoni, 100 windows facing San Giorgio Maggiore — the literary anniversary.
"Riva degli Schiavoni, 100 windows facing San Giorgio Maggiore — the literary anniversary."
Hotel Londra Palace has been operated as a hotel since 1853 on the Riva degli Schiavoni — Tchaikovsky composed his Fourth Symphony in room 106 in 1877, and the property has retained the literary-and-musical heritage as the working anniversary asset. Fifty-three rooms and suites across the multi-floor 19th-century building, the upper-tier Suite Tchaikovsky (the room where the Fourth Symphony was composed) is the working literary-flagship. The asset is the working hundred-window architecture — the property has 100 windows facing the Bacino San Marco and San Giorgio Maggiore across the water, the most-symmetrical waterfront facade of any Venice hotel and the working anniversary-arrival photograph. Do Leoni Restaurant (the in-house dining with the same lagoon view) handles the working anniversary dinner. Hotel Londra Palace is the right pick for the literary-and-musical anniversary couple where the Tchaikovsky-Suite-or-the-100-windows-architecture is the working asset, and the Riva-degli-Schiavoni position handles the working day.
Suite Tchaikovsky (the literary-flagship in room 106) or Junior Suite Lagoon View for the working couple-of-friends option.
Book the Tchaikovsky Suite for the anniversary — the literary-and-musical heritage is the working centerpiece. Photograph the 100-window facade from the water-taxi on arrival. Eat at Do Leoni for the anniversary dinner.
Hotel Londra Palace 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 Castello, Riva degli Schiavoni 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.