Hotel Metropole Venice

"Riva degli Schiavoni, family-owned Venetian boutique, the small-anniversary classic."

Why Hotel Metropole Venice for an anniversary

Hotel Metropole Venice has been family-owned by the Beggiato family since 1968, the property occupies the 19th-century Palazzo Albrizzi on the Riva degli Schiavoni (the same waterfront as the Hotel Danieli, three doors east) and runs as the most-distinctive antique-filled smaller boutique on the Castello waterfront. Sixty-seven rooms and suites filled with the Beggiato family's private antique collection (the property holds the largest privately-owned antique-collection of any Venice hotel, over 800 individually-catalogued pieces). The asset is the family-run scale and the antique-collection heritage, the anniversary couple receives the Beggiato-family operating culture (the staff knows the guest by name within 24 hours, the anniversary-card-and-flowers handled without prompting), and the public spaces are themed around the antique collection (the Buddha Lounge, the Crystal Lounge, the Oriental Lounge). Met Restaurant (the in-house Michelin-starred dining room) is the anniversary-dinner space. Hotel Metropole is the right pick for the smaller anniversary-couple where the family-run service and the antique-collection heritage are the assets, the trip's centerpiece is the Buddha Lounge after-dinner cocktail, and the rate is 40-50% below the Danieli for an equivalent Riva-degli-Schiavoni position.

Best room to request

Royal Suite Lagoon View (the multi-room flagship with terrace) or Junior Suite Lagoon View for the lower-key booking option.

The wider context

Hotel Metropole Venice 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.

Once your dates are fixed, aim to reserve the room about three months out. Suites with the prime view angle sell through first; for peak months, availability is measured in months rather than weeks. Top-category rooms with private pools or terraces, the reason this hotel ranks here, are routinely the first gone.

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