#11 in Top 20 Venice for An Anniversary · ★★★★★
Hotel Metropole Venice
Riva degli Schiavoni, family-owned Venetian boutique — the small-anniversary classic.
Riva degli Schiavoni, family-owned Venetian boutique — the small-anniversary classic.
"Riva degli Schiavoni, family-owned Venetian boutique — the small-anniversary classic."
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 working anniversary couple receives the Beggiato-family operating culture (the staff knows the guest by name within 24 hours, the working anniversary-card-and-flowers handled without prompting), and the working 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 working 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 working assets — the trip's working centerpiece is the Buddha Lounge after-dinner cocktail, and the rate is 40-50% below the Danieli for an equivalent Riva-degli-Schiavoni position.
Royal Suite Lagoon View (the multi-room flagship with terrace) or Junior Suite Lagoon View for the working couple-of-friends option.
Take the antique-collection tour with a Beggiato-family guide on day one — the working museum-quality asset. Eat at Met for the anniversary dinner. The Buddha Lounge at 9pm is the working after-dinner space.
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.
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.