#14 in Top 20 Venice for An Anniversary · ★★★★
Splendid Venice — Starhotels Collezione
Mercerie alley, central San Marco, rooftop bar with St Mark's view.
Mercerie alley, central San Marco, rooftop bar with St Mark's view.
"Mercerie alley, central San Marco, rooftop bar with St Mark's view."
Splendid Venice is the Starhotels Collezione's Venice property — the smaller Italian-luxury chain runs nine Italian boutique-hotel properties under the Collezione tier, and the Splendid Venice is the Venice flagship. Ninety-six rooms across the converted Mercerie-alley building (the working pedestrian-only retail axis between St Mark's Square and the Rialto Bridge), the upper-tier Suite Splendida (with Grand Canal view) is the working anniversary-couple-of-friends option. The asset is the Mercerie-alley position — the property is at the most-central San Marco position, the daily-walking-circuit (St Mark's Square 2 minutes south, Rialto Bridge 5 minutes north) is the working anniversary day. The rooftop terrace bar (with the partial St Mark's Basilica dome view) is the working anniversary cocktail space. Splendid Venice is the right pick for the smaller-anniversary-couple at the value tier where the central San Marco walking-position is the explicit asset and the brand-recognition is below the higher-tier competitors. The trade-off is the room finishes (more conventional than the historic palazzi) and the lack of Grand Canal-facing rooms outside the upper tier.
Suite Splendida (the Grand Canal-view flagship) or Deluxe Junior Suite for the working couple-of-friends option.
Walk the Mercerie axis at 8am for the empty-Venice photograph. The rooftop terrace bar at 6pm for the working St-Mark's-dome-view cocktail. Eat at the in-house Cocktail Lounge for the welcome dinner.
Splendid Venice — Starhotels Collezione sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Venice for an Anniversary list. It scored an aggregate 9.5/10 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, Mercerie 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.