Overview
Best Hotel in Venice by Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards.
One of Italy’s most enchanting secrets, San Clemente Palace is a city resort located on its own island in the Venice lagoon, just 10 minutes from San Marco Square via the hotel’s complimentary boats.
A tranquil sanctuary on the doorstep of Venice, San Clemente Palace Kempinski is one of Italy’s most enchanting secrets. The stately resort immerses guests in the drama, glamour, and heritage of Venice. The 900-year-old landmark property is comprised of a series of beautifully restored monastery buildings, as well as a 12th-century chapel, and nearly 15 acres of ancient gardens, courtyards, and terraces boasting breath-taking views of the city on the horizon.
San Clemente Palace Kempinski has 29 special and 37 junior suites, and 130 luxury rooms in which Venetian decorations blend with legacy design elements, while typical high Venetian ceilings create a sense of home.
The hotel features three bars and three special restaurants, including a signature restaurant with terraces overlooking the lagoon. Indulge in the restaurants Acquerello and Insieme, offering exceptional interpretations of iconic Italian and Venetian specialties whereas La Dolce Brasserie Restaurant & Pool Bar features a unique culinary experience that combines the signature dishes of unique local Italian and Mediterranean dishes and flavors.
San Clemente Palace Kempinski also features the Europe’s Best Hotel Spa 2019 & 2020 award winner Merchant of Venice SPA. The unique spa experience offers a luxurious couples suite, and indulgent wet area with Turkish and Finnish Bath, sauna, steam bath and showers.
The hotel’s heated outdoor swimming pool is the ideal location for a refreshing break during the entire season. The hotel also features a great range of fitness facilities, a 1,500-metre jogging path through the centuries-old park, the pitch-and-putt course, tennis court and nostalgic bicycles.
Exclusive Amenities
- Full Breakfast for each guest daily in Restaurant Insieme
- $100 Food and Beverage credit, per room, per stay (no cash refund)
The following amenity is subject to availability at the time of booking:
The following amenities are subject to availability at the time of check-in/departure:
- Early Check-in
- Late Check-out
2025 | Suite Privileges
Combinable with Exclusive Amenities listed above. A two-night minimum stay applies for Suite Privileges.
- US$100 Food and Beverage credit, once per stay
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Suite Privileges Terms
- Navigante Junior Suite
- Venice Suite
- Lagoon Suite
- Lido Suite
- Marco Polo Suite
- Tiepolo Suite
- Tintoretto Suite
- San Clemente Suite
- Villa Giardini
Information and pricing is subject to change without notice, including changes in the currency exchange rate. All prices are per night, per room, double occupancy, unless otherwise noted. Prices may vary by day of travel, season, duration and are subject to availability at time of booking. Valid on new reservations, not combinable with other offers unless otherwise noted and not applicable to groups. Resort fees, gratuities and taxes are not included unless specified.
Check In: 3:00 PM
Check Out: 12:00 Noon
Local Area Attractions
Local Unique Events
• Carnevale di Venezia
The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival held in the city of Venice and it’s world famous for its elaborate masks. During the Lagoon’s two-week Carnival celebration, all can watch and take part in the numerous events and displays filling the piazzas and main waterways of the city.
Some of the most spectacular moments during the Venetian carnival are the Flight of the Angel (or Flight of Colombina), a tradition that began with a Turkish acrobat in mid-1500s. In this amazing spectacle an artist in flesh and bone hangs from a metal cable, and, suspended in air, makes his descent from the top of St. Mark’s Bell Tower to the Doge’s Palace. Dates: 11th – 28th of February, 2017
• International Art Exhibition
The exhibition is now at its 57th edition and it is worldwide-known to be the original Biennale on which others elsewhere in the world are modeled.
This year, the Biennale will take place from May 13th to November 26th 2017 (Preview May 10th, 11th and 12th) in the Giardini and the Arsenale and in various other venues in Venice. The title chosen by Christine Macel, curator of this year’s 57th International Art Exhibition, is: VIVA ARTE VIVA. Christine Macel has explained his project as follows:
“In a world full of conflicts and jolts, in which humanism is being seriously jeopardized, art is the most precious part of the human being. It is the ideal place for reflection, individual expression, freedom and fundamental questions. It is a “yes” to life, although sometimes a “but” lies behind. More than ever, the role, the voice and the responsibility of the artist are crucial in the framework of contemporary debates.
Viva Arte Viva is also an exclamation, an expression of the passion for art and for the state of the artist. Viva Arte Viva is a Biennale designed with the artists, by the artists and for the artists. It deals with the forms they propose, the questions they pose, the practices they develop and the forms of life they choose.”
• Redentore Festival
Every year, on the third weekend of July Venice holds the Festa del Redentore. The oldest festival of this city celebrates the end of the plague epidemic in 1576. The religious part of the festive weekend takes place on Sunday, however on Saturday breathtaking fireworks enlighten the blue sky of Venice. In 2017, the event will take place during the weekend of 15-16th of July.
• Regata Storica:
The traditional Regata Storica is an annual event which is held on the first Sunday of September.The Regata Storica is the most important and most spectacular of the Venetian regattas and it takes place along the Grand Canal.Originally, the event celebrated military victories or honoured foreign dignitaries visiting the Serenissima. Since recent times, it has also commemorated the glory of the past of the Maritime Republic of Venice and the beginning of the Serenissima rule over the Mediterranean islands, marked by the abdication of Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, coming to Venice. Today, the Regata Storica entertains the visitors with a race and a historical pageant on 16th-century-style boats with rowers in traditional period costumes. Date: September 3rd 2017
• International Venice Film Festival
The Venice International Film Festival was founded in 1932 and is the world’s oldest film festival and alongside the Cannes Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival is part of the “Big Three”. Being the best-known of the three events, the Festival is now at its 73rd edition, with a screening schedule that includes 11 days of programming, various entertainments and retrospectives to major figures. Dates: 30th August to 9th September 2017.