SAN CLEMENTE PALACE KEMPINSKI

Its truly a paradise, nothing less. I love the place. The room is amazing and with just the perfect amount of space, walk in, great bathroom. The food and overall service is PERFECT. The outdoor venues is incredible, very beautiful, like nothing you have ever seen before. The island is very calm, quiet and serene. It fits perfect for the romantic getaway (honestly the most romantic place I've ever been to, and I travel 200 days a year) and fits great with babies and kids too. Nothing bad can be said. Very well done, I'm really satisfied.. Thank you, San Clemente!

This place is incredible! So beautiful and the staff are so accommodating! Always asking if you're ok and saying hello. The room is lovely with great thick curtains so the room wasn't light in the morning. The only reason it didn't receive 5 stars was the food. Breakfast was a bit poor, bread was hard and poor choice of pastrys. Food on site is crazy expensive and not great if you're a vegetarian! The pizzas by the pool are amazing, but that is the only place you can get a vegetarian meal - the actual restaurant offered none which was a shame and as the hotel is on a island it was a faff to leave the island for a meal. Overall good hotel but probably wouldn't go back

An excellent hotel in almost every single way. Some small niggles (fine dining always booked and very expensive indeed, informal dining also very expensive -- for Brits thanks to Brexit -- but not enough variety for a 7 day stay. But basically this was a really wonderful hotel, run in an outstanding manner and it ticked each and every box.

This hotel impressed us at every turn. It is located on its own private island with boats to take to to Venice proper. The food offered is some of the best we ate while on our trip. The breakfast buffet is impressive and the food at the restaurant by the pool is incredible - I had the best lobster ravioli ever. I simply can't overstate how good the food was. Our room had high ceilings and incredible floors befitting a castle which it is. If you want to stay in an exclusive, beautiful, hotel that is easily among the finest hotels in the world then this is the place. It is one of the more expensive hotels in Venice but the location away from the crush of tourists provides relief, quiet and privacy most others can't match. Having stayed at other so-called 5 star hotels I think it is well worth the additional cost to stay here at a true 5 star hotel. I hope I can stay there again.

We stayed at San Clemente 2 years ago and were nervous about coming back with our children (ages 16,15 and 14) based on some of the recent reviews. All I can say is that our experience was terrific. Our upgraded room (a junior suite) was beautiful, freshly renovated and clean, the pool a pleasure to sit by, the breakfast had many choices all - perfectly excecuted. From the moment we checked-in, we were greeted by helpful, smiling staff. The only suggestion I would have to make the experience better is to have the boats run every 15 minutes instead of 20, especially on weekends as they do get crowded. This is a great hotel and a lovely way to visit Venice and also have time to relax with family.