travel42 Hotel Review: San Clemente Palace Kempinski Venice

San Clemente Palace Kempinski Venice travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Situated on a private island, a 15-minute shuttle-boat ride from St. Mark's Square, this full-scale luxury hotel is, like the JW Marriott Resort & Spa, a rarity in Venice, where demure, ornate villas with small, sumptuous lobbies and even smaller accommodations are the norm.

Here, guests gather amid spacious gardens and sprawling historic buildings that harbor conference facilities rivaling those at resorts in Las Vegas and Hawaii. It is aimed at high-end grou...