INSIDERS’ VENICE  2
Venice in the 18^th Century

ACCOMMODATION

The Hotel Monaco and Grand Canal has always been one of the most pleasing hotels in Venice, on the Calle Vallaresso and the Grand Canal, opposite the Punta della Dogana. Refurbished a few years ago, it is a first-class hotel with good service, is wonderfully placed, with a beautiful bar, dining room and terrace on the Grand Canal.

TRAVEL TO/ FROM VENICE

Flights are not arranged and are not included in the cost. There is a wide choice of flights and costs to Venice. Transfers by private water taxi from Marco Polo airport to the hotel, and back, or from Piazzale Roma for flights into Treviso, are arranged and included in the cost.

Those who have booked will be told as soon as the minimum number has been reached to guarantee that the tour will run. A decision will be made by June 30.

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COST per person  £1850  to include accommodation in double room, continental breakfast, all visits and excursions including entrances, free pass on vaporetti, transfers on arrival and departure, two dinners, two lunches.  

The rooms do not have a canal view. All rooms have showers and baths.                             

Supplement for single use of double room  £683

There is a limited number of single rooms, supplement £215: they may be very small and frugal, with shower not bath.

There is a limited number of rooms looking over the canal: price, considerably higher, on request.

The cost includes a contribution to Venice in Peril.

Suggested Reading:

A Venetian Affair by Andrea di Robillant  Based on authentic family letters, it  brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of 18^th century Venice .

Ruskin’s Venice.: The  Stones Revisited  by Sarah Quill

Venice  Rediscovered  by John Pemble     Venice in the 19^th Century

The Science of Saving Venice  by Jane da Mosto