I write this overview while lazing on the balcony of my Junior suite, dappled in daylight on the new JW Marriott Venice. The outlook isn’t what you’d anticipate of Venice, all I can hear is hen music, and all I can see is an expanse of inexperienced forested gardens with the odd glimpse of Venetian Lagoon by way of the bushes.
This spectacular luxurious Marriott resort opened in March 2015. Arrive by water taxi for those who can. Not solely is that this a glamorous option to journey by way of Venice, however the dock on the JW Marriott is like one thing out of a Bond film, offering an ideal first view of the property.
My expertise with water taxis ought to have taught me to withstand my childlike urge to face up all through a journey. But I can’t cease myself. I at all times stick my head out to catch the spray and views and this time my indulgence left me with a hairdo resembling that of a seafarer caught in a drive 9. This utterly ruined my efforts to look trendy as we stepped off the boat into the cavernous dock below the resort. Since my scarecrow entrance, the urge to poke my head out of the roof of the water taxi has remained. After a detailed shave with a low bridge within the heart, I could finally study my lesson…
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Location
JW Marriott is the unique inhabitant of the small Venetian island of Isola Delle Rosa, one of many largest islands within the Venetian lagoon and the youngest. It was artificially created in 1870 with supplies from the development of the Santa Marta business port. On it, they constructed a hospital for these with pulmonary problems so sufferers may depart the air pollution and humidity of central Venice for this plant-filled oxygen-rich retreat, full with contemporary onshore breezes. The hospital closed within the Nineteen Seventies, and the island stayed deserted till JW Marriott transformed it into their stunning resort.
Isola Delle Rosa is perched on the sting of Venice however solely quarter-hour from the middle, with extraordinarily common and comfy shuttles that whizz you proper previous the Kempinski Venice, the Cipriani and onto St Marks Square.
Style & Character
This lush inexperienced island homes the perfect Marriott I’ve ever stayed in. The essential constructing sits within the heart of the island and is residence to many of the rooms, in addition to the rooftop bar and pool. Outside all the island is yours to discover. Take a wander alongside meandering paths previous groves of olive bushes and fields of poppies, and also you’ll attain outbuildings, which embrace among the higher-end rooms with their very own non-public swimming pools. Continue on to a church, herb backyard, household pool, the Dopolavro Dining room, and the Gardino Grill, all set in a reasonably backyard. The Spa right here can be immense and presents the identical very good views throughout the water.
Most of the buildings are constructed both in pink brick or include a conventional white end. All are originals which were transformed, so the look is of superbly transformed outdated outhouses and boathouses surrounded by greenery. You can stroll across the fringe of the island or keep on with the middle because it isn’t enormous however presents sufficient to maintain you there for 4 or 5 days with out losing interest – and I get simply bored. I can’t assist considering the church grounds and resort right here would make the proper venue for a dreamy wedding ceremony.
Rooms
If potential, request a room with a balcony or a terrace. Most Junior Suites (though not all) have them, however most of the base rooms don’t. Honestly, my keep wouldn’t have been full with out an expanse of out of doors all to myself.
The room itself (ours was a Junior Suite) was immaculate. The decor was white with oatmeal tones and trendy in design with double sliding doorways into a big lavatory, residence to a well-designed sink space that’s good for laying out toiletries. A good measurement free-standing bathtub sat within the heart of the room with a rainforest bathe and bathroom cubicle to at least one facet – the completion is Roberto Cavalli toiletries.
Our Junior Suite was pretty and so quiet at evening. My solely criticism is that it didn’t really feel such as you in Venice. If you’re in search of a resort oozing character with quirky charismatic rooms, then this isn’t it. If you’re in search of a high-end, well-appointed room, you’ll be very hard-pressed at this worth level to make a more sensible choice.
For the final evening, we determined to improve to a “La Residenza Pool De Luxe room” with its personal non-public pool. The room was as pretty however barely smaller than the Junior Suite and darker than the rooms in the primary constructing. It was designed with a single-glazed double door quite than the Suite’s giant balcony home windows.
The La Residenza Pool De Luxe room we stayed in was uniquely created in a field development, considerably like a pod, inside an outdated barn constructing. Like the Junior Suite, the room was contemporary, trendy, and splendidly clear. The giant lavatory contained all the fashionable fixtures and becoming you could possibly need, sharing the design of the Suite and utilizing a free-standing bathtub as its point of interest.
The room’s doorways double doorways open out onto the star attraction – your individual non-public pool, which sports activities a decked space with loungers, a desk, and chairs, and a mini garden the place you possibly can sit and luxuriate in your very personal non-public view onto Venice. The pool itself was giant sufficient for a stunning splash, full with spa bubbles. Such enjoyable and actually, pretty much as good because it appears to be like within the photos above!
Service & Facilities
The rooftop infinity pool, situated simply past a rooftop bar and restaurant space, appears to tick all of the containers, and in the primary, it did. Gobsmackingly good views from comfortable seating on a superbly decked terrace. There’s at all times music enjoying within the background, and loads of daybeds and loungers. Dip your foot in, and the pool is as heat as a slipper, good for lounging within the bubbles on the edge. Perfect, aside from the actual fact it’s extremely shallow. The water stage got here as much as my hips, and once I needed to get from one facet to the opposite, trying trendy and stylish, I discovered myself crawling throughout the pool.
The children have been loving it, as even my four-year-old may contact the underside, however my solely effort at swimming a size was abruptly terminated by smashing each my knees on the underside. The pool is ideal for lazing with mega views into Venice, sitting so near the sting of the roof that you just nearly felt you could possibly topple into the ocean under, however for me, it was just too shallow for a swim.
Thankfully there’s one other outside “family” pool hidden away within the greenery of the Island, which is a little bit of a trek in your dressing robe however presents the choice of swimming, together with some extra extraordinarily comfortable loungers simply throughout from a younger child’s playpark.
Inspired by the character of Venice with an Oriental really feel, the JW Venice Spa Goco Spa is about in one of many outbuildings in a secluded nook the Isola delle Rose. The Spa is the most important in Venice with its 1,750 m² with an enormous glass wall to the waterfront facet of the constructing and a magnificent heated indoor swimming pool that extends open air, merging the inside and outside. The views throughout Venice from this Spa are each immense and serene.
Around the Spa pool, you discover completely groomed lawns with tempting cabanas to calm down on, which once more look out onto the wonderful Venice lagoon. They type a peaceable haven the place you possibly can spend hours meditating or just recharging. The Spa itself has eight cabins with a view of the lagoon and a wonderful suite. The construction is accomplished by a sauna, a Turkish bathtub with a wall of salt, and a fitness center.
This is well essentially the most breathtaking and luxurious Spa complicated I’ve skilled, and it offered a stage of rest you merely do not anticipate in Venice. The views, the constructing, the expertise actually are heavenly.
Food & Drink
You discover creamy marble corridors, enjoyable paintings, and flower preparations dotted throughout the bottom flooring. It’s actually trendy and extremely spacious for Venice. I notably beloved the thick patterned glass panes exhibited all through. A big and modern Foyer Piano bar spills out into the gardens on hotter nights. This bar is trendy with flowing muslins that blow within the breeze draped from the ceilings. We selected to spend the beginning of our first night amongst this pretty decor. Dress on the resort could be very informal, most company being effectively turned out, however the clientele, who gave the impression to be largely Americans and British, weren’t the sort to parade within the newest kinds and couture. This gave the resort a relaxed, laid-back really feel, extra such as you would possibly discover in Hawaii.
Behind the rooftop pool and loungers is a big expanse of decking edged by flowers and stuffed with comfortable seats and sofas. It is a really magical place to have a night Bellini as you possibly can watch the sundown over the domes of Venice and throughout the Adriatic. This is well essentially the most stress-free rooftop bar in Venice. We spent many a night admiring the view, at all times discovering one thing new to stare upon, with the attentive workers refilling our glassed effectively previous sunset.
Conclusion
The solar is setting, and I’m again on the balcony, tapping my ideas into my laptop computer after a day of strolling the circumference of the island below drooping willow bushes and throughout wild lawns strewn with poppies and clovers. It has been an ideal day, and I haven’t but felt the necessity to pop over to central Venice! My keyboard tip-tapping is soothed by birdsong, rustling bushes, and distant boats. It’s so stress-free that hubby has fallen asleep on a lounger, a brochure mendacity open in entrance of him promoting the resort’s newly opened Dopolavro restaurant with its 2 Michelin chef on his font – which alone will little question necessitate a return journey.
This resort is so idyllic, peaceable, and stress-free that you just received’t need to depart. The craziness of St Mark’s Square, Gondolas, and vacationers appear a world away, and for the following few days, I’ll preserve it that approach and stay on this little island paradise on the sting of Venice.
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