# Where to stay in Venice with kids Written 2026-10-10 by Play Day. Venice hotels for a family: connecting rooms and family rooms in the sestieri, apartments with a kitchen, the island resorts with a pool and a boat to San Marco, and the Lido for a beach. Everything in Venice arrives by water or on foot, and a hotel with no bridges between the vaporetto and the door is the easy one with a stroller. The island hotels have a pool and a shuttle boat, so you can leave the city at lunch and swim. ## Connecting rooms in the old city ### [Carnival Palace](https://ourplayday.com/places/carnival-palace-venice) Area: Cannaregio On the Cannaregio canal, a flat ten-minute walk from the station with no bridges to speak of, which is the best arrival in Venice with luggage and kids. The neighborhood is where Venetians still live, so the restaurants are calmer than around San Marco. - Cribs: Yes - Connecting rooms: Yes - Suites: Yes - Pool: Yes ### [Hotel dell'Opera](https://ourplayday.com/places/hotel-dell-opera-venice) Area: San Marco A small hotel a few minutes from Piazza San Marco and the Fenice opera house, in the thick of it, which is wonderful at seven in the morning. - Cribs: Yes - Connecting rooms: Yes ### [Palazzo Veneziano](https://ourplayday.com/places/palazzo-veneziano-venice) Area: Zattere, Dorsoduro On the Zattere, the long sunny promenade along the Giudecca canal, where kids can run without a bridge in sight and the gelato is famous. The family suite connects to a classic double through an interior door and has its own inside staircase, and the Zattere vaporetto stop is right outside. - Cribs: Yes - Connecting rooms: Yes - Suites: Yes - Pool: Yes ## Family rooms One room with four or five beds, in a spot you can walk everywhere from. ### [Hotel Agli Alboretti](https://ourplayday.com/places/hotel-agli-alboretti-venice) Area: Dorsoduro A family-run hotel beside the Accademia bridge and gallery, with a garden courtyard for breakfast. Rooms sleep three or four in real single beds, or a double plus singles. Dorsoduro is the quiet side, and Campo Santa Margherita with its playground is a few minutes away. - Cribs: No ### [Hotel Bisanzio](https://ourplayday.com/places/hotel-bisanzio-venice) Area: Castello Down a quiet calle off the Riva degli Schiavoni, five minutes from San Marco, with family rooms for up to five in the main building or a small annex. The Riva is a wide waterfront where a stroller rolls, and the Giardini park with its playground is a walk east. - Cribs: Yes - Suites: Yes ### [Hotel L'Orologio Venezia](https://ourplayday.com/places/hotel-l-orologio-venezia-venice) Area: San Polo, by Rialto A watch-themed hotel on the canal a minute from the Rialto bridge and the fish market, which is a free morning's entertainment for a four-year-old. Family rooms have a kettle and a minibar. The Rialto Mercato vaporetto stop is beside it. - Cribs: Yes - Connecting rooms: Yes ### [Ca' Due Leoni](https://ourplayday.com/places/ca-due-leoni-venice) Area: Cannaregio A small guesthouse near the station on the Cannaregio side, with triple and quad rooms. Arriving by train, you're at the door in minutes without a single bridge. - Cribs: Yes ### [Splendid Venice](https://ourplayday.com/places/splendid-venice-venice) Area: San Marco The hotel lends a whole baby kit with its family room for four, down to a potty seat and a bottle warmer, so you can fly with less. It sits between San Marco and the Rialto on a small canal, with its own water entrance. Everything you'd want to see is on foot from here. - Cribs: Yes - Connecting rooms: Yes ## An apartment with a kitchen ### [Palazzo Paruta, Paruta House Apartments](https://ourplayday.com/places/palazzo-paruta-paruta-house-apartments-venice) Area: San Marco Six apartments a few steps from the hotel near Campo Sant'Angelo, in the quiet part of San Marco, from a two-bedroom for four up to a three-bedroom with two baths. They come with the hotel's breakfast and reception when you want them, good for a week or for two families. - Cribs: Yes - Suites: Yes - Kitchenette: Yes - Pool: Yes ## The islands, with a pool and a boat By the hotel's own boat, with a pool, lawns and a quiet night. ### [Hilton Molino Stucky Venice](https://ourplayday.com/places/hilton-molino-stucky-venice-venice) Area: Giudecca The biggest hotel in Venice, 379 rooms and suites in a converted red-brick flour mill at the west end of the Giudecca, with a rooftop pool and the whole city in view. A free shuttle boat runs to San Marco and back all day, and there are vaporetto stops next door. - Cribs: Yes - Suites: Yes - Pool: Yes ### [Hotel Cipriani, a Belmond Hotel](https://ourplayday.com/places/hotel-cipriani-a-belmond-hotel-venice) Area: Giudecca The grand garden hotel at the east tip of the Giudecca, two minutes by launch from San Marco, with an Olympic-sized saltwater pool (heated, for ages four and up) and lawns down to the lagoon. There's a children's club, and it's best with school-age kids. - Cribs: Yes - Suites: Yes - Pool: Yes, heated - Heated pool: Yes ### [San Clemente Palace Venice](https://ourplayday.com/places/san-clemente-palace-venice-venice) Area: San Clemente island A former monastery on an island of its own, about ten minutes by the hotel's wooden boat from San Marco, with a heated outdoor pool and gardens that give kids a lot of room to run. - Cribs: Yes - Suites: Yes - Pool: Yes, heated - Heated pool: Yes - Kids' club: Yes ### [JW Marriott Venice Resort and Spa](https://ourplayday.com/places/jw-marriott-venice-resort-spa-venice) Area: Isola delle Rose An island of gardens about twenty minutes by shuttle boat from San Marco. There's a kids' club and a family pool as well as the rooftop one, and some rooms have kitchenettes. The most resort-like stay in Venice, for a family that wants Venice in doses. - Cribs: Yes - Connecting rooms: Yes - Suites: Yes - Kitchenette: Yes - Pool: Yes - Kids' club: Yes ## The Lido, for a beach ### [Hotel Excelsior Venice Lido Resort](https://ourplayday.com/places/hotel-excelsior-venice-lido-resort-venice) Area: Lido The Moorish palace on the Lido, where the film festival happens, with its own beach and cabanas. The sand is shallow and calm for small kids, there's a kids' club in season, and the vaporetto to San Marco takes about fifteen minutes. The Lido has cars and bikes. - Cribs: Yes - Connecting rooms: Yes - Suites: Yes - Pool: Yes, heated - Heated pool: Yes - Kids' club: Yes ## On the Grand Canal ### [Aman Venice](https://ourplayday.com/places/aman-venice-venice) Area: Grand Canal, San Polo Twenty-four rooms in Palazzo Papadopoli, a frescoed palazzo on the Grand Canal, where some suites set up as two bedrooms with a sitting room. It's quiet, with two private gardens (rare in Venice). - Cribs: Yes - Connecting rooms: Yes - Suites: Yes Page: https://ourplayday.com/guides/italy/venice/family-hotels