Italy holidays: Why you'll feel like you're dreaming at Ca' di Dio - a classy new Venice hotel

However many times you have been, there’s a dream-like quality to Venice. There are lots of salmon-orange tones in the hotel's colour palette, James notes The building's significant width means that a fair proportion of the 66 rooms look out onto the water James says of the interior: 'Such spaciousness seems almost un-Venetian, and yet its clever designers ensure the best of the city is stylishly present' Stepping inside, you’re immediately struck by how bright and airy its interiors are. James describes the Murano glass chandelier at the hotel as 'a snowdrift of frosted shards' Directly outside the hotel, there's a hopping-off stop for the public transport ‘vaporetto’ boats The view from James's bedroom window. On the right is James's portion of Sachertorte, which he describes as an 'all-out flavour fresco, with chocolate in multiple forms, candied chestnuts, bitter orange marmalade, tangy citrus jellies, and sugar-frosted lemony herbs plucked from the hotel’s own kitchen garden' The cocktail that James's evening meal begins with, mixed at the table To start, I order the Venetian fish soup: stacked slivers of sea bass and home-made gnocchi bathing in a punchy, piping hot broth. He says of the hotel's staff: 'How attentive they all are in making me feel welcome and comfortable' 'However many times you have been, there’s a dream-like quality to Venice,' James says.