Belmond hotels, booked with benefits
Legendary hotels, trains and journeys
Book with benefitsBelmond is a collection of the world's most storied travel experiences — grand hotels like the Cipriani in Venice and Rio's Copacabana Palace, alongside the legendary Venice Simplon-Orient-Express. Now part of LVMH, Belmond champions "slow luxury": heritage, romance and a sense of occasion at properties that are landmarks in their own right.
Your Belmond advisor
Albina Sharapova · Founder & Luxury Travel Advisor · Affiliated with Fora Travel
Albina Sharapova plans Belmond journeys personally, and Belmond rewards planning more than most: the hotels, the trains and the seasons interlock, and the difference between a good Cipriani stay and a great one is usually decided before arrival.
Via Privata books Belmond through its host agency Fora Travel's Bellini Club programme, and the benefits for your dates are confirmed in writing before you commit.
Booking with benefits
Choose your Belmond. The benefits come with it.
You pay the hotel's own rate, with no fee. Each eligible stay adds:
- Daily breakfast for two
- A hotel credit
- Upgrade priority on arrival
- A welcome gift
Grand Hotel Timeo, Taormina, above.
How Belmond Bellini Club works
The Bellini Club is Belmond's own programme for leading luxury travel agencies. Travellers do not join it. You book through an advisor whose agency is a member, and the benefits apply at Belmond's hotels and on its trains.
Choose the hotel and dates
Use the booking card, or send the shortlist you are deciding between.
We check every rate
Availability, the hotel's own rate and any offer running for your dates, with the benefits applied.
Your quote, in writing
The rate, the room and each benefit listed against your booking. Nothing is booked until you approve it.
We book and brief the hotel
Confirmed with the benefits attached. We brief the hotel before you arrive and stay on your file through the trip.
The same room, booked two ways
Benefits vary by property, rate and room category. Upgrades, early check-in and late check-out are never guaranteed; we confirm exactly what applies to your booking before you commit.
Current Belmond offers
Belmond Safaris — Eagle Island & Savute Elephant Lodge
Stay 6 nights, pay for 5
For groups booking five rooms or more: split a Botswana safari across Belmond's two lodges — the Okavango Delta and the Savute Channel — and the sixth night is complimentary, with all meals, local drinks and game activities included.
Maroma, A Belmond Hotel, Riviera Maya
Stay 7, pay 5
Stay seven nights and pay for five, with daily breakfast, the resort's daily activity schedule and free parking.
Maroma, A Belmond Hotel, Riviera Maya
US$500 resort credit in suites
Book a suite for four nights or more and receive a US$500 resort credit per stay, with daily breakfast at Casa Mayor.
Eastern & Oriental Express, A Belmond Train
Complimentary night in Singapore
Add a complimentary night in a Seaview Room at the Mandarin Oriental, Singapore, before or after any journey aboard the train, with breakfast and transfers between the station and the hotel.
The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel, London
Fourth night free
Stay four nights and the fourth is complimentary, in Deluxe and Superior Rooms, Junior Suites, Deluxe Junior Suites and One-Bedroom Suites.
Maroma, A Belmond Hotel, Riviera Maya
Half board, plus US$100 spa credit
Breakfast and lunch or dinner at Casa Mayor for up to two adults per room, plus a US$100 spa credit per stay and unlimited use of the hydrotherapy circuit at Maroma Spa by Guerlain.
Belmond hotels we book
Pick one and it goes straight into the booking card. We confirm the benefits for your dates.
Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel, Venice
Venice, Italy
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Splendido, A Belmond Hotel, Portofino
Portofino, Italy
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Copacabana Palace, A Belmond Hotel, Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Villa San Michele, A Belmond Hotel, Florence
Florence, Italy
Book with benefitsGrand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel, Taormina
Taormina, Italy
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La Residencia, A Belmond Hotel, Mallorca
Deià, Spain
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Maroma, A Belmond Hotel, Riviera Maya
Riviera Maya, Mexico
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Sanctuary Lodge, A Belmond Hotel
Machu Picchu, Peru
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A collection of landmarks, not a chain
Belmond grew by buying places that were already famous — the Cipriani on Giudecca, a 1592 monastery in Cusco, the Art Deco palace facing Copacabana Beach, the sleeping cars of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express. There are twenty-eight hotels today, and the shape of the collection is unusual: ten are in Italy and six in Peru, so a Belmond trip is more often several Belmonds strung together than a single stay. LVMH has owned the group since 2019.
The trains
Seven of them, and they behave nothing like the hotels — different seasons, different booking windows, different sell-out behaviour. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express crosses the Alps between Paris and Venice on restored 1920s and 1930s stock. The Royal Scotsman tours the Highlands and the Britannic Explorer, new in July 2025, runs into Cornwall, Wales and the Lake District. The Eastern & Oriental Express returned to the rails in 2024 on Singapore–Malaysia round trips. In Peru the Andean Explorer crosses the altiplano overnight and the Hiram Bingham runs up to Machu Picchu and back in a day. The grand suites go first, often a year out.
See the trainsThe boats
Les Bateaux Belmond is a fleet of seven small hotel barges working the waterways of Burgundy, Provence, Champagne and the Bordeaux vineyards, carrying four to twelve guests apiece. Six are sold on charter — the whole boat, its crew and its chef, for one party — while Napoléon can also be booked by the cabin. They move at walking pace, which is rather the point.
See the boatsThe safari lodges
Two, both in Botswana, both twelve tented rooms. Eagle Island Lodge sits in the Okavango Delta and is a water camp — mokoro canoes, motorboats and helicopter flights over the floodplain. Savute Elephant Lodge is the opposite: dry-country Chobe, big elephant herds and the predators that follow them. They are usually taken together, and the light-aircraft hop between them is the part that needs planning.
Frequently Asked
Can Via Privata book Belmond with benefits?
Yes. Via Privata books the Belmond hotels through preferred-partner programmes, adding benefits and VIP recognition — at no extra cost over Belmond's own rate.
Which Belmond properties can you book?
Belmond's hotels worldwide, including Hotel Cipriani (Venice), Splendido (Portofino), Copacabana Palace (Rio) and Villa San Michele (Florence) — and we can arrange the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express.
Does booking Belmond through an advisor cost more?
No. You pay Belmond's own rate; the perks and planning are added value.
Can you book the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express?
Yes. Cabins and suites sell out far ahead, particularly the grand suites, and we plan the train leg together with the hotels around it so the dates actually work.
When should the Italian Belmonds be booked?
Splendido and Cipriani sell their best categories months ahead for May to September; the shoulder months are the insider's window. We watch both, and our Italy list ranks the collection honestly.
Plan Your Stay
Book Belmond with Via Privata
Preferred-partner benefits, expert planning, and VIP recognition — at the same rate you'd pay direct.
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