Splendido, A Belmond Hotel, Portofino
A sixteenth-century monastery on the hillside above Portofino, a hotel since 1901, with forty-eight rooms and suites, five signature suites and a private villa in the grounds.
Splendido, A Belmond Hotel, Portofino is a hotel destination wedding venue in Portofino, Italy, hosting 20 to 120 guests in the $$$$ price range, reached from Genoa Cristoforo Colombo (GOA), About 1 hour by car. Best months: June, July, August, November.
About Splendido, A Belmond Hotel, Portofino
A sixteenth-century monastery on the hillside above Portofino, a hotel since 1901, with forty-eight rooms and suites, five signature suites and a private villa in the grounds.
The view is the harbour: the coloured houses around the piazzetta, the boats, and the Ligurian sea past the headland.
Weddings run in La Terrazza restaurant, which takes up to 120 for an evening reception, and at the Pool Grill, which seats about 60 for something smaller, with the garden footpath through the olives and pines used for the ceremony.
Belmond also runs Splendido Mare down in the piazzetta, seventeen rooms on the harbour front, so a wedding party can split between the hill and the water and walk or shuttle between them.
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Capacity, rooms and facilities
The spaces
- Setting
- CoastalAisle estimate
Venue highlights
- Sixteenth-century monastery above Portofino harbour, a hotel since 1901
- La Terrazza takes up to 120 for an evening reception
- Pool Grill seats about 60 for a smaller dinner
- Forty-eight rooms plus signature suites and a private villa
The wedding season
A sample wedding weekend
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- 19:00Drinks at Splendido Mare on the piazzetta, dinner in the harbour
- 10:30Boats to San Fruttuoso abbey and the Cinque Terre
- 17:00Ceremony on the garden footpath above the harbour
- 18:30Aperitivo by the pool as the harbour lights come on
- 20:30Dinner on La Terrazza, dancing after
- 12:00Lunch at the Pool Grill before the boats to Santa Margherita
Costs and booking details
- Getting there
- GOA · about 1 h by carAisle estimate
Guests fly into Genoa Cristoforo Colombo.
- Typical total
- €150,000–280,000Aisle estimate
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€150,000 to €280,000 for 100 guests across both hotels (estimated)
- Ceremony fee
- On request
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By proposal; Belmond publishes no venue-hire figure
- Reception
- €250–450 a headAisle estimate
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€250 to €450 a head for dinner and bar (estimated)
- Room rate
- From €1,000 a nightAisle estimate
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Rooms from roughly €1,000 a night in season (estimated)
- Weather window
- June – August
The months the weather is kindest, with November mild too. Weather does not indicate whether a date is available.
The 120 and 60 capacity figures come from Belmond’s own occasions material for this hotel. It publishes no wedding pricing, so the cost figures are our estimates from the property tier and from planner-reported Ligurian budgets.
Questions about the venue
How many guests can Splendido host?+
La Terrazza restaurant takes up to 120 for an evening reception, and the Pool Grill seats about 60. Belmond also quotes weddings of up to 90 across the Pool Grill, the garden footpath and La Terrazza together.
Where does the ceremony happen?+
Most often on the garden footpath through the olive and pine terraces above the harbour, with the town and the sea below. La Terrazza and the indoor salon cover the ceremony if the weather turns.
Can the wedding party stay in Portofino itself?+
Splendido Mare, Belmond’s sister hotel, has seventeen rooms on the piazzetta at the harbour, a few minutes down from Splendido by shuttle or a ten-minute walk. Between the two hotels a party of about a hundred can sleep in Portofino.
How do guests reach Portofino?+
Genoa airport is about 40 km and an hour by road. The final approach is a single-track coast road from Santa Margherita that is controlled in summer and has almost no parking, so most wedding parties come the last leg by boat from Santa Margherita or Rapallo.
When is the hotel open?+
May, June and September avoid both the August boat traffic and the autumn rain that comes down this coast.
What does a wedding here cost?+
Belmond quotes by proposal and publishes no prices for this hotel. Ligurian planners put a hundred-guest wedding at this level well into six figures once rooms in Portofino, boats and the two-hotel split are counted.
Could this be your venue?
Ask about your plans, pricing and availability. You do not need a fixed date yet.
Still deciding? Elena is Aisle’s AI wedding planner. Give her a month and a guest count and she will forecast the budget, work out how your guests would travel, and put a first plan on paper. No account needed.
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Sources and booking notes
Confirm your dates, guest numbers, room arrangements and inclusions with the venue before booking. An enquiry does not reserve a date. Figures labelled Aisle estimate are modelled from regional rates and public sources; they are not venue quotes.