Belmond Hotels: Every Property, Trains & How to Book
LVMH's "slow luxury" estate: 28 hotels that read like a Grand Tour, the Orient-Express's spiritual heirs, and barges through Burgundy.
By Biirdee Travel. Updated 2026-06-10.
Belmond collects the kind of properties guidebooks were invented for: the Cipriani across the lagoon from San Marco, the Splendido above Portofino harbour, Rio's Copacabana Palace, the only hotel at the gates of Machu Picchu. LVMH bought the group in 2019 and has run a deliberate "slow luxury" strategy since — selling the outliers (the Laos and Cambodia hotels left in 2024, Napasai in 2025) and pouring money into the icons, including a Peter Marino reimagining of the Cipriani with Venice's first Dior Spa arriving in 2026.
Uniquely, half the brand isn't hotels at all: the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, the new Britannic Explorer (England & Wales's first luxury sleeper, launched July 2025), Peru's Andean Explorer, the Eastern & Oriental in Malaysia, seven canal barges in France, and two Botswana safari lodges. No other luxury brand owns a travel ecosystem like it.
Belmond in Brief
28 hotels plus six trains, seven French barges and two safari lodges as of June 2026 — Italy (9 hotels) is the heartland.
No points program; the Belmond Bellini Club is advisor-only. Booking through an affiliated concierge adds breakfast, credits and upgrade priority at the same rate.
Hotel Cipriani is the flagship (entry ~$1,300–2,300); Peru's lodge-and-rail circuit is the brand's best-value masterpiece.
Trains are journeys, not rooms: VSOE cabins from ~£3,500 per person, the new Britannic Explorer from ~£11,000 for three nights.
Several icons are seasonal (Cipriani, Splendido, the Sicily pair roughly April–October) — timing is half the booking craft.
Italy — the Heartland
Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel — Giudecca, Venice — The flagship — lagoon-side Olympic pool, Oro restaurant, Dior Spa from 2026; seasonal — from ~€1,300–2,300/night — Check live rates
Splendido, A Belmond Hotel — Portofino — The terraced palace above the harbour — la dolce vita's headquarters; seasonal — from ~€1,500/night — Check live rates
Splendido Mare, A Belmond Hotel — Portofino piazzetta — The 14-room harbourfront sibling — Check live rates
Villa San Michele, A Belmond Hotel — Fiesole, above Florence — Michelangelo-façade monastery with Duomo views — Check live rates
Castello di Casole, A Belmond Hotel — Casole d'Elsa, Tuscany — A 10th-century castle estate on 4,200 acres — Check live rates
Caruso, A Belmond Hotel — Ravello, Amalfi Coast — The infinity pool photographed more than the coast itself — from ~€1,200/night — Check live rates
Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel — Taormina, Sicily — Greek-theatre views and White Lotus fame — Check live rates
Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel — Taormina Mare, Sicily — The Timeo's beachfront sister on its own bay — Check live rates
Romazzino, A Belmond Hotel — Costa Smeralda, Sardinia — The 1965 Aga Khan-era beach palace, Belmond-reborn — Check live rates
Rest of Europe & Africa
La Residencia, A Belmond Hotel — Deià, Mallorca — Artists' village hotel below the Tramuntana — donkey rides to the cala — Check live rates
Reid's Palace, A Belmond Hotel — Funchal, Madeira — Churchill's clifftop tea-and-ocean classic since 1891 — Check live rates
The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel — Chelsea, London — Sloane Street townhouse wit — Oscar Wilde's old address — Check live rates
Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, A Belmond Hotel — Oxfordshire, England — Raymond Blanc's two-star manor — the kitchen-garden pilgrimage — Check live rates
Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel — Cape Town, South Africa — The pink lady under Table Mountain — nine acres of gardens — Check live rates
Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel — Jimbaran, Bali — Belmond's last Asian beachfront — cottages on the sand — Check live rates
Americas
Copacabana Palace, A Belmond Hotel — Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro — South America's most famous hotel, full stop — the 1923 beachfront wedding cake — from ~$500–900/night — Check live rates
Hotel das Cataratas, A Belmond Hotel — Iguassu Falls, Brazil — The only hotel inside the falls national park — sunrise before the gates open — Check live rates
Maroma, A Belmond Hotel — Riviera Maya, Mexico — The 2023 rebirth — Riviera Maya's most romantic beachfront — from ~$1,000/night — Check live rates
Casa de Sierra Nevada, A Belmond Hotel — San Miguel de Allende, Mexico — Colonial casas scattered through the centro — Check live rates
El Encanto, A Belmond Hotel — Santa Barbara, California — American Riviera bungalows above the mission — Check live rates
Cap Juluca, A Belmond Hotel — Maundays Bay, Anguilla — Moorish villas along the Caribbean's most perfect crescent — from ~$1,200/night — Check live rates
La Samanna, A Belmond Hotel — Baie Longue, St. Martin — French-side glamour on a mile of white sand — Check live rates
Miraflores Park, A Belmond Hotel — Lima, Peru — Ocean-cliff base camp for the Peru circuit — Check live rates
Monasterio, A Belmond Hotel — Cusco, Peru — A 1592 monastery with oxygen-enriched rooms — Check live rates
Palacio Nazarenas, A Belmond Hotel — Cusco, Peru — All-suite sibling with Cusco's first outdoor pool — Check live rates
Sanctuary Lodge, A Belmond Hotel — Machu Picchu, Peru — The only hotel at the citadel gates — dawn entry before the crowds — Check live rates
Rio Sagrado, A Belmond Hotel — Sacred Valley, Peru — Riverside gardens between Cusco and the ruins — Check live rates
Las Casitas, A Belmond Hotel — Colca Canyon, Peru — Condor-country casitas with plunge pools — Check live rates
Trains, Barges and Lodges — the Other Half of Belmond
The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express remains the most famous train on earth (London/Paris–Venice and seasonal routes, cabins from ~£3,500 per person, suites far beyond), and 2025's Britannic Explorer brought the format to England and Wales with Simon Rogan dining. Peru's Andean Explorer sleeps you across the altiplano, and the Hiram Bingham day train is the grand way up to Machu Picchu. In France, seven Belmond barges drift through Burgundy, Champagne and Provence at walking pace — the purest "slow luxury" product LVMH owns. Botswana's Savute Elephant and Eagle Island lodges complete the set.
Strategy note: Belmond pairs hotels and journeys deliberately — Venice via VSOE into the Cipriani, Cusco's Monasterio onto the Hiram Bingham, Timeo after a Sicily circuit. Booked as one itinerary through Biirdee, the hotel legs carry Bellini Club-grade benefits (breakfast, credits, upgrade priority at the same rate), and the train cabins are secured early — festive VSOE departures and Machu Picchu's Sanctuary Lodge are the two hardest reservations in the portfolio.
Belmond FAQs
How many Belmond hotels are there?
28 hotels as of June 2026, plus six trains, seven French river barges and two Botswana safari lodges. Asia is down to one hotel (Bali) after the brand's "slow luxury" pruning.
Does Belmond have a loyalty program?
No — LVMH runs no hotel points scheme (same answer as Cheval Blanc). The Bellini Club is for travel advisors; book through an affiliated concierge and the benefits attach at the same rate as direct.
What is Belmond's best hotel?
The Cipriani by consensus, especially post-renovation. The Splendido is the most glamorous; Sanctuary Lodge the most irreplaceable (the location cannot be duplicated); Copacabana Palace the greatest legend.
Is the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express worth it?
As a once-in-a-life theatre piece, yes — it's a moving Agatha Christie set with black-tie dinners. Book 9–12 months out, pair it with the Cipriani, and treat the cabin class decision seriously: suites transform the experience.
The Grand Tour, Properly Sequenced
Cipriani nights, Orient-Express cabins, Machu Picchu at dawn — Biirdee books the whole Belmond ecosystem with benefits attached and the hard reservations secured early.