The Grand Hotel des Bains is a hotel on the Lido of Venice, northern Italy. Built in 1900 to attract wealthy tourists, it is remembered amongst other things for Thomas Mann's stay there in 1911, which inspired his novella Death in Venice. Luchino Visconti's film of the novel was shot there in 1971.
The hotel was also used as Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo in the 1996 film The English Patient.
Diaghilev died at the hotel in 1929.
Today the Hotel des Bains is also used by movie stars during the Venice Biennale.
In 2010, the hotel was closed to be converted into a luxury apartment complex, the Des Bains residences, which is scheduled to open in late 2011.[1]