All the restaurants overlook the pool and private cove, and from there pretty walkways lead to the rooms, all of which look out on to the lagoon and the ocean beyond.
In potentially the most significant announcement, Ed Davey, the energy secretary, said he expected to start talks next month with Tidal Lagoon Power, the company that is aiming to build the world's first tidal lagoon power plant in Swansea Bay, to see if the project is affordable and value for money for consumers.
It originally stated in the introduction that the first lagoon power project had the potential to provide 8% of the UK's energy.
While the views, over the lagoon and on to the beaches and mountains beyond, were spectacular, the food was not.
The turquoise waters of Langebaan lagoon are clear, shallow, breezy and (relatively) warm, making this an ideal place to learn or to test your skills to the limit.
The project was later abandoned, but not before the blasting of an enormous artificial lagoon with sea access.
As with many of the tracks across the barene, this one goes nowhere, but fortunately the dead end is also the site of Agriturismo La Barena, an ancient redbrick farmhouse overlooking the lagoon, with six guest rooms.
Caorle, a few miles further east, was immortalised by Ernest Hemingway in his 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees, so it is tempting to stop off at its expansive lagoon.
Before hitting the town we take a boat out to the mystical Isola di Barbana, an island sanctuary that has been drawing pilgrims since medieval times, then carry on to the most eastern point of the lagoon, to Valle Cavanata nature reserve.
Our destination was La Sultana, a sand-coloured palace built on the shore of a lagoon, at the end of a winding sandy road.
As the couple set off from the mooring station at Ca' Farsetti, their wooden water taxi did not turn around but ploughed straight up the Grand Canal and out into the lagoon to Marco Polo airport.
