Boutique Hotels on the Amalfi Coast
- Positano is one town on the Amalfi Coast.positano image by Sascha F. from Fotolia.com
With its extensive coast line, internationally known cuisine and Mediterranean climate, Italy attracts many visitors every year. According to the World Tourism Organization, the country received 43.2 million visitors in 2009. Located in South Italy, Campania boasts the breathtakingly beautiful Amalfi Coast, a necklace of picturesque villages perched on high cliffs by the sea. At roughly 33 miles from Naples Airport, the villages of the Amalfi Coast offer diverse options in accommodation, including several boutique hotels. - Palazzo Murat is a boutique hotel situated in a restored 17th-century palace, in Positano village center. The special rooms have a classic decor and French doors that open onto a balcony overlooking the bougainvillea gardens, the tiled dome of the Byzantine church and the Mediterranean Sea. All rooms have an attached bathroom, and they are non-smoking and air-conditioned. The restaurant Al Palazzo has a cellar with 400 labels and serves a special dish of ink-black rice on fish and wild fennel ragout, among other dishes. Private parking is available nearby, but charges apply. Pets are allowed, free of charge.
Hotel Palazzo Murat
Via dei Mulini, 23
Positano
Italy
011-39-089-875-177
palazzomurat.it - Located in the village of Maiori, Hotel Botanico San Lazzaro offers 18 rooms richly decorated with handmade Tuscan furniture and the famous terracotta from Vietri. All rooms have air conditioning, heating, satellite TV, safe, minibar, Internet access, flax linen, whirlpool baths and a sea-view balcony, and some feature their own private garden. Breakfast is included in the room rate, and the guests also have access to the hotel's private beach and botanic gardens. The restaurant Donna Clelia offers dishes based on southern-Italian cuisine.
Hotel Botanico San Lazzaro
Via Lazzaro, 25
Maiori 84010
Italy
011-39-089-877-750
botanicosanlazzaro.it - Located in the village of Praiano, perched on a cliff, Casa Angelina has a glass elevator to take guest to its private beach, boats and two pools. The restaurant "Un Piano nel Cielo" has panoramic views and serves Mediterranean cuisine, such as Paccheri pasta with baby meatballs of beef and aubergines. The hotel has a contemporary style, decorated in white and light colors, bright Murano glass pieces, bronze sculptures and oil paintings. Rooms have attached bathrooms, and they have all the amenities of a five-star hotel, some with balconies and sun loungers. Casa Angelina also offers apartment suites, directly located by the little beach of La Gavitella.
Casa Angelina
Via G. Capriglione 147
Praiano 84010
Italy
011-39-089-813-1333
casangelina.com - Hotel Bellevue Syrene offers views of both the Vesuvius volcano and the Gulf of Sorrento. This 18th-century villa has 50 rooms with attached baths, air conditioning, satellite TVs, telephones, panoramic balcony views and safes. Guests can also enjoy Mediterranean gastronomy in the hotel's two restaurants, Don Giovanni and Gli Archi. Guests can luxuriate in the beauty treatment center, which includes lymph-drainage massage and Turkish bath. The Hotel also features a sunbathing deck, a lounge piano bar and free drinks and snacks from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (in 2010). The hotel is located only a five-minute walk from the center of Sorrento.
Hotel Bellevue Syrene
Piazza della Vittoria 5
Sorrento 80067
Italy
011-39-081-878-1024 - Villa Cimbrone is set in a 12th-century house in Ravello. It has received many illustrious visitors over the years, including writers D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. The villa was also the scenario for the affair of Greta Garbo and Leopold Stokowski, claims the hotel's website. The Camelia Suite has a vaulted ceiling decorated with frescoes, a stone fireplace and Majolica ware with arabesque designs in blue and copper-green in the bathroom, while the Iris Suite, where Greta Garbo stayed, has a marble fireplace and antique Vietri ceramic flooring in shades of blue, white and pink. The other 17 rooms have all the amenities particular to a five-star luxurious boutique hotel.
Villa Cimbrone
Via S. Chiara 26
Ravello 84010
011-39-089-857-459
villacimbrone.com
