Can anyone recommend luxury hotel accommodation along the Amalfi coast? We are looking at either Positano or Sorrento. Also, coming from Belfast at the end of the Rick Steves Best of Ireland in 14 Days tour how would you recommend getting to either city?
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We recently came back from the Amalfi coast and stayed in Praiano at the Hotel Onda Verde, for 5 nights, which was fabulous!
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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How luxurious? We didn't stay at this one in Sorrento, but it's so fancy that the looky-loos (us) weren't allowed past the gates.
https://www.hoteltramontano.com/en/
Keep in mind that Sorrento is not on the Amalfi Coast but it is a great option as a transportation hub for buses and ferries. It's also a heck of a lot easier to get to than Positano. In my opinion, Positano is only a destination if your goal is to lounge around to enjoy the views and not do anything else like explore the other towns along the AC. Sorrento is perfect if you also want to visit Naples, Pompeii, etc. We visited Positano for about half and hour and that was enough.
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Wyckoff, NJ, USA
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Note that Sorrento is not a “beach” town. We stayed at one of five large luxury hotels (same ownership) there, on the gulf cliffside, view of Vesuvius. That was Ambasciatori Grande, five nights. Very nice.
The classic luxury in Positano is La Sirenuse, but when we went for just a cocktail there, I found it cramped looking and poorly situated. Did not see a room.
There is a luxe hotel in lovely Ravello (not a coastal town, high elevation) that has a private beach club some miles away. Ravello probably has other choices as well.
Transport, arrival, and departure are all complex planning issues on and beside the AC.
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I would stay in Amalfi (the town) or Ravello. Amalfi is a transportation hub for buses and ferries to visit the coast. Positano is a nice town to look at from the sea or roads but it is extremely hilly and more suited to mountain goats.
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We just returned from four nights in Sorrento at the EXCELSIOR VITTORIA. I've stayed at a lot of good hotels but this one was truly outstanding. Still family run, now by the fifth the generation. Beautiful views of the Bay and Vesuvius from the rooms and spectacular gardens...breakfast was almost beyond belief, accompanied by live piano music.
We were driven in a new van (no charge) to a wonderful restaurant in the hills in Sant' Agata.....had dinner two nights at LO STUZZICHINO. Casual and reasonable priced.
Fly to Naples and then hire a driver to bring you to Sorrento...we paid 99 euro for the trip a few weeks ago..
Sorrento was not terribly crowded, as I had feared, and far better than the terrible conditions I'be read recently on the Amalfi Coast. Only a minority of travelers to this area explore the Sorrentine Peninsula while so many focus on its southern coastline, the Amalfi Coast--reports of crowding this year have been horrific.