A lovely small hotel up in the mountain and although a bit of a way out from Sorrento itself it was perfect for our trip. Initially we were put in one of the lower rooms (near the pool) but requested a move due to the smell of the swimming pool however once moved to the 1st floor it was perfect. Both rooms were specious and had just amazing views of Sorrento! Everything was fine for what we wanted from this trip although the shower Im sure was made for very thin people!

As a family traveling with our young daughter, we thought this location to be perfect for touring the Amalfi Coast. The hotel is rated 3 star, but we considered it more like a 4 star. The location is stunning. Our room had a gorgeous ocean front view from a private balcony. The room was airy with lots of natural light and very comfortable. Breakfast was included in the room rate and was great; fresh fruits, juices, yogurt, local meats and cheeses with amazing breads and baked goods and wonderful coffee. For a very reasonably priced supplement, the hotel serves dinner and the meals we had there were truly some of the best we had in Italy. We tried some great local wines with dinner. The beach (many steps down but very doable) was beautiful, clean and our daughter loved swimming and jumping off the rocks into the sea. The hotel is just lovely, with interesting glass and ceramic fixtures everywhere you look, along with beautiful paintings of the Amalfi coast. Best of all, Marcello and his staff are wonderful; truly gracious and helpful in every way. It is easy to get up and down the coast by the local SITA busses, and we were able to tour Sorrento, Positano, Amalfi, Capri, and Ravello during our stay on the coast. If you are visiting this area, this is a great place to stay!

Alle Kritiken stimmen. Wir haben eine wunderbare Woche erlebt. Die Lage ist fantastisch. Auch Essen und die sehr guten Weine in Preis-Leistung hervorragend. Sehr nettes, kompetentes und engagiertes Personal. Zimmer sauber, Größe und Ausstattung entsprechen dem Preis und regionalen Geschmack. Sofort wieder!!!

Perched on a steep cliff below the coastal road, this hotel really is quite a good place to stay just off the side of the very small bay of the Marina di Conca. If you can't imagine Positano and Amalfi before the tourists overran them, you could get a good idea by staying here and exploring Conca dei Marini, the small village streets above the hotel, as well as the centuries old village houses stacked up the cliff wall on the sea side below. Situate half way between Positano and Amalfi, it is easy to pass by Conca dei Marini entirely without realizing there is a whole separate community living here. The entrance to the hotel is off a small driveway ramp leading down the side of the cliff to the parking area. Enter the elevator and descend from there into the hotel and its four levels. From the fourth level below the parking area, it is a 212 step walk to the sea below (and 212 steps back up to your hotel! And, yes, I counted them, every one.) Parking is free and sheltered from the sun, and the views from the parking area are as breathtaking as those from the hotel. Check-out time is 10:30 a.m. In our July, 2007, stay we two adults, one young child, were offered a large spacious room at the side of the hotel facing the village of Amalfi and the coast (Room 302 which is a "back" room); the hotel faces the sea and the front rooms on our floor directly face the sea (Rooms 303, 304, 305 and 306 are "seaview" rooms with terrace but are almost half the size of Room 302; Room 301 was behind us even further up against the cliff with somewhat lesser views). For 100 euro per night inclusive of buffet breakfast, you can't beat the value for the price on this coast. We extended our one night stay to three nights. Our room featured a double bed, desk with chair, two sidetables, two table lamps, ceiling light, closet unit with lots of quality clothes hangers, two free electrical outlets, private side balcony with full glass french doors with working outside shutters, two mirrors in the bedroom with one in the bathroom, two garbage containers, three lounge chairs, an in-room safe, but no television. The bedroom floor was fully tiled with plaster walls. Room access is by key. The tiled to the ceiling bathroom was large enough, with sink, toilet, bidet, full size tub, shower unit with handheld sprayer, and towel warmer. Lots of towels of the linen waffle, not terrycloth, variety were provided. Notable negatives included a bathroom without an exhaust fan, wooden trim which was ripped from the doorframe around the bathroom door, and the hand held shower head had to be handheld since the support bracket was broken. And the painted wooden furnishings were simply not to my taste (creamy pale green) and looked terrible, as if hand painted with a roller; even though one of us thought the furniture was new and purposefully "distressed" or "antiqued", I'm not so sure. Air con in the room was effecient. Buffet breakfast can be enjoyed from the indoor air conditioned dining area (the temperature barely sustainable due to the large large sliding glass doors and morning sun) or the outdoor bake-oven hot patio. Breakfast is served from 7:30 - 10:30 a.m. Clearly coming earlier would make for a more enjoyable dining experience indoor or out. Dinner is served in a more formal interior dining area away from the sun from 19:30 - 21:00. Breakfast choices included juice (grapefruit or watered down orange juice), cold milk, coffee, tea, cuppuccino, hot water and lemon on request, cold cuts of differing varieties daily, sliced cheese, a good granola cereal, croissants, rolls, apple cake, chocolate marble cake, canned peach halves, tabs of butter, and jams in plastic tubs. So given the terrible in room decor, the rapidly heating breakfast area (did I mention two of the dining area's huge (3 meter wide) sliding glass doors each had a long crack in the glass?), the broken or missing bathroom features, and the really 2 star amenities, why was this hotel such a great place to stay? Well, the price is good, the front desk staff very helpful (ask for the area map), the views outstanding (our Sunday night arrival also coincided with the 11:00 p.m. weekly (?) Amalfi fireworks display put on for the cruise ships departing the next day -- magical). The front desk staff also gave a little present to our little one on checkout (nice touch). The breakfast waiter was unobstrusive but attentive to your every request (and he was there only to serve you; others looked after replenishing the buffet). Another nice touch. So two star amenities with four star service. But it is so much more than that. The walk down 212 steps (and that's from the fourth floor down in the hotel -- it is much further from the coastal road above, and still more for the residents living above the costal road) is quite charming, as you literally walk back through time, as the houses get older the closer you get to the sea. At the base of the walk is a small marina, a pebble (stone) beach, no less than three independant sit down semi-formal (cloth tablecloth and wineglasses) restaurants, and a pizzeria, too. There is also small church, and a lovely swimming area with a nice sized easy to climb rock for those adventurous enough to jump off the 2.5 meter side into the sea (those adventurous include most all the local teens). And there is a view of a castle fortress! During our stay, there was the annual festival celebration which runs for several weeks each summer, with every other evening designated for a special event (culture, religion, heritage, food, etc.) On the Monday night we were there, there was a public mass (Catholic religious service) on the small pebble beach to commemorate those lost at sea over the centuries, followed by all sorts of activities, including children swimming about at night in the sea under the light of the shoreline activities, and lots and lots of dining attended to by mostly local residents (only 10% or so appeared to be tourists), all finely dressed (which you can get away with on a stone pebble beach), all who walked down (and would later walk up) all those steps. And the swimming is lovely, the water warm, the sea sheltered, and the beach umbrellas available for rent at 4 euro for the day. If you want to experience a slice of Italian life on the southern coast, this is the place to do it. Only this Hotel Le Terrazze, and the Hotel Belvedere next door, offer easy access to this small seaside town and beach. For everyone else, it's find a parking spot somewhere up above the coastal road and ready yourself for a long, long climb down and then up again. Nearby attractions within an easy five minute walk from the hotel parking lot include the Torre di Corica, a private outdoor pool, bar, pizzeria, and restaurant set out in an old stone fortress out at the end of a promenatory (6 euro admission), and the Chiesa di San Pancrazio, an old church in the small village about the coastal road. And, of course, you have Amalfi itself on one side and Positano on the other. Parking for either town is expensive (4 euro per hour) and difficult to find. A wonderful hotel, which with a good makeover, (and a pool) could be truly outstanding (but then probably less affordable and less untouched)!