Amalfi Coast hotels: 21 luxury stays ranked by town

01. Positano

Le Sirenuse

4.7 on Tripadvisor, 1,420 reviews

The Positano photograph everyone has in their head, taken from the terrace of a family home that happens to take guests.

Le Sirenuse was the Sersale family summer house before it was a hotel, and eighty years of ownership by the same family shows in ways a corporate operator cannot fake. Nothing matches. The tiles change from room to room, the antiques are real, and the paintings on the stairs were bought because somebody liked them rather than because a design consultancy specified them.

The view is the reason people book, and it earns the fuss. From the pool terrace Positano falls away in tiers of ochre and pink towards the beach, with the dome of Santa Maria Assunta in the middle distance. I have sat there at seven in the evening in June with a Franco Bar negroni and understood exactly why people come back for thirty years.

Service is the second reason. The staff turnover here is unusually low for Italy, which means the person who remembers how you take your coffee in the morning is likely to be there next summer too. La Sponda, the candlelit restaurant, holds a Michelin star and lights around four hundred candles every evening, which is either the most romantic thing you have seen or slightly too much, depending on your temperament.

Rooms vary a great deal. The cheapest categories face inland and give you a hillside rather than the bay, and at these prices that stings. If the view is the point, book a superior sea view or above and accept the jump in cost.

“The view from our terrace at breakfast was the single best thing about our trip to Italy, and the staff treated us like returning friends on day one.”

Tripadvisor guest review, July 2026

The verdict

• +The most photographed view in Positano, from your own terrace
• +Family owned for eighty years and it shows in the service
• +La Sponda holds a Michelin star and does not coast on it
• −Entry level rooms face the hillside, not the bay, and still cost well over a thousand euros in August

From about 1,150 euros a night for a double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

02. Positano

Il San Pietro di Positano

4.8 on Tripadvisor, 1,080 reviews

The coast's quiet benchmark. A hotel carved into a cliff two kilometres out of town, with a lift down to its own sea platform.

Il San Pietro is the property other Amalfi hoteliers talk about when they think nobody is listening. It sits on a cliff outside Positano proper, ten minutes from Le Sirenuse, invisible from the road apart from a small chapel, and drops down the rock face in terraces so that every room faces the water. There is no bad room here, which is not a claim many hotels on this coast can make.

A lift cut through eighty metres of rock takes you to the sea platform, where there is a tennis court, a small restaurant and access to genuinely clear water. Zass, the Michelin starred restaurant upstairs, is the best food I have eaten on the coast, and the kitchen garden supplying it is not a marketing exercise.

The mood is calmer than Le Sirenuse. Fewer day visitors, no through traffic, and an atmosphere closer to a private villa than a grand hotel. That suits some people enormously and bores others.

“Every single room faces the sea and the lift down to the swimming platform makes the whole place feel like a private island.”

Tripadvisor guest review, June 2026

The verdict

• +Every room faces the sea, with a private terrace
• +Private sea platform reached by a lift cut through the cliff
• +Zass is the strongest kitchen on the coast
• −Two kilometres from Positano town, so every trip in means the shuttle or a taxi

From about 1,450 euros a night for a deluxe double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

03. Ravello

Caruso, A Belmond Hotel

4.8 on Tripadvisor, 1,310 reviews

The infinity pool that sold Ravello to the world, on the edge of an eleventh century palace 350 metres above the sea.

The Caruso occupies the Palazzo d'Afflitto, and Belmond has restored it with more restraint than the brand sometimes shows. Frescoes were uncovered rather than reproduced, the vaulted lobby is left cool and bare, and the gardens are the best kept of any hotel on this coast.

Then there is the pool. It sits on the very lip of the terrace with nothing between the water and the Gulf of Salerno a thousand feet below, and it is worth every euro of the premium. Swim to the far edge at eight in the morning before anyone else is up and the coast is laid out under you in haze.

Ravello itself is the calmest of the coastal towns, with concerts in the Villa Rufolo gardens through the summer and a pace that suits people who have done the beach thing and would rather not do it again.

“Swimming in that infinity pool at sunrise with the whole coastline below us is a memory we will keep for the rest of our lives.”

Tripadvisor guest review, August 2026

The verdict

• +The finest swimming pool on the Amalfi Coast, without much argument
• +Gardens and a restored eleventh century palace interior
• +Ravello is quiet in a way Positano never manages
• −No beach of its own, so sea swimming means the shuttle down to the boat at Marina di Amalfi

From about 1,390 euros a night for a deluxe double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

04. Ravello

Palazzo Avino

4.6 on Tripadvisor, 990 reviews

The pink palace. Twelfth century bones, a family owner who is present most days, and a beach club down at the water.

Palazzo Avino is the other Ravello grande dame, and it is warmer than the Caruso. The Avino family run it themselves, and Mariella Avino is frequently in the building, which changes the temperature of the place in ways that matter over a five night stay.

The building is a twelfth century villa painted a pink that reads as slightly mad in photographs and completely right in person. Rossellinis, the fine dining room, held two Michelin stars for years and remains ambitious. The Lobster and Martini Bar on the terrace is where I would spend the early evening.

The Clubhouse by the Sea is the practical advantage over its neighbour. A shuttle takes you down to a private club on the water at Marmorata, which solves the single biggest problem with staying in Ravello.

“The owner came to our table on the first night and again on the last, and the beach club shuttle meant we got both the views and the swimming.”

Tripadvisor guest review, September 2026

The verdict

• +Owner operated, and you feel it
• +Private beach club at Marmorata with a shuttle
• +Rossellinis is a serious restaurant
• −The shuttle down to the sea takes twenty minutes each way and runs to a timetable, not to your whim

From about 990 euros a night for a classic double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

05. Amalfi

Borgo Santandrea

4.8 on Tripadvisor, 640 reviews

The most interesting hotel to open on this coast in a generation, and the only serious luxury property with a genuine private beach.

Borgo Santandrea opened in 2022 in a 1960s building between Amalfi and Conca dei Marini, and it did the thing almost nobody does here: it looked forward rather than backwards. Ninety two thousand hand made tiles, mid century Italian furniture, a colour palette of sea green and terracotta, and not one piece of pastiche.

The beach is the killer detail. A lift takes you down to a private stretch of shingle with a jetty, sunbeds and a beach restaurant, and it belongs to the hotel rather than being a concession you queue for. On a coast where private beaches are usually a platform bolted to a rock, this is a real one.

The rooms are the largest in this price bracket on the coast, and roughly half have a private pool or plunge pool. Service is young and eager rather than practised, which is the trade for everything else.

“The private beach is the real thing rather than a rock with a ladder, and the tiled interiors are the most beautiful we have seen in Italy.”

Tripadvisor guest review, July 2026

The verdict

• +A genuine private beach with a jetty, reached by lift
• +Largest rooms in its price bracket on the coast
• +Design that is contemporary rather than a period pastiche
• −Between towns, so there is nothing within walking distance and every dinner out is a drive

From about 1,090 euros a night for a sea view double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

06. Conca dei Marini

Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa

4.7 on Tripadvisor, 720 reviews

Twenty rooms in a seventeenth century monastery, with the most beautiful terraced garden and pool on the coast.

An American woman named Bianca Sharma bought a ruined monastery in 2000 and spent a decade restoring it, and the result is the most personal luxury hotel on the Amalfi Coast. Twenty rooms only, cut into former nuns cells, with the original stone left visible and the beds facing out to sea.

The garden falls away in four terraces to an infinity pool that hangs over the water, and it is quieter than anything at the Caruso because there are a fifth as many guests. Il Refettorio, the restaurant, holds a Michelin star.

This is the property I recommend to couples who want to disappear. It is not the place for anyone who wants a lively bar or a town on the doorstep.

“Twenty rooms means you never queue for anything, and the walk down through the garden terraces to the pool is worth getting up early for.”

Tripadvisor guest review, June 2026

The verdict

• +Only twenty rooms, so the pool and terraces are never crowded
• +A restored seventeenth century monastery with the stonework intact
• +Michelin starred kitchen for a hotel of this size
• −The climb back up from the pool to reception is a genuine effort in August heat

From about 950 euros a night for a deluxe double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

07. Amalfi

Hotel Santa Caterina

4.6 on Tripadvisor, 1,560 reviews

Family run since 1904, with a lift through the cliff to a saltwater pool and the best value at the top of this coast.

The Gambardella family have owned the Santa Caterina for four generations, and it is the most comfortable of the grand Amalfi hotels in the literal sense. Big rooms, deep sofas, staff who have worked here for decades, and none of the polite tension you sometimes feel in a hotel trying to impress you.

A lift drops through the rock to a saltwater pool and a bathing platform, with a beach restaurant beside it. That access, ten minutes walk from Amalfi town, is why I keep coming back to this one.

It is roughly three hundred euros a night cheaper than the Positano flagships for a comparable standard of room, which is why I call it the best value at the top end of this coast rather than the cheapest option on it.

“The lift straight down to the saltwater pool and the sea is the thing we miss most, and the family who own it are there every day.”

Tripadvisor guest review, August 2026

The verdict

• +Lift access to a saltwater pool and bathing platform
• +Four generations of family ownership and very long serving staff
• +Noticeably cheaper than the Positano flagships for the same standard
• −The decor is traditional to the point of dated in the older room categories

From about 860 euros a night for a superior double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

08. Amalfi

Anantara Convento di Amalfi Grand Hotel

4.6 on Tripadvisor, 1,730 reviews

A thirteenth century Capuchin convent above Amalfi town, with a cloister walk that is worth the room rate on its own.

Anantara took this over in 2022 and has improved it. The bones are extraordinary: a Capuchin convent from 1212, reached by a lift built into the cliff from the coast road, with a colonnaded cloister that runs the length of the building and looks straight out over the bay.

Rooms are former cells, so they are smaller than the price suggests, but the ceilings are vaulted and about half open onto the cloister. The infinity pool was added recently and sits on the seaward edge of the terrace.

It is the best positioned hotel in Amalfi town, five minutes down the lift from the cathedral square and the ferry pier.

“Walking that cloister first thing in the morning with the bay below and nobody else awake was the highlight of the week.”

Tripadvisor guest review, September 2026

The verdict

• +The cloister walk
• +Lift straight down into Amalfi town
• +New infinity pool on the seaward terrace
• −Rooms are converted monastic cells and feel tight for the money

From about 720 euros a night for a deluxe double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

09. Sorrento

Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria

4.7 on Tripadvisor, 2,140 reviews

Five generations of the Fiorentino family, a five acre orange grove on a clifftop, and the only serious option that stays open all year.

The Excelsior Vittoria sits on flat ground above the Marina Piccola in Sorrento, which makes it the sanest choice on this coast for anyone travelling with children, a buggy or a knee that does not enjoy staircases. A private lift drops through the cliff to the port.

Caruso the tenor lived here, and the suite named after him still has his piano. The garden is a working orange and lemon grove of about five acres, which is unheard of in a hotel this central.

Sorrento is not the Amalfi Coast proper and the sea view is across the bay to Vesuvius rather than down a cliff, and it is the easiest base to pair with a few nights in Rome, but the train to Pompeii leaves from ten minutes away and the ferries to Positano and Capri go from the bottom of your own lift.

“Flat ground, a private lift to the port and an orange grove in the middle of Sorrento. With two small children it was the only choice that worked.”

Tripadvisor guest review, July 2026

The verdict

• +Flat site with no staircase problem, so it works for families
• +Private lift down to the Sorrento ferry port
• +Open all year, unlike almost everything else here
• −Sorrento is a forty minute drive from Positano on a good day and much longer in August

From about 690 euros a night for a classic double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

10. Praiano

Casa Angelina

4.7 on Tripadvisor, 1,190 reviews

All white minimalism and contemporary art in a town where everything else is blue and yellow tiles.

Casa Angelina is the design contrarian of the coast. Everything inside is white, the art on the walls is real and changes, and the effect against the blue outside the window is startling the first time you walk in.

Praiano is the quiet town between Positano and Amalfi, with real residents and normal restaurant prices, and the hotel runs a shuttle and a lift down to a beach club at Laurito.

The white will not be for everyone, and the hotel knows it. If you like tiled Mediterranean warmth this is the wrong building.

“Completely different from every other hotel on the coast, and Praiano is where you go when Positano has worn you out.”

Tripadvisor guest review, June 2026

The verdict

• +A genuine contemporary art collection
• +Praiano is calm and affordable to eat in
• +Beach club at Laurito
• −The all white scheme reads as clinical to some guests and there is no softening it

From about 640 euros a night for a superior double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

11. Ravello

Hotel Villa Cimbrone

4.7 on Tripadvisor, 880 reviews

The Terrace of Infinity, and the right to walk it after the day visitors have gone home.

Villa Cimbrone is the garden that Greta Garbo hid in and the terrace that appears on every Ravello postcard. Nineteen rooms sit inside the villa itself, and being a guest means the gardens are yours from six in the evening until nine in the morning.

The interiors are quirky rather than polished, with crypt vaults and cloisters and rooms of wildly differing shapes. This is a historic house that takes guests, not a hotel that occupies a historic house, and the difference is the point.

The Michelin starred Il Flauto di Pan sits in the garden. The walk from the Ravello main square takes about fifteen minutes along a stepped lane with no vehicle access at all, so pack a case you can carry rather than drag.

“Having the Terrace of Infinity to ourselves at seven in the morning is the reason to stay here rather than just visit.”

Tripadvisor guest review, August 2026

The verdict

• +Private access to the Terrace of Infinity outside opening hours
• +One of the great gardens of Italy on your doorstep
• +Michelin starred restaurant in the grounds
• −No vehicle access, so you and your luggage arrive on foot or by porter cart

From about 590 euros a night for a classic double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

12. Positano

Hotel Villa Franca

4.6 on Tripadvisor, 1,050 reviews

The best rooftop pool in Positano, at roughly half what the flagships below it charge.

Villa Franca sits at the top of Positano on the Viale Pasitea, which means a climb, and gives you in exchange a rooftop pool with a straight view down the whole town to the sea. For the money it is the best view to price ratio in Positano.

Rooms are bright and tiled in the local style, the staff are quick, and Li Galli, the rooftop restaurant, is a pleasant place to eat rather than a destination.

Being at the top has one practical benefit that people forget. Going into town is downhill, and the local orange bus stops outside the door for the way back.

“The rooftop pool looks straight down the whole of Positano and we paid a fraction of what the hotels below us were charging.”

Tripadvisor guest review, July 2026

The verdict

• +Rooftop pool with a full town view
• +Bus stop at the door
• +Real value for a Positano sea view
• −It is a steep fifteen minute climb back up from the beach if you miss the bus

From about 470 euros a night for a sea view double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

13. Positano

Villa TreVille

4.9 on Tripadvisor, 320 reviews

Franco Zeffirelli's former home, fifteen suites, and the closest thing on this coast to a private members club.

Zeffirelli lived here and entertained here, and the hotel has kept the house rather than converting it. Fifteen suites across four buildings in a garden that runs down to a private jetty, with no reception desk, no check in ritual and no other guests to speak of.

You eat where you like and when you like, including on your own terrace, and the kitchen simply cooks. The boat is included for local transfers, which is how you should be moving around this coast anyway.

It is expensive in a way that only makes sense if the privacy is the product. If you want a hotel with a bar and other people in it, this is not that.

“There is no reception, no menu and no schedule. You say what you would like and it appears. Nothing else we have stayed in works like it.”

Tripadvisor guest review, August 2026

The verdict

• +Fifteen suites and total privacy
• +Private jetty and boat included for local transfers
• +Dine anywhere, any time
• −No bar, no lobby and no other guests, which some people find lonely rather than exclusive

From about 1,750 euros a night for a junior suite in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

14. Positano

Hotel Marincanto

4.6 on Tripadvisor, 1,240 reviews

Private steps down to Spiaggia Grande, and a breakfast terrace that outperforms hotels twice the price.

The Marincanto is on the Positano coast road with a garden that steps down towards the main beach and a private stair that gets you onto the sand without the town crowd.

Rooms are simple and clean rather than opulent, the pool is small, and the breakfast terrace is one of the finest places to sit in Positano at eight in the morning.

For a four star it punches well above itself, and it books out for the following summer by about January.

“The private steps down to Spiaggia Grande saved us the walk through town twice a day, and breakfast on that terrace was perfect.”

Tripadvisor guest review, June 2026

The verdict

• +Private steps to Spiaggia Grande
• +Exceptional breakfast terrace
• +Sensible prices for central Positano
• −The pool is small and gets fully claimed by nine thirty in high summer

From about 440 euros a night for a sea view double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

15. Positano

Hotel Poseidon

4.6 on Tripadvisor, 1,130 reviews

The Aonzo family have run this since 1955 and it is the most relaxed good hotel in Positano.

The Poseidon was the family home before it took guests, and three generations later they are still behind the desk. The terrace bar is where locals actually drink, which tells you something.

Rooms are large by Positano standards with proper balconies, and the small spa is a genuine one rather than a treatment room with a candle.

Everything about the place is unhurried. That is the appeal and it is also why nobody who wants a scene should book it.

“Family run in the way people claim and rarely are. The father was on the desk and the son brought our bags up.”

Tripadvisor guest review, September 2026

The verdict

• +Genuinely family run since 1955
• +Large rooms with real balconies
• +A small but real spa
• −It is up the hill, so every return from the beach is a climb or a bus

From about 490 euros a night for a superior double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

16. Amalfi

Villa Bossa Amalfi

4.8 on Tripadvisor, 210 reviews

A small restored villa above Amalfi with a pool, for people who want the coast without a grand hotel around them.

Villa Bossa is a restored house on the hillside above Amalfi with a handful of rooms, a pool and a terrace, and it works for anyone who finds the big hotels here a bit much.

The service is informal and the breakfast is generous, and the position gives you the same view the five star properties charge four times as much for.

You will need transport or good legs for the town, and there is no restaurant, so plan dinner.

“Small, quiet and beautifully done, with the same view the grand hotels charge four times as much for.”

Tripadvisor guest review, July 2026

The verdict

• +Small and personal
• +Pool and terrace with a full coast view
• +Strong value for the position
• −No restaurant on site and a steep walk down to Amalfi town

From about 330 euros a night for a double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

17. Amalfi

Hotel Luna Convento

4.4 on Tripadvisor, 1,420 reviews

A thirteenth century cloister, a Saracen watchtower for a bar, and rates a third of what the neighbours charge.

The Luna Convento claims Saint Francis of Assisi as its founder and has the cloister to back the story up. Ibsen wrote here. Wagner stayed. The tower across the road is now the bar and the swimming platform sits below it.

The rooms are plain and the plumbing is of its time, but you are sleeping in a monastery on the edge of Amalfi town for a third of the price of the Santa Caterina up the road.

Book a sea facing room in the main building. The annexe rooms lose most of what makes the place special.

“You sleep inside a thirteenth century cloister and drink in a Saracen tower over the sea, for a third of what the smart hotels charge.”

Tripadvisor guest review, August 2026

The verdict

• +A genuine thirteenth century cloister
• +Saracen tower bar and sea platform
• +Walking distance into Amalfi
• −The bathrooms and fittings are dated and nobody is pretending otherwise

From about 260 euros a night for a sea view double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

18. Positano

Eden Roc Hotel

4.6 on Tripadvisor, 720 reviews

A family run four star on the Positano coast road with sea view terraces on every room.

Eden Roc is on the eastern approach to Positano, which means the view is back across the town rather than out to open sea, and for my money that is the better photograph.

Every room has a terrace, there is a small spa and a rooftop area, and the family who own it will arrange boats and drivers without the surcharge the grander hotels apply.

It is a fifteen minute walk down into the centre and a bus ride back up.

“Every room has its own terrace looking back across Positano, and the owners sorted our boat day for less than the hotel next door quoted.”

Tripadvisor guest review, June 2026

The verdict

• +Sea view terrace on every room
• +Family owners who arrange boats at fair prices
• +Small spa
• −On the coast road, so there is traffic noise from the front rooms in high season

From about 300 euros a night for a double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

19. Praiano

Ca'Pa Casa Privata

4.8 on Tripadvisor, 260 reviews

Six rooms in a private house in Praiano, run by the owners, with the warmest welcome on the coast.

Ca'Pa is a house with six rooms and a small pool, and it is the sort of place people write long thank you notes about. The owners cook, drive, book and advise, and they do it because they enjoy it.

Praiano gives you the sunsets, a functioning village and the Sentiero degli Dei trailhead a short bus ride away at Bomerano.

This is not a luxury hotel and does not claim to be. It is on this list because it is better company than several that are.

“Six rooms and owners who treat you like family. They drove us to the path of the gods themselves at seven in the morning.”

Tripadvisor guest review, September 2026

The verdict

• +Owner run with real hospitality
• +Small pool and terrace
• +Praiano prices rather than Positano prices
• −Six rooms and no hotel services, so there is no reception after the owners turn in

From about 240 euros a night for a double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

20. Amalfi

Hotel Miramalfi

4.4 on Tripadvisor, 1,310 reviews

A seawater pool cut into the rock and a private bathing platform, for under three hundred euros.

The Miramalfi curves around the headland just west of Amalfi and drops down to a seawater pool and a bathing platform, which is the exact facility the five star hotels charge a thousand euros for.

The building is unashamedly 1950s and the interiors have been refreshed rather than reinvented, but every room faces the water and the terrace restaurant sits right above the sea.

It is a ten minute walk into Amalfi along the coast road, which is fine in daylight and less pleasant after dark.

“A seawater pool cut into the rock and a swimming platform, at a price that let us stay a week rather than three nights.”

Tripadvisor guest review, July 2026

The verdict

• +Seawater pool and private bathing platform
• +Every room faces the sea
• +Ten minutes from Amalfi town
• −The interiors are functional and the 1950s building has no charm to speak of

From about 280 euros a night for a sea view double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026

21. Positano

Marina Piccola 73

4.5 on Tripadvisor, 640 reviews

The only hotel actually on Spiaggia Grande, so you step off your terrace onto the beach.

Marina Piccola 73 sits on the beachfront at Positano, which is a category of one. You are on Spiaggia Grande, the ferry pier is ninety seconds away and there is no climb at any point in your day.

The rooms are modest and the front ones hear the beach until late, but the location saves you the single most tiring thing about staying in Positano.

The restaurant downstairs is a proper local trattoria rather than a hotel dining room.

“You walk out of the door onto Spiaggia Grande. After a week of steps everywhere else on the coast, that is worth a great deal.”

Tripadvisor guest review, August 2026

The verdict

• +Directly on Spiaggia Grande
• +Ninety seconds from the ferry pier
• +No steps at any point
• −Beach noise carries into the front rooms until well after midnight in summer

From about 350 euros a night for a sea view double in late September

Rate checked 1 September 2026