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This is the rather more comfortable, climate-controlled hotel among our choices in Sorrento, with an excellent location just half a block up a tree-lined street from Piazza Tasso.
As befits an upscale inn in operation since 1854, the wood-framed beds are large and firm and the baths of fairly recent vintage. Some rooms are smallish, but the A/C and other amenities more than make up for it. Paintings or prints decorate the walls and a few near-antiques give most rooms a touch of class.
Rooms no. 41 and 42 have terraces with the best views (over red tiled roofs to greensward around town with even a sliver of sea below).
Breakfast is taken in a vaulted dining room beyond a sofa scattered sitting room-cum-bar.
This place is a decent bargain off-season, when prices gover around to €170 for a double room (at least if you book on-line); in high season, however, rates can spike to €230.
» bookPlanning your time: Sorrento has maybe 2-3 hours of mediocre sightseeing. To be brutally honest it is probably the least interesting town in this area. It is only famous for its location.
Sorrento makes an ideal base for exploring Campania thanks to its location at the nexus of regional public transit—pretty much the only place from which you can get anywhere without having to change mode of transportation: Trains direct to Pompeii and Naples; ferries to Capri; buses or ferries down the Amalfi Coast.
If you prefer the home-base style of travel, Sorrento is the perfect base. Figure on three days/two nights here (hit Pompeii on the train ride down from Naples—you can store your luggage temporarily at the Pompei train station—then spend one day each visiting Capri and the Amalfi Coast).
If, however, you prefer to travel from town to town, just treat Sorrento as a way-station to switch from train to bus or ferry; skip Sorrento entirely and sleep in a more interesting locale on the Amalfi Coast or Capri.
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