The Best Hotels on the Amalfi Coast (2026)

The Best Hotels on the Amalfi Coast There's a reason the Amalfi Coast is renowned around the world: This stretch of Italian coastline is a slice of paradise on earth. And the best hotels on the Amalfi Coast live up to the beauty of their surroundings. From peaceful villas perched above the coast in Ravello to see-and-be-seen hotels in Positano , there are so many excellent places to rest and retreat to in this picturesque region. Courtesy Le SirenusehotelLe SirenuseArrow$$$ |Gold List 2018, 2019Readers' Choice Awards 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025A legend even along a coast full of legends, this classic hotel is more than the sum of its parts. The center was the aristocratic Sersale family’s summer villa in Positano. Four siblings opened the house to guests in 1951 with eight rooms and a large terrace facing the sea. Franco Sersale was responsible for a major expansion and refurbishment in the 1990s; he was not only a passionate art collector but also an inveterate world traveler andphotographer. Present owners Antonio and Carla Sersale are also collectors, and each year invite an artist to make a site-specific piece—past artists have included Martin Creed, Stanley Whitney, and Matt Connors. Most bedrooms are not huge, but are lovely, with traditional tiled floors, antique chests, and balconies with tables and chairs overlooking the steep climb through the village down to the beach. La Sponda, the hotel's main restaurant, with its 400 candles and bougainvillea-strewn dining room, is one of the coast’s top dinner spots, as much for the atmosphere as for the food. —Nicky SwallowBook Now at Booking.comBook Now at Expedia hotelVilla TrevilleArrow$$$What singles out Treville is its immense beauty and seclusion, despitePositanobeing only a couple of hairpin bends away. Book the white, cream, and silver Diaghilev suite, which has double doors that open onto a small balcony with the bay of Positano at your feet. The price is hardly chump change, but it includes all drinks, which means cocktails any time you want them in wafer-thin Murano glasses. Wander into the kitchen, and the chef will whip you up whatever you fancy whenever you fancy it, using fresh produce from Treville’s gardens. —N.S.Book Now at Booking.comBook Now at Expedia Courtesy Il San Pietro di PositanohotelIl San Pietro di PositanoArrow$$$ |Gold List 2018, 2020Readers' Choice Awards 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024A tribute to the vision and folly of its creator, Il San Pietro di Positano burrows into a cliff, with an elevator plunging down to the beach via a shaft hacked out of rock. It’s the ultimateAmalfi Coastcocoon, made all the more attractive by delicious but not overly fancy seasonal food. It’s no mystery why the international glitterati have flocked here since the hotel's opening in 1970—the village’s steep, narrow stone streets and breathtakingly beautiful blue waters really are the stuff of dreams. The 56-room property, which sits on a sliver of prime cliffside real estate above the Bay of Positano, is a primitive Eden doused...

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