Mr & Mrs Smith

Romeo Hotel

Naples, Italy

The imposing Romeo Hotel overlooks Naples' hectic docks but, inside, the impeccable art collection of owner Mr Romeo makes you feel like you’re wandering around a dazzling antique-stuffed home. This sleek glass and metal hotel and spa in the heart of one of Italy’s grittier cities has Michelin-starred gastronomy, an aficionado-approved cigar room and on-show wine cellar, and is frequented by a Gucci-clad clientele almost as gorgeous as the views of Vesuvius.

Need to know

• Rooms 83, including 14 suites and 10 junior suites.
• Rates Double rooms from $298.19 (€223), excluding tax at 10 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of €4.00 per person per night on check-out.
  The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (€223) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Rates include a daily buffet breakfast.
• Facilities Spa, gym, gardens, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: minibar, Nespresso coffee machine, flatscreen TV, Jacob Jensen and Bang & Olufsen telephones, the hotel’s own bath products.
• Poolside The small unheated pool on the ninth floor makes the most of the hotel’s urban coastal location: bathers can simultaneously oversee the dockworkers unloading crates at the port and gaze at distant Vesuvius or Capri. It’s outside on a terrace right next to the restaurant and bar, so grab a cocktail to sip while you lounge.
• Check-out 12 noon, but flexible on request (subject to availability and a charge). Earliest check-in, 2pm.
• Children Welcome. The Kids Garden playroom has a doll’s house and rocking horse. Babysitting is available at €25 an hour and a free crèche can be used 10am–8pm. However, the amount of expensive art on display might discourage all but the bravest parents.
• Also The glossy Dogana del Sale spa has a salt room, five treatment rooms, three Jacuzzis and two saunas (entrance to the spa costs €20 to guests). Golfers missing their greens find comfort in the virtual golf room, and there’s also a gym.

Food and drink at Romeo Hotel

• Hotel restaurant

  On the top floor, Michelin-starred Il Comandante serves up an adventurous and regularly changing fine-dining menu, as well as some jaw-dropping views of the bay through the floor-to-ceiling windows. It also offers bar services. A Modern Med menu includes regional classics such as sliced beef tenderloin with summer vegetable stew or lemon-scented salt cod carpaccio with capers and salad greens. There are tasting menus for the indecisive. Romeo Sushi Bar (on the ground floor) serves tasty morsels at the downstairs counter or upstairs in Il Comandante. The Beluga Sky Bar serves great views, as well as a buffet breakfast, lunch and snacks.

• Dress code Italians aren’t known for being underdressed, and Il Comandante’s diners live up to their glamorous reputation. (They’re also likely to be far more tanned than you, and have much shinier hair.)
• Top table In Il Comandante, sitting beside the windows (or outside on the decking) provides the best bay views for watching the ships, but for a cosier meal there’s also a four-table room overlooking the higgledy-piggledy Naples skyline.
• Last orders Beluga Sky Bar serves breakfast, lunch and snacks 7am–8pm; ll Comandante serves dinner 8pm–midnight. Drinks are poured at the restaurant bar during opening hours.
• Room service Room service is available 24/7: order antipasti and sandwiches or hot dishes, like homemade ravioli or sea bass fillet.

Romeo Hotel 45 Via Cristoforo Colombo, Naples, Italy, 80133