Amalfi Coast, Italy

Le Sirenuse

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Style

Grandest dame

Setting

Positano sul punto

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Legendary hotel Le Sirenuse in Positano has been the A-list address of choice in the Amalfi Coast town since 1951. Once the holiday home of the Sersale family, the iconic red building has long since welcomed guests. Almost all of the rooms overlook the sea from their balconies, with interiors graced by antiques and artworks from the family collection. By early evening, settle in for sea-facing sundowners on Franco Bar’s rooftop or for a mandolin-soundtracked dinner at La Sponda.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

58, including two suites.

Check–Out

Noon. Earliest check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates usually include breakfast, as well as weekly activities such as tours of Positano, morning stretch sessions, cocktail classes, wine tastings and seasonal boat trips.

Also

Unfortunately, Le Sirenuse is not easily accessible if you have mobility issues — there are lots of steps throughout the hotel and in Positano generally.

Please note

The hotel’s national identification code (CIN) is IT065100A1OZJK2DVT. 

Hotel closed

The hotel opens annually from the end of March to the end of October.

At the hotel

Gym with two reformer Pilates machines, boutique, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: minibar, Nespresso coffee machine and a selection of teas, TV and sound-system, air-conditioning, bathrobes, slippers and Eau d’Italie bath products created by the Sersale family.

Our favourite rooms

All but six of the rooms overlook the Tyrrhenian Sea, so try and secure one of the 52 with a view. The arches above the balconies frame the water and surrounding colourful buildings, ensuring a photogenic composition from every angle.

Poolside

As with all other parts of the hotel, the pool is also an artwork, with mosaics that reflect the colours of Positano and the sea sparkling away in the distance. It’s open from 9.30am to 6pm.

Spa

At the spa, life gets even sweeter with a sauna, granite steam bath and ice room, alongside treatment rooms (including one couple’s suite) where you can book in for Augustinus Bader, Aveda and Margy’s Monte Carlo massages and facials.

Packing tips

Positano is known as a ‘vertical city’ for good reason, so be sure to have suitable footwear on hand for tackling the stone staircases that run up and down the town to the shore. That’s not to say you should forgo glamorous attire, though; the super-yacht arrivals in high summer dictate otherwise.

Also

In the highly likely event that you’ve fallen in love with the tableware and soft furnishings, you can stockpile them over at the family’s Emporio Sirenuse boutique.

Children

Over-sixes are welcome. Babysitting can be arranged for €70 an hour, and extra beds and connecting rooms are available.

Sustainability efforts

With a history this illustrious, it’s no surprise that Le Sirenuse aims to preserve its ever-popular Positano setting and minimise the effects of over-tourism. Some of its sustainability initiatives include sourcing produce from local suppliers, reducing single-use plastic, and gradually switching to renewable electricity.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

There’s no such thing as a bad table on La Sponda’s terrace, which overlooks the water and the colourful cliff sides of Positano.

Dress Code

This isn’t the time to hold back — instead, don your all-Italian finery and compete with the dazzling backdrop.

Hotel restaurant

There can’t be many better ways to start your day in the Amalfi Coast than with your first sip of coffee out on the terrace at La Sponda. The mood changes by early evening, when external guests are allowed to book in for dinner or drinks, and La Sponda is illuminated by no fewer than 400 candles — this is one starry-eyed shoreline after all. The restaurant’s refined Mediterranean fare is delicious, but with a setting like this, they almost needn’t have bothered. Even the simplest of dishes, spaghetti al pomodoro, is made lovingly, with heirloom tomatoes grown on Mount Vesuvius.

Hotel bar

With a setting this scenic, aperitivo o’clock is an essential daily activity, and despite the lack of sunset views (thanks to the pesky mountain jutting into the bay), the colours, sea and sky still conspire to put on a good show at both Aldo’s and Franco’s. Aldo’s, named after one of the Sersale elders, is ideal for champagne and a light bite from its crudo selection, but more substantial lunches and dinners are on offer, too. Franco’s is on a terrace above Positano, for drinks with an unforgettable view. And if the night is still young, simply locate the speakeasy, inspired by the neon Don’t Worry artwork by Martin Creed at the bar, and alleviate any concerns with live music and classic cocktails.  

Last orders

La Sponda opens for breakfast (7am–11am), lunch (12.30pm–6pm) and dinner (7.30pm–10.30pm). The pool bar’s hours are 9.30am–6pm. The speakeasy serves drinks from 6pm to 1am. Aldo’s and Franco’s call time at 1am and midnight respectively.

Room service

Available around the clock — and breakfast can be served on your balcony, too.

Location

Photos Le Sirenuse location
Address
Le Sirenuse
Via Cristoforo Colombo 30
Positano
84017
Italy

Le Sirenuse clings to the cliffs of Positano, one of the prettiest towns along the heartbreakingly photogenic Amalfi Coast.

Planes

The main air hub serving the Amalfi Coast is Naples. Hotel transfers from here start from €210 each way for two passengers.

Trains

The closest station is Napoli Centrale, 54 kilometres away. Hotel transfers can be arranged on request.

Automobiles

The iconic hairpin bends of the Amalfi Coast can fall victim to unglamorous traffic come high summer — but if you have a convertible, it may be too hard to resist cruising along them. Valet parking at the hotel costs €100 a day. Or you can leave the hard work to the team — they can fetch you from as far away as Rome if you’d like.

Other

Helicopter arrivals can be arranged, to a helipad around a 50-minute drive away.

Worth getting out of bed for

Any stay at Le Sirenuse is about truly embracing la dolce vita, with many activities included with your stay to help you on your way. These might include wine tastings, walking tours to the village of Montepertuso, breakfasts at sea, cocktail classes, 7am stretch sessions, tours of Positano and trips to the coastal village of Nerano on the house boat. The team will also be able to craft experiences for you, whether you want a day trip to the Greek settlement of Cumae, founded around 1000BC, to the Royal Palace of Caserta, to Herculaneum (Pompeii’s less-visited but equally incredible sister), to old Naples or to Mount Vesuvius. Staff can also organise tours of the entire Amalfi Coast, stopping at its many notable towns and sleepy fishing villages; or trips over to the isle of Capri. Afterwards, a sunset cruise aboard the Sant’Antonio, Le Sirenuse’s restored fishing boat (once belonging to Uncle Aldo, one of the four founding siblings), sailing the Tyrrhenian Sea, is the perfect way to end another dreamy Amalfi Coast day.

Local restaurants

The hotel’s La Sponda restaurant is in good company, with many more fine-dining destinations easily reached in Positano. Try Next2, founded by a mamma 20 years ago, with the reins now passed to her daughter Carmela; or the celebrity-favoured La Tagliata, where terraces of organic vegetable patches and vineyards are stacked down the cliff beneath the restaurant. For a long, lazy lunch on the beach, Da Adolfo is reached via a short boat ride from Positano; and the spaghetti alle vongole and general trad-trattoria ambience of Saraceno dell’Oro on Viale Pasitea are hard to beat. 

Local bars

If you’re not in a carb coma after dinner, head all the way down to the shore and dance the night away at Music on the Rocks. 

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this historic hotel in southern Italy and unpacked their limoncello and supersize lemons, a full account of their glamorous break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Le Sirenuse in Positano… 

It’s a landmark year for legendary hotel Le Sirenuse in Positano, as it turns three quarters of a century old. But as with all enviably effortlessly glamorous Italians, you’d never know it. She (reverent pronouns necessary here) is as beautiful and youthful as ever, and still one of the greatest hotels in the world. Her service is of the impeccable, old-fashioned, move-mountains variety, with staff that have worked here for years showing other hotels how it’s done. And we mean they’ll move mountains literally, well, sort of — Positano’s green peaks may look pretty but they do get in the way of sunset. But if the sunset can’t come to you, nessun problema! They’ll get you to the sunset, aboard the clan’s old wooden boat the Sant’Antonio, once owned by Uncle Aldo himself. Even without the dramatic dipping into the horizon moment, aperitivo hour out on one of the terraces is enough to make grown men weep. We can’t all be Italian nobility — but we can check in for a taste. Welcome to the famiglia. 

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