La Caravella di Positano - Relais & Beach

Pros: - Beach front location although you don’t get a beach front view or porch unless you book their villas. - Very near the port and near all the beach front restaurants and activities. - They give you fresh towels and take out the trash every day. - Very nice staff. Cons: - We had to pay cash. Their terminal wasn’t working properly. We tried four cards in total which all worked fine everywhere else. So we had to find an A** and withdraw money. - The toilet stinks. For some reason even after cleaning and even after turning the exhaust on, the stink doesn’t go away. - Poor drainage - water and dirt get stuck both in the shower and sink.

The location of the residence is the best. At the beach, in the town center, close to restaurant, port, shops. The rooms are spacious, clean but the buliding was built and furnitured in old style. If you are looking for luxory thant it is not for you. But if you can accept the south italian lifesyle than it is a good family run chouse for you. The manager, Mario was extremly helpful with us to organise our program.

OMG this place is amazing! We have never had a better hotel room. Here we are, right on the beach with such a great vibe. Reviews from other people on TripAdvisor were off putting but trust me when I say that Rosa and Mario are good people. They are operating a successful hotel business in a crazy popular location and occasionally things go wrong due to the unique pressures of the super busy location. Be nice to Rosa - say Ciao! - and she'll be nice to you. And Mario is super professional and helpful. If you can afford to stay here, it's the best location in all of Positano. We can't wait to come back and say Ciao! once more.

I give this place a 0. If it’s true good to be true then is not!! This should be the name of this hotel We booked the penthouses top room for a 4 night stay. When we arrived we were met by the manager”Rosa” she was rude from the moment we entered, we got worried when she took us the laundry room to check in . After paying the city tax and coping our passports . We went up stairs. They took us to a completely different room then what we booked when i showed Rosa the room we booked she acted like she didnt care and told us this is what we get and there is no refunds . She kicked our bags in the room and then proceeded to get in a yelling fight with us. She made my wife completely uncomfortable after she started yelling at us and saying to beware when we were out the things could get stolen. At this point I demanded to talk to the owner “Mario” he just told us it’s too bad and thats the room we get and if we didnt like it tough luck. At this point my wife had gone to the room next door where a couple of women we here renting saying they had the same issue and couldn’t get involved because they had no other place to stay. After talking to Mario and demanding a refund he said they would not and he would have to sue him (we are in the process with the credit card company ) well at this point we did not feel safe staying there and felt if we left our room our belongings would not be safe. We ended up having to move hotels at a cost to us of 8K. As you know last minute booking in the amalfi can be very expensive . Lucky the hotel took pity on us and told us we were not the first ones with a story like this from this hotel. I wish I would have read the reviews before booking ………if its to good to be true then it probably isn’t!!. This is true here I believe any positive reviews here are from friends or family . We travel a lot this is the worst experience we have ever had in 40 plus years of traveling. Im not even going into how dirty the room and hotel is good luck if you plan on staying here just remember a lot of reviews told you not too!!!

Excellent location to the beach and the main attractions and Rosa is a wonderful woman who runs a business but is also flexible. The Pros I found are that the hotel has its own beach chairs provided for its guests, no need to pay $25 for a chair. This is prime location for enjoying the beach. The scene is amazing and people with be taking picutres of you hanging out on your balcony all day. There are only 2 negatives we experienced on this stay, the shade umbrellas did not work, there was a review that touched on this and we figured they would have been fixed by now. If they working it would have greatly increased our enjoyment because the sun is blazing at times. The second negative is the restaurant L'incanto likes to play music extremely loud at random times of the night up to midnight. DO NOT eat there or drink there, it is a tourist trap with high priced low quality food and drinks. Otherwise our stay was enjoyable for a couple. We stayed for 3 nights and it was enough for this small town.

They are very nice. The “beach view” isn’t really a view and the bed is super uncomfortable. Barely slept. But you cannot beat the location. Right on the beach with own shade and chairs.