Advantages: Location, Location, Location Disadvantages: Bar prices and breakfast
and sink suite with dark granite worktops. The bath has both a hand held shower and a full height rain type shower.
In keeping with the rest of the hotel the room is decorated to a high standard in a cool art deco style, it comes with a large plasma TV and a clever mood lighting system where all the room?s lights can be adjusted simultaneously depending on need.
Facilities~
Hotel 1898 has a full range of business facilities available with meeting rooms and business centres. Each room has free ADSL and wireless internet connectivity. For the private traveller there is a fully equipped spa with gym, sauna and steam rooms, attractive pool and treatment rooms. There are two bars, a public one on the ground floor and one on the roof terrace. Also on the roof is the pool and sun deck with excellent views of the city. There is a restaurant serving ...
nationalities were represented but very much in the minority to the coach loads of tourists from the UK and Ireland.
The Geography
The Bay of Sorrento is a lot larger than I had expected. My original preconception was of a small sleepy Italian fishing village that would provide a useful starting point to explore the local areas of interest. A travel book and a few reviews on Ciao later that opinion was quickly changed. Sorrento itself is made up of five communes with Sorrento Town itself providing the main shopping and commercial centre.
The centre of Sorrento is Piazza Tasso which is bisected by the Corso d' Italia which is the main thoroughfare and in the evenings is closed to traffic to allow the locals and visitors alike to parade along in all their finery. Tasso is full of large bars and restaurants with huge patio areas while Corso ...
Advantages: Interesting town, great weather, good base to explore the area Disadvantages: Traffic and pollution
the proprietors aren?t likely to wait for you to come to them, but will encourage you inside whether that was your intention or not. Marina Grande is quieter than the rest of Sorrento, and consequently prices are a bit steeper here.
Marina Piccola, at the northern end, is the main ferry terminal for catching hydrofoils to Capri and Naples. It?s very busy, but still quite picturesque. There is a regular bus service (more on that later) to and from the town of Sorrento, so it?s not necessary to climb the stairs that lead up from the marina to the town.
The stretch of shoreline between the two marinas is taken up with various decked lidos for swimming and sunbathing, and cafes and restaurants. It?s impossible to walk from one marina to the other without going back up into the town though, as we discovered to our cost. There are stairs, and in ...
thecatsmother 12.12.2003
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