Pikeynet reviews~ Covi Dei Saraceni

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The first thing you note about Covi Dei Saraceni is that you can’t get there, or rather you can’t drive there. You see the whole of Positano is built into the mountain and every little space on the mountain has a building embedded. And those buildings have buildings, and there are buildings on those. There probably was a road once, but there isn’t anymore, it got swallowed up by buildings!

Positano does have a road though – it has a single road that runs a small way down the mountain, and straight back up. So of course the question to the hotel is “how do I get to you?!”. Well there’s a multi-storey car park on this road, but you’re not allowed into it – you drive into the top level and leave your car with them (something I’m always nervous about since watching Ferris Bueller!), they give you a ticket and park it for you. You then give your luggage to a chap on a thin version of a Golf caddy – with room for a driver and luggage, and certainly not passengers, tell him which hotel you’re in, and walk the rest of the way to the hotel. A little apprehensive but as the hotel told us this was the procedure, we figured it must be ok!

Although the walk is about 15 minutes, it’s quite nice. You pass many shops, cross some bridges, the beach, and then come across the hotel, which being right on the beach front, does look utterly delightful! As you climb up the steps to reception you’re pleasantly surprised to see your bags made it, and in one piece. You check in and are shown to your room, and for us we had the whole of the 4th floor – despite there being only 1 room on it.

The bathroom was cute, the bedroom ok, and at the other end of a long corridor, and the balcony was just divine. Fantastic. Incredibly wonderful views with complete privacy. The balcony had an enclosed glass bit (for when it’s raining or windy I guess) and the rest of it outside and built into the rock. We spent quite a bit of time here doing nothing 

Walking around Positano was lovely. More touristy than we were expecting, but still nice. We looked for somewhere ‘cute’ to eat, but decided that actually the best place was in the hotel itself. The meal was nice, service reasonable and ‘ok’ value for money, but nothing special apart from the view.

In the morning we found the breakfast room, which was really quite stunning as it is the room that overhangs the front, as seen on all the pictures. The early morning sun shone directly through the windows and the setting was glorious. I think I ate breakfast, but I might have just sat there sipping tea! Lovely.

We also had a go on their terrace pool that we forgot they had. This is a really nice pool on top of the building (but still overlooked by many others!), bar area and sunloungers. We spent about 3 hours here until it was time to go.

Checking out, they called another bellboy to take the luggage up to the car park and set off on the long (but nice) hike. We’d asked the garage to clean the car whilst they had it, but they misunderstood “clean” to “polish to within an inch of its life”! I was very impressed as it didn’t look that shiny when I bought it! Anyway, I paid the bill, plus the 37 Euro charge to clean it (which in hindsight was good value for a valet of that level!) and left, heading down the tight, twisty one way road back out and onto Ravello.


Summary: Yep, Covi Dei Saraceni certainly gets it. Big thumbs up. Lovely place in without doubt the best position in Positano. Absolutely glorious!




 

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