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La Dolce Vita Ravello
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Four self-catering apartments in Ravello, each with a terrace or balcony over the Amalfi Coast and ceramics hand-made by the host's father.
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A welcome made in the house for every member, home-made pastries or biscuits, or a cocktail or mocktail on arrival.
Need To Know
- Four apartments. Bacco has two bedrooms and two bathrooms and sleeps five; Carpe Diem, Nettuno and O'sole Mio have one bedroom each and sleep three.
- Each kitchenette has an oven, a dishwasher, a coffee machine and a kettle, and every apartment its own washing machine.
- Cots and high chairs are available for children.
- Our favourite rooms: Bacco, for the terrace and the second bathroom, and Carpe Diem for a couple, for the jacuzzi bath. Nettuno and O'sole Mio are much alike, and O'sole Mio's own entrance tips it.
- Pets are welcome in Carpe Diem only.
- Bookings are made with Guido on WhatsApp, and the button on this page opens the conversation.
Check in - Check out
Check in from 13:00; check out before 10:00.
We Love
- Bacco's private terrace over the coast, the only terrace of the four, with two bedrooms and two bathrooms behind it.
- Carpe Diem's jacuzzi bath and its balcony over the coast, in the one apartment of the four that welcomes pets.
- Coffee and snacks waiting in the kitchen, and a packet of pasta and its sauce for anyone who arrives too late to shop.
- Public parking under the Niemeyer auditorium across the road, which on the Amalfi Coast counts as a luxury of its own.
- O'sole Mio's private entrance, for guests who like to come and go without passing anyone else's door.
- The 5110 bus, which stops 150 metres away and reaches Amalfi in 20 to 25 minutes, and spares you the coast road.
Key Features
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Location
Address
Via Crocelle 23/25, 84010 Ravello (SA), Italy
Travel Info
Salerno Costa d'Amalfi is the nearest airport and Naples the main international one. Amalfi is 10 minutes below by car, or 20 to 25 on the 5110 bus. Public parking is under the auditorium opposite, and the piazza is five minutes' walk.
Expert Review
Origins
Two generations of one family are behind it. Guido Sorrentino studied hospitality business in Switzerland and now keeps the four apartments on Via Crocelle himself. To him the name is a philosophy before it is a name, a way of living, simple and authentic, that everyone deserves, in Ravello above all. His father, Pascal, runs Pascal Ceramiche d'Arte in the town, where every piece is designed and made by hand, and his pieces are in every apartment, there to be used.
Top Secret
Ask Guido to point you to the steps down to Minori, which pass the door. One guest put the walk at 30 to 40 minutes, the right way to arrive for lunch by the sea. Coming back up is another matter, and the taxi is no disgrace.
The Review
The plates are the host's father's. Pascal runs a ceramics shop in the town, and his work hangs above the beds and stands ready for use in the four apartments his son, Guido Sorrentino, keeps as La Dolce Vita Ravello. It is self-catering with a family attached, and guests write of finding coffee, tea, snacks and a packet of pasta with its sauce in the kitchen when they arrive, which settles the first night's supper before the bags are open.
Bacco is the one to book. It is the largest, with two bedrooms and two bathrooms for up to five, and the only private terrace of the four. The other three have one bedroom each and a balcony over the coast; Carpe Diem adds a jacuzzi bath and takes pets, and O'sole Mio has its own entrance. All four have a kitchenette with an oven and a dishwasher, and a washing machine as well, which makes them better for a week than a weekend. The white rooms, some with arched windows onto the sea, are kept plain enough for the view to do the work.
There is no reception desk; this is four apartments and a host. Members book with Guido himself, on WhatsApp, at the rates on his own website, and each is welcomed with something made in the house, home-made pastries or biscuits, or a cocktail. For dinner Guido recommends Gli Ulivi, a family-run restaurant in an eleventh-century villa, and the cafés of the piazza are five minutes' walk away.
Across the road stands an auditorium that Oscar Niemeyer designed in his nineties and saw open in 2010, at 102, which says something for Niemeyer, or for Italian planning. Its public car park is underneath, and on the Amalfi Coast a parking space that close is worth more than the architecture. The town's music is older. Wagner found his set for Parsifal at Villa Rufolo in 1880, and the villa is the main stage of the Ravello Festival, begun in his honour in 1953.
It suits couples and small families who like to cook some nights and be cooked for on others, and anyone arriving by car. It will not suit anyone who wants a pool or a beach below the window; the beach at Castiglione is eight kilometres away. Pascal's shop is in the town, for anyone who wants the plates as well as the view.
