Grand Hotel Aminta - Sorrento, Italy     

We stayed at the Hotel Aminta for 4 nights and we had a great time. We hired a car and drove from Naples Airport to the hotel, we did miss the turn but managed to find our way back to the hotel. We had a double room with balcony and it was clean and comfortable. We had a couple of evening meals at the hotel restaurant and they were good. For breakfast we were given the choice of pastries and croissants, meat and cheese following by cooked breakfast. Lovely views to eat breakfast too. The bar area and lounge were very comfortable and we were made to feel very relaxed and looked after by the Aminta staff. We did not try out the walk down to town, but plan to come back in the summer and do it then. We did use the shuttle bus and that was easy and convenient. I liked the location of the hotel, being slightly out of the town and would recommend you have a holiday at the Hotel Aminta!

We booked a week at the Aminta for our honeymoon in August 07 and loved it. The best bit was the fantastic service - it seemed that they could not do enough for us. The hotel was very clean and comfortable. We stayed on a bed and breakfast basis and ate at the hotel on a few nights. The food was fine - not the best in sorrento but perfectly tasty. It is easy enough to get into the town although the walk is a bit steep on the way back. We recommend walking in to town and then getting the shuttle bus or a taxi back. All the taxi's seem to know the hotel. If you do not like the food at the hotel the hotel staff will recommend and book a restaurant for you. You do have to pay for a sun lounger by the pool and if you are planning on a day by the pool you should reserve your loungers the day before at reception. The hotel can organise excursions for you and take payment for them. Some excursions have to be paid for in cash. We found getting the train to Pompei very easy and did not pay for an excusion to go there - we saved a bit of money by doing it ourselves. Other excusions were good value as we did not have a car so it worked out cheaper to get the excursion transport rather than have the hassle of working it out for ourselves. We saw a lot of the coast line on a day long cruise which was lovely. The hotel is out of the town which we thought was a good thing when we saw how busy the roads are in Sorrento town. Some hotels are very close to the road and so could be noisey. we throughly recommend the Aminta.