Caruso, A Belmond Hotel, Amalfi Coast

A seasonal 5-star hotel of 50 rooms and suites, 17 rooms and 33 suites according to the official page, in an 11th-century palace at 2 Piazza San Giovanni del Toro, Ravello. It belongs to Belmond, which now calls it «Caruso, A Belmond Hotel, Amalfi Coast»: the site’s old address, the one for Belmond Hotel Caruso, leads to the same page, and Google’s listing still uses it.

The MICHELIN Guide gives it one Key and describes it as renovated without being modernised; the hotel’s wedding factsheet speaks of a light refurbishment every year. In the gardens there is also Villa Margherita, a villa of 2 suites with a butler and a chef, which has its own page and its own booking.

10 types in 4 groups, according to the official booking page. The double rooms run from 35 to 50 m²: with a garden on the ground floor of the garden wing, with a terrace over the village or the gardens, or with a balcony over the sea. The junior suites, 45 to 60 m², all face the sea and have a private garden, a balcony or a furnished terrace.

The suites measure 50 to 65 m²: one with a garden and a view of the coast, one looking at the village and the church, one with a terrace over the sea and a kitchenette. The Divina Suite, at 90–95 m², is the only Signature Suite. All have marble bathrooms with a tub and a separate shower; the site gives sizes as ranges, since no 2 rooms are alike, and does not publish how many there are of each type.

At 2 Piazza San Giovanni del Toro, at the top of Ravello, «perched 350 metres above the sea» in the words of the official page. The middle of the village is 5 minutes away on foot; below, along the shore, lie Amalfi, Atrani and Minori.

Guests describe a secluded place: one wrote in June 2026 of feeling hidden from the outside world. Naples airport is 65 km away, 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 30 by car, and Amalfi is 7 km of hairpin bends below. The hotel hosts weddings, and parties by the pool begin at 9pm.

On foot from the entrance, measured on 8 October 2026 on OpenStreetMap’s roads: 5 minutes and 367 metres to the Duomo and its square, 5 minutes to Villa Rufolo, 9 to the Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer and 13 minutes, 972 metres, to Villa Cimbrone.

Down to the pier at Amalfi it is about 3 km of paths and steps, which the hotel’s guided walk, on Tuesday at 8.30am, covers in an hour and a half; by car it is 7 km. Google’s card puts Amalfi Cathedral 3 km away and Villa Rufolo 3 minutes’ walk.

Naples Airport is 65 km away: 1 hour 15 minutes by car according to the official page, up to 1 hour 30 in traffic according to the FAQs; the wedding factsheet says 60 minutes. From Napoli Centrale station the drive takes the same. From Roma Termini the fast train reaches Naples in about 1 hour 15 minutes, and driving from Rome takes up to 4 hours.

The concierge arranges a private car, a helicopter from Naples to Ravello or a boat. Guests coming off the ferry at Amalfi ride up on the hotel’s shuttle, which runs to a timetable. With the Divina Suite, return transfers are part of the rate.

Yes: according to the site’s FAQs, valet parking is complimentary for every guest, and you drive right up to the entrance, where the staff take the car. The Google Hotels card also lists it as free.

The valet service is complimentary for every guest, according to the FAQs of the official site, read on 15 October 2026, which also note that Ravello’s streets are narrow.

The hotel has no beach, and the sea lies 350 metres below. To get down there is a free scheduled shuttle to Amalfi, according to the FAQs; the ferries leave from there, and for Positano the concierge arranges a car, because the shuttle does not go that far. Booking.com and Expedia both mention a shuttle to Positano as well.

The official wedding factsheet lists boat excursions among what is included, and 2 guests in May and June 2026 describe the free trip along the coast; the weekly activities sheet does not show it. The nearest beaches by road are Castiglione, Ravello’s own, at 5.9 km, Atrani at 6.6, Amalfi at 7 and Minori at 8.3.

There is one, outdoors: an infinity pool at the centre of the La Piscina pool club, with loungers, cabanas and a bar, and Caruso Grill alongside. The Lattari mountains stand behind it and the coast in front. The site does not publish its size or depth, and there is no indoor pool.

Children may swim when an adult is with them, the FAQs say; pets are kept out.

It is heated, according to the FAQs, which speak of comfortable swimming «year-round»; the hotel, though, closes from 18 October 2026 to 15 April 2027, and the pool follows the season. The water temperature and the hours are not published. On wedding nights it can be hired from 9pm for the party, according to the wedding factsheet.

In 2 restaurants and 2 bars. Il Pantaleone serves dinner only, every evening from 7.30pm to 10.30pm: the October 2026 menu offers a 6-course tasting at €190, three 4-course menus, sea at €170, land at €160 and vegan at €150, and 3 courses à la carte for €150. Caruso Grill, by the pool and open to non-residents, serves lunch from 12.30pm to 4pm and dinner from 7.30pm to 10.30pm: seafood scialatielli cost €38, a Florentine steak for two €188.

The Adagio bar, among the 18th-century frescoes, opens from 4pm to midnight with live music; the pool bar serves drinks and light dishes. Restaurant prices include service and VAT, plus a €10 cover charge per person. Breakfast is in the official site’s «Room with Breakfast» rate; no half-board plan is published.

For an occasion there are the chef’s table in the garden, at €570 per person, and the Krug table with Champagne, at €890, each for 2 guests or more. The FAQs count 4 restaurants and bars, Booking.com 3 restaurants.

Small: the wellness centre has 2 single treatment rooms and one for couples, a fitness area and a hairdresser on request. Some treatments are given outdoors, in the gardens or in a cabana by the pool. The products are by Davines and Comfort Zone.

The spa brochure places it on floor -2 and mentions a steam room and a clay tennis court with a coach. The gym is open-air, with Technogym machines facing the view. The site does not publish the floor area and makes no mention of a sauna, which Google’s card does list; Booking.com lists the steam room.

For staying guests the gym and the steam room are complimentary, the brochure says; treatments are charged from the price list, and the morning yoga, mobility and meditation sessions belong to the free activities.

For outside visitors the site publishes only what can be booked: tables at Caruso Grill, which says it welcomes non-guests, and at Il Pantaleone. No day pass to the spa or the pool appears on any page read, and La Piscina is described as a private club.

Treatments run daily from 10am to 8pm, according to the wellness centre page. The gym is open daily from 8am to 8pm, with access outside those hours on request, according to the fitness centre page of the official site, read on 15 October 2026.

The brochure advises booking before arrival, asks guests to come 10 minutes early and charges 50% for cancelling less than 4 hours ahead, the full price for not turning up. Under-18s come with a parent.

The house treatment is the Caruso Sensorial, 110 minutes for €300, according to the official price list. Massages start at €200 for 50 minutes and €290 for 80; the hot stone massage lasts 80 minutes and costs €320. The 50-minute facials run from €150 to €200, and couples’ massages from €420 for 50 minutes to €590 for 80.

A massage in the garden costs €60 more per person, one in the room €100. Prices include VAT at 22%. Hairdressing, manicures and bridal make-up are on the same list.

Yes: the FAQs describe a family-friendly hotel, with babysitting and connecting rooms, 16 of them according to the wedding factsheet. Children may use the pool with an adult, and the activities include a pasta lesson to share with them and a visit to Pompeii designed for them.

The wedding factsheet and Google mention a children’s club, which the site’s pages do not describe: no hours or ages are published. The site allows an extra bed on request in most room types, whereas Booking.com says there are none and offers a cot.

Yes, pets up to 10 kg: every room’s entry on the booking page says so. The FAQs ask guests to mention it when booking, since a charge may apply, and to keep pets on a lead in shared areas and out of the restaurants and the pool.

The portals each tell it differently: Booking.com admits them on request at no charge, the MICHELIN Guide shows both «no extra charges» and «charges apply», and Expedia says pets are not allowed. The hotel’s site does not publish the amount of the charge.

The pool and its club, the terraced gardens, the wellness centre, the open-air gym, a tennis court, 2 restaurants and 2 bars, according to the official pages and the spa brochure. For meetings there are 2 rooms opening straight onto the gardens.

The activities sheet lists what is included each week: mobility, yoga and meditation at 7.30am, a garden tour, 3 guided walks, an Italian lesson, pasta, limoncello, painting and pizza. Check-in is from 3pm and check-out by noon; a late check-out depends on availability and may carry a fee. Wi-Fi is free, and there are accessible rooms, with lifts and ramps in the shared areas.

3, on the offers page read on 8 October 2026. «Early Escape» rewards booking ahead, with breakfast for 2 and a minimum stay, the double rooms and the Divina Suite excluded. «The Suite Life», for suites only, brings breakfast at any hour, transfers to and from Naples Airport, a bottle of Champagne and a €400 credit per room towards food, drink and the spa.

The «Grand Tour» gives a dedicated rate to anyone spending at least 4 nights across 2 or more Belmond hotels in Italy, Spain and Portugal, with a 2-night minimum in each. The site also sells the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express journey from Paris to the coast. Discounts and figures are not published: they appear only once dates are chosen.

Yes. The official factsheet proposes a symbolic ceremony in the Wagner Gardens, 350 m² outdoors for up to 150 guests according to the gardens’ page, the banquet on the terraces and a party by the pool from 9pm, for a hire fee of €4,000 plus VAT. Ravello’s Duomo is 400 metres away and the town hall, for a civil ceremony, 200.

On Fridays and Saturdays a wedding needs at least 80 guests, and the final number is due 30 days ahead. The hotel also hosts same-sex weddings and civil unions, the FAQs say, and can be taken exclusively: for that the factsheet points to better rates in March, April and October. Menu prices are not published.

No: the hotel is closed at New Year. The official booking page announces the seasonal closure from 18 October 2026 and the reopening on 15 April 2027, and no winter night is among the dates on sale. The hotel’s parties fall in summer: one guest describes the evening of 14 August 2026 in the Wagner Gardens, with live music and Campanian food.

No: the official pages mention neither golf nor green fees. The hotel’s sport is tennis, on a clay court with a coach, according to the spa brochure, along with guided walks towards Amalfi and the Valle delle Ferriere.

From mid-April to mid-October. The official booking page, read on 8 October 2026, warns that the hotel closes for the season on 18 October 2026 and reopens on 15 April 2027; the same goes for Villa Margherita.

That day the same site’s calendar was selling the nights from 8 to 14 October 2026 and had no rooms left for 15 to 17. For 2027 it already had the nights of 13 and 14 April on sale, 2 days before the announced reopening, and none after 14 October. Google Hotels showed no prices from 15 October 2026 to 31 January 2027.

On the official site, read on 8 October 2026, one night for 2 adults in the least expensive room, with breakfast, taxes and fees included: €945 on 12 October 2026, €1,165 on 20 April 2027, €1,935 on 12 May, €2,760 on 16 June, €2,320 on 21 July, €2,155 on 18 August, €2,760 on 15 September and €1,715 on 6 October 2027.

That room is the Superior Room with Garden, which has no sea view. The hotel is closed from 18 October 2026 to 15 April 2027, and these are prices for nights it sells; the dearest on the official calendar was 21 May 2027, at €4,025. On Google Hotels on 7 October 2026, for single nights searched separately, the lowest price for 8 October was €1,436 from a reseller, against €2,430 on the official site; for 11 October it showed €832, for the 13th €1,076 and for the 14th €925, taxes and fees included each time.

Very good things. On 7 October 2026 Google showed 4.8/5 from 707 ratings, 90% of them 5 stars; Tripadvisor 4.8/5 from 1,415, first of Ravello’s 20 hotels, with location at 4.9 and value at 4.4; Booking.com 9.6/10 from 105, with location at 9.9 and value for money at 8.4.

The view, the pool, the gardens and staff with an eye for detail come up again and again. The restaurant’s prices and the €10 cover charge per person recur in guests’ accounts of the bill. The Amalfi shuttle runs to a timetable.

The official site shows the rate and the taxes separately, and its calendar adds them up: for 12 October 2026 the least expensive room was €850 plus €95 of taxes, that is 10% and €10 a night for 2. The figures on Google Hotels for Italy are totals too: for 8 October the link to the official site showed €2,430, €230 of it taxes.

In the restaurants prices include service and VAT, with a €10 cover charge per person; on the spa list VAT at 22% is included. For the rate read, cancellation is free until 2pm 72 hours before arrival; after that one night plus tax is charged. On the same night of 12 October the Divina Suite cost €4,410.