Amalfi in high summer: the three hotels that keep their calm

August on the Amalfi Coast is a negotiation: with the heat, with the crowds, with the queue for the ferry that was supposed to be romantic. And yet three hotels here refuse to take part in any of it.

At the first of them, breakfast is served until noon precisely so that nobody feels the pull of the early ferry. The second sends a driver to Naples who knows which tunnel queue breaks first. The third simply does not answer emails from strangers.

Calm in high season is not an amenity. It is a policy, enforced daily, invisible when it works.

What the three share is a view of summer as something to be managed on the guest's behalf. Pool beds are assigned, not raced for. Dinner is held when the boat is late. The concierge asks about the birthday before you mention it.

Written by Marta Diaz · CEO & Editor-in-Chief

Avid tennis player, photographer and traveller. She curates every hotel in the collection and writes The Edit.