The Best Hotels in Naples, Italy
Situated in southern Italy, Naples is the third-largest city in the country, trailing only Rome and fashion-forward Milan, and continues to be a hive of activity. The city is full of vibrant artistic scenes, historic hotspots, and some of the best beaches in the region. It's also played supporting roles in many Hollywood hits. But, maybe most importantly, it is the birthplace of pizza. The hotels are equally as charming—tip-to-toe in Pompeiian mosaic tiles and gallery-esque walls against the azure blue waters right outside your window. From boutique boltholes in Rione Sanità to revitalized grande dames in Centro Storico, these are the best hotels in Naples.
Atelier Inès Arts & Suites, Rione Sanità
Best for: design
Opened in early summer 2021, this small hotel (just six individually designed rooms) serves as a showcase for artist Annibale Oste, whose works from the 1960s onwards are collected here. The building itself has an interesting backstory, a family home on the site of an open-air cinema and theater dating back to 1900, in the middle of the Vergini neighbourhood. The ground floor was home to Oste's art studio, but it evolved under his son Vincenzo, who has now decided to open it up to guests. Nearby is Ciro Oliva, the Michelin-starred pizza restaurant, and Pasticceria Poppella—both of which will be involved in culinary experiences for those staying here, and landmarks such as the city's opera house and catacombs.
Address: Atelier Inès Arts & Suites, Via dei Cristallini, 138, 80137 Napoli NA, Italy
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Øivind HaugDuomo House, Centro Storico
Best for: Neapolitan fun
With his wry Neapolitan wit, Richard Glenn Kiley (whose father is American) likes to shrug himself off as a charlatan hotelier; ignore him. Alongside best friend Roberto Mastrangelo, he has opened five acclaimed B&Bs since 2014 across Naples injecting some pep into a once-dull accommodation scene. In each, they worked around the historical quirks of abandoned apartments, repurposing equally quirky antique finds. A Bourbon cot becomes a brass installation at the new Duomo House, overlooking Naples Cathedral, where a Roman-era pillar juts at the center of the velvet banquettes of reception. Cheeky humor abounds: At Dante House, wooden ceiling lamps are inspired by scarabottoli, the boxes in which unnamed skulls were adopted in the cult of the Pezzentelle.
Address: Duomo House, Via Duomo, 133, 80138 Napoli NA, Italy
Artemisia Domus, Centro Storico
Best for: bedroom views
Peering down from a former Bourbon brothel into the paradisal orange gardens of Santa Chiara cloister, Artemisia Domus’s eight rooms (including four spa suites) are named after the female protagonists of Neapolitan baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Cleopatra displays suitable drama with distressed Egyptian gold walls, regal velvets, and a corner treatment bath. But the woman who really defines the space here is Isabella Amato, who offset her son and owner Sebastiano’s renovations two years ago with pink Verner Panton S chairs, an art library, and her own paintings. Her homemade cakes are served for breakfast on gold plates matching the morning light on Capodimonte Hill.
Address: Via dei Carrozzieri a Monteoliveto, 13, 80134 Napoli NA, Italy
Øivind HaugPrimo Piano Posillipo, Posillipo
Best for: new design
Architect Giuliano Andrea Dell’Uva grew up in the grand clifftop villas of Posillipo, the Roman seaside resort that came to epitomize La Dolce Vita in the mid-20th century. And it is to this period—and the ’70s—that he returned in 2018 for the design of four-bedroom B&B Primo Piano, set up by friends Francesca and Alessandro on the first floor of a Liberty-style 19th-century palazzo. Italian design pieces and uplifting Vietri reissue tiles in banana yellows and peacock blues create the retro maritime feel for aperitivos at Bar Moccia in the 15th-century Palazzo Donn’ Anna and fried octopus and rock-bathing at Marechiaro lido.
Read our full review of Primo Piano Posillipo.
Address: Primo Piano Posillipo, Via Posillipo, 299, 80123 Napoli NA, Italy
hotelGrand Hotel Vesuvio
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Gold List 2018Best for: opera and old-school luxury
Once the Naples home of Oscar Wilde, Émile Zola, Pablo Picasso, and Igor Stravinsky, this coat-tailed veteran of the grand-hotel scene has stood like a maestro on the waterfront conducting the bay since 1882. Enrico Caruso was a permanent resident: his pharmacy cabinet and piano are still in his suite (531 & 2). Inside, Umbertine-era Naples is immaculately preserved, a time of white-glove service, red-carpeted ballrooms, gold silk brocade walls, walnut writing desks, and Murano chandeliers the size of cherry trees. (A few doors down, time stands still in 1953 on the preserved Gio Ponti-designed floor of the Royal Intercontinental.)
Address: Grand Hotel Vesuvio, Via Partenope, 45, 80121 Napoli NA, Italy
Øivind HaugSuperOtium, Rione Sanità
Best for: art
Naples is ‘muse and stage’ to the contemporary art scene that lifelong friends Nicola Cancio and Vincenzo Falcone connect their B&B guests to. They host a permanent artist in residence and in-house shows by names such as Simona da Pozzo and Blasepheme. A few years ago, they transformed this tiled Bourbon apartment opposite the Archeological Museum into a high-minded B&B and modernist haven with Pompeiian mosaic drapes, Hockney-swimming-pool blues, giant light bulbs (for big ideas), and intelligentsia-worthy bistro chairs, some purloined from their parents’ houses.
Address: SuperOtium, Via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi civico, 8, 80135 Napoli NA, Italy
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