La Medusa  

10 out of 10 for the 'wow' factor. Very impressive hotel and gardens. The staff were very friendly and helpfull. We arrived at 9am and were treated to breakfast while our room was made ready. If only every Hotel Manager was as polite, helpfull and proffessional as he was! The staff, Franco and Maria were excellent. Anna was the cleaner for our floor and was also excellent. An amazing experience all round. We had read reports of the area around the hotel being run down and scruffy. It was just a normal Italian rural area with a choice of restaurants/snack bars around it. Not pretentious just people living and making a living! Cannot wait to go back and sample it all again.

No bottle opener for the beer/juice in the mini-bar. Sorry.................best I could manage.

The first thing to strike you was the beautiful entrance courtyard with the exotic palm trees, statues and the many other colorful trees and plants. Upon entering La Medusa, we were greeted with a very friendly smile and warm and welcoming staff. Our room was luxurious and overlooked the beautiful rear garden full with its orange and lemon trees. The view over the Bay of Naples, with Mount Vesuvius in the background was spectacular. The dining room on the forth floor was also magnificently laid out and breakfasting there, with the freshly squeezed orange juice, was delightful. Overriding all of this was the friendliness and charm of the Manager - Francesco - for whom nothing was too much trouble. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay there!

Excelent locationn for touring the whole amalfi peninsula.Excelent hotel (accomondations, facilities, service,food). Highly recommended

Too many outside events held at the hotel, weddings, parties etc.

Only the jardens and pool

Unfortunatelly the services offered to us at the beginning were only a part of the global services the hotel could offer to the guest. At the room, no global info about the different options like rent a boat, coast tour, etc and the Manager informed us about them during the check out...after 8 days! The internet service is not for free. The main hotels around the world use to offer the services for free to the guest as part of the services. The dinner is really expensive (>100€) and is not giving the opportunity to choose the dishes as a normal restaurant. Considering the hotel is a four starts hotel the price is excesive. The daily kid at the bathroom has not been supplied daily. The main four starts hotels use to do it as part of service. It's only a detail but necessary to remark it. Almost all the days we've been at the hotel, weddings or others evens were done during afternoon/night, so the relax was really poor for the guests. Cobnsidering the nice gardens and building site: why don't use the hotel only for these kind of evens instead to become an hotel? Really a pity for us becasue the site was really nice but the global services not same level. For sure August is not the best month to enjoy this beautiful hotel.

This hotel is wonderful, clean, comfortable and friendly staff. The grounds are amazing, with lemon, orange and lime trees. Lovely large pool with large deck space for relaxing. Wonderful views of Vesuvius and Gulf of Naples. (Ask for sea view when reserving a room).

The only issue with this hotel it is a little out of the way from restaurants, it was ok for us because we had a car. The hotel will organize taxis etc and I think they have a shuttle to Pompeii during the day.

The hotel «La Medusa» is absolutely fantastic. We highly recommend it to anyone visiting the Amalfian Coast and Pompei. The rooms are bright and spotless, the gardens amazing, the food excellent, the performance of the staff very professional and the view over the mount Vesuvio stunning. In brief, «La Medusa» is synonymous with peace, tranquility and outstanding service. It's home away from home. Notre séjour à l'hôtel «La Medusa» en juin dernier fut un enchantement à tous points de vue. Il n'y a pas de mots assez élogieux pour décrire la beauté du site et l'accueil chaleureux que nous y avons reçu. Nous nous sommes promis d'y revenir dans un prochain voyage. Notre meilleur souvenir à M. Franscesco Donnarumma et à ses proches collaborateurs.

Beautiful gardens, lovely room and friendly staff.

Evening meal rather expensive.

The hotel itself is very beautiful - nice old-fashioned building, huge orange garden around, quiet pool area. The staff is super polite and helpful (sometimes nearly to the extreme). Well located between Sorrento / Amalfi coast and Naples / Pompei

You would very much benefit from having a car. The town itself (Castellamare di Stabia) has nothing to offer, but there are all the beauties of Amalfi coast and Pompei within a 30 minutes drive. If you have a car you will be able to enjoy all the advantages of this area. The beaches in this area are gorgeous, but as they are not plentiful, they are quite crowded on the weekends, need to book your bed and umbrella in advance and even if you are lucky to get ones, it feels very packed. But overall if you are fine with driving a bit, the hotel has no flaws.

Excellent service. Stunning gardens and building.

La Medusa is an oasis of tranquility away from the maddening Italian drivers and scooter riders.We were upgraded to a luxury room as it was our 30th wedding anniversary. Nothing was too much trouble for Francesco and his excellent team. Although it was off season when we visited and the hotel restaurant was closed, they recommended the La Brace restaurant to us which was just 50 metres away. I recommend it too. Warm, friendly and very reasonable. All in all, a very enjoyable stay. Well done La Medusa... a home away from home.

Castelamare itself is a bit rough and the streets are chaotic to say the least! But none of that is the hotel's fault. As i said before, peace and tranquility the whole way.

L'eleganza della struttura.