Villa Maria Pia Praiano

Hotel with parking area on the Amalfi Coast, Villa Maria Pia offers you an exclusive stay experience, in cozy spaces overlooking the sea with large rooms located between the rocky coast and a Mediterranean garden.

The privileged position, which gives direct access to the sea, mixed with the presence of a warm staff, careful to all travelers’ needs, makes Villa Maria Pia an ideal choice for a holiday on the Amalfi Coast.

Talking about seaside hotels on the Amalfi Coast, Villa Maria Pia stands out for its unique panoramic position in the heart of Praiano, one of the most beautiful destinations on the coast, between Amalfi and Positano.

Perfect starting point for the evocative Sentiero degli Dei path, Villa Maria Pia is just a few steps away from the beach and the restaurants of the historic center of Praiano, rich in history and tradition, an oasis of peace and relaxation compared to the famous Amalfi and Positano, easily accessible by car or by public transport that stop just outside the hotel.

From Praiano start the water taxi for the most beautiful destinations of the Amalfi Coast and numerous excursions on private boats can be booked at the hotel reception.

Villa Maria Pia is a small family-run hotel on the Amalfi Coast. Born on the rock during the Sixties as a vacation home for the Cuomo family, today it is a good example of spontaneous, friendly and welcoming hospitality in full harmony with the spirit that animates the people of the Amalfi Coast.

The family, which still cares for the structure with passion, from the common areas to the green gardens that surround it a step away from the sea, offers its guests a stay full of privacy, relaxation and good mood, also thanks to the collaboration with a young and prepared team.

The team of Villa Maria Pia is available for every traveler looking for romance, open air activities and sports, art and culture, who can rely on precious tips and suggestions to live the best experiences, visiting and discovering the Amalfi Coast and its wonderful surroundings.

ROOMS & SUITES
All with a stunning 180 ° view of the Amalfi Coast sea, Villa Maria Pia’s spacious rooms are bright, colorful and decorated with handmade local ceramic tiles. Built literally on the rock, they offer a large terrace, maximum privacy in every moment of your stay and all the best comforts.

In addition to the three tipologies – Deluxe, Comfort and Superior – is available the Family Room, a solutions of stay for holidays with the family in spacious and welcoming spaces.

COMFORT
Fine room with a small balcony overlooking the sea, furnished in elegant neoclassic style and with mediterranean colors.

Bright and equipped with every comfort, the room has Memory FOAM mattresses. Perfect for an unforgettable stay on the Amalfi Coast. Cradle on request for all rooms; third bed available just for some of them. Maximum for 3 people.(16-18 sqm)

SUPERIOR
Cozy room overlooking the sea of ​​the Amalfi Coast with a double bed (180×190 cm) or two comfortable single beds; on request, it is possible to add a baby cot. Two rooms have the hydromassage shower, while one has a small terrace furnished with a table and chairs from which you can enjoy a splendid view. (20sqm)

DELUXE
Exclusive solution of stay in a cozy room with private terrace – with sunbeds and beach umbrella – floors in Vietri ceramics and beds with Memory FOAM mattresses.

Ideal for a holiday in the Amalfi Coast, guests of bright rooms furnished in neo-classical style and characterized by nice pastel colors. Cot available in all rooms, possibility to add a third bed on request. (20-25 sqm)

JUNIOR SUITE
Made up of a bedroom and a living room with sofa, this room offers two balconies overlooking the sea and all the latest comforts. Perfect for those traveling with family, complete with bathroom with shower and comfortable Memory FOAM mattresses. Maximum for 5 people. (35 sqm)

JUNIOR SUITE WITH TERRACE NO DIRECT VIEW
Bright room with luxury finishes, ceramic tiles from Vietri and the best comforts. It has no direct sea view, but offers a nice terrace equipped with chairs and a lava stone table, ideal for a breakfast or lunch facing a spectacular panorama. (30sqm)

SUITE
Made up of a bedroom and a living room with sofa, this room offers two balconies overlooking the sea and all the latest comforts. Perfect for those traveling with family, complete with bathroom with tub and shower – both with Jacuzzi – and comfortable Memory FOAM mattresses. Maximum for 5 people. (35 sqm)

FAMILY SUITE
Accommodation designed for a comfortable family holiday on the Amalfi Coast. The wide spaces tastefully furnished and the floors embellished with the classic ceramics of Vetri, make this suite the perfect choice for those looking for comfort and privacy in cheerful and evocative environments.

Includes Memory FOAM mattresses, terrace with sea view and all the best comforts. Maximum 5 people, if the request is not for 5 adults ask for more details. (50 square meters including appurtenances)

SOLARIUM & DIRECT ACCESS TO THE SEA
To enjoy a moment of absolute relaxation, the hotel’s solarium offers sunbeds, beach umbrellas and a shower on a large terrace overlooking the sea, directly accessible through an amazing path that ends with a staircase on two platforms, from which it’s easy to go swimming and reach the Suppraiano Cave.

BREAKFAST
On a splendid panoramic terrace, the international breakfast for the guests of Villa Maria Pia is made of a sweet and savory buffet with high quality products, accompanied by tea, juices and an excellent italian Espresso.

The breakfast time also welcomes celiacs, who will find gluten-free products suitable for their needs in the buffet.

PARKING AREA
An exclusive parking service is available to the guests of Villa Maria Pia. Appreciated plus for those traveling by car on the Amalfi Coast, where these kind of facilities are very rare, parking is free for those who book their stay directly from the official website of the hotel.

A SMALL CATERING
Upon arrival on the Amalfi Coast, maybe after a long journey, the guests of Villa Maria Pia will be pleased to know that, at any time, a small restaurant service awaits to regenerate their energy and get them in a good mood. A snack, an appetizer and a good aperitif, sometimes do wonders!

WATER TAXI
Moving without the stress of driving through the Amalfi Coast traffic, is one of the advantages enjoyed by the guests of Villa Maria Pia.

From our private dock or from the nearby beach of Praiano – which can be reached with a free shuttle – a water taxi departs for the splendid Amalfi (10 min) and Positano (5 min). Extra fee for night runs.

VISIT THE SUPPRAIANO CAVE
Among the experiences we offer you during your stay in Praiano, there is one that has always been a great success: the visit to the Suppraiano Cave! The Villa Maria Pia hotel is very close to this suggestive cavenand magical place, so close that you can reach it by swimming!

The proximity to the sea of ​​our hotel and an exclusive platform on the water, allows you to easily discover one of the most evocative place in Praiano, right in the heart of the Amalfi Coast.

Walk down the steps that from your room lead you to the sea, dive in the blue waters of the Amalfi Coast and with a few strokes you’ll be in front of the Suppraiano cave.

The inside, which can also be reached by canoe or a small rowboat, the reflections of light on the water create some amazing visual effects, thanks to a kaleidoscope of natural colors that will leave you speechless.

In the cave you can stop an sit on the rocks for a break, contemplating this wonderful place, full of rock formations – such as stalactites – and some water features. As guests of Villa Maria Pia, the visit to the Suppraiano caves is an easy opportunity to seize, a unique experience to live during your stay in Praiano.

VISIT THE AMALFI COAST BY CAR
Villa Maria Pia is located in a strategic position on the Amalfi Coast, a few minutes’ drive from Positano, one of the most fascinating destinations of international tourism.

And if Positano is close, a thousand other destinations can be reached from our hotel by car, enjoying spectacular views and curves carved into the rock, for a pleasant ups and downs wrapped in a fairytale scenario.

Book a car with a private driver! You will see Ravello, Amalfi, Minori and Sorrento, some amazing places on the Amalfi Coast. For sure a must to see during your holiday at the Hotel Villa Maria Pia.

In addition, it’s possible to do a food and wine tour in a small farm , where you will discover our typical products, walking among lemon trees in the green gardens of the Mediterranean scrub.

Here you will follow step by step the production of the renowned limoncello, mozzarella and pizza, some of the products that have made Campania famous all over the world.

The private tour can be done in the morning or in the afternoon, with a driver who will guide you along the way, telling you anecdotes and curiosities, stopping near the most suggestive corners allowing you to take some splendid pictures of the Amalfi Coast.

The best months to travel by car along the Amalfi Coast are spring and the days immediately after the summer season, where traffic is smoother and the temperatures are always optimal.

A ROMANTIC HOLIDAY IN THE AMALFI COAST
Let’s yourself take away by enthusiasm when you’re booking a romantic holiday or a weekend of love on the Amalfi Coast, even better as the guest of a cozy family-run hotel by the sea in Praiano. Some good reasons to book your romantic holiday!

First of all, Villa Maria Pia offers you rooms facing right on the sea, a few meters from the water with a stunning view, from where you can enjoy suggestive sunsets and clear blue skies, in every season of the year.

But love means experiences to be shared. We want to suggest some of them, designed and created with passion by Giulia and Vincenzo. So come out of your love nest and follow us!

The boat excursion that departs from our private dock is an exciting thing to live. With your eyes turned to the sunset, sipping a delicious aperitif, you will find the right words to declare your love.

You can enjoy the same aperitif at Villa Maria Pia, in a private and secluded corner overlooking the sea, surrounded by the scent of the Amalfi Coast flowers.

We will seat you in a romantic restaurant with beautiful view, just a few minutes from our hotel, where fish and mediterranean delicacies delight your palate along with a selection of excellent wines.

During the day, we recommend that you indulge in the pleasures of a couple’s massage. In a relaxing and seductive room, you will share the pleasure of regenerating yourself, living a moment of real complicity with your partner.

COOKING CLASS AT THE CHEF’S HOUSE
Between the most entertaining and fun experiences that we offer to our guests there is the cooking class dedicated to the Amalfi Coast cuisine! Our cooking class will help you discover the secrets of preparing a typical dish of the destination you are visiting.

Here at Villa Maria Pia we reckon that every moment spent in Praiano must be special, leaving in all your hearts a happy memory to treasure forever.

That’s why we organised our cooking class at the chef’s house, right there where Rocco and Carla live, waiting to teach you the culinary art of the Mediterranean Cuisine in a relaxed and joyful atmosphere, where sharing is the keyword.

The warm enthusiasm of Rocco and Carla will rub off on you, in a mix of tastes and local products, that like magic, will become the best dishes of the Amalfi Coast.

The cooking class has also a section dedicated to wine, and will end with a dinner, made of all the things you will prepare together, in a magnificent sea view location.

Our territory is rich of authentic products, part of a healthy and simple cuisine, not too sophisticated, but just exalting the things that nature gives us with its ingredients.

You only need to have fun and follow our chefs, listening to all their suggestions and practicing when you go back home, ready to impress your friends and family!

WINE TASTING ON THE AMALFI COAST
During your stay at Hotel Villa Maria Pia you can book your wine tasting on the Amalfi Coast, an experience ready to turn your senses on!

Visiting the secular vineyards and the ancient winery of Tenuta San Francesco di Tramonti, a journey in time not to be missed, an exciting food and wine tour on the Amalfi Coast, guests of a small countryside village.

In contact with a rich and unspoiled nature, you will go at the discovery of hidden corners, small churches and villages dating back to the 700s, but above all, of irresistible tastes and flavors.

The cheese, cold cuts and AOC wines, produced on the Amalfi Coast, that you will taste, come from the Tenuta San Francesco, with all its passion and tradition.

The vineyards of the farm date back to the XVI century, historical plants that had the fortune to grow undisturbed for hundreds of years in a marvelous environment, with a unique climate and properties, that you can’t recreate anywhere else.

The tasting of three different AOC wines during your tour is something sensational, because together with the pleasant aroma you have the perfume of the history and tradition of the Coast, for a multi sensorial sensation that words can’t describe.

There are different experiences you can have at Tenuta San Francesco: you can visit the vineyards and the winery and end your visit with a light lunch, or stay for a delicious meal, always in the magic atmosphere of Tramonti.

We would also like to remind you of the fabulous cooking classes of Mediterranean Cuisine (also in English language) held by the wives of the owners of the Tenuta; Eva, Chiara and Elena. The visits normally last two or three hours, four if you include the cooking class.

ROMANTIC WEEKEND ON THE AMALFI COAST
A romantic weekend on the Amalfi Coast is the dream of many lovers out there, seduced by the unique landscape and atmosphere of our land, softly touched by the sea and surrounded by a nature of thousand colours and perfumes.

At Villa Maria Pia love birds are always welcome, thanks to the position of our hotel, facing the sea, that seems entering the rooms, giving unique and unforgettable sensations.

Our staff, guided by the passion and hospitality of Giulia and Vincenzo, will give an extra gear to transform a romantic weekend on the Amalfi Coast in something special.

Marvellous sunsets, opening the doors to starry nights, completing happy and peaceful days, starting with the very first lights of the day in Praiano, a very suggestive moment, that you can admire from your comfy rooms.

If you are looking for the perfect place to live your love story or celebrate an anniversary with the one you love, Villa Maria Pia is your romantic hotel in Praiano, rich of corners and terraces overlooking the sea, from where a love declaration can win any heart.

Call us to book your romantic weekend on the Amalfi Coast, we will be happy to welcome you offering the best possible experience for your stay, turning on all your senses and imagination, to enjoy some of the best days of your life.

From breakfast on the terrace to the evening aperitif, always admiring the sea of Praiano, all the periods of the year are perfect for a peaceful and tasty vacation, with the inebriating flavours of the Amalfi Coast, a real foodie fairy tale.

Giulia and Vincenzo are very happy to welcome you at Villa Maria Pia, to share with you the amazing daily life of the Amalfi Coast, that keeps them happy and in love every single day, since the very first day they met. This time is your turn. Come and celebrate your love story on the Amalfi Coast!

DISCOVER THE PATH OF THE GODS
When it comes to the Amalfi Coast, images of rare beauty come to mind, in which the sky meets the sea, enveloping the coast with reflections, colors and shades that are the background to some of the most beautiful photographs of our country.

From our hotel on the sea of ​​Praiano, this experience becomes real in a few minutes and conveniently close at hand. Going a few kilometers with our transfer or the nearby bus, we will take you to the beginning of the Path of the Gods, probably the most beautiful walk you can do on the coast.

Along the ancient roads that connected the hinterland trade to the coast, you will climb among citrus groves and ancient trees enjoying a unique landscape in the world. Each step is the conquest of a more favorable position to admire the coast and its union with the immensity of the sea.

In the most suitable periods to live this experience, spring and summer, on the path you can come across some delicate concerts that greets the sunrise or the sunset; the effect aroused by the union between music and this place is something that we leave to your words to describe.

During your stay at Villa Maria Pia ask our staff for all the necessary information to organize the excursion to the Sentiero degli Dei with a private guide.

The opportunities to be protagonists of something unique on the Amalfi Coast are around the corner, write us to find out more and book your holiday on the Amalfi Coast!

THE WONDERFUL POSITANO
When one travels along the Costiera and arrives in Positano, the eye is still focused on the blue of the sea and on the surrounding rock, which follows the road, the model forces it to respect its essential presence.

On that same rock Positano is born, with its colored houses that appear more and more defined as we go into his heart, where the scent of lemons and the outlet on the beach are two elements of the same, fantastic, magic.

A destination for writers and poets, Positano is undoubtedly one of the towns of the Amalfi Coast able to enchanting everyone, thanks to its centuries-old history and to the more recent one, characterized by the frequentation of artists and celebrities, actors and directors who have brought all the charm and vitality of the world of cinema

With fashion, fashion can not be missing. The one born in Positano was born in the ’50s, with original creations made with fabrics in linen and cotton with special colors, which have now gone around the world, along with the bikini, which depopulated at the end of the decade right here.

And if people like Dustin Hoffman, Ivana Trump and George Clooney today never miss a trip through the alleys of Positano, just remember that, in the past, the country has lost its head for its sandals craftsmanship no less than to Jackie Kennedy, much to quote a style icon of the last century.

But in addition to fashion and style, Positano has just added another incredible attraction: its Roman Villa. A visit to this place full of frescoes and amazing rooms is not only recommended to professionals, but to all art and beauty lovers and anyone who wants to visit one of the most important archaeological excavations in Europe.

In Positano you fall in love with the people, the view on the Li Galli islands and the secluded Capri and restaurants, which make the Mediterranean cuisine an occasion for an evening of great charm and satisfaction. What to say, the reasons to visit it are not lacking!

As guests of the Hotel Villa Maria Pia you just have to treat yourself to a suggestive day in the arms of Positano, close to our hotel in the Amalfi Coast!

DISCOVER CAPRI BY BOAT
With Hotel Villa Maria Pia you discover Capri by boat! Every traveler is seduced by places like the one we are presenting to you, surrounded by the blue of the sea that bathes an ancient land kissed by the blue of a sky that never seems to end.

Next to its famous faraglioni, the island of Capri is the jewel of our coast, the destination of any dreamer and lover of the good life, the same that probably enjoyed the young European aristocrats who included it in their Grand Tour.

A few centuries ago, the Grand Tour represented the typical journey of wealthy people and curious artists, who started to discover different cultures, often passing through the Italian peninsula, which was rich and offered cities like Rome, Venice, Florence and south of the country.

The southern part of what was not yet fully Italy attracted interest for the Hellenism of Sicily and for the centers of Pompeii and Herculaneum, archaeological excavations unique in the world, however, Capri remained the destination par excellence, vaunted in several writings of talented and inspired literati.

Indeed romantic, able to give you the perfume of uncontaminated nature and the view of panoramas and sunsets that leave you speechless, Capri is still wrapped in a pleasant and timeless atmosphere, a seemingly distant world that offers relaxation, peace and inspiration.

From Hotel Villa Maria Pia you can get to Capri directly on a private boat, observing the profiles and docking at the ancient port where you recognize the faces of the fishermen that immediately give a warm welcome to worldwide travellers.

Capri is also fun, good food and outdoor life. Frequented by VIPs from the entertainment world and the international jet set, which dock their yachts to its marina, by the lovers of good food and a trekking paths made of history and culture.

In fact, in Capri you can walk along itineraries that stop at the mansions of Mac Kowen in Anacapri, or at the villa of the poet Jaques Fersen, without forgetting the passage in the rock of the wonderful Via Krupp or the arrival at the residence of Emperor Tiberio, Villa Jovis.

Rooms: 15

Price: from 194 EUR per night

Source: www.villamariapia-praiano.com