Palazzo Montefusco

4.5 stars for this great boutique hotel located in the heart of Sorrento. We stayed for 4 nights and were extremely comfortable in the modern and spacious room (junior suite), always looking forward to coming home at the end of the day. The bed was comfortable and the linens were of high quality, giving us great peaceful sleep every night. The A/​C was also wonderful, allowing us to come home to a cool room after a day in the early September heat. Although our room was located right on the busy street (windows and a small balcony facing on to the street), the windows are soundproofed to keep the noise of the street out. I wouldn’t say it’s 100% soundproofing, but it was good enough that even at the peak time on the street (between 10 pm and midnight on weekend nights) the loud noise on the street was subdued to a muffle. Within the hotel, however, if there are people in the halls, you do hear it quite clearly. Since there are only 5 rooms in this hotel there aren’t lots of people roaming around and it was only an issue when we slept late and the maids started cleaning (say past 11 am) or tried to nap in the afternoon and there were other guests chatting in the hallway. This might not be an issue for most people, but we were jetlagged and sleeping at off hours.
Sorrento is pretty small so I would say that there are a lot of hotels located in a great location, since everything is within walking distance, and this is true of Palazzo Montefusco as well. It’s located on a pedestrian only street less than a 10 minute walk from the boat or train station or anything within Sorrento really. Being on a busy pedestrian street and located at the top of a set of stairs, the only drawback would be having to lug your luggage around, but this is taken care of by Giovanni who is able to help you with your bags to wherever you are going. When we arrived, he met us where the car dropped us off and carried our bags up to our room, and when we left by train, he carried our bags not only all the way to the train station, but on to the train.
Breakfast is served until 10:30, although there might be some flexibility with that since we ate past 11 am on the day that we left. There’s a traditional Italian spread, and they can also make eggs any way that you like. We missed breakfast the first couple of nights due to sleeping late then rushing to catch a boat to Capri, and I think this was a bit unusual for the hotel. I think that Ivan, the owner, really enjoys meeting and talking to the guests, which happens at breakfast.
I don’t think that we utilized the concierge as much as we could have (others said they go above and beyond in helping to plan excursions etc) but they did book us dinner at the Michelin star rated La Buca with very limited notice (1 hour).
Re: the yacht — I read some amazing reviews and this is something I would have loved to do, but the price to take it out for an afternoon was the same as the price to stay in the hotel for 4 nights (yikes). Maybe if it was our honeymoon, but sadly it was just not in our budget for this trip. There is a discount for hotel guests but not enough to make it something viable for us.
All in all a great place to call home for 4 nights, with really outstanding stand-​out service. Minus half a star only because it’s a bit pricey.