Luxury Hotels Atlas / Places / Italy / Vietri sul Mare / Relais Paradiso
Relais Paradiso
Vietri sul Mare, Italy · Independent · Near Luxury
Vietri sul Mare is where the Amalfi Coast starts if you come in from Salerno, and it has been painting ceramics for centuries. Up in the hamlet of Raito, Gennaro Ottaviano rebuilt an older hotel into this one in 2009: twenty-two rooms with roof gardens planted over the top so the building settles into the hillside, and a private terrace on every room above the Gulf of Salerno. The Paradiso Suite goes further, with a circular bed that rotates, an outdoor Jacuzzi, and a fibre-optic ceiling that turns into stars.
- 22 rooms
- Opened 2009
- Architect: Gennaro Ottaviano
About Relais Paradiso
- Many of the Junior Suites and Deluxe rooms have a plunge pool or hydromassage tub on their own terrace, so the water is yours rather than shared.
- Guests use the Thalea spa at Hotel Raito, the larger sister property on the same cliff, both run by the Ragosta family group.
History
Relais Paradiso occupies the site of the old Hotel Paradiso, on the hillside at Raito above Vietri sul Mare. The architect Gennaro Ottaviano rebuilt the existing structure into a contemporary five-star house for the Ragosta Hotels Collection, with the work completed around 2009 and 2010. The shape of the plot pushed the design into stepped volumes set into the slope, and the roofs were planted as hanging gardens so the building reads as part of the hillside rather than an object on it.
There are twenty-two rooms and suites, in Superior, Deluxe, Junior Suite and Suite grades, all contemporary and all with a private terrace or balcony facing either the green of the hill or the Gulf of Salerno. Bathrooms are generous and many carry a whirlpool tub. The Junior Suites and the Paradiso Suite add sitting rooms and outdoor hydromassage on private terraces; the Paradiso Suite has a revolving circular bed, an indoor whirlpool and a ceiling worked with fibre optics that reads as a starfield in the dark. There is a pool, a roof garden, an outdoor bar and the Executive Lounge Restaurant, and guests use the Thalea spa at the group's neighbouring Hotel Raito. The whole property can be taken over for weddings and private events.
The setting
Vietri sul Mare is the first town of the Amalfi Coast coming from Salerno, the point where the Costiera begins, and it is known above all for ceramics: hand-painted majolica in yellows, blues and greens, made here for centuries and sold from the workshops along the main street. The tiles you see on domes and stair risers all the way up the coast often started here. Relais Paradiso sits above the town in the hamlet of Raito, on the same cliff as its sister Hotel Raito, looking down the Gulf of Salerno. Salerno and its station are minutes away, which makes this an unusually easy base for the coast: Amalfi, Ravello and Positano to the west, Pompeii and Paestum within a day's reach.
Restaurants and bars
- Executive Lounge Restaurant — Room service
Amenities
- Panoramic terrace
- Swimming pool
Open Relais Paradiso in the atlas for live weekend rates, photos, and the full folio.
More hotels in Vietri sul Mare
- Hotel Raito — Independent · Near Luxury