Grand Hotel Hermitage & Villa Romita

On arrival staff gave us a warm welcome. It’s family owned quite old fashioned but tidy and clean. Our requests for quiet rooms on top floor away from pool noise had been noted. The views were amazing across the bay from our balcony. Pool was small but enough for our use but not when lots children are in the hotel.

We got very bored of daily breakfast - tinned fruit cocktail )fresh would have been better), granola cereal, yoghurt, frankfurter sausages, bacon, scrambled eggs, boiled, salami cheese, pastries, bread, rolls. More salad items like tomatoes, cucumber salad leaves and more child cereals, pancakes etc. The location is a 15 min shuttle ride to Sorrento town. We found the fixed times esp 6pm then next is 7.30pm was restricting either too early or too late. Taxis are expensive to use. Warning on trips organised outside of the hotel “light lunch” was a horrible white soft roll with cheese/tomato. Take your own food with you on the Capri island trip. The sun starts to go off the pool at 4.30/5 so be careful where you choose to sit. The area on the right of the steps keeps in the sun until 5. The pool is quite small but enough for a short swim/cool off but not when lots of young children take over the pool! Very noisy.

The room has a wonderfull view over the Sorrento gulf

location great -St Agata is a lovely village , v close by with good restaurants, and the views are great with a lovely breeze. Breakfast for myself was a little underwhelming- I need to eat GF and the GF offering was a small packet of cornflakes, a slice of white GF bread and some GF biscuits. Luckily I brought my own muesli and bread, and there was plenty of fruit and yoghurt. Real decaff coffee would have been nice , rather than the instant sachets. Our room was lovely. Balcony good, great views again, Very helpful reception staff at all hours. Lunch by the pool- menu good and drinks- again friendly service. Lovely music (acoustic, live, un amplified) some evenings in restaurant. We hired a car to get from the airport and didn't use it all week!! (free parking at hotel). A transfer would have been better as with the road closures, the tendency for the Sat Nav to cut out at vital moments, and also sat nav trying to get us into hotel along the back pathway.... it would have been less stress to be picked up.

The pool is just above quite a busy main road, though sheltered by some hedges. Quite noisy. The minibus to the centre of Sorrento did have some gaps in the timetable, but with some questioning of the reception staff, we found there were very cheap local buses to get back to the hotel-you just need to keep a very close eye on when to get off!!