Five-star One MICHELIN Key Positano, Amalfi
Le Sirenuse
The Sersale family's summer house on Via Colombo, a hotel since 1951 and still theirs, its terraces hanging over the cliff.
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- MICHELIN
- One Key, 2026
- Rooms
- 58
- Opened
- 1951, with eight rooms
- Season
- April to October
The hotel
Seventy-five summers with the Sersales.
In 1951 four Sersale siblings, Anna, Aldo, Paolo and Franco, turned the family's eighteenth-century summer house into a hotel of eight rooms. John Steinbeck stayed the following year and wrote about Positano for Harper's Bazaar. Franco shaped the look of the place from 1990 until his death in 2015, and in 2000 he asked Gae Aulenti to design the spa. The house stands on Via Colombo, its terraces over the cliff.
His son Antonio runs Le Sirenuse today with his wife Carla, joined in 2020 by their sons Aldo and Francesco. The hotel now has fifty-eight rooms. For more than ten years it has commissioned artists to work on site: Nicolas Party made the pool mosaic, and Martin Creed's neon gave the Don't Worry Bar its name. The family gozzo, the Sant'Antonio, still takes guests out at sunset.
- Art on the walls Thirteen site-specific works so far, from Nicolas Party's pool mosaic to Caroline Bachmann's painted tondi.
- The Sant'Antonio The family's wooden gozzo takes guests out along the coast at sunset.
- A spa by Gae Aulenti Commissioned by Franco Sersale in 2000, with a massage that uses the coast's lemons.
Dining
La Sponda and three bars.
Restaurants and bars as listed by the hotel and the press. Shown for information.
- La Sponda Mediterranean Gennaro Russo
- Aldo's Raw bar and sharing plates In the hotel
- Don't Worry Bar Cocktails and vinyl Opened in summer 2024 in the original bar
- Franco's Bar Aperitivo and nightcaps A short walk up the street
Recognition
Awards and listings.
- One MICHELIN Key 2026
- Forbes Travel Guide Five stars, 2026
Good to know
Before you go.
- Season Open from April to October, closed in winter.
- Arrival Check-in from 3 pm, check-out by noon.
- Children Not under six.
- Pets Not accepted.
Getting there
Flying to Amalfi.
Naples International is a drive of about an hour and ten minutes, and that is where most private jets land. Salerno Costa d'Amalfi is about an hour and a half by road.
- Milan 1 h 10
- Nice 1 h 10
- Geneva 1 h 30
- Paris 2 h 00
- London 2 h 30
Questions
What guests ask first.
- When is Le Sirenuse open?
- From April to October. The hotel closes for the winter.
- Does Le Sirenuse accept children?
- Children aged six and over are welcome. Younger children are not accepted.
- How far is Le Sirenuse from Naples airport?
- About an hour and ten minutes by car, by Forbes Travel Guide's reckoning.
- Can SkyCourtage arrange the flight to Amalfi?
- Yes. We arrange Business and First Class seats on scheduled airlines and private jet charter to Amalfi, with one final price, our margin included. The hotel is booked with the hotel or through our booking partner.
Also in Amalfi
Other hotels worth the trip.
- Il San Pietro di Positano Built down the cliff one room deep behind a small seventeenth-century chapel, with a lift to its own beach.
- Borgo Santandrea A 1960s modernist building above the sea, furnished with mid-century pieces from the owner's own collection.
- J.K. Place Capri Twenty-two rooms on a cliff above Marina Grande, one of the few hotels on the island right by the water.
- Santa Caterina Family-owned for most of a century, among lemon groves, with a lift down to its beach club.
- Villa Treville Franco Zeffirelli's summer house, sixteen suites in four villas, with a boat to Positano in under ten minutes.
- Jumeirah Capri Palace White rooms and contemporary art on the quieter side of the island, next to the chairlift up Monte Solaro.
- Caruso, A Belmond Hotel High on the Ravello cliff, with a terrace Gore Vidal called the most beautiful view in the world.
- Palazzo Avino A twelfth-century palace about 300 metres above the coast, home to the starred Rossellinis.
- Monastero Santa Rosa Twenty suites in a seventeenth-century monastery on a rock, with four levels of garden and a cliffside pool.
- Casa Angelina Thirty-six rooms on the cliffs at Praiano, and the starred Un Piano nel Cielo for dinner.
- Palazzo Pascal Thirteen rooms and suites spread between a noble palazzo, a courtyard and a garden house on Piazza Minuta.
- Caesar Augustus Fifty-six rooms on a cliff edge below Monte Solaro, and an infinity pool on two levels.
- Hotel La Palma Taking guests since 1822, now fifty rooms, with a beach club run by the Casa Tua team.
- Punta Tragara Faces the Faraglioni across the water, and names its suites after the rocks and places of the island.
- La Minerva Nineteen rooms stepped down six terraces, a short walk from the Piazzetta.
- Anantara Convento di Amalfi Grand Hotel A thirteenth-century Capuchin convent on the cliff above the harbour, its cloister kept, with fifty-two rooms.
- Villa Franca Home to the starred Li Galli, with a roof terrace that looks over the sea and the village.
- Le Agavi Away from the bustle of the centre, every room with a sea terrace, and a beach house of its own at Remmese.
- Grand Hotel Quisisana Open since 1845 on Via Camerelle, by the Piazzetta, with an Art Nouveau theatre of its own.
Staying at Le Sirenuse?
Book the room, then the flight.
Rates and availability come from the hotel itself. For the journey to Amalfi, a Business or First Class seat or an aircraft of your own: tell us the date and we come back with one final price, our margin included.
Opens the hotel's own website. We have no arrangement with the hotel.