Apartment/ flat - Sorrento - Villa with panoramic garden

Amazing hospitality! Communicating throughout my stay through WhatsApp was easy and incredibly helpful for taxi, restaurant recommendations and general info about Sorrento. We enjoyed beers with our family while gazing at the sea in the outdoor space. It’s about a 20 minute steep downhill walk into town but we found taking the bus was quite easy.

This villa is set in the most incredible location with views out over sorrento and Vesuvius. It is spacious and clean and the perfect location to explore Sorrento and the surrounding area. We hope to come back and stay again as we had the most perfect week.

We stayed here for five days in December 2024. This historic villa is in an absolutely breathtaking location, high over Sorrento, with unobstructed 180 degree views over the entire Bay of Naples to Vesuvius from the back of the garden. The villa is surrounded by a large old garden with flowers, lemon and olive trees. The owner’s son Guido gave us a tour of the agricultural building next to the villa, where his family has done a beautiful restoration of the vaulted ceilings in the lowest floor and of an old olive press. He was so friendly and welcoming. The same as Manuela, the property manager. She could always be contacted by whatsapp and was very friendly and responsive. She came exactly at the agreed upon times for check-in and check-out. The apartment consists of the entire ground floor of the villa. There are four bedrooms, a large living room, kitchen and two bathrooms. We had temperatures of about 10C at night and 14C during the day. The apartment was warm enough with two portable heaters on, while we were home, wearing a warm sweater helped too. The sunset hour every day on the overlook in the back of the garden was magical, an absolute highlight of our Italian vacation. A few issues, such as lack of restocking sugar and oil, and lack of thorough cleaning by the cleaning lady were addressed by Manuela right away. She even brought us some homemade olive oil! Overall we spent five beautiful days at the Villa Castellano! Molto grazie!

Villa Castellano is a very large house built in 1889. It has remained true to its origins with original features and furniture. The bathrooms are modern and the kitchen has modern gas and electic cooking with plenty of pans and utensils to cook a family meal. There is no air conditioning for the hot weather in August but the ceilings are very high, fans are provided, and large doors and windows to open to make it airy. We loved the quirkiness of a past time. Sorrento centre is accessible via steps and there is a good mini grocery store at the bottom which stocks every thing you need. However if you don't have a car, which many choose not to in Sorrento, getting shopping back up the hill is a challenge in high season. We managed this by never going back empty handed and timing our shopping with the busses. Getting to master the busses isn't easy as there is much conflicting information on the internet, but they do work when you fathom them out. We had a great stay and got to visit Pompeii, Herculaneum and Capri.

We loved ending our day with lemoncello spritz's looking over Sorrento Bay.

The downstairs area of this house is very spacious, with ample car parking. The lawns however could do with a mow and it would have been great to have a key to the side gate for safer access to the bus stop and laneway to Sorrento.

We were eight friends staying in this property which provided lots of room for all. The villa was well equipped with a large kitchen, an outdoor dining space, 4 bedrooms. Having two bathrooms for 8 of us was sometimes a bit challenging but we managed. The view from the back garden is absolutely stunning - you see Mt Vesuvius, Naples, Sorrento and the whole bay area. As others have mentioned, you can walk to Sorrento in 20 minutes (but a bit steep in places) but you need to be fit to walk back up - you can take a local bus. The property manager did a great job of arranging tours for us to the Amalfi coast, Pompeii and Capri. This property is great value for money - the only thing that might have made it nicer was a bit of attention to the garden (not mowed and not updated) but overall a great spot.

I don't really know where to begin. I was joined at the villa by my three adult children and their partners in mid-Sep for a two week stay. I wish it had been much longer. The villa with its 19th century charm, large space and with most of the important modern amenities gave us everything we needed. What it didn't have we didn't need - such as A/C (always comfy in mid-Sep), clothes dryer (had a clothes line), TV (come on now, you're in Sorrento). The hilltop setting is extraordinarily beautiful - we could not get enough of the rear terrace and its panoramic views of the Gulf of Naples (day or night), the church bells, the rooster, the occasional woodsmoke. Unforgettable. Carolina and especially her guest manager, Rita, are marvelous hosts and wonderful to work with. Rita helped arrange car services for our trips to Naples and then Positano, offered other assistance and was always responsive to our queries. I'll say no more, because if I do I'll grow more wistful about not having spent more time in Sorrento and the villa. But I highly recommend it and we'll be back.

Beautiful historic building with amazing views! Would recommend

Property has wonderful views and large rooms. The problems stem from the unbearably hot temperatures with no air conditioning. This shortcoming could easily have been offset by fans available to circulate the air. Screens on the windows would also help. Furniture is rickety and beds are uncomfortable. As an added bonus to make the stay unpleasant, the place is infested with mice with no apparent attempt at controlling them. It was unanimous in our party of six that we do not recommend it until improvements are made.