Bed & Breakfast La Maliosa Di Felice Murano — Hotel in Positano

My boyfriend and I stayed at the Maliosa in July and I must say it was a poor to average experience. I truly do not understand the good reviews this place has. The rooms are old and musty. The hotel is far from everything. They say it's a 10 minute walk from Positano but in fact, it is a 20 minute DANGEROUS walk between the cliffs and windy roads with speeding cars. The public transportation is POOR. My boyfriend and I were stranded around 10pm one night, praying we would make it to the B&B safely. Luckily, a pair of American tourists helped us because the locals are NOT helpful. The workers at Maliosa were not helpful either.||||We had a luggage nightmare checking out of La Maliosa and had to pay $175 USD!! Maliosa took NO accountability for THEIR mistake. We asked the La Maliosa if they could help arrange a porter service to bring our luggage to the port since we had a ferry to Naples. We left the B&B and they didn't notify us that our luggage hadn't been picked up by the porter service. We got to the ferry and asked the workers there if the porter service dropped off our luggage and they reassured us they did but more in a way to get us to shut up. I was not reassured and still had a bad feeling because I saw no proof of our luggage being on the boat. The boat departed and it was too late to get off. While on the ferry, we finally got in contact with La Maliosa when they notified us that our luggage was not on the ferry and still at the B&B . The porter service never picked up the luggage. We asked why they didn't call and they said they tried TWO times. Two times and just quit? Meanwhile we had been communicating with La Maliosa through whatsapp our entire stay... so what changed? They couldn't try whatsapp??? Their solution was to put our belongings on a taxi, pay $175 OUT OF OUR POCKETS, and pray that the taxi wouldn't steal our belongings while it took the drive to Naples. Luckily, we got our stuff and nothing was stolen but the fact is that La Maliosa took no accountability in the lack of communication that our luggage had never been picked up from the porter service and let us leave. Trying to call us twice was certainly not enough and $175 for a mistake they made is absurd.||||Besides this nightmare, the stay was truly not worth all the money we paid. We stayed for the same amount of time in Capri and paid the same amount of money, and the experience for was night and day. The workers at the Capri hotel (Belvedere Suites) were extremely helpful. At the Maliosa, it felt like we were pulling teeth for information.||||Our stay here was the most stressful time of our Italy trip. I would NEVER recommend this...

My boyfriend and I stayed at the Maliosa in July and I must say it was a poor to average experience. I truly do not understand the good reviews this place has. The rooms are old and musty. The hotel is far from everything. They say it's a 10 minute walk from Positano but in fact, it is a 20 minute DANGEROUS walk between the cliffs and windy roads with speeding cars. The public transportation is POOR. My boyfriend and I were stranded around 10pm one night, praying we would make it to the B&B safely. Luckily, a pair of American tourists helped us because the locals are NOT helpful. The workers at Maliosa were not helpful either.

We had a luggage nightmare checking out of La Maliosa and had to pay $175 USD!! Maliosa took NO accountability for THEIR mistake. We asked the La Maliosa if they could help arrange a porter service to bring our luggage to the port since we had a ferry to Naples. We left the B&B and they didn't notify us that our luggage hadn't been picked up by the porter service. We got to the ferry and asked the workers there if the porter service dropped off our luggage and they reassured us they did but more in a way to get us to shut up. I was not reassured and still had a bad feeling because I saw no proof of our luggage being on the boat. The boat departed and it was too late to get off. While on the ferry, we finally got in contact with La Maliosa when they notified us that our luggage was not on the ferry and still at the B&B . The porter service never picked up the luggage. We asked why they didn't call and they said they tried TWO times. Two times and just quit? Meanwhile we had been communicating with La Maliosa through whatsapp our entire stay... so what changed? They couldn't try whatsapp??? Their solution was to put our belongings on a taxi, pay $175 OUT OF OUR POCKETS, and pray that the taxi wouldn't steal our belongings while it took the drive to Naples. Luckily, we got our stuff and nothing was stolen but the fact is that La Maliosa took no accountability in the lack of communication that our luggage had never been picked up from the porter service and let us leave. Trying to call us twice was certainly not enough and $175 for a mistake they made is absurd.

Besides this nightmare, the stay was truly not worth all the money we paid. We stayed for the same amount of time in Capri and paid the same amount of money, and the experience for was night and day. The workers at the Capri hotel (Belvedere Suites) were extremely helpful. At the Maliosa, it felt like we were pulling teeth for information.

Our stay here was the most stressful time of our Italy trip. I would NEVER recommend this...

This place is a disappointment from the recommendation of a taxi driver to the paper thin walls and EVERYTHING in between. ||1. Taxi driver Fabio drove like his hair was on fire passing people on two wheels, grunting and cussing in Italian while he talked about us in Italian to his girlfriend- not knowing we know Italian. When we arrived he refused to take our CC even though I asked before we booked him. When we arrived he asked for a tip over and over. A real piece of work. So NO FABIO. ||2. We carried our bags down the stairs and 5 stairs from the bottom they stopped us and said “our boy” will get that- we were confused, but realized on check out they charge $5 per bag to bring them down the stairs. They charge for everything. The only thing they don’t charge for is the crap breakfast. Stale bread, grocery store muffins and good ole Felix, the gruff and rude, fast talking owner. ||3. Location. It sucks. It’s quiet because it’s literally far away from Positano on a VERY dangerous road with no sidewalk. Felix will tell you it’s no big deal, but it is. If you want to eat at a normal time you need a $30 taxi back to the room. The street at night is a death trap. ||4. The beach. Don’t bother. It’s a small lagoon beach with exorbitant prices. The beach is dirty and nothing at all like the beaches in other parts. Go to posit proper to swim. ||5. Summary. Don’t book this hotel. Spend the extra money and book in Positano or closer to town. 1000 stairs would be...