Hotel Villa Maria Antonietta — Restaurant in Positano

This is really quite a difficult review as we have no wish to be over critical of Giuseppe, the owner who seems to be a very decent person. However in our opinion, the Villa Maria Antonietta is at best, a reasonable guest house but certainly not a hotel that gets anywhere near to the standards anticipated, expected or illustrated on the website which at best shows the facility in a rather 'rose tinted' light.||||Positano is itself, a very pretty town if rather tired and somewhat faded town. Frankly the whole place could do with a decent coat of paint. But it is a popular and friendly tourist centre.||||The Villa Maria Antonietta is similar in that it is tired and a bit shabby. Centrally located, it is quite difficult to find up a fairly badly signed, tiny road and the warnings issued on booking, that the entrance is up several steps does little to prepare the visitor for the climb up several quite steep staircases which do not have handrails. (Getting down is, in poor weather even more hazardous and challenging, particularly when carrying luggage).||||The rooms are pretty basic. Whilst clean and tidy, there are few of the facilities that one would customarily expect from a facility in this price bracket - no tv, no kettle, no soft furniture (just one dining chair in each bedroom) and limited storage. The shower worked well and there seemed to be plenty of hot water and the free WiFi was positive.||||Breakfast is served in (another tired) room on the first floor by Giuseppe. It is adequate but there is not a huge choice with no hot food available. A large proportion of the crockery is chipped or cracked. Guiseppes’s service is friendly rather than professional.||||At this facility, there is no lounge, no seating area inside or out - in fact nothing else, so for our group of 3 couples, we had to walk to a local coffee shop to chat about the day in a soft chair and with a drink of anything in our hand.||||Giuseppe is charming and does everything with a smile and willingness, but it is all a bit amateur night.||||The Villa Maria Antonietta is really a basic guest house which is fine but do not expect any level of sophistication about it and we would advise being in good health as you start the journey to get into it - you do need to be quite fit.||||Having booked a 4 night stay on the basis of a price band and the largely favourable reviews on this site, we were hugely disappointed and, to be honest, felt rather over charged - half the price would have been fair for what was on offer.||||We have returned home and looked again at over 100 of the previous reviews that have scored this property so highly and remain confused as whilst charming, the Villa Maria Antoinette is not a 5 star property. With the published photography at best misleading, it is, we are sorry to say, and despite Guiseppe’s efforts both poor quality...

This is really quite a difficult review as we have no wish to be over critical of Giuseppe, the owner who seems to be a very decent person. However in our opinion, the Villa Maria Antonietta is at best, a reasonable guest house but certainly not a hotel that gets anywhere near to the standards anticipated, expected or illustrated on the website which at best shows the facility in a rather 'rose tinted' light.||||Positano is itself, a very pretty town if rather tired and somewhat faded town. Frankly the whole place could do with a decent coat of paint. But it is a popular and friendly tourist centre.||||The Villa Maria Antonietta is similar in that it is tired and a bit shabby. Centrally located, it is quite difficult to find up a fairly badly signed, tiny road and the warnings issued on booking, that the entrance is up several steps does little to prepare the visitor for the climb up several quite steep staircases which do not have handrails. (Getting down is, in poor weather even more hazardous and challenging, particularly when carrying luggage).||||The rooms are pretty basic. Whilst clean and tidy, there are few of the facilities that one would customarily expect from a facility in this price bracket - no tv, no kettle, no soft furniture (just one dining chair in each bedroom) and limited storage. The shower worked well and there seemed to be plenty of hot water and the free WiFi was positive.||||Breakfast is served in (another tired) room on the first floor by Giuseppe. It is adequate but there is not a huge choice with no hot food available. A large proportion of the crockery is chipped or cracked. Guiseppes’s service is friendly rather than professional.||||At this facility, there is no lounge, no seating area inside or out - in fact nothing else, so for our group of 3 couples, we had to walk to a local coffee shop to chat about the day in a soft chair and with a drink of anything in our hand.||||Giuseppe is charming and does everything with a smile and willingness, but it is all a bit amateur night.||||The Villa Maria Antonietta is really a basic guest house which is fine but do not expect any level of sophistication about it and we would advise being in good health as you start the journey to get into it - you do need to be quite fit.||||Having booked a 4 night stay on the basis of a price band and the largely favourable reviews on this site, we were hugely disappointed and, to be honest, felt rather over charged - half the price would have been fair for what was on offer.||||We have returned home and looked again at over 100 of the previous reviews that have scored this property so highly and remain confused as whilst charming, the Villa Maria Antoinette is not a 5 star property. With the published photography at best misleading, it is, we are sorry to say, and despite Guiseppe’s efforts both poor quality...

We stayed at Villa Maria Antonietta in 2010 and was happy with our visit, so we decided to stay again a few weeks ago. Unfortunately the property is very run down and the hosts were rude and uninterested in their guests. Upon arrival I asked could I have a plug for the hand basin in our room and was yelled at by Guiseppe when I tried to show him. When Guiseppe reluctantly brought me a plug he seemed unhappy about how cold we had our air conditioner on in the room and made grumbling sounds. I was unlocking the door to our room on another occasion and a lady (I think his wife) came up to me yelling saying that I wasn't unlocking it correctly and decided to give me a lesson on how to do so. We were never greeted warmly or we were ignored when we walked past the office. We didn't receive any clean towels during our 4 night stay. We ran out of toilet paper and when I asked his wife for more she said it is on the window sill and I explained that we had used it all and she reluctantly gave me more. We had a 7.00am departure on our last day and I asked Guiseppe if it was possible to have an early breakfast or even a cup of coffee (as there are not coffee or tea facilities in the room) and he refused, saying it was not possible to have breakfast earlier than 8.00am. I think that if you are running a business anything is possible if you want it to be. All in all a very a very disappointing return to Villa Maria Antonietta. We...