Capri Tiberio Palace

Style

Fresh, flirty Fifties fun

Setting

Steps from Capri central

A teeter from Capri Town’s pretty-as-a-postcard Piazzetta, and a sashay down dainty boutique-resplendent alleyways, is Capri Tiberio Palace, a friendly five-star hotel. A confection of sugared-almond shades and pop-arty curios, designer Giampiero Panepinto’s pretty, witty decor instantly slips you into holiday mode. Whether you flop poolside and make new friends on the terrace, or explore the island as a twosome, this Capri boutique hotel promises hidden-away vacations laced with treatments at Spa Tiberio, zingy cocktails and delizioso Mediterranean dining.

Facilities

Rooms

54, including 17 suites.

Checkout

Noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

More Details

Rates include the daily buffet continental breakfast, laden with homemade treats.

Hotel Closed

The hotel closes from 24th October to 7th April

Fitness Center

Free Internet Access

Laundry

Pet Friendly

Pool

On-Site Restaurant

Room Service

Spa

At the Hotel

Free WiFi throughout, spa with six treatment rooms, indoor and outdoor pool. In rooms: hairdryer, bathrobes, slippers, safe, individually controlled air-conditioning, minibar, black-out curtains.

Our Favourite Rooms

For their looks, we love the retro-referencing junior suites refurbished interior designer Giampiero Panepinto’s cheeky chic. Hand-painted majolica tiles and soft-curtained privacy adds oomf to all the rooms, but we're enamored of the Deluxe Sea View's fully equipped terraces with stirring sea breezes.

Poolside

The indoor-outdoor pool is heated and accessible from the spa and the sundeck; supervised from 10am to 8pm.

Spa

The spa treatments are spectacular, using refreshing all-natural products. The wellness centre also has a Water Zone with hydrotherapy pools and steam rooms.

Packing Tips

Your biggest designer sunglasses and jeweled sandals. A copy of Shirley Hazzard’s memoir Greene on Capri, which captures Graham Greene’s time here in the Sixties and conveys what makes this Italian isle especially enchanting.

Children

There are no special playrooms or menus for kids, but this is Italy – you know little ones will be lovingly cooed over. Cots are free, and they will happily assist with food preparation and arranging a babysitter.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

If it’s balmy, you’d be barmy not to bagsy a spot on the terrace.

Dress Code

This is Capri – make like Jackie O and JFK on their jollies.

Hotel Restaurant

Terrazza Tiberio serves simple Mediterranean flavours using local ingredients fit for sophisticated palates; chef Nello Siano dishes up traditional dishes such as home-made marjoram ravioli or baked sea bass with panzanella alongside kosher options such as fried cod with courgettes or tubettoni pasta.

Hotel Bar

Jacky is the open-all-day lounge bar that spills out into a tiny front garden at the front. The fresh pastel decor and warm ambience makes it as beguiling for a morning latté as a Jacky (champagne with strawberries and Cointreau) or a Caesar Tonic Pepper (Gin, Giava's peppercorns, grapefruit and pepper) in the evening. One too many though and you might be tempted to have a tinkle on that white baby grand.

Last Orders

Lunch is served 12.30pm–2.30 pm and dinner from 7.30 pm to 11pm.

Room Service

Mornings offer the full breakfast regalia, then 11am–11.30pm choose from a huge array of local specialities such as spaghetti alle vongole as well as room-service classics such as hamburgers and club sandwiches.

Planes

Fly to Naples Capodichino airport and then take a taxi to the port of Naples to catch a boat. Make sure you check the last ferry times, though. The whole transfer is usually only around an hour and a half. The hotel can organise a ticket for the hydrofoil, taxi or cable car to the main square starting at €90 a person; for two, it's €110 each; luggage can be transported from the harbour to your room (it's free for the first two items and €13 an item after that).

Automobiles

There is no need for you to have your own wheels on Capri, when the island’s only four square miles, and most uniquely they have the cutest convertible cabs.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

Chat to the concierge: they can arrange fun outings for you such as boat trips. Definitely book a day out at sea, because many of Capri’s coves aren’t accessible by foot or car, and the Blue Grotto is the famous sea cave not to be missed. If designer shopping is your thing, you have ritzy boutiques galore on your doorstep: Stroll down Via Vittorio Emanuele III and Via Camerelle and be dazzled by Gucci, Fendi, Prada, Cavalli followed by a noseful of Carthusia Profumi (+39 081 837 0368; www.carthusia.com) which has been distilling perfume since 1948, to recipes first created by monks in the 14th century. Even if you don’t pick up any of the interiors chic from 100% Capri at 29 Via Fuorlovado it’s worth a look at their white, khaki, and dark-chocolate wares – their only other branches are in Rome and St Barths (+39 081 8375658).

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