Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa

Conca dei Marini is the quiet stretch between Amalfi and Positano, a fishing village stacked against the cliff with few reasons for coaches to stop. Sister Rosa Pandolfi had the monastery built on the promontory in the late seventeenth century, and its seclusion is still the point. Bianca Sharma bought the abandoned building in 2000 and spent roughly a decade on the restoration before it reopened as a hotel in 2012. Corridors keep their vaulted ceilings, the cells became twenty rooms and suites, and every one of them looks out to sea.

The spa occupies the old vaults, with a heated hydrotherapy pool, a steam room and a sauna, and treatments use the botanical preparations of Officina Profumo Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella. Terraced gardens step down from the building to a heated infinity pool at the edge of the cliff, so a swim in spring is realistic.

Dinner is at Il Refettorio, the former refectory, where Alfonso Crescenzo has held a Michelin star since 2017 with a menu built on local fish and vegetables from the hotel's own terraced gardens. The house accepts guests from sixteen upwards, which keeps the pool terrace calm. A complimentary shuttle connects the hotel with the marina in Amalfi, so a car is unnecessary once you have arrived.