This was a great hotel... 5 star treatment all the way around. The location is NOT suitable for walking though (we walked from the train to the hotel... uphill with luggage). Take a cab or the shuttle.

The rooms were amazing, as was the view. The view from the pool overlooking Sorrento is really breathtaking.

Everything was VERY clean and VERY nice. The bar was great with live violin music. We really enjoyed our stay at La Pace.

Arrived at the hotel to be greeted by a ghostly quiet in the cavernous lobby but put this down to being early in the season. The check in was pleasant enough but then we set off for our room. The elevator stopped six inches short of the floor and the room itself was very pokey (and this after booking a 'superior double with panoramic view') sickly bright yellow tiles comprised the floor and the dust was everywhere. We looked out the window in time to see them draining the hotel's only pool and when we rang down to find out about food we were told that poolside was the only place serving! When we went back down to the lobby there was rap music blasting out of the speakers. We took a walk around the area to discover we were nowhere near Sorrento, very misleading information from the hotel to say they are in Sorrento at all. Arrived back at the hotel and asked for a manager, no luck there so after a brief discussion we decided to check out only to be charged for our room for one night! Appalling hotel, appalling service, don't be misled into staying here.

On 28th September 2007 my husband and I made our wedding vows in the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Positano with a hundred family and friends there to celebrate with us.

The wedding ceremony was perfect and went without a hitch which was astonishing considering we had had to transfer 100 guests from Sorrento by coach and then local bus, as far down to the church as possible, but no one went missing in action.

My husband and I then had a car waiting to take us back to the reception at Grand Hotel La Pace. Drinks and Canapes had been organised by the pool and we were the first to arrive as the sun set over the bay of Naples.

After drinks and congratulations we made our way into a private dining room for a spectacular 5 course wedding feast including lobster lingine and the 'piece de resistence', a profiterole wedding cake, so delicious it took our breath away.

We had a band from Midnight until 3am downstairs in the ballroom and the last of our revellers called it a day at 7am.

You would think for such a packed itinery I had sleepless nights leading up to the wedding, but I was confident the team at La Pace and Vesuvio express would deliver everything they promised, which they did and more. All of the details were taken care of and Alessandro and Gaetano remained in constant contact to alay any fears.

All of the transfers, cars, flowers, hairdressers were arranged by the team and went without fault.
Alessandro acted as wedding planner and charged us nothing for his services.

If you are looking for the wedding of you dreams, where all your wishes will come true I recommend Grand Hotel La Pace. From the setting to their organisation, everything was faultless, not to mention the quality of the food.

Truely a memorable occasion...we look forward to returning year after year.

My wife and I were looking for a romantic getaway for the end of our Italian vacation. Sadly, Grand Hotel La Pace is not what we were expecting. The 5-star rating is a joke. While the exterior and common areas are nice, hotel itself is not great.

Our room was average. The bed was European firm, which is fine, but the overall feeling was that the room was very tired. We had a view of some back alley and the fire escape.

Breakfast was fine, except there was a very large tour group staying at the hotel, and they all arrived for breakfast 5 minutes before we did. This made the line 15 minutes long. Not the way I like to start my day.

The hotel is a 10 minute walk down a steep hill to town (not Sorrento). The train will take you into Sorrento, which is the next stop. It is too far to walk to Sorrento in my opinion. It's hard enough getting up the hill. Also, there is a van that shuttles hotel guests to and from town hourly, which was reliable.

Finally, on the day we checked out, the front desk failed to mention the fact that there was a strike at the airport that day, and that all flights were postponed until further notice. This seems like the type of information that departing guests might be interested in, and something you would expect from even a family run 3-star hotel.

Overall, the hotel was ok, but I would not stay here again. It is worth the extra $ to stay on the cliff overlooking sorrento.