Amazing hospitality! Communicating throughout my stay through WhatsApp was easy and incredibly helpful for taxi, restaurant recommendations and general info about Sorrento. We enjoyed beers with our family while gazing at the sea in the outdoor space. It’s about a 20 minute steep downhill walk into town but we found taking the bus was quite easy.

This villa is set in the most incredible location with views out over sorrento and Vesuvius. It is spacious and clean and the perfect location to explore Sorrento and the surrounding area. We hope to come back and stay again as we had the most perfect week.

We stayed here for five days in December 2024. This historic villa is in an absolutely breathtaking location, high over Sorrento, with unobstructed 180 degree views over the entire Bay of Naples to Vesuvius from the back of the garden. The villa is surrounded by a large old garden with flowers, lemon and olive trees. The owner’s son Guido gave us a tour of the agricultural building next to the villa, where his family has done a beautiful restoration of the vaulted ceilings in the lowest floor and of an old olive press. He was so friendly and welcoming. The same as Manuela, the property manager. She could always be contacted by whatsapp and was very friendly and responsive. She came exactly at the agreed upon times for check-in and check-out. The apartment consists of the entire ground floor of the villa. There are four bedrooms, a large living room, kitchen and two bathrooms. We had temperatures of about 10C at night and 14C during the day. The apartment was warm enough with two portable heaters on, while we were home, wearing a warm sweater helped too. The sunset hour every day on the overlook in the back of the garden was magical, an absolute highlight of our Italian vacation. A few issues, such as lack of restocking sugar and oil, and lack of thorough cleaning by the cleaning lady were addressed by Manuela right away. She even brought us some homemade olive oil! Overall we spent five beautiful days at the Villa Castellano! Molto grazie!

The downstairs area of this house is very spacious, with ample car parking. The lawns however could do with a mow and it would have been great to have a key to the side gate for safer access to the bus stop and laneway to Sorrento.