![]() ![]() A cool little cove to watch while you’re having a cocktail. It overlooks a tiny little fishing village, a real one, with guys mending nets and kids running all over the place. I believe I had room 7, it was perfect. Spartan, but spotless. Each time I check back, they seem to have made even more improvements. They since bored an elevator into the granite cliffs - a feat that rivals the Gotthard Tunnel…but just for a teeny elevator. A lot of regulars and a lot of Europeans come here. When I was last there, they had a tiny little cable car for your luggage that they sent down…then you walked the 60 or steep steps down. It books up quickly - I’ve tried to get in a half-dozen times and they were always booked. The Onda Verde is a fantastic little place of just a handful of rooms. ![]() Here are two great pictures from their website: ![]() UPDATE: I just noticed in 2017 that the name has change to Villa Corallium. Nice tile to walk barefoot and leave the doors open for a week. I just sent some friends there last year and they loved it. It was Spartan then, with white plastic chairs, a frigobar behind the front desk and they handed out ice cubes like they were manhole covers. The luggage, they had to lower by a cable wire down the hill and they were just hand-carving a skinny elevator out of the dense granite cliffs. When I was there, the sweet young couple that owned it (she was Swedish, I think) were just building this place up. Okay, welcome back: See what I mean? The location of this place in Praiano is just perfect. Anyway, go google it and then come back and I can continue my story…. Like a blind man and an elephant, you can never picture the whole thing at once. I don’t have many pictures of this perfect little hotel, well, because it is built on a steep cliff and you can only see Out, or down at your feet. Okay, so you gotta google Hotel Onda Verde. You have to check out their website not to see what amazing improvements they’ve made over the years. I took these pictures to long ago, they were on film. how Positano has shared itself so willingly with the rest of us. Even though there are a few hotels and rooms to rent, reasonably priced, it seems more like where people live, or have their summer villas vs. Sitting on a far point that juts in front of Positano like a Roman Nose, it feels, and is, more like a fishing village. (Aren’t they all in Amalfi?) If you want to be close to the action in Positano but away from the crowds, this is your place. Just 20 minutes around the corner from Positano, past the ritzy San Pietro hotel, is this little village, also perched on a hill. Not that many people know the secret that is Praiano. You can shoot in a cab, your car or take a water taxi that comes by fairly regularly. It’s a great place to stay away from the touristy Positano. Clinging between the cliff and the roadway, it is like a suburb of Positano - once removed, quiet and friendly. Two villages down from Positano is a small little hillside village called Praiano. ![]()
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