A 528-year-old new favorite hotel

I think this is a very, very good one.

I didn’t realize I had been looking for a hotel that would become “my place.” A place to replace the hotel my dad and I stayed in Capri, where we stayed in the same room every year. A place I would love to take my hopeful future kids, every summer. I had been looking, and it has been found!

You wouldn’t be wrong considering this an over-dramatic start. I had a firm ranking of my most favorites for years, and this hotel quickly infiltrated the top spots with ease. That’s my equivalent of brining someone home to meet the parents.

The lock screen of my phone had been the same since 2022, the day I first jumped into the world of hotels and posted my first TikTok video. It was of Villa Feltrinelli, a stone’s throw away, which was always the top spot on my bucket list. Now my phone displays the time with a photo I took last weekend.

Expectedly, sharing it on Instagram Stories and Substack Notes, I was met with the most interest I’ve ever received about a hotel. Equally, my DMs were flooded with notes from fellow loyalists expressing just how much they love it too. An undeniably Special place – when I left I was immediately homesick. For a hotel! The next lake property on the itinerary stood no chance.

Shall we? (All photos have been taken by me and I’m quite proud of them – please don’t use them without crediting me, thank you! Usually, I don’t really mind.)