Our Perillo Tour group was booked at the Mar Hotel Alimuri. I am a most easy going individual, so when my wife and I showed the cigarette burns on the bed linen to the manager who then proceeded to simply drop onto the bed the linen he pulled off the bed in the next room before leaving, I would not allow his attitude to affect our trip. However, my disappointment grew when we discovered the shower did not work, and we were informed that a room change was not allowed by the hotel staff. So we took no shower. Since restaurants were not in walking distance from the hotel, we checked the hotel restaurant, and found it closed. The only restaurant available within walking distance was 30 yards away between the hotel and the ocean. A restaurant not owned by the hotel. So the hotel locks the surrounding fence they installed in order to force their "guests" to eat at the hotel restaurant - which they close early. The staff of this hotel would have their "guests" go hungry rather than eat at a "competitors" restaurant. Never have I witnessed such a mean spirited "hospitality" Our tour guide had to call back our tour bus to take us to a restaurant which meant dinner took 4 hours. Then we discovered the door in our room was broken and could not be locked, and still the staff was most indifferent. So I stayed awake all night so my wife could get a few hours sleep. In the morning I informed our tour guide I was finished with the entire tour because the experience with the staff of this hotel was so horrific. You couldn't pay me to stay at this hotel again.

I'm surprised about bad reviews for this hotel. I spent a week at Alimuri with my family and found him perfect in all ways. We spent the most of the time on the beach and enjoyed very much free sunbeds and the sand for my childrens. The restaurant is really nice, you can take a table near the window so you can see the water and this was really romantic in the evening...
Wine was good and food as well, the staff was really accommodating.
It is 10 minutes far from the centre of sorrento with the free shuttle bus, that is really helpful because it is quiet difficult to park in sorrento...
I would definitively stay there again and suggest to anyone.
Thanks Alimuri,
Brian Wilcox & Family

Very disappointed with this hotel.

Directions to hotel – we took over an hour to find the hotel because we went to Sorrento – the hotel was in a town outside Sorrento called META!

The drive down to the hotel was through a tunnel covered in graffiti and one which I would not have felt safe walking through at any time of the day.

Once we DID find the hotel we were rewarded with a room ‘upgrade’ to a double superior room. This was very welcome and it did give us a sea view – as well as a view of the adjacent graffiti scribbled buildings to our left!

The private beach was unwelcoming and covered in litter and we woke one morning to a JCB machine shovelling shingle around the beach. We were out of our room for the day but when we returned about 5pm the work was still being undertaken.

The free shuttle bus into Sorrento only ran a few times a day and the last free bus of the day was 16:00 hrs. The next shuttle bus left at 20:50 hrs with a return to the hotel at 23:30 hrs. The evening shuttle cost 1 euro pp each way. The shuttle does not run AT ALL on Fridays!

Pool area – outdoor pool looked nothing like the photo and we did not even consider swimming in it. The indoor pool and sauna area was open but it was to cost 10 euros pp so we declined!

Food - Breakfast consisted of one hot plate of scrambled egg, sausage and ham. Continental breakfast consisted of rolls, cheese, salami, cake and jams. Breakfast was nothing special and was never alternated for guests who may have been there for a few days.

Bedroom – Rooms and hotel in general was clean. Bed was as hard as a brick. One pillow each was supplied. We asked for two more pillows and that took another two days before we got our pillows. Very disappointed in the room (superior room !) No bathrobes, bottle of water, iron, complimentary toiletries included 1 shower gel and 4 guest soaps! We used the same plastic cups during our 4 day stay.

Reception – Staff were all friendly.

The hotel is one of the phew in the area that is on the water front. The service is regular (not enough for a 4 star) but the beach is really busy and polluted. The "private" beach is not private and on sundays the hotel manager books the clients chairs for his family!!! Look for other options!