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January 31, 2023
Walking into our room at Dimore de Luca, the first thing that came to mind is wow. The view of the Amalfi bay is gorgeous and we felt so excited. We didn't care that the bedroom was barely big enough to contain the bed, or that the shower was so tiny you had to duck your head to step into it, or that the mattress wasn't very comfortable. We thought the view would make up for it. But little did we know what we had coming. This building is directly adjacent to the main highway Amalfi tunnel. Actually, that's understating it. The building is built into the tunnel so it is literally the other side of the tunnel that surrounds the main highway for all of Amalfi coast. In other words, any car that goes up and down the highway from Napoli or Positano or anywhere to Amalfi or Revello or anywhere South passes through your bedroom (my car's GPS claims that it's a 90 kmh highway). If they would have taken precautions to create proper insulation maybe the situation would have been better, but unfortunately every car or bike that passes by sounds like it's inside your bedroom. As you could imagine, we were woken up by cars and motorcycles throughout the night, at midnight, 1am, 2am, all through the morning. The worst was at 3am when there was a group of motorcycles having a party right outside our room and the sound was so deafening it was unbareable. Next morning I went to share my experience with the front desk but guess what, they don't even have a front desk, at least not in the building. They directed me to walk 10min away to the center of town - this is just an apartment building that was converted to a budget hotel. We checked out and moved to Hotel La Bussola which is just 2-3 min walk away and world's apart. Can't believe it was about the same price and we got a luxurious 4-star hotel at that price with a beautiful ocean facing balcony - I feel like we got scammed. Dimore de Luca isn't really worth more than 50 EUR per night tops. Even then, I'd argue you're better off pitching a tent on the cliff in a spot with a view. At least then you'd be able to pick a spot without car traffic.