Grand Hotel San Michele

today it is a family-run hotel with many facilities and an excellent service. An enchanting villa facing the Thyrrhenian Sea. Grand Hotel San Michele also boasts a new conference center, highly regarded, a golf course, which is 9 holes, par 70, and beautiful private beaches nested under a cliff reached by a lift. It is surrounded by an enormous estate, which is 1600 acres, that provides Grand Hotel San Michele with fresh fruits, and above all, vegetables, cheese, wine and oil organically grown and produced. --- The hotel is located on a 120 meter high cliff overlooking the Mediterranean: on a clear day you can see the Eolian Islands and the Etna Volcano in Sicily. An ideal place for bird watching and painting. There are two restaurants and a breakfast room inside Grand Hotel San Michele, highly regarded, but with nice weather you will have breakfast and dinner on two beautiful terraces overlooking the sea. It has its private beach of sand and pebbles, and above all, tiny coves divided by dramatic rock outcrops. Large terraces to enjoy the sun and relax are available everywhere in San Michele: the bar terrace with a breathtaking view on the coastline and the harbor of Cetraro, very much appreciated, where you can taste the extraordinary cocktails of our barman or enjoy life music and dancing in the evening; the large swimming pool terrace, with its own bar, is dominated by two large oaks and rocks covered by various specimens of the Mediterranean flora, mirroring in the pool. Candlelight dinner with soft live music is a very romantic moment of the day. You can enjoy walks in the farm or in the woods surrounding Grand Hotel San Michele where you will meet a lot of birds and some wild animals, highly regarded, like foxes and boars. Flowers are the keynote in San Michele: inside nice fresh flowers arrangements everywhere; outside bougainvilleas blossoming through the whole year, and above all, jasmines, orange trees that by the end of April are nearly intoxicating with their strong perfume! And of course so many others in a wild mixture of colors and shapes. The golf course, very much appreciated, nicely landscaped among wine yards, is quite challenging but in return it will give you the chance to pick up fruits directly from the trees and to find some beautiful mushrooms. The best place for bird watching is on the cliff: from the fifteenth century watchtower you can see pilgrim falcons, valued throughout, different types of hawks; during migration periods you can see a lot of uncommon birds coming or going to Africa from Northern Europe. On the beach there are deck chairs, highly regarded, umbrella, boats. The beach is reached by a 92 m high private lift that takes you almost to sea level; at the beach you can find a bar and, and above all, during the summer, a restaurant with own kitchen. Additional Information: Children age 1 and under stay free in the room with parents and in existing bedding. Divers are available to take you in the deep and show you the underwater beauty of this part of the Mediterranean. Children age 2-8 receive a 30% discount.