The Best Hotels in Capri

A Forbes Five Star hotel perched at Marina Grande that's designed to feel like someone's very stylish private home, which is either reassuring or slightly unsettling depending on how you feel about other people's taste. Capri has been pulling in the beautiful and restless for centuries, and J.K. Place leans into that fully, with rooms, a pool, a spa, and a restaurant where the panoramic views do most of the talking.

Pink and purple jellyfish hang from the ceiling near the staircase, and a goggled diver crouches frozen mid-launch by the pool wall: Capri Tiberio Palace commits to its retro bit with real conviction. This boutique hotel runs on a 1950s and '60s aesthetic, vine-covered garden paths, a rooftop terrace, spa, restaurant, and Jacky Bar for nights that go late. The Piazzetta is a short walk, so the oasis is optional.

The name means "here one heals," which remains a reasonable excuse to book a suite on Capri's most famous street. This grand hotel has been the island's social headquarters since forever, its white facade and orange-blossom gardens drawing the kind of guests who prefer not to carry their own luggage. Pools, terraces, a spa, and the street-side Quisi Bar keep guests occupied from breakfast through whatever hour counts as late on Capri.

Peach-colored walls on a cliff above the Faraglioni rocks, with a pedigree that traces back to Le Corbusier's original design. This small luxury hotel on Capri rewards the climb with sweeping sea views and interiors that blend original tapestries and antique paintings with 1930s-inflected furniture from a recent refresh. The pool terrace is where everyone eventually ends up, staring at the same water they came to Capri to stare at.

Original art by Keith Haring and Arnaldo Pomodoro lines the corridors of this whitewashed resort perched above Anacapri, which makes the gin bar feel like a bonus rather than the main event. Five restaurants and bars, most with sea views, handle the eating. The spa runs a signature circulation treatment called Leg School Therapy, which sounds made up until you're already booked. Helicopters, speedboats, and chauffeurs sort the transfers.

A cliff hotel perched a thousand feet above the Bay of Naples, with views that sweep from Vesuvius to the Sorrentine peninsula and down to water so blue it looks retouched. The Terrace Bar serves oysters and champagne while you absorb the spectacle, and nearly every one of the 55 rooms faces the sea. A statue of Caesar Augustus stands guard on the grounds, eyes fixed on the water, apparently unmoved by the whole thing.