16 venues
Venues by the sea
Beach, seafront and clifftop venues: the Excelsior on the Venice Lido, Il San Pietro and Santa Caterina on the Amalfi coast, Halekulani on Waikiki beach and Four Seasons Astir Palace with its three beaches near Athens.
The venues
Venice, Italy
Hotel Excelsior Venice Lido Resort
Nine event spaces for up to 2,000 guests, from ballrooms of 750 to beach and terrace receptions, on the Venice Lido
Since 1907
Positano, Italy
Il San Pietro di Positano
A lift cut through the rock carries guests of Il San Pietro di Positano from the cliff-top hotel to a private beach and restaurant at sea level.
57 rooms · Since 1970
Amalfi, Italy
Hotel Santa Caterina
Two glass lifts drop through the lemon terraces of Hotel Santa Caterina, above Amalfi, to a seawater pool and restaurant at the water's edge.
66 rooms
Sorrento, Italy
Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria
Run by the Fiorentino family since 1834 on the cliff above Sorrento's port, with a lift through the rock and the suite where Caruso spent his last summer.
Since 1834
Honolulu, United States
Halekulani
A Waikiki beach house of 1907 that gave its name to a Charlie Chan novel and became a 453-room hotel with an orchid of 1.2 million tiles on its pool floor.
453 rooms · Since 1907
Vouliagmeni, Greece
Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens
The Astir Palace of the 1960s, summer address of Greek shipping families, reopened in March 2019 as a Four Seasons with 303 rooms on three beaches.
303 rooms · Since 2019
Nice, France
Hôtel Negresco
The 1913 Belle Époque palace on the Promenade des Anglais, crowned by its pink and green dome.
Since 1913
Èze, France
Château de la Chèvre d'Or
Medieval village houses 400 meters above the Mediterranean, joined into a Relais & Châteaux with a two-starred restaurant and terraces over Cap Ferrat.
40 rooms · Since 1953
Seminyak, Indonesia
Desa Potato Head
A Seminyak beach club that grew into a village: Andra Matin's shutter-fronted club of 2010, Katamama in 2015 and OMA's Potato Head Studios in 2020.
226 rooms · Since 2015
Uluwatu, Indonesia
Bulgari Resort Bali
From a cliff 150 meters above the Indian Ocean at Uluwatu, Bulgari Resort Bali sends guests to its beach by an inclined lift cut into the rock.
59 rooms · Since 2006
San José del Cabo, Mexico
One&Only Palmilla
Opened in 1956 as a 15-room fishing lodge by the son of a Mexican president, One&Only Palmilla sits on one of the few swimmable beaches in Los Cabos.
174 rooms · Since 1956
Riviera Nayarit, Mexico
One&Only Mandarina
Rick Joy set 105 villas into a Pacific cliff and jungle canopy for One&Only Mandarina, opened in November 2020 on the Riviera Nayarit.
105 rooms · Since 2020
Wailea, United States
Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea
The 1990 Wailea Beach resort of 383 rooms where the first season of The White Lotus was filmed in 2020, with Spago and an adults-only Serenity Pool.
383 rooms · Since 1990
Montecito, United States
Rosewood Miramar Beach
Trains on the coast line still pass between the lawns and the sand of a Montecito beach that has taken hotel guests since the 1880s.
Since 2019
West End, Anguilla
Cap Juluca
White Moorish villas along the mile-long curve of Maundays Bay since 1988, rebuilt by Belmond after Hurricane Irma and reopened in 2018.
Since 1988
Barcelona, Spain
Hotel Arts Barcelona
A 44-story steel tower on the Olympic seafront by Bruce Graham of SOM, with Frank Gehry's copper fish beside the pool.
483 rooms · Since 1994