I stayed at the Hotel Santa Chiara in Napoli for nine nights, with a friend, in February 2025. Our room (no. 207) was a pleasure: large, high-ceilinged, tile-floored, well furnished, beautiful. The hotel is in a restored palazzo, and that's evident. There is a rooftop with splendid views of the city and the bay. --- The staff were helpful, attentive, & knowledgeable; the atmosphere was calm and pleasing; we were welcomed, left alone when we wanted to be & attended to when we wanted to be, which is the essence of a good hotel. --- The hotel fronts Spaccanapoli, which is the liveliest street in the city. Many bars, cafés, restaurants, churches, & everything else you can imagine, are within yards. The Dante metro stop is seven minutes away on foot. There are buses and taxis closer than that. This is an ideal place to stay. And Naples is a gorgeous, chaotic, energetic city full of beauty. We'd have liked to stay longer.
