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“With stunning views across the bay to Porto-Vecchio, this outstanding waterfront hotel is sleek and modern and set in extensive gardens. Its 34 room are all sea-facing with huge private terraces, and its two-Michelin star restaurant offers the best food in Corsica.”

“With stunning views across the bay to Porto-Vecchio, this outstanding waterfront hotel is sleek and modern and set in extensive gardens. Its 34 room are all sea-facing with huge private terraces, and its two-Michelin star restaurant offers the best food in Corsica.”

Hotel Review

Clad in red cedarwood, Casteldelmar stretches innocuously along the shoreline and is wrapped in beautiful wooded gardens, where even in high season, it’s easy to be quiet and alone. There’s a small private beach and a dock for boats, including one to take guests to the hotel’s sister property across the bay, La Plage Casadelmar where a beautiful beach and watersports await guests whenever they wish to go. Inside the hotel, expect slick, sleek contemporary design, walls of glass and lashings of natural light. Both the upper floor gym and beauty salon enjoy breathtaking views while the Espa spa is contrastingly dark, moody and opulent. The comfortable and refreshingly unstuffy main restaurant is home to Fabio Bragagnolo’s wonderful Coriscan-inspired dishes, inventive and surprising yet always generous and satisfying. The fairly plain bedrooms are enhanced by huge black and white scenes of traditional Corsican life, with excellent bathrooms and huge terraces.
 

Written by Fiona Duncan

Recommended For

  • Foodies
  • Michelin-starred restaurant headed by Fabio Bragagnola to enjoy, as well as gastronomic tours of the region
  • Beach Life
  • Private beach area with concierge service, watersports a-plenty, superb spa and outstanding ocean views
  • Hotel boats for hire
  • The Itama 48 10 person boat is available with skipper
  • Sights nearby
  • See the island from above on a hotel helicopter tour
  • Other Activities
  • Hotel can organise gastronomic tours of the region
  • Golf
  • Sperone 18-hole course is 30 minutes away
  • Scuba course
  • Snorkelling
  • Riding
  • Great walks
  • Cycling
  • Watersports
  • Kayaking
  • Designer
  • Award-winning French architect Jean-François Bodin
  • On the beach
  • Private beach
  • Luxury
  • Free wifi
  • Views
  • Rooms with balcony/terrace
  • Sit-out Terrace
  • Gym
  • Spa
  • Restaurant
  • Child friendly
  • 5* Luxury
  • Disabled access
  • Contemporary

Facilities

  • Free wifi
  • Views
  • Wifi
  • Safe
  • Bath robes
  • Parking
  • Bar
  • Massage
  • Rooms with balcony/terrace
  • Sauna/Steam
  • Satellite / Cable TV
  • No pets
  • Sit-out Terrace
  • Gym
  • Spa
  • Restaurant
  • Swimming Pool
  • Garden
  • In room music system
  • Child friendly
  • Room service
  • Disabled access
  • Hot Tub
  • Air conditioning

Activities

  • Hotel boats for hire
  • The Itama 48 10 person boat is available with skipper
  • Sights nearby
  • See the island from above on a hotel helicopter tour
  • Other Activities
  • Hotel can organise gastronomic tours of the region
  • Golf
  • Sperone 18-hole course is 30 minutes away
  • Climbing
  • Canyoning tours available
  • Snorkelling
  • Riding
  • Great walks
  • Cycling
  • Watersports
  • Kayaking
  • Scuba course

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