Villa Las Tronas Hotel & SPA
Alghero, Italy · 5-star Hotel
Villa Las Tronas Hotel & SPA in photographs
When to go
The cheapest month we have found is November, at around USD 229 a night - -7% against what this hotel usually asks.
Where to book
- Book on Booking.com - Free cancellation options, guest reviews and a familiar checkout.
- Hotel website - Photos, facilities and location.
Our notes
A royal villa on its own promontory
Villa Las Tronas stands alone on a small private promontory in the Gulf of Alghero, in north-west Sardinia, its ochre walls and crenellated towers surrounded by sea on three sides and by an old park on the fourth. The house was built in the 19th century and was a holiday residence of the Italian royal family before it became a hotel, and it still feels like an aristocratic home: original furniture, red velvet salons, chandeliers and a long dining room facing the water. The view is the one the hotel sells - across the gulf to the headland of Capo Caccia - and yet the historic centre of Alghero is only a short walk along the seafront.
The hotel has its own private piers for swimming straight off the rocks, an outdoor seawater pool that seems to run into the horizon, and a spa with a heated indoor saltwater pool, sauna and Turkish bath, which makes it work outside summer too. It is a 5-star hotel, and guests rate it highly: Booking.com 9.0 from 319 reviews, Google 4.7 from 428 and TripAdvisor 4.5 from 707 (read October 2026).
The area
Alghero is the most Spanish town in Italy. The Catalans took it in 1354, resettled it with their own people, and for four centuries it was a Catalan outpost on the north-west coast of Sardinia - so much so that an old form of Catalan, l'alguerés, is still spoken here and street names are written in both languages. The legacy is plain to see in the old town: honey-coloured sea walls and towers, narrow cobbled lanes, the Gothic-Catalan Cathedral of Santa Maria and the church of San Francesco with its cloister.
Walk the bastions along the sea walls at sunset, when the whole town comes out for the passeggiata and the sun drops behind Capo Caccia across the bay. Alghero is the centre of Sardinia's coral trade - the red coral of this coast is why it is called the Riviera del Corallo - and lobster, alla catalana with tomato and onion, is the local dish.
What else to do: take the boat or drive out to Capo Caccia and the Grotta di Nettuno, a vast sea cave reached by sea or by the Escala del Cabirol, 656 steps cut into the cliff; swim at the beaches north of town, from Le Bombarde and Lazzaretto to the white sands of Porto Ferro; visit the Nuragic village of Palmavera, more than 3,000 years old; and taste Vermentino at the Sella & Mosca estate, one of the island's best-known wineries. The best months are May, June and September into early October, when the sea is warm and the crowds are gone.
What it costs through the year
| Cheapest we have seen | USD 221 ≈ €198 |
|---|---|
| What it usually costs | USD 247 ≈ €221 |
| Dearest we have seen | USD 356 ≈ €318 |
| Times we looked | 7 |
| Gap between the two | 55% |
| Last checked | 2026-11-04 |