An Art Nouveau villa on the seafront, a glass design hotel with a rooftop restaurant or a villa among the pines? Among the luxury hotels in Forte dei Marmi, our travel advisors personally help you choose yours. Every suitespot booking comes with free breakfast for 2, a room upgrade subject to availability, hotel credit and VIP service – benefits worth over €500.
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In Forte dei Marmi, the right hotel makes the holiday. Here are the best-known addresses at a glance, with location, suitespot score and price per night. Our tip for architecture fans: the Principessa Forte dei Marmi, a new Autograph Collection boutique hotel with sculptural, yacht-like architecture, where every room and suite has a terrace.
| Hotel | Location | suitespot score | Price from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pensione America Forte dei Marmi | Lucca | ★ 4.5/5 | 1100 € |
| Principe Forte dei Marmi | Tuscany | ★ 4.8/5 | 377 € |
| La Serena Forte dei Marmi | Vittoria Apuana | – | 743 € |
| Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi | Piazza Dante | ★ 4.2/5 | 330 € |
| Principessa Forte dei Marmi | Centro | – | 400 € |
| Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi | Parco della Versiliana | ★ 4.1/5 | 300 € |
Principe Forte dei Marmi · TuscanyWhich of the best hotels suits you depends on how you travel, because the luxury hotels in Forte dei Marmi have very different strengths. Food lovers stay at the Principe Forte dei Marmi: Lux Lucis cooks with a Michelin star on the roof, and the hotel is open all year. Couples in search of la dolce vita will find an 1899 villa with a ceramic pool in a lemon garden at the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi.Opposite the legendary La Capannina club, you can stay at the Principessa Forte dei Marmi since April 2026: a new build from the Autograph Collection with yacht-like, sculptural architecture and just 36 rooms and suites, all with a terrace. You eat at MARIAS, where star chef Jason Atherton leads the kitchen with executive chef Giorgio Cicero: international cooking with seasonal Tuscan produce, a meeting place for guests and locals alike. There is a pool with a garden and a beach partnership with Bagno Costanza. The hotel stands on the site of the former Hotel Areion.
Principessa Forte dei Marmi · Rooms & suitesArt to live with has been on offer since 2024 at La Serena Forte dei Marmi, a boutique hotel with 21 rooms, mostly suites, some with a terrace, sea view and Jacuzzi. Artists live and work here as part of an artist residency, the exhibitions change, and in the garden the pool lies beneath the pines, with Paola Lenti loungers. The wine cellar holds more than 2,000 bottles, up to eight people dine at the chef’s table, and cabins are reserved for you at five beach clubs, among them Alpemare.
New in 2026 is the spa at the Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi, THE SPA, with a heated pool, whirlpool, sauna, steam bath and experience shower. Worth knowing when you plan: at the end of this season the grand hotel closes temporarily for a complete renovation into a house of “neoclassical grandeur”, with reopening planned for the 2027 summer season. And the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi welcomes guests again after its restoration, as a small luxury hotel of the Collezione Em – with bicycles and an electric minivan for trips into town.
In Forte dei Marmi every one of the six hotels has a pool. The sea is close, but an afternoon in the garden is part of life here.
La Serena Forte dei Marmi · PoolThe pool at the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi catches the eye: designed with hand-painted Sicilian ceramics, in a garden of pines and lemon trees. At La Serena Forte dei Marmi a quiet pool lies beneath the pines, with Paola Lenti loungers, and the Principessa Forte dei Marmi has a pool and garden area. At the Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi the outdoor pool sits by the villa wing, right next to Onda, the pool restaurant serving the catch of the day.
Principe Forte dei Marmi · SpaThe Principe Forte dei Marmi, a 5-star hotel, has two pools: an outdoor pool in the garden, open from April to October from 10 am to 6.30 pm, with a pool bar, and an indoor pool in the Egoista Spa. Its wellness circuit includes a Finnish sauna, steam bath, ice room and experience showers, along with massages, facial and body treatments, a skin scanner and personal training. Please note: from 14 to 28 October 2026 the Egoista Spa is closed for maintenance, and treatments then take place in a guest room.
At the Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi you can swim in three places: the hotel’s seasonal outdoor pool, the heated pool of THE SPA, which also has an indoor whirlpool, sauna, steam bath, relaxation area and Technogym gym, and the pool in the garden of the hotel’s own Remo Beach Club. The spa offers massages, aromatherapy, lymphatic drainage, mud wraps, yoga and meditation, by appointment only. At the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi, instead of a spa, there is a quiet treatment room for massages, which can also take place in your room.
Then the Principe Forte dei Marmi is the address: it is open all year, the indoor pool is in the Egoista Spa, and from November to March the team serves the Lux Lucis cuisine in the 67 Sky Lounge. If you are coming at the end of October 2026, ask our travel advisors about the spa maintenance from 14 to 28 October.
The Michelin-starred restaurant in this selection is right at the top: Lux Lucis at the Principe Forte dei Marmi has held a Michelin star since 2017. Valentino Cassanelli cooks creative Italian cuisine on the fourth and top floor, with views from the pines to the Apuan Alps; in 2020 it was named Luxury Rooftop Restaurant Europe at the World Luxury Restaurant Awards. From November to March the team serves the chef’s cuisine in the 67 Sky Lounge. At lunchtime Cassanelli also cooks for the beach restaurant of the hotel’s own Dalmazia Beach Club, seasonally, with Versilia cooking and fish.
Principe Forte dei Marmi · DiningAt the Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi, a 5-star hotel on the seafront promenade, executive chef Marco Bernardo cooks modern, creative food at the gourmet restaurant La Magnolia, with fish and meat, local and international influences and dishes such as aged fish; it is best to book the chef’s table well in advance. The Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi serves Mediterranean cooking with plenty of fish at L’Olivo under executive chef Simone Domenichelli – crudi, spaghetti alle arselle, risotto – in the dining room or outside by the pool among the olive trees.
La Serena Forte dei Marmi · DiningFor a quiet evening for two, we recommend the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi: breakfast on the veranda beneath lemon trees, and in the evening handmade pasta and local fish by candlelight. At La Serena Forte dei Marmi, Lumarea cooks Tuscan and Versilian food with fresh fish and local produce, in the evening from 7 to 10.30 pm.
For aperitivo: almost every luxury hotel in Forte dei Marmi has its own bar. Our tip for sunset: the 67 Sky Lounge on the roof of the Principe Forte dei Marmi, looking out over the Versilia coast; in summer it becomes Sky Kong, together with the Roman bar Drink Kong, with aperitivo and dinner from 6.30 to 11.30 pm.
At no extra cost: you pay the same rate as booking direct with the hotel – the suitespot benefits come on top, free of charge.
At the Golden Bar of the Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi, head barman Diego Frediani mixes twelve signature twists, with seats by the outdoor pool. The Lumarea Bistro and Bar at La Serena Forte dei Marmi opens from 6 pm to outside guests too, with cocktails and more than 2,000 wines, and at the Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi you drink beneath the portico looking into the garden.
At the Principe Forte dei Marmi the whole evening happens on the roof: first aperitivo in the 67 Sky Lounge with views of the sea and the Apuan Alps, then Lux Lucis. The 100 US dollar hotel credit applies to food and drink. Talk to our travel advisors if you are planning room and table for the same evening.
The Pensione America Forte dei Marmi is a historic villa from 1899. In the dolce vita years it was a retreat for artists, aristocrats and bon vivants; today it is a hotel in the retro style of the Italian villeggiatura, and the historic Tennis Club Roma lies on its grounds. If you want complete privacy, stay in La Villetta, a two-storey hideaway.
Pensione America Forte dei Marmi · LuccaThe Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi occupies an Art Nouveau villa built for the Duke of Zoagli, José “Pepito” Caferino Canevaro, which became a meeting place for the aristocracy and the House of Savoy. At the beginning of the 20th century it became a hotel, named after Lord Byron, who visited Pisa and Livorno in 1821/22. Next to the historic villa now stands Sasso, a modern marble wing, and the Project Room shows contemporary art.
Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi · Parco della VersilianaThe Principe Forte dei Marmi is a different world: the German architect Klaus Müller turned it into a glass, cube-shaped 5-star hotel with just 28 rooms, 15 of them suites, furnished with design pieces by Antonio Citterio, Armani Casa, B&B, Flexform, Flos, Maxalto and Patricia Urquiola. It even has its own 24-metre yacht, the Marina di Principe, for trips to Portovenere or Portofino.
Awards: two luxury hotels hold one Michelin Key each, the Principe Forte dei Marmi and the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi – Michelin Keys recognise hotels, not restaurants. The Principe Forte dei Marmi also holds four stars in the Forbes Travel Guide and belongs to The Leading Hotels of the World; the Michelin star goes to its restaurant, Lux Lucis.
The Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi is a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, the Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi belongs to Preferred Hotels & Resorts and the Principessa Forte dei Marmi to the Autograph Collection.
Forte dei Marmi is small enough to get around by bike, yet the location shapes your stay – above all which beach club you head to in the morning.
Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi · Piazza DanteIf you want your 5-star hotel in Forte dei Marmi right by the sea, stay at the Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi on the seafront promenade near the Parco della Versiliana, a few metres from the water, with the Apuan Alps behind you. The Principe Forte dei Marmi is a few steps from the sea and has its own beach club, the Dalmazia Beach Club. Our recommendation: the Principe Forte dei Marmi.
Principessa Forte dei Marmi · CentroIn the centre and close to it are three of the luxury hotels in Forte dei Marmi. The Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi stands in a small pine grove around 200 metres from the sea; the hotel’s own Remo Beach Club is three minutes away. The Principessa Forte dei Marmi sits directly opposite La Capannina, the famous club, close to the sea, with a beach partnership at Bagno Costanza. La Serena Forte dei Marmi, in Vittoria Apuana, is three to five minutes by bike from the town centre and close to the beach, with reserved cabins at five beach clubs. Our recommendation: La Serena Forte dei Marmi.
At no extra cost: you pay the same rate as booking direct with the hotel – the suitespot benefits come on top, free of charge.
Among the pines lies the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi, two minutes from the Collezione Em’s Bagno Assunta beach club; bicycles and an electric minivan are ready for the ride into town.
Fly into Pisa: from the Principe Forte dei Marmi and the Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi it is around 30 minutes by car, from La Serena Forte dei Marmi about 35; Florence is around an hour away. The Principe Forte dei Marmi arranges a private transfer with driver, and La Serena Forte dei Marmi can even fly you in by helicopter on request. For day trips, Pietrasanta with its sculptors’ workshops is ten minutes inland, and the Carrara marble quarries are a good half hour away.
The selection starts at 300 € per night at the Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi and runs up to 1,100 € at the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi. Four of the six hotels cost no more than 400 €.
| Luxury hotel | From | suitespot benefits from | suitespot score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi | 300 € | 1st night | ★ 4.1/5 |
| Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi | 330 € | 1st night | ★ 4.2/5 |
| Principe Forte dei Marmi | 376 € | 1st night | ★ 4.8/5 |
| Principessa Forte dei Marmi | 400 € | 1st night | – |
| La Serena Forte dei Marmi | 743 € | 2 nights | – |
| Pensione America Forte dei Marmi | 1,100 € | 1st night | ★ 4.5/5 |
What all six luxury hotels include: daily breakfast for two – at the Principe Forte dei Marmi in the Principe restaurant –, an upgrade on arrival, and early check-in and late check-out, each subject to availability. At La Serena Forte dei Marmi the benefits require two nights; at the other five hotels they apply from the first night.
La Serena Forte dei Marmi · Rooms & suitesHotel credit is worth a closer look. 100 US dollars come with La Serena Forte dei Marmi and the Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi, and 100 US dollars for food and drink with the Principessa Forte dei Marmi and the Principe Forte dei Marmi; there, a further 100 US dollars for the spa are added from two nights in the Open Space, The Space and The Spatio categories, not combinable with promotions.
Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi · Rooms & suitesAt the Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi a lunch or dinner for two is part of the benefits, from the Superior Suite and two nights 100 US dollars for food and drink are added, and a bottle of Prosecco awaits as a welcome. A welcome gift is also included at the Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi and the Principessa Forte dei Marmi.
Points and status can be earned at five of the six luxury hotels: the Leaders Club at the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi, where you give your Leaders Club number when booking, and at the Principe Forte dei Marmi; I Prefer, Marriott Bonvoy and SLH Invited apply at one hotel each.
When the hotels are open: the Principe Forte dei Marmi is open all year, and La Serena Forte dei Marmi welcomes guests from May to September. The Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi closes at the end of this season for its complete renovation and is expected to reopen for the 2027 summer season.
When to book a 5-star hotel in Forte dei Marmi early: for August and any dates around Ferragosto on 15 August, when the Versilia is at its busiest. How long to stay: three nights – one for the beach and a beach club, one for Pietrasanta and one for the Carrara marble quarries.
What sets the hotels in Forte dei Marmi apart – from their opening year to the spa:
| Hotel | Opened | Pool | Spa | Michelin Keys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pensione America Forte dei Marmi | ✓ | – | 1 Key | |
| Principe Forte dei Marmi | 2010 | ✓ | ✓ | 1 Key |
| La Serena Forte dei Marmi | 2024 | ✓ | – | |
| Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Principessa Forte dei Marmi | 2026 | ✓ | ||
| Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi | ✓ | – |
Five of the six hotels belong to a programme: Leaders Club covers the Pensione America and the Principe, I Prefer the Grand Hotel Imperiale, Marriott Bonvoy the Principessa and SLH Invited the Hotel Byron. As suitespot books at direct rates, points and status nights count as usual, with the suitespot benefits on top. La Serena Forte dei Marmi is independent.
| Program | Hotels | Examples in Forte dei Marmi |
|---|---|---|
| Leaders Club | 2 hotels | Pensione America Forte dei Marmi, Principe Forte dei Marmi |
| I Prefer | 1 hotel | Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi |
| Marriott Bonvoy | 1 hotel | Principessa Forte dei Marmi |
| SLH Invited | 1 hotel | Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi |
The selection starts at 300 € per night at the Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi and runs up to 1,100 € at the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi; four of the six hotels cost no more than 400 €. Breakfast for two is included everywhere, and at La Serena Forte dei Marmi the benefits apply from two nights.
At the top end is the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi, from 1,100 € per night – an 1899 villa with a ceramic pool in the garden and a Michelin Key. It is followed by La Serena Forte dei Marmi at 743 €.
The Principessa Forte dei Marmi opened in April 2026 as a new build from the Autograph Collection, with 36 rooms and suites, all with a terrace, and Jason Atherton’s MARIAS restaurant. La Serena Forte dei Marmi has welcomed guests since 2024, with an artist residency and a pool beneath the pines. The Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi opened a new spa in 2026.
All six. The Principe Forte dei Marmi has an outdoor pool (April to October) and an indoor pool in the spa, the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi a pool of hand-painted Sicilian ceramics. The Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi has an outdoor pool, a heated pool in the spa and a pool at the Remo Beach Club, and at the Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi the pool restaurant Onda sits right next to the outdoor pool.
The Principe Forte dei Marmi: Lux Lucis on the roof terrace has held a Michelin star since 2017. Valentino Cassanelli cooks creative Italian cuisine, served in the 67 Sky Lounge from November to March.
The Principe Forte dei Marmi and the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi each hold one Michelin Key. The Principe Forte dei Marmi also has four stars in the Forbes Travel Guide.
Yes, at five of the six hotels: the Leaders Club at the Principe Forte dei Marmi and the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi, plus I Prefer, Marriott Bonvoy and SLH Invited at one hotel each.
By the sea with its own beach club at the Principe Forte dei Marmi (our recommendation) or on the promenade at the Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi, in the centre at La Serena Forte dei Marmi (recommendation), and among the pines at the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi.
The 5-star hotel Principe Forte dei Marmi is open all year; from November to March Lux Lucis serves its cuisine in the 67 Sky Lounge. The Egoista Spa is closed for maintenance from 14 to 28 October 2026.
The Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi offers babysitting and a pool with a pool restaurant, a few metres from the sea. Babysitting is also available at La Serena Forte dei Marmi and the Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi, which has its own beach club with a pool as well.
The Principe Forte dei Marmi has the Dalmazia Beach Club with a beach restaurant, the Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi the Remo Beach Club with pool, restaurant and beach bar. La Serena Forte dei Marmi reserves cabins at five beach clubs, and from the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi it is two minutes to Bagno Assunta.
Pets are welcome at five of the six hotels, including the Principe Forte dei Marmi, the Grand Hotel Imperiale Forte dei Marmi and the Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi. For the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi, our travel advisors will check the conditions before you book.
There is no single best hotel for everyone – it depends on how you travel. Food lovers stay at the Principe Forte dei Marmi, with the Michelin-starred Lux Lucis on the roof, and the hotel is open all year. Couples find an 1899 villa with a ceramic pool in a lemon garden at the Pensione America Forte dei Marmi, and art lovers an artist residency with changing exhibitions at La Serena Forte dei Marmi. Families get babysitting a few metres from the sea at the Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi. Our travel advisors will gladly help you choose among the luxury hotels in Forte dei Marmi for your dates in person.
The Hotel Byron Forte dei Marmi stands on the seafront promenade near the Parco della Versiliana, a few metres from the water, with babysitting and the pool restaurant Onda. The Principe Forte dei Marmi is also just a few steps from the sea, with its own Dalmazia Beach Club and the Michelin-starred Lux Lucis on the roof. Families tend to choose the Byron, food lovers the Principe.

