Rooms are sumptuous, with classic French Vogue decor, ornate linens, marble baths and fresh flowers, and the hotel also boasts one of the city's most famous fine dining spots, the Grill Room, two top bars, and one of the best spas.

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The Decumani Hotel de Charme is fresh, elegant and in the former palazzo of Cardinal Sisto Riario Sforza, the last bishop of the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples.

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While you're noshing, the hotel will pack you a complimentary picnic lunch of fresh fruit, delectable meats, and stellar cheeses, and give you vouchers for your wine-tasting excursion to three wineries: Bernardo, Orfila, and Belle Marie.

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In the team hotel, he's been lunching with the rest of the players - sometimes fresh from the pool with a towel round his waist.

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On the other hand, if a fresh steak is just what the ski school instructor ordered, sneak into Sidecut in the Four Seasons hotel, where hefty cuts of meat are accompanied by an incredible range of spice blends and specialty sauces.

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Staffed with cool, young locals from the mainland, the casual al fresco restaurant welcomes hotel patrons as well as guests from the yachts and sailboats that moor just offshore and serves fresh fish, excellent pastas and plates of fresh anchovies drizzled in olive oil with crusty bread.

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