Seafront hotels in Corsica: less than 150 m from the shore

Plenty of hotels in Corsica call themselves ‘seafront’. For this page, we measured: for each hotel on our destination pages, the straight-line distance between its location on Booking and the shoreline drawn on OpenStreetMap. Those less than 150 metres away are listed here, from Cap Corse to Bonifacio, by way of the Balagne, Ajaccio and the Gulf of Valinco.

The shore is not always a beach. On the map, it also follows the harbour quays. Several hotels on the list look onto a harbour, in Bastia, in Porto-Vecchio or on the Marina in Bonifacio, with no beach close by; others are right by the sand. We left out the old town of Bonifacio: its hotels are close to the sea as the crow flies, but on top of the cliff, with no way down to the water.

So why not ‘right on the water’? The phrase suggests you can go straight from your room into the sea. A distance measured on a map does not guarantee it: a road, a quay or a flight of steps may lie between the hotel and the sea. We do not promise it for any of them.

The hotels are grouped by destination, with their Booking rating and the date it was recorded. The text of each listing says where the place is: read it to find out whether the beach is right below the hotel or further away.