Marina di Porto Rotondo
Punta Volpe
Ira Beach, Golfo di Cugnana
Cala Sassi
Punta degli Asfodeli
Browse the boutiques around Piazzetta San Marco
View the Last Judgement fresco inside Chiesa di San Lorenzo
Watch the fleet gather for the Big Game fishing tournament each August
Swim off Spiaggia Bassey
Take the tender south to Olbia for dinner
Piazzetta San Marco
Chiesa di San Lorenzo
Punta Lepre
Spiaggia Bassey
Marina di Porto Rotondo
June through September gives the most reliable weather and the full run of restaurants, boutiques and beach clubs, though July and August bring the marina to its social peak, with berths tight and prices highest. May and late September offer a calmer, still-warm alternative with quieter anchorages nearby. The Costa Smeralda’s season generally mirrors the rest of northern Sardinia, running from late spring into early autumn.
Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport (OLB) is the closest, around 25km and roughly a 25 to 30 minute drive from the marina, with direct flights from most major European cities through the summer season. Guests can also fly into Alghero or Cagliari and transfer by road, though both add well over an hour to the journey. Many charter guests choose to join the yacht directly at Marina di Porto Rotondo.
Ira Beach, tucked inside the Golfo di Cugnana, and the coves around Punta Volpe are the most sheltered options close to the village, both a short tender ride from the marina. For more open water, the bays toward Punta degli Asfodeli offer good holding with fewer boats nearby. Conditions are generally calm in summer, though a mistral from the northwest can make the more exposed anchorages uncomfortable.
Two to three days is enough to enjoy the village itself, swim the nearby coves and make an evening visit to Porto Cervo, roughly 20 minutes away by tender or car. Most charter itineraries combine Porto Rotondo with the wider Costa Smeralda, adding La Maddalena’s islands or Olbia to the north for variety. Guests focused purely on beach time and marina life sometimes stay a full week without moving.
Yes. A small, sheltered stretch of sand along the coast is still known locally as Spiaggia Bassey, after the British singer who spent long days at sea here on holiday in the early 1970s. It’s one of several quirks in a resort with an unusual history of its own: Porto Rotondo was developed independently from 1964 by the Venetian Donà dalle Rose brothers, two years after the Aga Khan’s consortium began building Porto Cervo just up the coast.
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