A very nice, clean and welcoming Novotel with outdoor pool, fitness and underground parking.
The staff is welcoming, friendly, helpful and polite. That includes everyone from the reception, the restaurant, the kitchen, the cleaning and the pool guy. No problems with the English language at the reception and restaurant.
The location is not the gratest, it's a bit far from the city centre but it can be turned in to an advantage. You have to walk along the shore on the promenade or you can take the Metro from the nearby Metro station Arbostella. Download the Trenitalia App and buy the tickets online. It costs 1,5 euro per person from Arbostella to the Salerno center station.
There are a ton of things to do and visit in the region. You are on the Amalfi coast!
But if you want to take it slowly and taste the "dolce far niente" stay in the Arechi neighborhood were the Novotel is actually placed. You can eat deliciously and quite cheap at the Pizzeria Salernitana which is placed 300 metres or 4 minutes walk away from the Novotel.
1.6 km or 20 minutes walk towards south east you will find Maremo Beach Club. They have a nice private beach and a very good restaurant with gourmet food.
Longer south you can find a free beach (spiaggia libera) on the Via Salvador Allende. It's 2.6 km away from the Novotel and it takes 30 minutes to get there on foot.
The closest accessible private beach is 500 metres towards the centre or north west. The place is called Restaurant and Lido Eureka.