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re: Good base for Amalfi Coast.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 2:52 pm to VABuckeye
Posted on 2/26/24 at 2:52 pm to VABuckeye
Went last September and stayed in Amalfi. BiL goes there often with his family and usually stay in Atrani. Amalfi was not too busy and and easy water taxi or bus trip was o lost places. Atrani is like Praianio I would think. Quieter and cheaper than Positano or Sorrento but still accessible.
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Posted on 2/26/24 at 5:01 pm to Weagle89
Thanks for the replies. I’m starting to like the idea of staying around Amalfi too. So hard to choose. It’ll prob come down to which Airbnb we like the best that isn’t crazy expensive. Prob gonna cap myself at 500/nt.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 6:03 pm to jkylejohnson
Not sure how many are going and we are very frugal travelers, but we stayed in Amalfi at a place called A Passo Duomo on airbnb. It was a very basic place, but it was fine for us and the host was very helpful.
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Posted on 2/26/24 at 6:08 pm to Weagle89
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Not sure how many are going
4. Me , Mrs jkyle , my stepsons (17&15).
Amalfi looks to be pretty ideal. Plenty to do and easy access to ferries/water taxis. Would love to be somewhere I could just walk into a city centre and grab dinner /breakfast /coffee from my place.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 6:41 pm to jkylejohnson
Amalfi is a good choice.
There is a beautiful and historic cathedral there and it is easy to get to the other towns on the coast by ferry in addition to other modes of transportation.
Make sure you take a ride up the small mountain to Ravello.
That is a beautiful place. I would not necessarily recommend it as a base because it is so isolated from everything else, but you could spend the day there.
There is a beautiful and historic cathedral there and it is easy to get to the other towns on the coast by ferry in addition to other modes of transportation.
Make sure you take a ride up the small mountain to Ravello.
That is a beautiful place. I would not necessarily recommend it as a base because it is so isolated from everything else, but you could spend the day there.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 7:29 pm to geauxpurple
We stayed here but you need a car. The driving is no joke but it wasn’t quite as bad as I’d feared.
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Posted on 2/27/24 at 7:57 am to jkylejohnson
Posted on 2/27/24 at 9:29 am to jkylejohnson
We stayed at the Eden Roc Hotel in Positano as our base while explored the area.
Best thing we did was renting a 20ft gazza boat with a captain for two days. We toured the coast stopping at caves to swim through, stopped at a few bars and restaurants, and went shopping. It was just the four of us and our captain Marco. It was a great experience, and IMO the best way to see the Amalfi coast.
Best thing we did was renting a 20ft gazza boat with a captain for two days. We toured the coast stopping at caves to swim through, stopped at a few bars and restaurants, and went shopping. It was just the four of us and our captain Marco. It was a great experience, and IMO the best way to see the Amalfi coast.
Posted on 2/27/24 at 8:43 pm to jkylejohnson
I would definitely stay in Sorrento. Day trip to Capri.
Here are my blog posts 14 years ago with our adult children:
From Rome to Sorrento
Saturday, August 7, 2010: We checked out of our appartamento around 10:15 a.m. and then we had a little trouble finding a cab to take us to the train station. We walked out to the main street and ended up boarding a city bus to the train station. Early this morning, we learned that the Circumvesuviana Train from Sorrento to Naples had crashed on Friday night and one person was killed and several were injured. Ironically, we are taking the train from Rome to Naples and then transferring to the Circumvesuviana Train to Sorrento (we will take the same trains back in reverse on Wednesday). Luckily, the tracks were cleared and we had an uneventful three hour train ride from Rome to Sorrento.
When we arrived in Sorrento, it was as beautiful as I remembered. We rolled our luggage down the main street about four blocks to our hotel. We are staying at the Hotel Palazzo Guardati in the middle of town. The town was packed for the tourist season. We have one room with three beds for the kids and Laura and I have our own room with a king size bed. The kids were upgraded to the third floor to be next to our room, so we both have deluxe rooms with a balcony and a view of the Gulf of Naples or Napoli Bay, a rather large inlet just off of the Mediterranean Sea. Our rooms are very well decorated and our bathrooms are rather large by European standards, but much smaller than American bathrooms. The hotel is a “green hotel” and that means that the air conditioning as well as other electric outlets (i.e., lights) don’t work unless you are in the room and have your room key inserted into a special slot. In addition, as Laura and I discovered, our A/C will not work if the balcony door is open.
The weather in Sorrento is about 85F-90F during the day and gets down to about 70F in the evening when the sun sets. There is very little humidity, so when you are in the shade, it is significantly cooler.
After our daily afternoon rest, we walked around town to get our bearings. There are two main “town” areas, one frequently visited by the tourist and one consisting largely of the locals. Based upon a Rick Steve’s recommendation and the recommendation of our hotel staff, we ventured to the Del Fino Restaurant in Marina Grande (the local’s area). We had probably one of our best meals of the trip. We were seated on the wharf, overlooking the water, and ate outstanding seafood, including squid, prawns and lobster with an Italian flair. The service was outstanding and the desserts fantastic. It was a long three hour meal, in typical Italian style, although we started at 6:30 p.m., much earlier than Italian’s. Each night, we’ve tried to guess where those seated around us were from (I thought this was local’s place?) and tonight we were seated between people from Australia (Grayson guessed correctly while we all thought they were from England), Irish and French. Laura, Grayson and I had a grand time trying to converse with the French couple from Lyon, France and Laura was the best with her French. We ended our evening walking with thousands of tourists down the main shopping road.
Sorrento - Day Two
Sunday, August 8, 2010: A great day for us. We slept late, ate breakfast at our hotel and decided to go swimming. We heard about a public beach near Sorrento and took the bus to La Cala di Puoli beach. We got off the bus one stop too early, but it was fortuitous, as we hiked down to the beach (due to the great cliffs, you have to hike down or pay a hotel to take their private elevator down to the beach). We walked a few miles downhill and came upon a private cove with a rock structure and beautiful water. We settled in this cove, with the Italian locals, and swam for about two hours. We met one American that had lived in Sorrento for four years and we were the first Americans that he had seen at this location. The kids jumped off the cliffs into the blue sea and Laura and I watched. I didn’t bring my camera (sorry), but it was a picturesque spot and the water was blue and cold.
For lunch, we had true Neapolitan pizza at another Rick Steves’ recommended restaurant named Ristorante Pizzeria da Gigino. We originally ordered two pizzas and a calzone to split, but the pizza was so good and we were so hungry that we ordered one more pizza. It was one of the best lunches that we have had in a true wood-fired oven.
After an afternoon nap, we went to Marina Grande to eat at Trattoria da Emilia, which is also on the harbour. Although we didn’t enjoy our food as much as Delfino, we enjoyed the atmosphere. After dinner of mainly seafood, we walked past the shopping area and headed to our hotel for an early evening, as we were taking the first boat to Capri in the morning.
August 9th, 2010 3:22pm
Here are my blog posts 14 years ago with our adult children:
From Rome to Sorrento
Saturday, August 7, 2010: We checked out of our appartamento around 10:15 a.m. and then we had a little trouble finding a cab to take us to the train station. We walked out to the main street and ended up boarding a city bus to the train station. Early this morning, we learned that the Circumvesuviana Train from Sorrento to Naples had crashed on Friday night and one person was killed and several were injured. Ironically, we are taking the train from Rome to Naples and then transferring to the Circumvesuviana Train to Sorrento (we will take the same trains back in reverse on Wednesday). Luckily, the tracks were cleared and we had an uneventful three hour train ride from Rome to Sorrento.
When we arrived in Sorrento, it was as beautiful as I remembered. We rolled our luggage down the main street about four blocks to our hotel. We are staying at the Hotel Palazzo Guardati in the middle of town. The town was packed for the tourist season. We have one room with three beds for the kids and Laura and I have our own room with a king size bed. The kids were upgraded to the third floor to be next to our room, so we both have deluxe rooms with a balcony and a view of the Gulf of Naples or Napoli Bay, a rather large inlet just off of the Mediterranean Sea. Our rooms are very well decorated and our bathrooms are rather large by European standards, but much smaller than American bathrooms. The hotel is a “green hotel” and that means that the air conditioning as well as other electric outlets (i.e., lights) don’t work unless you are in the room and have your room key inserted into a special slot. In addition, as Laura and I discovered, our A/C will not work if the balcony door is open.
The weather in Sorrento is about 85F-90F during the day and gets down to about 70F in the evening when the sun sets. There is very little humidity, so when you are in the shade, it is significantly cooler.
After our daily afternoon rest, we walked around town to get our bearings. There are two main “town” areas, one frequently visited by the tourist and one consisting largely of the locals. Based upon a Rick Steve’s recommendation and the recommendation of our hotel staff, we ventured to the Del Fino Restaurant in Marina Grande (the local’s area). We had probably one of our best meals of the trip. We were seated on the wharf, overlooking the water, and ate outstanding seafood, including squid, prawns and lobster with an Italian flair. The service was outstanding and the desserts fantastic. It was a long three hour meal, in typical Italian style, although we started at 6:30 p.m., much earlier than Italian’s. Each night, we’ve tried to guess where those seated around us were from (I thought this was local’s place?) and tonight we were seated between people from Australia (Grayson guessed correctly while we all thought they were from England), Irish and French. Laura, Grayson and I had a grand time trying to converse with the French couple from Lyon, France and Laura was the best with her French. We ended our evening walking with thousands of tourists down the main shopping road.
Sorrento - Day Two
Sunday, August 8, 2010: A great day for us. We slept late, ate breakfast at our hotel and decided to go swimming. We heard about a public beach near Sorrento and took the bus to La Cala di Puoli beach. We got off the bus one stop too early, but it was fortuitous, as we hiked down to the beach (due to the great cliffs, you have to hike down or pay a hotel to take their private elevator down to the beach). We walked a few miles downhill and came upon a private cove with a rock structure and beautiful water. We settled in this cove, with the Italian locals, and swam for about two hours. We met one American that had lived in Sorrento for four years and we were the first Americans that he had seen at this location. The kids jumped off the cliffs into the blue sea and Laura and I watched. I didn’t bring my camera (sorry), but it was a picturesque spot and the water was blue and cold.
For lunch, we had true Neapolitan pizza at another Rick Steves’ recommended restaurant named Ristorante Pizzeria da Gigino. We originally ordered two pizzas and a calzone to split, but the pizza was so good and we were so hungry that we ordered one more pizza. It was one of the best lunches that we have had in a true wood-fired oven.
After an afternoon nap, we went to Marina Grande to eat at Trattoria da Emilia, which is also on the harbour. Although we didn’t enjoy our food as much as Delfino, we enjoyed the atmosphere. After dinner of mainly seafood, we walked past the shopping area and headed to our hotel for an early evening, as we were taking the first boat to Capri in the morning.
August 9th, 2010 3:22pm
Posted on 2/27/24 at 8:44 pm to WacoTiger
Sorrento - Day Three at the Isle of Capri
Monday, August 9, 2010: We got an early start this morning. We ate breakfast at the hotel at 7:00 a.m. and caught the 8:05 jet (hydrofoil) boat to Capri. Capri is an Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula on the south side of the Gulf of Naples, in the Campania region of Southern Italy. It has been a resort since the time of the Roman Republic. The jet boat ride took about 25 minutes and we arrived at their Marina Grande. We took the funicular up to the town center of Capri, which is located about a mile straight up from the Marina.
We rode in a bus over to the only other town on the Island, Anacapri. From the town center of Anacapri, we took a chairlift (these were single chairs) up to the top of Monte Solaro. The mountain was approximately 1,932 feet high and provided great views of the entire island and the sea. We could even see Mt. Vesuvius from the top. We spent over an hour taking pictures and admiring the views. The best part of an early arrival, we were the first ones on top of the mountain and we had it all to ourselves for a portion of the time. While we could have rode the chairlift down, we choose instead to hike down which was about a 45 minute hike back down to Anacapri. The views were breathtaking!
We caught a bus back to the town of Capri, grabbed a quick sandwich and gelato, then walked down from the town of Capri to the Marina Grande. Grayson’s friend’s family had told us about renting a boat to go around the island and see the sights. It was great advice. We found a local rental company named Capri whales di Wendy that rented rubber center console boats, about 18 feet long and that have a 40 hp. motor. It was a perfect boat for our family. We were the captains of our ship for the next two hours and at only 90 Euro (about $120) it was a bargain. We drove around the island (the island is approximately 4 miles long and 2 miles wide) and found a cove for the Grotta Bianca (White Grotto). We anchored our boat and swam in the cool Gulf of Naples waters among several large yachts in the cove. It was one of the highlights of our trip. After 30 minutes. we continued on our way around the island and the boat trip took about two hours. We no longer felt like tourists, but like residents of Capri.
We took the 4:20 p.m. jet boat back to Capri and had drinks on our balcony to celebrate our day. It was a fantastic day in Capri. Our hotel bartender recommended La Lanterna Ristorante for dinner and it was fantastic. I had grouper, one of their fish specialties and it was fantastic. We shared three great desserts and had two more complimentary desserts. We finished with the local liquor - limoncello, just as we have done every night since we have arrived. It is a local liquor made from the freshly grown lemons in Sorrento and every restaurant insists that you partake (most of the restaurants even provide it, complementarity). It is supposed to help with the digestion of our food. Regardless, Laura and I always told Drew and Caroline to ask for it as well, so we could drink their complementary limoncello. Grayson was drinking his own by now.
I am going to post numerous pictures of Capri. I hope you enjoy them. Our last day in Sorrento is tomorrow and we will probably shop and relax for our journey back to Rome on Wednesday.
August 10th, 2010 7:18am
We also spent a 4th day, but I couldn't copy that post. Sorry for the length of this post, but I hope you get some good information.
Monday, August 9, 2010: We got an early start this morning. We ate breakfast at the hotel at 7:00 a.m. and caught the 8:05 jet (hydrofoil) boat to Capri. Capri is an Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula on the south side of the Gulf of Naples, in the Campania region of Southern Italy. It has been a resort since the time of the Roman Republic. The jet boat ride took about 25 minutes and we arrived at their Marina Grande. We took the funicular up to the town center of Capri, which is located about a mile straight up from the Marina.
We rode in a bus over to the only other town on the Island, Anacapri. From the town center of Anacapri, we took a chairlift (these were single chairs) up to the top of Monte Solaro. The mountain was approximately 1,932 feet high and provided great views of the entire island and the sea. We could even see Mt. Vesuvius from the top. We spent over an hour taking pictures and admiring the views. The best part of an early arrival, we were the first ones on top of the mountain and we had it all to ourselves for a portion of the time. While we could have rode the chairlift down, we choose instead to hike down which was about a 45 minute hike back down to Anacapri. The views were breathtaking!
We caught a bus back to the town of Capri, grabbed a quick sandwich and gelato, then walked down from the town of Capri to the Marina Grande. Grayson’s friend’s family had told us about renting a boat to go around the island and see the sights. It was great advice. We found a local rental company named Capri whales di Wendy that rented rubber center console boats, about 18 feet long and that have a 40 hp. motor. It was a perfect boat for our family. We were the captains of our ship for the next two hours and at only 90 Euro (about $120) it was a bargain. We drove around the island (the island is approximately 4 miles long and 2 miles wide) and found a cove for the Grotta Bianca (White Grotto). We anchored our boat and swam in the cool Gulf of Naples waters among several large yachts in the cove. It was one of the highlights of our trip. After 30 minutes. we continued on our way around the island and the boat trip took about two hours. We no longer felt like tourists, but like residents of Capri.
We took the 4:20 p.m. jet boat back to Capri and had drinks on our balcony to celebrate our day. It was a fantastic day in Capri. Our hotel bartender recommended La Lanterna Ristorante for dinner and it was fantastic. I had grouper, one of their fish specialties and it was fantastic. We shared three great desserts and had two more complimentary desserts. We finished with the local liquor - limoncello, just as we have done every night since we have arrived. It is a local liquor made from the freshly grown lemons in Sorrento and every restaurant insists that you partake (most of the restaurants even provide it, complementarity). It is supposed to help with the digestion of our food. Regardless, Laura and I always told Drew and Caroline to ask for it as well, so we could drink their complementary limoncello. Grayson was drinking his own by now.
I am going to post numerous pictures of Capri. I hope you enjoy them. Our last day in Sorrento is tomorrow and we will probably shop and relax for our journey back to Rome on Wednesday.
August 10th, 2010 7:18am
We also spent a 4th day, but I couldn't copy that post. Sorry for the length of this post, but I hope you get some good information.
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