Sorrento & Amalfi Coast guides – honest planning [2026]

Guides & tips

Plan your trip like a local

Honest answers to the questions travellers ask us most.

A practical comparison of buses, a guided road tour, private drivers and ferries when coast-road traffic controls the day.

What a Capri boat day from Sorrento includes, why the Blue Grotto is never guaranteed, and how much time you actually get ashore.

Compare Herculaneum and Pompeii from Sorrento by scale, preservation, transport and the amount of walking each visit demands.

Build a realistic Naples day trip from Sorrento by train or ferry without trying to fit the whole city into a few hours.

How to plan the Path of the Gods from Sorrento, including route facts, transport, exposure and when a guided transfer earns its price.

Compare the simple Pompeii train trip with a guided Pompeii-and-Vesuvius day, including costs, timing and the compromises.

How the full-day boat trip works, what weather can change, and when a ferry or road tour is the more sensible choice.

Plan Ravello from Sorrento around Villa Rufolo, Villa Cimbrone, steep streets and the transport that determines your time in town.

Compare Sorrento pizza and pasta classes with the longer farm format, including prices, duration and what to verify before booking.

Plan Sorrento with children around short boat trips, small beaches, shade, pushchair limits and excursions that do not exhaust the day.

Other places in the region — same approach, their own tours: