Sorrento Travel Forum

Hi everyone, we have a few questions and any help/advice would be appreciated.
We are wanting to travel to Sorrento from Athens - can we fly direct to Naples or do you have to go via Rome? Also, what would be the best way of then getting to Sorrento using public transport (we don't want to hire a car)? How easy is it to get to Pompei - Positano - Capri and other nice places in the area? Last but not least, if we then wanted to get to Venice is it feasible to fly there from Naples or would trains be the answer? As we have been to Rome twice already would prefer not to have to go via there.
Many thanks.

Have a look at my Sorrento and Pompeii pages. Also, have a look at VTer Leics' papges. If you are travelling from Naples to Sorrento then the best way to go is by the Circumvesuviana train - this leaves from Centrale Station. It is a commuter train and is cheap, reliable and very frequent. Takes just over an hour to reach Sorrento. From Sorrento to Pompeii, again use the Circumvesuviana - the Pompeii Scavi station is right at the entrance to the site (well, a five minute walk). If you want to go to Herculaneum (and I strongly suggest that you go), take the train to Ercolano, and for Villa Oplontis take the train to Torre Annuciata. To go to Positano, from just outside the Sorrento train station there is a bus that goes all the way to Amalfi. This has to be one of the great bargain journeys - the scenery is wonderful (sit on the right of the bus going, on the left returning) and very inexpensive. It takes about 1 hour 40 minutes to reach Amalfi, about half an hour to Positano. The trip is the day out - we caught a morning bus to Amalfi, had time for a good wander round, and then lunch, and then relaxed on the "sea front" for an hour and caught an afternoon bus back.

Having just returned from Sorrento I'd agree with the above; take the train from Naples right into Sorrento and the bus from Sorrento to Positano/Amalfi. We hired a car but the drive from Naples is unpleasant, through almost continuous urban sprawl and the same back to Pompei. A car becomes a liability as parking is both difficult and costly whereas public transport is cheap and regular.
The drive from Sorrento over the mountains to Positano and along the Amalfitana to Amalfi is one of the world’s great drives, but unless you want the freedom to stop where you want to (or more realistically where you are able to) I would suggest that the bus is a more enjoyable way to travel, and yes sit on the right from Sorrento to Amalfi and left on return. When driving, the constant concentration on the road as it continually twists and turns with drivers overtaking (often on bends) or racing towards you and the difficulty of finding somewhere to park makes it less pleasurable. I’d suggest that the best way to travel the Amalfi Coast would be by Vespa which you can hire by the day in Sorrento, if you would be happy with such a means of transport; you can go and stop just where you like and you’d feel as if you were in a Fellini film.

for direct Naples - Athens flights, go to AegeanAir.com. for several flight options a day. Alitalia of course requires a change in Rome.