Book nowBook the transfers from and to Naples airport and the Capri boat for Wednesday: in June both fill weeks ahead.
Hours, prices, timetables and coordinates are from general knowledge; re-check them on the official sites the week before you fly.
Four days: Amalfi on arrival, the Path of the Gods and Positano on the second, Capri by boat on the third, Ravello before the flight.
Land at 11:00, the private car along the coast to Amalfi by 13:00. Lunch, the cathedral's cloister, a swim, and dinner in the town.
🗺 The whole day in Google Maps →The SS163 coast road, cut into the cliffs between Positano and Amalfi in the 19th century.
€130–180 the car1 h 30 min
A driver booked ahead meets you at arrivals. The motorway runs to Castellammare, then over the hills and down to the sea at Positano; sit on the right for the drops. The bus alternative takes over three hours with two changes.
€30–45 each
The trattorie in the lanes above Piazza Duomo are calmer than the square. Scialatielli ai frutti di mare, thick fresh pasta with seafood, is the coast's dish.
The 9th-century cathedral of St Andrew at the top of 62 steps, with a striped Arab-Norman front and a white cloister of interlaced arches.
about €5 eachday's highlight62 steps
The paid entrance, left of the main door, goes through the Cloister of Paradise, the old basilica's museum and down to the crypt with St Andrew's relics.
The cloister, a burial ground for nobles, has palms in the middle. Forty-five minutes. Cover shoulders for the cathedral.
The town beach by the harbour, dark sand and pebbles, with paid sunbeds and a free strip.
sunbeds €20–30 each
Rent two sunbeds from the beach club, or use the free part at the end. The water is clear and cold-ish in June, about 22°C.
€40–60 eachbook ahead
A proper restaurant on a terrace over the harbour; book ahead. Grilled fish by weight, lemon-leaf parcels of mozzarella, and a cold limoncello at the end, made from the coast's big sfusato lemons.
The bus up to Bomerano and the Path of the Gods to Nocelle, three hours high over the sea. Lunch and a swim in Positano, and the ferry back to Amalfi.
🗺 The whole day in Google Maps →about €2.40 each40 min
The bus to Agerola from the terminus by the pier; buy tickets at a tobacconist or the bar before boarding, cash. Get off at Bomerano, in the square.
The Sentiero degli Dei, an old mule path 500 metres above the sea from Bomerano to Nocelle, with the whole coast to Capri below it.
freeday's highlightuneven, some drops
Seven kilometres, mostly level or downhill, three hours with stops, about 10,000 steps. Signs mark it CAI 02; the path is rocky and in places close to the edge with no rail.
Little shade: hats and two litres of water each. Halfway, a farmer usually sells lemonade and oranges. Shoes with grip, not sandals.
about €2 each20 min
From Nocelle a small local bus goes down to Positano's main road; or walk the 1,700 steps to Arienzo, 45 minutes and hard on the knees.
The village of pastel houses stacked down a ravine to the sea, the best-known picture of the Amalfi Coast.
€40–60 each for lunch
Walk down through the lanes of shops to the church with the majolica dome. Lunch on a terrace over the beach; Positano's prices are the coast's highest.
Positano's main beach, grey pebbles under the village, with rows of orange and yellow umbrellas.
sunbeds €25–40 each
Sunbeds from the beach clubs, or the free stretch at the eastern end. Fornillo, the next beach west, is quieter, ten minutes on a cliff path.
about €12–15 each25 min
Ferries leave from the pier at the end of the beach; buy at the kiosk. The last boats of the day fill, so buy when you arrive in Positano. Sit outside on the left.
One of the smallest villages in Italy, a square and a beach in a cove next to Amalfi.
€35–50 each
Ten minutes along the coast road or through the walkway tunnel. Restaurants with tables in the little square; fried anchovies and lemon pasta.
A small-group boat from Amalfi round Capri, past the Faraglioni and the grottoes, then three hours ashore. Back at Amalfi by 18:30.
🗺 The whole day in Google Maps →A day boat of 8–12 people, with a skipper, along the coast and round Capri.
€120–160 eachbook ahead
The boats leave from Amalfi's pier. The way out passes Positano and the Li Galli islands, about 90 minutes. Drinks and snorkel masks are usually on board; bring swimwear and a towel.
Three sea stacks off Capri's south-east point, one with an arch the boats pass through.
includedBlue Grotto extra
The boat goes through the middle stack's arch and stops for a swim in the bays below. The Blue Grotto is entered from small rowing boats, about €18 each and a queue on the water; it closes when the sea is rough.
about €2.40 each5 min
The queue is often 20 minutes; buy the ticket at the kiosk first.
The little square at the heart of Capri town, filled with café tables since the 1930s.
€40–60 each
Coffee on the Piazzetta is a show and priced like one. Lunch in the lanes off Via Le Botteghe: ravioli capresi and insalata caprese, both born here.
Terraced gardens laid out by the industrialist Krupp, overlooking the Faraglioni and the Via Krupp, a path of hairpin bends down the cliff.
about €2.50 each
Ten minutes from the Piazzetta. The terraces look straight down on the Faraglioni and the hairpins of the Via Krupp, often closed for rockfalls. Thirty minutes.
1 h 30 min
Meet the skipper at Marina Grande at the time given. Sunset light on the coast on the way back.
€30–45 each
Pizzerias and trattorie in the lanes above the square; a middle option.
Check out, bags at the reception. The bus up to Ravello for Villa Rufolo and the Terrace of Infinity at Villa Cimbrone, lunch, and the car to Naples at 15:30.
🗺 The whole day in Google Maps →Leave the bags until 15:15. The car to Naples is booked for 15:30.
A 13th-century merchant's villa whose gardens, said to have inspired Wagner, hang over the sea; the Ravello Festival builds its stage here in summer.
about €8 each
Off the main square. Walk through the tower to the terraced gardens, planted in summer colours, with the domes of the Annunziata church and the coast below. Forty-five minutes.
An English lord's villa and gardens of the 1900s at the tip of Ravello's ridge, ending in a terrace of marble busts 365 metres over the sea.
about €10 eachday's highlight
Fifteen minutes' walk along the lanes from the square, gently uphill. The long avenue through the garden leads to the Terrace of Infinity, where the busts stand against nothing but sky and sea.
Come back through the rose garden and the Temple of Bacchus. Allow an hour and a quarter.
€40–55 each
A restaurant with a terrace off the square or on the way back from Cimbrone. Lemon risotto, and a last limoncello.
1 h 45 minat the airport by 17:15
Coast traffic in June is slow; the driver may go over the hills by Tramonti instead.
Buses climb to the villages; ferries run along the coast. Both are cash and kiosk affairs.
Buy SITA bus tickets at tobacconists and bars before boarding; validate them on the bus. Buses fill in June and may pass full; leave margins. Ferries between Amalfi, Positano and Capri sell at kiosks on the piers, cards usually taken; the last boats go late afternoon.
The beaches are pebble or dark sand; water shoes help. Beach clubs rent sunbeds and umbrellas by the day; each beach also has a free stretch. The sea is about 22°C in June.
Every village is built on steps. Shoes with grip for the Path of the Gods; sandals are fine in town. Lanes double as roads: step aside for scooters.
Cards work in hotels, restaurants and boats; buses and small bars want cash. Restaurants add a cover charge of €2–4 a head; tipping beyond it is optional, 5–10% for good service.
For two, 4 days and 3 nights on the Amalfi Coast, staying in Amalfi. Covers the hotel, the city tax, the airport transfers, buses and ferries, the Capri boat, gardens, beaches, every meal and a buffer. Flights are not included.
| Item | Economy | Comfort | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hotel in Amalfi, 3 nights | €750 | €1,350 | €250–450 a night in June |
| City tax | €24 | €30 | Per person per night |
| Private transfers from and to Naples | €280 | €360 | Two cars |
| Buses and ferries | €50 | €70 | |
| Boat to Capri | €260 | €320 | Small group, plus funicular and gardens |
| Cathedral, Villa Rufolo, Villa Cimbrone | €46 | €46 | About €23 each |
| Sunbeds | €60 | €130 | Two afternoons |
| Lunches | €280 | €400 | 4 lunches for two |
| Dinners | €240 | €360 | 3 dinners for two |
| Coffee, drinks, gelato | €60 | €100 | |
| Buffer | €100 | €200 | Ceramics from Vietri, the Blue Grotto, a taxi |
| Total | €2,150 | €3,366 |
Realistic figure: About €2,500–2,900 for two, without flights
Cards work in most places. Keep €100 in cash for bus tickets, small bars and the Blue Grotto rowers.
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