The big, well-connected resort town on the bay side of the peninsula — a lively old centre, lemon groves, easy trains to Naples and Pompeii, and ferries to Capri. Not on the Amalfi Coast proper, but the most practical, best-value and least vertiginous base for seeing it all.
A look around
What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.
€130–220
typical per night in Italy
The sensible middle
Typical prices for Amalfi Coast — neither steal nor splurge.
Where it sits
The circle is Sorrento and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.
How far is everything?
From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.
- Positano (beach)28 min taxi9.2 km
- Positano28 min taxi9.2 km
- A boat trip along the cliffs28 min taxi9.2 km
- Positano's beaches28 min taxi9.3 km
- The Path of the Gods37 min taxi12.3 km
- The Amalfi Coast road44 min taxi14.7 km
- The Emerald Grotto49 min taxi16.5 km
- Amalfi Cathedral58 min taxi19.2 km
- Villa Rufolo, Ravello60 min taxi20.1 km
On your doorstep
What you’re living next to if you stay here.
- 9.Sorrento's old town — The lively heart of the gateway town — narrow lanes of lemon-yellow shops, inlaid-wood workshops and buzzing piazzas, opening onto a cliff-top promenade with a huge view over the bay to Vesuvius. The most sociable, best-value base for the region; wander it in the evening for the passeggiata, a limoncello and a bay-view dinner.
- 10.Lemons & limoncello — The coast's giant, fragrant 'sfusato' lemons are everywhere — as ice-cold limoncello poured after dinner, as 'delizia al limone' cakes, as granita, and in soap and everything else. Visit a lemon-grove terrace, sip a chilled limoncello at sunset, and try a lemon delight; the taste and scent of the whole region.
- 14.Seafood & gnocchi alla sorrentina — The local table is superb — spaghetti alle vongole, fried anchovies and grilled fish straight off the boats, and the regional classic 'gnocchi alla sorrentina', baked in tomato and bubbling mozzarella. Eat it at a seafront trattoria with a jug of the local Furore wine; simple, sunny southern-Italian cooking at its best.
- 16.A lemon-grove walk — The terraces above Sorrento and the coast are carpeted in the region's giant lemons, and several family groves open for a stroll, a tasting and a glass of home-made limoncello under the pergolas. A fragrant, shady escape from the heat and the crowds, and a lovely window into the coast's oldest livelihood.
When are you staying?
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