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The Amalfi Coast

10 Nights · One base, one unpacking, the whole coast within reach.

Ten Nights, One Hotel

The Amalfi Coast, properly

Most people try to do this coast from a moving car and spend the week on a cliff road behind a coach. We do the opposite: one hotel for ten nights, unpack once, and let the boats do the work. Everything worth reaching is a short crossing or a short drive, and you come back to the same room every evening. Gay-owned, and welcoming to all.

Three versions, in three different towns. They are not the same trip at three prices. Sorrento is the best-connected base on the coast, Amalfi puts you in the middle of it, and Ravello sits high above the whole thing. Each one changes what your days look like, so each is priced and planned separately below.

The Classic · Sorrento

Grand Hotel Royal

Sorrento is where the boats leave from. It is the only base on this coast from which Capri, Pompeii, Vesuvius, Naples and Positano are all genuinely easy, and the only one where you can walk to dinner rather than drive to it.

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Sorrento · 10 nights

Grand Hotel Royal

On the cliff edge with its own beach club below, reached by a lift cut down through the rock, and Vesuvius straight across the water.

  • Classic room, double, ensuite, balcony or terrace
  • Breakfast daily
  • Private beach club, pool and gym
  • EUR 80 food credit at Terrasse Royal
  • 20% off spa treatments, welcome amenity

The Classic · 10 Nights · Sorrento

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  • Ten nights at the Grand Hotel Royal
  • Daily breakfast and the food credit
  • Private transfer from Naples airport
  • Private transfer back to Naples
  • Elevida planning & concierge
  • Experiences chosen and booked for you
From $4,900 per person
double occupancy · hotel, transfers and planning · experiences and international airfare are separate
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Filling the days from Sorrento

Not included · quoted for your dates and party size
The Faraglioni off Capri

Capri, on your own boat

7 hours · private charter

Out past the Bagni della Regina Giovanna, then swimming under the Faraglioni in the bay of Marina Piccola while the crew lay out prosecco and fruit. The White, Coral and Green grottoes and the Punta Carena lighthouse, time ashore if you want it, and their own limoncello on the way home.

One price for the whole boat, so it improves with numbers. Lunch ashore is your own.

From $900 per person
Positano from the sea

The coast, or Capri and Positano

8 hours · private charter

The same boat and the same money, two different days. West to Capri and back by Positano, or along the coast past Nerano and the Li Galli islets to Amalfi. Both swim beneath Positano in the bay of Arienzo. Take whichever the weather favours.

From $1,050 per person
The harbour of Corricella on Procida

Three islands in a day

8 hours · private Gozzo

Procida first, the smallest and least visited, for Corricella and Terra Murata. Then Ischia’s Aragonese Castle and Sant’Angelo, and finally Capri’s grottoes. A long, unhurried day on a traditional wooden Gozzo with swimming wherever you ask.

Docking fees and the Blue Grotto ticket are paid on the day, around two hundred and thirty euro for two.

From $1,260 per person

The Convento · Amalfi

Anantara Convento di Amalfi

A twelfth-century monastery on the cliff above Amalfi town, with the original cloister still standing and a terrace that runs the length of the building. This puts you in the middle of the coast rather than at the end of it, with Ravello above and Positano along the water.

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Amalfi · 10 nights

Anantara Convento di Amalfi

A monastery founded in 1212, converted with the cloister and the vaulted corridors intact, hanging on the cliff directly above the town.

  • Deluxe room with sea view, queen
  • Full breakfast for two daily
  • $100 hotel credit per stay
  • Free wifi, upgrade when available
  • The original cloister and clifftop terrace

The Convento · 10 Nights · Amalfi

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  • Ten nights at the Convento di Amalfi
  • Daily breakfast and the $100 credit
  • Private transfer from Naples airport
  • Private transfer back to Naples
  • Elevida planning & concierge
  • Experiences chosen and booked for you
From $7,200 per person
double occupancy · hotel, transfers and planning · experiences and international airfare are separate
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Filling the days from Amalfi

Not included · quoted for your dates and party size
The ruins of Pompeii

Pompeii and Herculaneum

8 hours · private car

Both towns in one day, which is the only way to understand either. Pompeii is the bigger story; Herculaneum was wealthier and the pyroclastic flow sealed it rather than crushed it, so the wood survived. Doors, roof beams, beds and food are still there.

A licensed archaeologist and both site tickets add roughly $150 per person. Worth it here more than anywhere.

From $500 per person
The gozzo at a coastal cove

Amalfi to Capri by sea

7 hours · private boat

Out past Praiano, the Furore fjord and Positano, the Bay of Crapolla and the Li Galli islets, through the Punta Campanella marine reserve. Round Capri for the White and Coral grottoes, Villa Malaparte and the Natural Arch, then the Blue Grotto in a wooden canoe with the local boatmen.

From $2,140 per person
A clifftop garden above the coast

Amalfi, Positano and Ravello by car

8 hours · private driver

The three towns in one loop with a driver who knows the road, an hour in each and an hour for lunch. The only way to see Ravello properly without giving up a whole day to it, and the coast road is the point rather than the obstacle.

From $740 per person

Or, the coast from above it

✦ Ultimate Experience

Caruso, a Belmond Hotel

Ravello sits a thousand feet above the sea, and the Caruso sits above Ravello. An eleventh-century palazzo with a frescoed lobby, terraced gardens and an infinity pool that appears to end in open sky. It is the most beautiful address on this coast and the most removed from it, which is exactly the point.

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Ravello · 10 nights

Caruso, a Belmond Hotel

A palazzo of the eleventh century, restored by Belmond, with gardens on terraces and a pool that reads as the edge of the world.

  • Superior room with garden, king or two twins
  • Daily breakfast
  • $100 food and beverage credit per stay
  • Early check-in at noon and upgrade when available
  • Belmond shuttle down to the coast

The Flagship · 10 Nights · Ravello

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  • Ten nights at the Caruso
  • Daily breakfast and the $100 credit
  • Private transfer from Naples airport
  • Private transfer back to Naples
  • Elevida planning & concierge
  • Experiences chosen and booked for you
From $12,000 per person
double occupancy · hotel, transfers and planning · experiences and international airfare are separate
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Filling the days from Ravello

Ravello is a clifftop village, so the days begin with the descent
A stone loggia above the sea

Villa Rufolo and Villa Cimbrone

2 hours · private, on your doorstep

The cathedral, then through the entrance tower into Villa Rufolo’s gardens, and out to Villa Cimbrone for the Terrace of Infinity. Two hours, on foot, and you are already staying at the top of it. Wagner wrote part of Parsifal in the Rufolo garden.

The only guided experience that exists in Ravello itself. Everything else runs from Amalfi below.

From $210 per person
The Path of the Gods

The Path of the Gods

8 hours · private, with a driver

Driven up to Bomerano and walked through to Nocelle along the ridge, with the coast from Praiano to Capri a thousand feet below the whole way. Dry stone walls, lemon terraces and old vineyards, and falcons working the updraughts.

A genuine cliff walk with exposure and uneven ground, not a stroll. Tell us your fitness honestly and we will pace it.

From $500 per person
The Amalfi coast from the water

Down to the water

7 to 8 hours · private boat from Amalfi

The hotel runs you down to Amalfi, and from there the coast opens up. A private boat to Capri and the grottoes, or west along the cliffs to Positano. Everything the Convento guests do is yours too, with twenty-five minutes of hill first.

From $900 per person

Good to Know

Before you go

When to go

May, June, September

The coast is fully open and warm, without August, when Italy itself goes on holiday and the roads stop working. Our pricing is built on an early-May departure.

Which base

Sorrento connects, Ravello soars

Sorrento is the easiest base and the busiest town. Amalfi puts you in the middle. Ravello is the most beautiful and the most removed, and every day begins with the drive down.

What is in the price

Hotel, transfers, planning

Nothing else is loaded into it. Experiences are chosen afterwards and priced separately, so the journey costs what the journey costs.

Gay-owned · Welcoming to all

Planned by people who travel like you

Tell us your dates and which base feels right, and we will shape the days around you. If you would rather split the coast or add Rome or Sicily on either end, we will build that instead.

From prices are per person, double occupancy, based on a ten-night stay in entry room categories and cover the hotel, private transfers to and from Naples airport, and Elevida planning. The Classic uses the Grand Hotel Royal in Sorrento; The Convento uses the Anantara Convento di Amalfi; The Flagship uses Caruso, a Belmond Hotel, in Ravello. Experiences are not included in any price and are quoted separately. International airfare is arranged separately. Pricing varies by travel date, room category and availability.
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