Destinations · Italy
10 Nights · One base, one unpacking, the whole coast within reach.
Ten Nights, One Hotel
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
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.
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.
The Classic · 10 Nights · Sorrento
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
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
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 personThe Convento · 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.
A monastery founded in 1212, converted with the cloister and the vaulted corridors intact, hanging on the cliff directly above the town.
The Convento · 10 Nights · Amalfi
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
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
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 personOr, the coast from above it
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.
A palazzo of the eleventh century, restored by Belmond, with gardens on terraces and a pool that reads as the edge of the world.
The Flagship · 10 Nights · Ravello
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
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 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 personGood to Know
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.
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.
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
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.