Amalfi-Coast

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. ✅ Quick Answer The best time to visit the Amalfi Coast is late May to June or September, when the sea is swimmable and ferries run full schedules before and after the August crush; Sorrento is the most affordable base at roughly 90–180€ a night, versus 200–450€ in Positano. Fly into Naples (NAP), then take the Circumvesuviana train to Sorrento or a train to Salerno, and get around by ferry rather than a car — the coast road is narrow and parking is scarce, and Capri is a 25–50 minute ferry ride away. The Amalfi Coast, Without the Traffic Jam Our first afternoon on the Amalfi Coast, we sat on a SITA bus for ninety minutes to cover what the map swore was twenty minutes, inching past oncoming coaches on a cliff road with no shoulder. The next morning a local at our hotel laughed and said one word: “Ferry.” We spent the rest of the week hopping between Positano, Amalfi and Sorrento by boat, watching the cliffs slide past from the water, and never sat in traffic again. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. ✅ Quick Answer Cheap flights from London to Naples start around £29 one-way on Ryanair, with January, February and November the cheapest months at roughly £29 to £48, while July and August climb to £100 to £220. The direct flight takes about 2 hours 45 minutes on Ryanair, easyJet, British Airways or Wizz Air, landing at Naples Capodichino Airport (NAP) just 7 km from the city centre, with Pompeii a 35-minute train ride away for around €3. Booking six to eight weeks ahead for shoulder season, or three to four months for summer, keeps a September or October trip the best value. Cheap Flights from London to Naples: Your Gateway to Pompeii, Capri, and the Amalfi Coast I almost booked Barcelona. It was the safer choice — a city I knew, a route I’d flown five times, fares that wouldn’t surprise me. Then I found a Tuesday Ryanair fare from Stansted to Naples for £31, and everything changed. I was eating the city’s most famous pizza — a puffy, charred-crusted margherita at a packed counter on the edge of Spaccanapoli — by 11am the following Thursday, having paid less for the flight than I’d spent at Heathrow’s catering the time before. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. ✅ Quick Answer September is the standout: warm weather, the sea still swimmable, the harvest season starting, and prices easing from the August peak. May and June are close runners-up with long days, mild heat, and shoulder-season value before the summer rush. The Best Time to Visit Italy, in One Sentence The Amalfi hotel wanted 320 euros a night for the second week of August, and my friend just slid his phone across the table so I could see it. “Or,” he said, scrolling, “the same room, last week of September, is 190.” We nearly booked August anyway, because everyone tells you the Italian coast in late September is “rolling the dice.” It isn’t. We swam in a sea warmer than it had been all summer, ate at a Positano terrace we’d have queued an hour for in August, and I’ll tell you below the exact dates mistake we almost made. ...