Mami Camilla Cooking School, Sorrento

Advantages: Lots to see,reasonable prices,
Disadvantages: noisy hotel on main street

.... Sunbathing is done on wooden jetties placed over the sea as there isn't much of a beach. Fishing boats line up along the sea edge. The marina has two ferry services to Capri one is fast hydrofoil the other going at a more sedate rate. Sorrento is made up of five sections situated along the coast. It is worth walking the length of Sorrento using the back streets to get a feel of the place. The older part of town is near the end of the peninsula and is distinguished by the blocks of apartments, workshops and shops set around narrow streets which are a cars width. In here there is a profusion of small shops selling an abundance of goods; food, clothes, liquors, perfumes, leather goods, pottery, paintings, sculptures, woodcraft and jewelry In the main square you can have a pizza cooked in a wood fired oven, try Pizzera Aurora, coffee... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful scenery
Disadvantages: Traffic noise

...Sorrento is located about a 90 minute coach ride south of Naples. Once you have escaped the urban sprawl of Naples the winding coast road gives you some beautiful views of the Gulf of Naples on your right whilst all the time the imposing height of Vesuvius is receding behind you. Sorrento is often regarded at the gateway to the Amalfi Coast. It is a bustling unashamedly tourist dominated Italian town with a population of 20,000 people which is swelled to bursting point in the summer months. Our visit came at the end of August and the first week in September and coincided with the last weekend of the Italian holiday month of August. As such we go to appreciate Sorrento with all its home base and foreign visitors and a slightly quieter Sorrento when it played hoist to mostly English and to a lesser degree German visitors. Other... Read review

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Advantages: Pleasant old town, beautiful scenery
Disadvantages: Few proper beaches, inflated prices

...When it comes to travel I have permanently itchy feet. Even when I'm on holiday I just can't satisfy that itch and so when I get back home I often feel that I haven't done justice to a particular destination. My holidays lately have been based around touring an area or making my base in a good central location and taking day trips to nearby places. Sorrento was one of my must-visits when in Naples for a week earlier this year. An easy to negotiate hour or so train journey from Naples (only 25KM but stops everywhere), Sorrento offers a very pleasant alternative to the hustle and bustle of southern Italy's largest city. The train journey itself is integral to the day out. You travel on the Circumvesuviana line which passes very closes to the Mount Vesuvius and the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum which were famously devastated... Read review

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