Villa Romita, Sorrento

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: It's in Italy
Disadvantages: Everything else

...Villa Fiorita is advertised as a three star hotel in Sorrento on the Amalfi coast, justly famed for its natural beauty. First word of warning. Whilst the hotel is advertised as being in Sorrento, it is actually six kilometres from Sorrento. Whilst this might seem a short distance?be warned!!! Traffic on the Amalfi coast, apart from featuring some of the craziest, dangerous driving I?ve seen anywhere in the world ? bar none ? is sloooowwwwwwwww. There is just the one main road, it is two-lanes although drivers often invent a third non-existent one, and often you may well be sitting in a tailback for over an hour. Further, if you do not have your own transport the bus would often be full and just whiz past the hotel entrance leaving anyone waiting there stranded for at least another half-hour. Taxis are available but will set you back... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent, inexpensive public transport
Disadvantages: Traffic is very heavy don't even consider a hire car

.... Capri can be reached by catamaran from the harbour at Sorrento. Take the little bus from outside the hotel directly to the harbour. Be warned, it?s a long very steep walk down to the harbour from Sorrento. Bus tickets from the station or the hotel receptionist, the latter is more expensive due to some racket that the local authorities run. The ticket offices are at the harbour and the catamarans operate roughly every hour. There are also catamarans to Naples but we did not go there. From the harbour to the town you can take a bus or a funicular. A further bus ride of about 3km will take you to Anacapri where you can spend an enjoyable hour or two visiting the villa and gardens of San Michele the home of the Swedish doctor Axel Munthe. Don?t be tempted to walk, it is a long up-hill trek and the bus, although crowded to sardine... Read review

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