Just curious, was "Summer in Italy" cheaper than the Residence Alcione website?

Have a wonderful month in Positano?

@ekc - fantastic - you are reading my mind! I had a great correspondence with Chiara and was hoping to meet her and see VLS during my stay. Love what sounds like a very friendly vibe to their property - including a recommendation for private chef The Wolf to come over and cook - ha - sounds like my kind of guy! And the garden - and the lemons - all sounds amazing.
Dinner at Hotel Le Sirene - on my list - thank you! "They send a boat to get you from the dock" - just reading that sounds heavenly.
@Judy the rates were really close. I liked that Summer in Italy had a detailed description of each of the apartments and lots of photos. They were wonderful to work with - highly recommend.

It's far from desolate, but there is no "mass tourism" in Positano during the month of May. If you can afford to visit Italy in May, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better month. May tourists are a very different kind of tourist. IMO, they're the best kind.

People-watching is half the fun of travel. Who wants to visit an Italian town with little signs of life? If solitude is your idea of a vacation, then don't visit Italy when the sun shines.

Some tourists have the attention span of gnat, or they suffer from can't-sit-still-for-one-minute-itus. Positano offers some of the most breathtaking views in the world. IMO, a lifetime of viewing such glorious spectacle wouldn't be long enough. On a scale of a lifetime, your month in Positano will last less than a second. If you share just a little of my perspective on travel, you will be oh, so grateful that you chose to pick one area of Italy and committed yourself to truly live the experience.

Congratulations!

HR

Music to my ears @NYCFoodSnob. In total sync with your perspective on travel ... thank you!

There were many hikes I wanted to do around Positano but, if you only have 5 days, never got to them. A month would be awesome!

Thanks Judy - planning to do alot of hiking - Path of the Gods and so many others I've been reading about - Capri too!