Best home base on Amalfi Coast?
 

Where is the most centrally located place to stay along the Amalfi Coast to take day trips? Is Naples too far? Sorrento? Salerno? Positano? OR would it be better to stay a couple of nights in each place? Also are most of these cities safe to roam alone at night?
Thanks, all!

Naples and Sorrento aren't actually on the Amalfi Coast. It really depends on where you want to go on day trips. If the Amalfi Coast exclusively, Amalfi or Positano are good. If you want to visit Pompeii, Capri and Naples as well as the Amalfi Coast, Sorrento is a good base.

You need to give us a littel more info.

How much time do you have? What do you want to see/do? When are you going? Who/how many are you?

Naples is a large city and there are a number of areas you wouldn't walk alone - esp at night.

Amalfi and Positano are very small towns filled with tourists and you should be fine alone at night - unless incapacitated.

Sorrento is a larger town with easier access to places off the coast - since it has bus, ferry and train connections (the train stops there and smaller towns have fewer ferries). It too is a tourist town and I woudln;t hesitate to walk back alone after dinner - although perhaps not in the middle of the night.

Hi there again, Kathy!

If you've not already seen them, the pair of these should allow you to see quite where's most centrally located - and what effect the local geography etc has on travel times ashore...

http://www.pbase.com/isolaverde/image/133349530

I also have to join the chorus - and say that it does depend greatly on where you want to go, and how often you might want to go there!

But if ease of travelling is a priority, do also consider the pleasant little town of Vietri sul Mare - just west of Salerno - which we liked immensely, and found hugely welcoming, although that was on just a quick daytrip from here....

http://www.pbase.com/isolaverde/vietri

It's the first resort actually on the AC and the only place there to have a rail station, on a slowish Metropolitana line that runs from Naples, through Pompei and on to Salerno - from where these people usually start running their boat services along the AC at the beginning of April (although I believe there are few that operate directly from Vietri?)....

http://www.coopsantandrea.com/eng/se...ervizi_eng.asp

Only a thought, and possibly a little quiet so early in the season... but from there it would be way way easier to get to, for example, glorious Paestum - rather than setting out from Sorrento?

http://www.pbase.com/isolaverde/tele

Peter

Here are two threads, of many that discuss the 'best base" from which to tour this area:

http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...o-stay-etc.cfm



http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...-questions.cfm

My favorite town to stay in there is Praiano - right between Positano & Amalfi, quiet, not at all touristy, simply incredible views.