Quickest route from Sorrento to Paestum
 

I'm wondering what is the fastest way to get from Sorrento to Paestum...
Option A: Take the 7:30 Metro del Mare to Salerno arriving at 9:25. Then take the 9:42 train from Salerno to Paestum arriving at 10:16.
Option B: Take the Circumvesuviana to Pompeii and then I believe there is a bus or train to Paestum. I don't know how long this option takes.

With option A, I would depart at 2:04 from Paestum and arrive in Salerno at 2:39. Then I was thinking I could travel from Salerno using a combination of the buses and ferries stopping in Amalfi and Positano. Is this doable?

lowlyb:

Option C: Pick up a car in Sorrento and drive to Salerno (picking up the autostrada A-3)..get off the A-3 at the Salerno-Fratte exit, folow all signs pointing to Agropoli...about 30 kms. to Paestum exit.

Alternatively, if you want a nice shore-side drive, catch the beach road to Agropoli from Salerno, which takes you right by the Paestum site. Also about 30 kms from Salernoa.

Give yourself a whole day to do this round-trip, but you'll have the independence of the auto for probably $80 + or - .

Stu T. (I drove this a few years ago...easy drive, Autostrada most of the way)

Hi Lowly - Option B via Pompeii is quicker - and safer.

Sorrento-Pompeii takes 35 mins.
Pompeii-Paestum takes 57 mins.

The only problem with this option is transferring from Pompeii Scavi station to Pompeii F.S mainline station. It would be advisable to take a taxi for this transfer.

The 09.19 from Pompeii gets you to Paestum at 10.16.
(This is the same train you would catch from Salerno).

Paestum is a 10-15 mins walk from Paestum station.
[From Paestum station cross the road and take the lane opposite through the arch].

N.B. Make sure you leave Sorrento early enough to make the 09.19 from Pompeii F.S.
If you miss it, there isn't another train to Paestum before noon.

http://www.trenitalia.com/en/index.html

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For Amalfi Coast ferry services see:
http://www.salernocity.com/comune/tr.../costiera2.asp

You can find Amalfi Coast bus timetables on:
http://www.sitabus.it/sitabus/campan...COCOSTIERA.pdf

Hope this helps ...

Steve

P.S. Option A is risky anyway as the Metro del Mare hydrofoil arrives at Molo Manfredi, not Piazza della Concordia.
15 mins is probably not enough transfer time to Salerno station - you'd end up going by bus to Paestum which takes much longer :(

There is a Sita bus Sorrento-Salerno. Ask where the Paestum bus leaves from (its nearby). I did this a few years ago and it was painless.

DRJ - How long did that take you, though?

It really doesn't work well by bus from Sorrento. Lovely as the ride is along the coast, Sorrento-Salerno takes nearly 3 hrs.

Salerno-Paestum takes over an hour too ...

You'd spend half a day getting there.

Steve