Good result ! IMo Sorrento isn't very nice, Amalfi is much nicer and better for transport connections to the rest of the Amalfi Coast, and the Santa Caterina is lovely - my favourite hotel of any I've ever stayed in, anywhere (including 19 hols in Italy, 2 involving the Santa Caterina).

I would tweak your itinerary (assuming you are flying into Rome). I would train/bus to the Amalfi coast upon arrival (you will already be tired from your flight and not be up to a full day sightseeing anyway so you may was well relax on a train).

Coast - 3-4 nights
Rome - 3 nights
Tuscany - 5 nights
Venice - 2 nights

If you are staying in Amalfi, not Sorrento, look at training to Salerno instead of Naples and then taking the Sita bus the rest of the way.

kybourbon: Thanks for the suggestion, however we arrive in Rome at 6:00 pm so really it is probably too late to travel to the Amalfi Coast. We ended up booking our hotel in Rome for 3 nights on points (Hilton Cavalieri), so our first night we'll probably have a light dinner and enjoy the hotel that evening. We already have it booked and confirmed.

I have modified our plans to stay in Amalfi 3 nights, Tuscany 5 nights, Florence 1 night and Venice 2 nights.

Thanks for the tip on taking the train to Salerno. Will check into that.

yup direct train to Salerno then hop the very frequent buses to Amalfi - perhaps quicker than going via Naples and changing to the somewhat dicey IME CircumVesuviana slow as molasses in january trains to Sorrento then the bus to Amalfi

We did the train from Rome to Salerno and then took the SITA to Amalfi last January. It worked really well. The SITA bus stops right outside the train station.

Knock one night off Sorrento and put it anywhere else. Visually beautiful as Sorrento is, it's rather touristy, so the time is better spent elsewhere.

Dobermina, they are no longer going to Sorrento.

only 2 nights in Venice... bestill my heart...