You would have to get from the station in Sorrento down to the port to get a ferry>

It is really an easy downhill walk - a short stroll. And you can get off the bus in Sorrento I believe closer to the docks than going to the train station.

The way from central Sorrento (including the train station) to the docks is indeed downhill, but there are a lot of steps, and would be a bother with luggage after a long day of travel. There are busses for a small fare from the squre to the marina and back. There are two marinas, by the way, so be sure you are going to the right one.

I again seriously advise minimizing the number of transit changes in a single day, but it is, of course, your choice.

Yes that road down to the docks in Sorrento is prodigiously steep - with luggage sans wheels hop the bus or taxo.

As everyone else has weighed in I'll stick my oar in:

We did it something like this:
Rome 2 n
Sorrento 2 n with day trip to Pompeii
Amalfi Coast (in our case Ravello) 2 n, day trip Positano
Paestum 1 n (Greek temples)
Rome 2 n

yes, it means moving around, but the commutes between each stop are relaxed and easy - no leg is more than 3 hours or so long. After arriving in Naples, we took the Circumvesuviana (the station was a bit creepy and I didn't care for the 'luggage assistants' but it wasn't too bad) to Sorrento.
We went back to Rome using the bus to first get us to Paestum, then from Paestum to Salerno where we caught the Eurostar back to Rome.

Enjoy your trip.

Don't see a mention of this so far - but to travel between Sorrento town and its harbour..

http://www.unicocampania.it/index.ph..._primopiano=25

Peter

>>>The bus from Sorrento enters Positano from the main coast road and winds down the hill to the village centre.<<<

The bus doesn't leave the main highway (SS163)that passes through the upper part of Positano. It doesn't go down into Positano, but makes a couple of stops on the highway.

There may well be a bus that doesn't go down into Positano, but there most certainly is one that does.

>>>There may well be a bus that doesn't go down into Positano, but there most certainly is one that does.<<<

The Sita buses (blue) between Sorrento and Amalfi do not. There are two stops, coming from Sorrento the first is Chiesa Nuova (intersection of SS163 and via Chiesa Nuova) and the second is Sponda (intersection of SS163 and via Cristoforo Colombo - closer to the shops, etc.). Both stops are on the main highway SS163. There is a little internal bus (orange I think) in Positano, but it is not the bus that travels the coast.