My wife and some friends are travelling to the Amalfi Coast in September and are finding that many of the hotels in Sorrento and Positano in our price range are already booked. I found several reasonably priced places in Vico Equense. Is it worth using that as a home base -- is it relatively easy to get to Sorrento, Pompei, Capri, etc?<BR>Thanks for any information you can provide.

Vico Equense is the Northern gate of Penisola Sorrentina.<BR>It's a small and pretty town and I suggest you surely. <BR>It's very easy to get to Sorrento, eleven minutes by train, Pompei, fifteen minutes by train and Capri from the harbour of Sorrento or Stabia, and Positano by bus.<BR>Vico Equense has thirteen hamlets. In one of these, on the hills you can taste one of the best pizza: "Paradise" and in another of these, on the beach, there is one of the best restaurants "La Torre del Saraceno".<BR>As hotel I'd suggest MEGA MARE.<BR>Have a nice trip.

Definitely. Sorrento has gotten too touristy. It makes a great day trip, but it's just overrun with tourists. To get to Sorrento, Castellammare, or Pompeii is a simple matter of catching the next Circumvesuviana subway train. Vico is about halfway between Sorrento and Pompeii.<BR><BR>Vico Equense is still a quiet village where you can walk at night and see Italians passegiata-izing and not tourists.<BR><BR>If you want pizza though, and have a large number of people in your party, go to someplace called the "University of Pizza" (or something similar), where you can buy pizza by the meter. One meter of pizza was more than sufficient for the 5 people in our group.

Thanks for your replies. That makes me feel much better about going there. Has anyone ever stayed at the Astoria or Moiano hotels in Vico? Any thoughts?

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