Getting to Sorrento

Sit back and savour the views
 

You will know your holiday has well and truly started when you are travelling from the airport to Sorrento and enjoy your first glimpses of the beautiful bay of Naples along the way.

Curreri operates several buses each day from
Naples Airport to Sorrento and back

The nearest airport to Sorrento is the Aeroporto Internazionale di Napoli, which is about 50 km (31 miles) to the north of the resort, and you can fly there from many different airports in the UK and other countries. There are also internal flights to Naples from Genoa, Catania, Turin, Rome, Milan, Bergamo, Verona, Palermo, and Trieste.

You can travel from the airport to Sorrento by either road, rail, or sea. A regular bus service is operated by Curreri Viaggi from outside airport Arrivals to the centre of Sorrento for €13 per person.

A taxi booked in advance by your hotel to pick you up at the airport will cost approximately  €130 - 150 for a small group.

The road from Castellammare to Sorrento
offers some spectacular views across the bay

However, you could take a taxi into the centre of Naples to the Circumvesuviana railway station at Porta Nolana and board a local train, which will reach Sorrento in just over an hour.

If you would enjoy arriving by sea, take a taxi to Molo Beverello in Naples from where there are regular ferries across the bay to Sorrento. The voyage will take about 45 minutes and you will arrive at the harbour of Marina Piccola. 

From there, you can either walk up into the centre of Sorrento, use the lift to get up to the town, or take a bus or taxi.

As you travel to Sorrento, enjoy the spectacular scenery along the way. First you will be able to see the volcano Vesuvius at close quarters, then between Castellammare di Stabia and Sorrento, you will follow the twists and turns of the coastal road and enjoy some spectacular vistas across the bay.

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Sorrento lift

Let the lift from the port do the hard work for you

The long, tiring climb uphill from the port or beach is a thing of the past for Sorrento visitors and residents.

Sign for the lift in
 Villa Communale

Two lifts now connect the centre of town with Marina Piccola and the nearby beaches.

Travellers returning from a day trip to Capri, Ischia or Naples can be whisked up from the port to Piazza Gargiulo in the Villa Communale in 20 seconds.
From there it is just a few minutes walk to Piazza Tasso and the shops, bars, restaurants and hotels in the centre of the resort.
A single trip costs 1 euro but you can also buy a return ticket for 1.80. Between May and September the lift runs from 7.30 in the morning till midnight. For more information visit www.sorrentolift.it.

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Travel around Sorrento on local transport

You don’t have to hire a car to travel around Sorrento and the surrounding area as the transport services are excellent.

Linea A bus

A local bus service, operated by EAVBUS, serves Sorrento. Linea A (Line A) goes from Massa Lubrense, just outside Sorrento to the south-west, through Capo di Sorrento and the centre of Sorrento to Meta, at the north-eastern end of the Sorrento plain. 

Circular lines B & C link the main port (Marina Piccola) with Piazza Tasso in the centre of Sorrento and the railway station. Linea D links Sorrento with the smaller fishing port at Marina Grande and Linea E runs between the railway station and the Hilton Hotel.  

Another bus service (Autolinee Sita) connects Sorrento with places on the Sorrentine peninsula, including Massa Lubrense, Sant’Agata su due Golfi, Nerano, Marina della Lobra and Priora, as well as Positano and Amalfi. 

The Circumvesuviana railway runs trains back and forth between Sorrento and Naples every half an hour from early in the morning till just before midnight .

Trains call at Pompei and Ercolano, providing visitors with an easy way of seeing gli scavi -- the excavated remains of the towns destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. 

Hydrofoil at Marina Piccola

There are main line stations providing access to the more extensive rail services of the Trenitalia network at both Pompei and Naples.

A car ferry service runs between Sorrento and Capri and aliscafi (hydrofoils) go to Capri, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Positano and Amalfi.

Timetables for all the buses, trains and boats are printed at the back of Surrentum, the free monthly tourist magazine, which is available from the Tourist Office based at the Foreigners' Club in Via Luigi De Maio in the centre of Sorrento. 

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Take a trip from Marina Piccola

The harbour at Marina Piccola

From Sorrento’s main port at Marina Piccola you can take a boat or aliscafo 
(hydrofoil) to the islands of Ischia, Capri and Procida. 
There is also a direct aliscafo to Naples and the Metro del Mare service from Sorrento to Positano, Amalfi and Salerno, which sails round Punta Campanella, the tip of the Sorrentine peninsula, and past a picturesque group of islands called Li Galli.

You can either take a local bus or taxi to the port or walk down from either Piazza Tasso or Piazza Sant’Antonino using the steps and the winding road.

Down at Marina Piccola there are restaurants, bars and shops and a central area where you can buy tickets for the different ferry services and check their timetables.

You will see small boats bringing passengers ashore from the cruise ships visiting Sorrento that are moored further out in the bay.

And you will notice that one area of the port is reserved to accommodate privately owned boats and fishing boats, which are still used to catch fish by traditional methods and provide an important source of employment in the area.

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