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Amalfi Coast Private Tours

Thirteen towns strung along forty kilometres of cliff road. We drive it most days of the year, which is how we know what hour to be where.
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Why people take a driver here

The Amalfi Drive is a single road cut into the rock, wide enough for roughly one and a half cars. From May to October it carries coaches, scooters, delivery vans and everybody’s rental Fiat, all at the same time. Parking in Positano costs more than lunch and is usually full by ten in the morning, and the walk back up from the beach is four hundred steps.

With a driver you are set down at the door of the place you came to see, and picked up wherever you finish walking. No reversing on a hairpin with a bus behind you. No forty-minute climb back to the car in August.

And you get to look out of the window. People who drive the coast themselves tend to remember the road. Our guests remember the view.

A day on the coast, the way we run it

We usually leave at seven, or half past. The road is empty at that hour and the light is still low over the water.

Ravello comes first, because it sits three hundred and fifty metres above the sea and the coaches have not made the climb yet. At nine in the morning the gardens of Villa Rufolo are almost yours.

Amalfi next: the cathedral steps, the old paper mills, an hour on foot without hurrying. Then lunch inland, on a terrace above the lemon groves, where the wine is the family’s own and nobody rushes you.

Positano last, in the afternoon, when the light turns the houses pink and the day visitors are already queueing for the ferry home.

You can rearrange all of it. It is your car and your day — tell us what you would rather see, and we change the order.

How much time you need

One full day covers three towns properly. Two days let you add Capri, or an afternoon on the water. If you only have half a day, take Positano and Amalfi and leave Ravello for another trip: climbing all the way up there only to rush it is a waste of the climb.

Getting there

From Naples
1h 20m to Positano
From Naples airport
1h 30m
From Sorrento
40m to Positano
From Salerno port
35m to Amalfi
Best months
May, June, September, October
Good to know
The road can close briefly in winter after heavy rain

Our Amalfi Coast tours

Questions people ask us

Is the coast road frightening?

It is narrow, and on the sea side there is a drop. We will not pretend otherwise. What changes things is that our drivers do this road every day and know where the wide points are, so nothing is improvised. If heights make you uneasy, tell us when you book and we will seat you on the inland side of the car.

Can we stop wherever we like?

Yes — it is your car for the day. The only limit is the road itself: there are few places where a vehicle can legally stop between towns. We know where they are, and they happen to be the best views anyway.

What happens about lunch?

We book the table for you at one of the places we use ourselves, usually a family terrace above the lemon groves. Unless the tour says lunch is included, you settle directly with the restaurant, so you choose what you eat and we do not add a margin to your meal.

How many people fit in the car?

Up to eight guests with luggage in the Mercedes Viano, two or three in the sedan, nineteen in the Sprinter. The price is for the vehicle and the day, not per person, so a family of six pays the same as a couple.

What if it rains?

The coast in the rain is quieter and, in its own way, better. We move the day indoors where it helps — the cathedral in Amalfi, a paper mill, a long lunch instead of a short one. If the forecast is genuinely bad you can cancel free of charge up to 48 hours before, and we will find you another date.

Do we need to book entrance tickets in advance?

Not for the Amalfi Coast. Villa Rufolo in Ravello and the cathedral in Amalfi charge a few euros at the door and there is rarely a queue. Pompeii is different — if you are adding it, book ahead or take one of our tours that includes a licensed guide.

Not sure which towns are right for your day?

Tell us how long you have, who is travelling and where you are staying. We will put an itinerary together and send you a price — no obligation, and usually within the hour.

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Or reach us directly: +1 305 951 2971 · enchantingitalytours@gmail.com