The risk with an Amalfi honeymoon is doing too much of it. Positano, Capri, Amalfi and Ravello all fit into five days on paper, but changing hotels every night and chasing every viewpoint works against the reason you came. This plan uses only two bases, three nights in Positano and two in Ravello, with one main outing a day and long meals in between.
It is a relaxed, luxury plan for couples, best from May to September; the beach shacks close from November to March. Every stop is mapped in the complete Amalfi honeymoon trip.
Make three bookings before anything else
The reservations shape this trip more than the sightseeing does:
- La Sponda at Le Sirenuse, lit by four hundred candles. Book it when you book the flights; day one is built around it.
- A private boat to Capri from Positano's pier for day two, early enough to reach the Blue Grotto before the queue of boats forms.
- Rossellinis at Palazzo Avino in Ravello, the second formal tasting-menu dinner. Bring a jacket.
Two places can't be booked, so the plan handles them with timing instead. Franco's Bar takes no reservations, so arrive before sunset for the front rail. Da Adolfo is reached by its own free boat from Positano's pier, the one flying a red fish flag.
Day 1: Arrive slowly in Positano
Leave the morning for travel. By 15:00, drop the bags and take the stairs down to Spiaggia Grande for a swim, looking back up at the town you're sleeping in. Aperitivo at Franco's Bar starts at 17:00, and dinner at La Sponda at 19:30. Nothing else today: the first big booking is the reason day one stays light.
Day 2: Capri by private boat
The boat leaves Positano's pier at 09:30 and circles the island, reaching the Blue Grotto early and then the Faraglioni. Lunch is linguine at Da Luigi ai Faraglioni at the foot of the sea stacks, with a swim off the rocks between courses while the boat waits.
At 16:00, walk up to the Gardens of Augustus for the classic view down the switchbacks of Via Krupp, then stop for gelato in the piazzetta. Back in Positano, dinner is the tasting menu at Casa Mele with a view of the open kitchen. This is the longest day; going by private boat is what lets grottos, lunch and gardens fit without adding another Capri stop.
Day 3: The Path of the Gods, then a beach-shack lunch
Take the bus up to Bomerano and start the Path of the Gods at 09:00, before the heat. It is the coast's great walk, downhill toward Nocelle. The plan allows two and a half hours; walkers who stop often for photos should start earlier rather than rush.
Back at Positano's pier, take the red-flag boat to Da Adolfo at 12:45 for mozzarella grilled on lemon leaves, white wine with peaches, and swims between courses. Later, Ceramica Assunta sells hand-painted lemon ceramics and ships them home. Dinner at Lo Guarracino is seafood linguine on a vine-covered terrace over Fornillo as the lights come on below.
Day 4: Through Amalfi to Ravello
Break the transfer in Amalfi town: its striped cathedral, the great stair and the Cloister of Paradise, then a harborside lunch of scialatielli ai frutti di mare at Ristorante Marina Grande. The switchback road takes you up to Ravello.
Villa Rufolo's umbrella-pine terrace, which Wagner turned into Klingsor's garden, comes at 15:00. Villa Cimbrone's long garden avenue to the marble busts on the Terrace of Infinity is best at 17:00 in the lower light. Dinner is the formal tasting menu at Rossellinis, not the night to improvise.
Day 5: A quiet Ravello morning
Have coffee on the Duomo square at 09:30, before the day-trippers climb up. Farewell lunch is at Cumpà Cosimo, a family trattoria; ask for the mixed pasta sampler, and leave the afternoon empty.
Is this the right Amalfi trip?
Choose this version when the coast is the whole trip rather than one half of a southern Italy route. To decide which coast stops matter most to you, use the Amalfi Coast for Two collection. If you want Naples, Pompeii and Herculaneum too, the six-day Amalfi Coast and Naples itinerary makes the coast one half of a broader trip, travels by train and ferry, and gives the Path of the Gods a longer, more athletic morning.
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