Amalfi Coast in February

Rick Steves' guide to Italy should have all the basic info you need. For lodging, try Booking.com.

If you want to see Pompeii, Herculaneum, Naples as well, then Sorrento is the best base, connected to those by local train, and good bus connections to Ravello, Positano, etc. I stayed at Magi House (B&B) and loved it.

Thank You for your suggestions.
Because it is off season we are considering a rental car to see the sites. Leaving Tuesday
Still weighing on train or car?? (we will be arriving through Rome)

Magi House looks lovely.

What I especially loved about Magi House was that the staff were warm and caring and spoke beautiful English. They bring breakfast to your room (the outdoor breakfast area isn't an option in February).

You don't want a car. I get lost easily, so when I got off the train in Sorrento, I took a taxi to the hotel. Ttere's a one-way driving route so the trip took longer than it would have to walk. There are also roads that are restricted to certain vehicles and some that are not accessible at all to cars. The train is easy and cheap. It stops just a few meters from the entrance to Pompeii. It's an easy 10-minute downhill walk from the train to Herculaneum. It was about a 10-minute walk from Magi House though the town center and past a supermarket or two (handy to pick up drinks/snacks for the day) to the train station.

For various reasons, I didn't get to the Amalfi towns, but I've heard that driving those roads is really difficult, while on the bus (which shouldn't be crowded in February), you can enjoy the scenery. I was going to say "relax and enjoy" but I've read that it's not that easy to relax when you realize the road is narrow and the drop is steep :-)

It looks like the best prices for Magi House are through their website.

We were in the area early March last year. We stayed in Salerno because besides wanting to visit the A.C., we had a heritage trip scheduled to a village in the mountains--Sant' Arsenio--55 km southeast of Salerno.

As it turned out, for that time of year--and you're visiting 3 weeks earlier in the season than we did--Salerno was the perfect choice. We based for 5 nights at a B&B near the Old Town. Besides the heritage trip during one day and a cooking class that same night at an apartment in Salerno, another day we took the train to Pompei (45 min each way), and then another we took the bus to Amalfi (55 min each way). It would've been another hour each way to Positano.

It's going to be chilly for the most part while you're there, probably not above 55 degrees for a high on any given day. We checked the weather forecast and picked the best day out of the 3 remaining to go from Salerno to the Amalfi Coast--highs were 55-60 F with bright sunshine, just wonderful. The bus ride was spectacular and a little scary at the same time, unbelievably cheap (2,20 Euro each way), with the best thing being that the A.C was almost totally devoid of tourists. Conversely, not many places in Amalfi itself were open. A few restaurants, a few shops, that's all. We lunched at Lido Azzurro restaurant on the water, and it was their first day open for the season. So keep that in mind. Not sure if more restaurants would be open in a place like Sorrento, because we never made it that far. But from what we saw, most of the A.C. was dead in early March (although beautifully spectacular!), and I assume it would be the same in February.

Check this for updates, but here is the SITA bus schedule for Salerno & all the Amalfi Coast locations as of March 2015:

http://www.theamalficoast.net/orari_sita_bus_timetables.html

After each daytrip, we'd return to Salerno late afternoon, take a walk on the lungomare along the sea, then take a nap back at the B&B before restaurants opened around 8PM. The food is tremendous in Salerno--seafood, Napolitan pizza, even other solid ethnic places like Greek and Japanese. A much better variety than you would find this time of year on the A.C. And the Old Town is absolutely charming, few tourists that time of year, so we were seeing almost all locals. We loved it.

You don't specify how many days you plan to be in the area, but if you want to daytrip and visit Pompei, Paestum or Naples, besides seeing the Amalfi Coast, you could do a lot worse than basing in Salerno.