Hi-
We will be coming off of a cruise this summer that starts/end in Rome (Citivecchia). We disembark on a Thursday morning and our flight will leave out of Rome FCO on Monday morning. We are a party of 9 (me, my husband, 3 teen sons, and 2 sets of grandparents). We thought we would spend those last days somewhere along the Amalfi Coast. We have all been to Italy before and have visited Rome, Cinque Terre, Florence, Venice, and many of the hill towns but we have not been down to Naples and lower.
Our cruise has a stop in Naples from 8am-5pm on a Monday. I was thinking we may do Pompeii on that stop. When we get off of the ship after the cruise is over, I am thinking we should rent a van for all of us from the airport. I have been looking at places to stay along the Amalfi and have read horror stories about driving it during the summer. This part does not sound great to me (hugging cliffs and traffic getting stuck)! I saw that you can also take ferries from Sorrento to Positano and Amalfi as well as to Capri. I was thinking it may be better to stay in or north of Sorrento (Vico Equensa sounded like a good possibility since it is one quick train stop from Sorrento).
Would seeing places by water be good enough? We can do the ferry or it may be reasonable with 9 people for us to hire a charter boat for a day. Has anyone done this out of Sorrento or Vico? Also interested if people have stayed in Vico what it was like (I know Vico is not part of the Amalfi Coast but it seems accessible to it and possibly beautiful in itself?).
Thanks for any advice or things to do/see!
Cindy