Amalfi Town to Naples Transportation

Ferry to Salerno and then a train is a good option. What time of year will you be there though as ferries are seasonal?

Visit www.travelmar.it/en and you can search the schedule there and book tickets if you wish to.

Thank you for your rapid response! I downloaded the Travelmar app to my ipad and saw that they do run during September, so we're in luck! One more question: they gave two ports in Salerno, does it make a difference which one we boat into?

You could also ferry to Sorrento, change boats to Naples then take the Alibus to the train station.

Piazza della Concordia is where you want to get the ferry to.

Thank you Gerri and mph! You've been most helpful. Having just discovered this forum, I feel like gold has been found. I will be posing more questions in the future. For now, your advise has helped enormously!

sandra, you need some more research, like downloading the ferry schedules and checking them against your month of travel. Note that ferries in Italy are not necessarily as well-regimented as in Rick's home town of Seattle. You need a lot of lead time and planning to meet an airplane or even Frecciarossa train that has a non-changeable ticket, when you've started in Amalfi. As beautiful as it is, Amalfi is quite, er, remote from Rome.

Tim, thank you for this advise. We will be in Amalfi during the first week of October this year. Do you think the bus from Amalfi to Salerno would be a better option to insure catching the train to Naples then Rome works well? When you say Rome is quite remote from Amalfi, that worries me that we might get stuck somewhere in between there and Rome where we have reserved a hotel. What form of transit would you suggest so that we can make it from Amalfi to Rome in one day?

Sandra. I don't really follow Tim's point. I could argue that buses can be horribly delayed by road accidents if you are unlucky and I have found the ferry service to be pretty reliable. My advice would be to catch a ferry and allow an hour for the train connection. Allow two hours if that makes you more comfortable and enjoy a cafe in Salerno. I cannot promise that nothing could go wrong but you could say that about any transport arrangements. Amalfi to Rome via Salerno is not the difficult trip Tim I s suggesting.

I would not characterize the Amalfi Coast as remote, but it does require some time. There are regularly scheduled trains, buses and ferries, just allow a little time cushion in case a transfer is delayed a bit.

Sandra,

Here is the bus schedule for the Amalfi coast.

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

For trains use Trenitalia.com. Make sure you use the Italian station names.

Give yourselves plenty of time, but keep in mind the time you are able to check into

your Rome hotel.

One thing to keep in mind is when you are able to check into your hotel in Rome.