My husband and I are in Sorrento (our home base) October 12- 16, this coming fall. A full day in Capri (Mondo shared tours), and a day in Pompeii (Mondo again).
On 2 of our remaining days we plan to take ferries from Sorrento to Amalfi twice: once for a day in Ravello, and another day to just do Amalfi, Altrani, and a short stop in Positano. We are not interested in taking the bus in either direction.
I am reading pretty horrible reviews about the reliability of many of the ferry lines that run the Sorrento-Amalfi route (NLG, Alilauro Grunion, Serener) Bad service, last minute timetable changes, etc. Through Ferryhopper.com, I can see there are several of our preferred departure/return options with 3 of the different ferry companies during our stay (weather cooperating), which is good news.
But, I am tempted to book tickets ahead of time from home before our trip through Ferryhopper (for an extra few $$ fee to company, which is fine with me) because we won't positively return in time the previous day to book tickets directly from the ferry ticket offices on Grande Piccola in Sorrento (they close at 5:00).
Also, it seems that date/time changes CAN be made through Ferryhopper if, for example, there is a weather issue and the ferries aren't running on our chosen dates/times. Again, a small fee is no problem if I can do that through the Ferryhopper app.
R.S. seems to suggest that it's no problem to just buy tickets on the day we want the ferry (like 30 min. before departure times) but I don't fully trust this (?) and am not inclined to go on the fly if I can have tickets in hand ahead of time.
I may be needlessly worrying about this--anyone have input from experience about what is best to do? Thank you!