Mobility Issues - Travelling to Rome and Positano

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Positano is all steps, built on a steep hillside, and based on what I observed last year, very inaccessible. If there's an elevator, we didn't see it. I would recommend not staying in Positano, based on mobility issues and transportation issues. It is very difficult for anyone to transit to other areas of the AC from Positano. The roads are very congested and public transportation poor. The ferry dock is small and ferries often canceled due to high winds and storms. Good luck!

Agreed, do not even visit Positano, except inside a car. (Very bad traffic, however.) Less glamorous Sorrento has an elevator or bus to the marina-ports, with ferries to Capri. But Capri is hilly and highly pedestrianized. Taxis cannot reach 50% (?) of the island. Different ferries are used depending on passenger load and time of year. They can be standing room only May-September.

Perhaps a car and driver from Sorrento for the day, but that does not make the free-time in Positano practical for her. Ravello is mostly level, once you get up the cliff to the town by car. She can enjoy Ravello. Amalfi town not as much.

I have mobility issues and it can be. challenging to travel.

I took a cruise last October which included an excursion to Rome. Rome was still very crowded and it was still very hot. It was very rainy with some downpours during the few hours that I was there.

If it was still very very crowded in October, Rome will be much more so in summer and possibly very hot.

In St Peter's Square, the downpours caused tourists to seek covered shelter of some kind.until they let up. And covered areas got very crowded.

I use a cane when on an excursion but I sometimes experience bad pain. Usually ,but not always, I can find. a place to sit down when necessary but sometimes I have to make do. I have had to sit on the steps of an old church when it was not always the most comfortable place to sit. Other times, I had to sit on a large boulder which could be comfortable but I could not hear the tour guide,

There were a few times when I needed to and wanted to sit down but was unable to find. a place to do so and just had to deal with it .

As said, I was on a. shore excursion and there was. a lot of walking. My memory is there were many older tourists who also had mobility. issues. I was not alone.

There were many very old beautiful churches but some had. a lot of steps. I did not think about accessibility for those in wheelchairs and walkers but I had to forfeit some sites because of stairs.

I am looking at my pictures and see many roads and streets made out of cobblestones, rocks and tiles.

If MIL uses a wheelchair , then MIL will not be in my position of trying to find a place to sit down but everywhere is going to be packed. You will be up against the crowds.

But Rome was shockingly beautiful and whatever the problems, I am so glad that I went.

Between the cobblestones and the stairs it will be almost impossible to get to some of the sites in Rome. That said I recommend Googling Rome in a wheelchair to find information about accessible sites and plan your itinerary based on that information. Skip Positano and Capri. They aren’t worth it even for those without mobility issues.