Recommended Transportation from Siena to Sorrento?

Do you want shortest travel time or fewest connections? You have train/bus combinations or all train (including the Circumvesuviana, although many posters also recommend the Curreri bus from Napoli to Sorrento).

Rome2rio.com can give you information on different transportation modes. Personally, I prefer fewer connections, but the routes shown have a time difference of almost two hours, so that may be a factor you want to consider.

By the way, you might check an additional guidebook that includes more of Italy (but the RS books have more detail).

Our preference is for as few connections as possible, and preferably a single mode of transportation all the way.

Thanks,
Fred

There is no "one seat ride" between Siena and Sorrento, and there's no clear "winner" among the transit options, so you'll have to look at the various options and choose which one is least painful for you.

Sorrento is accessible by bus or by a private train line (the Circumvesuviana) from Naples, as well as by boat from Naples and some Amalfi Coast destinations (in season). It is not on the main Italian Trenitalia system. Siena is on the Trenitalia system, but on a spur line, so getting to most places by train requires at least one connection; it also has a good amount of bus service. However, in Italy, buses mainly fill in gaps in train service, and connect places with limited or no train service to the larger hubs in their region; they rarely go between regions. For these reasons, these destinations simply don't have an easy connection between them.

A North American equivalent might be getting from Cape Cod to Niagara Falls without a car; you're going to have to take more than one conveyance to do that.

Do look at Rome 2 Rio to see your options: http://www.rome2rio.com/s/Siena/Sorrento-NA-Italy

Hi.
The easiest way to get to the Amalfi coast would be to travel from Florence to Salerno and then from Salerno to Amalfi or Sorrento.
From Siena, you have to add 1.15 hour to 1.30 either by bus or train. I prefer the travel by bus as it gives you the opportunity

to admire the landscape.
You could also find an accommodation in Florence and daytrip to Siena during your stay in Florence.

The national railway system, www.trenitalia.com, serves either Napoli or Salerno, so you'd use one of those destinations when booking your longer train rides, then pay separately for Circumvesuviana commuter train (Naples-Sorrento), bus, or ferry.