The Amalfi Coast & Capri Family Tour

Itinerary at a glance

We meet in Naples (1 night) and start our Amalfi Coast family vacation with a walk around the castle’s ramparts and dinner at one of our guide’s favorite restaurants.

We reach the island of Ischia by hydrofoil and settle into our spa-hotel (2 nights).  The kids create their own pottery with the same mud used by the ancient Greeks, then enjoy the pool and eat early; the adults walk to a quaint fishing village and dine on a candlelit terrace.

Back on the mainland, we journey to Mt. Vesuvius for an awesome walk on the crater’s rim before checking into our cliff-clinging hotel in Positano (3 nights). You'll find the shopping here is sensational. After a walk in the “valley of the mills”, the kids try their hands at medieval paper-making while you see how limoncello, the local lemon liqueur, is made. (The kids may be intersted to know that the nearby village of Amalfi has a gelato shop on each corner of its square.)

We’ve set aside a full day to explore Capri. There’s time to explore Villa San Michele while the kids try their hands at ruba bandiera—followed by a glamorous beachside lunch at Marina Piccola. On our final day we tour the fabled excavations at Pompeii with an archeologist-friend before parting company in nearby Naples.