Sorrento with family

Irish Gunner

Hi

Looking flying into Naples in June spend 2 nights there. Then get Ferry to Sorrento. Spend a week there and then get private car to Naples airport for flight home.

Junior will be 18th months so will need travel cot in hotel. Will have 3 bags with us.

Still in organisation mode and googling away. We just want to relax in sorrento and eat great food. Hotel would need to have a pool. For naples we just want to see the city stroll around with junior and then chill out in sorrento.

So any tips, recommendations i can take on board I'd appreciate it

Cheers

podgeandrodge

Hi Irishgunner

we stayed in Sorrento in 2014 in the https://www.hotelpalazzoguardati.com/
Nice hotel, but in hindsight it was too expensive really (in September.) but maybe everywhere was at the time. It had a roof top pool looking over Sorrento (can't say how big a pool, didn't use it). Very central great location.

For Naples we stayed in http://hotelpiazzabellini.com/en
Can't recall it too much though, but didn't have any issues with it, good location, nice little courtyard to have a drink etc.

So, if you are having trouble finding a place, both of those certainly didn't leave us regretting location or anything and they were both nice hotels.

..board..

I wouldn't recommend Naples as a city you would stroll around. We spend 3 nights there once, it was 3 nights too long. We visibly saw pick pocketing every few minutes. The unemployment rate is very very high.
The best bit of the city was the train station.
I would stay in Sorento and travel to Vesuvius, Pompeii and Herculeanium as day trips.

fricatus

..board.. wrote: »

I wouldn't recommend Naples as a city you would stroll around. We spend 3 nights there once, it was 3 nights too long. We visibly saw pick pocketing every few minutes. The unemployment rate is very very high.
The best bit of the city was the train station.
I would stay in Sorento and travel to Vesuvius, Pompeii and Herculeanium as day trips.

Naples divides opinion, and I would agree about the pickpockets and the unemployment. I'll also add that when I was there, there was rubbish piled up on some streets, and even one or two abandoned cars.

However that's not the whole story. It's a unique place, with some beautiful buildings, great art and interesting history. Life is lived on the streets, and it has all the colour that you associate with Italians (especially those who emigrated to America, since that part of Italy was the main source). The food is out of this world (although you could of course experience that from the civilised comfort of Sorrento).

Just to give the other side of my experience: my wife and I went there one year in August when it was really hot, and loads of stuff was closed. She is not good in the heat, whereas I barely notice it, and by her own admission, she just gets to meltdown point after a while. When this happened, we just ducked into the nearest restaurant that had air conditioning. The waiter (owner?) could see that we were having a crisis, and just basically gave us whatever we wanted - cold water and ice cream, followed by some mozzarella and prosciutto salad once we felt up to it. Once the patient had been stabilised, I asked him to get us a taxi ASAP, which he did. The bill came to something laughable, like under E20, so I was sure to give him a big tip, even though tipping is only a token thing, like a few coins, in Italy. The taxi driver had probably been warned beforehand and was very efficient and courteous. When he dropped us to the station, I made sure to thank him likewise.

Anyway, you might love it and you might hate it, but you'll never forget it!

fricatus

Coincidentally...

https://twitter.com/davidmcw/status/1101058606827483137

KFed

Was in sorrento for two weeks last June with a then 10 month old. We booked a package with topflight andnstayed at the hotel Bristol for 14 nights.

Hotel was lovely, had been previously before our baby came along, and returned with baby since we knew it was a lovely hotel with very good staff and with all meals available and of excellent quality.

Italians genuinely love babies but we found the hotel staff amazing with our daughter. Would highly recommend the bristol. Tends to be mostly couples there, some honeymoons, some Just older couples without kids, very few families. We didn't mind that at all and had a great time.

We have been twice but didn't go into Naples. Our rep basically said if going in, go naked as its lethal for pick pocketing. She is married to a local do should know. I would think I'm sorrento and environs there are better places to visit, particularly with baby in tow. Getting pick pocketed and having a baby and no cash, cards, passport or whatever would be my idea of hell.

Highly recommend sorrento and lots of day trips although depending tome lf year might be too hot with baby for some...

Irish Gunner

Ok getting back to this forum

Flying to Naples spending 2 days there out of the town and then getting the ferry to Sorrento and spending 8 days there before getting bus back to Naples airport for the flight home

Want to go to Pompeii but we have to leave Junior with the godparents as I believe its a non friendly buggy place

So just looking for tips etc places to eat visit. Will do the bus tour but nothing else planned more of a chilling trip and hoepfully Junior will behave:D