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City tours and coastal trips for tourist in Sorrento and peninsular
Sorrento sightseeing options
The main sightseeing destinations for those vacationing in Sorrento are the mega attractions of Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius and to a lesser extent Herculaneum, Naples and Amalfi/Positano.
You will find plenty of traditional tours offered to these places by your hotel or travel agents in Sorrento. You can also visit all these independently with ease using the Circumvesuviana train service or the local Sorrento public bus services.
Sightseeing tour bus and train options in Sorrento
In Sorrento itself there are several sightseeing options you will regularly see during your stay in the summer season covering Sorrento and the local peninsular.
These are:
- City Sightseeing Sorrento - a classic hop-on hop-off open top sightseeing bus (pictured). The service is pretty much the same principle as most tourist city operations, the operator here runs the ho-ho buses in Naples and Rome too. A single route covers the Sorrento town, including Sant'Agnello and the villages and countryside on the peninsular.
- Sorrento City Train - a novelty mini-train pictured below. From Piazza Tasso, from a tourist perspective the centre of town it does an orientation circuit around Sorrento and Sant'Agnello including the port.
- The Green Line Tram Tour - is similar to the Sorrento City Train in many aspects but the more robust vehicle extends the tour out into the countryside around Sorrento and the underlying emphasis is more towards a serious tour than just a fun novelty ride.
City Sightseeing Sorrento
The bus is exactly the same as the open top sightseeing buses operating in nearly every major tourist city nowadays. Here in Sorrento the offering is slightly different. The same hop on and off principle applies, you can board and get off as many times as you like at any of the six stops around the Sorrento peninsular for 24 hours of sightseeing.
Three of the six stops are in Sorrento and Sant'Agnello, the other stops in the peninsular villages of Massa Lubrense, Termini and Sant'Agata.
The alternative to the hop on bus is just to use the SITA local buses that cover the same villages from Sorrento.
City Sightseeing coast to coast service
Sorrento to Amalfi via Positano
From April to October there is an alternative to the crowded public SITA buses that ply the most bus route from Sorrento along the dramatic south coast to Amalfi.
City Sightseeing who operate the open top sightseeing buses in Sorrento also operate a scheduled service between Sorrento and Amalfi stopping at Positano in direct competition with the SITA bus.
The service broadly runs at an hourly frequency and is scheduled to take around 90 minutes to do the whole trip.
You pay a premium over the public bus service. This is not a hop-on hop-off service but has a commentary.
Sorrento City Train
This a straight forward novelty orientation tour of Sorrento covering most of Sorrento and Sant'Agnello in a short 30/35 minute tour from Piazza Tasso.
You do get a commentary available in 7 languages via headphones. You'll cover most of the town including down to the port and it's a good introduction in a short time to Sorrento.
Sorrento Fun Tram
The Sorrento Tram is a longer version of the Sorrento city train. The more robust vehicle, really a normal vehicle with a body made to look like a tram allows the tour to go at a higher speed and extends the tour along the coast road out to Massa Lubrense.
It is also guided so will give you a bit of the local history of the area along the way.
Local bus services on the Sorrento peninsular
The blue SITA bus local services links Sorrento with outlying villages on the peninsular. Timetables require study and can be erratic but are well worth the effort to get out and about and visit the villages and experience the network of walks between villages through the lemon groves that are delightful.
