Sorrento Sightseeing Bus

This is the standard open top bus that you get in most cities that provide a hop on hop off service and will cost 12 euros per person. There is only the one bus that runs four times a day every two hours starting at 9:30 and the last one at 15:30 from the Sorrento bus and train station. You can however board at any of the stops on route and buy a ticket on board. We bought ours in advance from the hotel reception, and walked down to the Sant Angello stop in front of the Hotel Mediterraneo by the lookout terrace at the bottom of the road the Majestic Palace is on. The bus at Massa Lubrense, Termini and Sant Agata on route so if you take the first bus of the morning you could spend two hours at each point and still get the last one back through Sant Agata to return you to Sorrento. We skipped Termini as firstly there didn’t seem to be much there (although Giuseppe on reception had told us there is a nice walk out to the point of the peninsula for great views) and the bus did give a five minute photo break anyway for every one to get off and take pictures of Capri island. Secondly, by only getting off properly at Massa Lubrense and Sant Agata, we could just stay on the bus upon the return to Sorrento station while it waited for about 20 minutes and then let the last run take us all the way back to where we started for a nice short walk back to the hotel.

At Massa Lubrense there is plenty of time in the two hours for a leisurely stroll down to the Marina for a nice quiet (you’ll appreciate the quiet after being in Sorrento for any length of time) coffee looking out over the boats and the bay, before a somewhat more strenuous walk back up to the town centre to have a little look round town and the a much needed couple of cold beers at the bar right next to where the bus stops.

At Sant Agata we just popped into the church for a look at the ornate altar, before carrying on past that for a light lunch at a pleasant outside snack bar. Ice cream on the stroll back and again there is a bar close enough to the bus stop for a drink while you wait.

All in all it made for a nice relaxing day and unlike the normal city bus tours of this type the drive out and about the peninsula goes through such a beautiful landscape it would be worth doing just for the drive itself even if you don’t get off at all.

You get a set of ear phones to plug in for a commentary of what you see along the way, but it’s a standard 3.5mm jack if you ant to use your own.