Help - local knowledge of Naples and Sorrento needed please
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Help - local knowledge of Naples and Sorrento needed please
Hi I don't know if anyone can help me.
I'm organising a trip to Sorrento for my family and my elderly mum next August.
We are flying into Naples and mum will probably be getting a hotel shuttle bus to her hotel. The rest of us are staying in an apartment in Sant Agnello square so will be getting to the accomodation under our own steam, either by train, ferry or bus
My questions are:
Which would be the best way to get to the apartment? I understand there is a train station near/in the square, but can't work out where that train goes to in Naples or what the train name/number is
How far is the airport from the train station/port/bus stops.
Many thanks
I'm organising a trip to Sorrento for my family and my elderly mum next August.
We are flying into Naples and mum will probably be getting a hotel shuttle bus to her hotel. The rest of us are staying in an apartment in Sant Agnello square so will be getting to the accomodation under our own steam, either by train, ferry or bus
My questions are:
Which would be the best way to get to the apartment? I understand there is a train station near/in the square, but can't work out where that train goes to in Naples or what the train name/number is
How far is the airport from the train station/port/bus stops.
Many thanks
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Re: Help - local knowledge of Naples and Sorrento needed please
If you don't get any answer here I would look at the airport website....
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Re: Help - local knowledge of Naples and Sorrento needed please
You have a couple of options. If you fly to Naples, you would need to get to the main train station using the Alibus and then get the Circumvesuviana train (platform 3) to Sorrento, and from there get a taxi to your apartment. It will shred your nerves a bit ifyou have never been before.
Or you can go bycoach transfer which would be better, or a private car transfer. It depends how many you are and your budget of course.
Or you can go bycoach transfer which would be better, or a private car transfer. It depends how many you are and your budget of course.
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This service looks good.
https://www.curreriviaggi.it/mobile/it/transfer/
https://www.curreriviaggi.it/mobile/it/transfer/
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Re: Help - local knowledge of Naples and Sorrento needed please
Hi guys. Many thanks for this; really helpful.
We’d like if at all possible to use the train but I’m just working through the scenarios and also how close we are in our apartment in SantAgnello square to the train station. If it’s close enough to walk then we’ll definitely train-it. We like a challenge!!!
We’d like if at all possible to use the train but I’m just working through the scenarios and also how close we are in our apartment in SantAgnello square to the train station. If it’s close enough to walk then we’ll definitely train-it. We like a challenge!!!
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Hi guys. Many thanks for this; really helpful.
We’d like if at all possible to use the train but I’m just working through the scenarios and also how close we are in our apartment in SantAgnello square to the train station. If it’s close enough to walk then we’ll definitely train-it. We like a challenge!!!
We’d like if at all possible to use the train but I’m just working through the scenarios and also how close we are in our apartment in SantAgnello square to the train station. If it’s close enough to walk then we’ll definitely train-it. We like a challenge!!!
Wandering around Piazza Garribaldi with big suitcases can be a bit unpleasant and the Circumvesuviana is very slow. Personally I would take the shuttle bus.
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Yeh, but what's the exact address of the apartments? Stick it in Google maps and the railway station as the other location and it will tell you exactly how close it is... Philat96 is nicely trying to tell you the trains are crap and the bus a much better option, but I can understand it if you like trains....
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Yeh, but what's the exact address of the apartments? Stick it in Google maps and the railway station as the other location and it will tell you exactly how close it is... Philat96 is nicely trying to tell you the trains are crap and the bus a much better option, but I can understand it if you like trains....
I like railway trains but not much when you can hardly see out of the window. May be things have improved. Just having looked at Tripadvisor I see the words ladri and pessima so may be not.
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And the image below is roughly the view per the red arrow in the above satellite view
Last edited by Pulaski; Aug 28th 2020 at 11:23 pm.
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Ha! Yep and double click with the mouse to go forwards, if you still use a pc/mouse that is....
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Where's Ononno when you need him?
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Of course. Doesn't everyone? ..... I find using a tablet (which I don't own) or my phone, to do anything on the internet, as compared to using a computer, to be like trying to do DIY one-handed.
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Re: Help - local knowledge of Naples and Sorrento needed please
Here I am.
The first image is not actually S.Agnello, but the last bit of Sorrento before Sant'Agnello. all localservices
The second image is a mock up of S.Agnello as proposed by the sindaco, but only imaginary work in progress.
Sant'Agnello is quite a large place, with 3 main squares, and a shabby neglected Circumvesuviana station right in the centre of pretty
original S.Agnello. The centre of town is a 2 minute walk away with a beautiful neoclaassic Comune (Town Hall) housing post, banks, police station, 2 bars,
aand of course the comune offices as well, and several different bus line stops. connection
Your reccomendation of 'curreri' is the best option of all, since they operate many local services, and several express shuttles to/ from Naples airport.
At your service when I can manage the keyboard.
The first image is not actually S.Agnello, but the last bit of Sorrento before Sant'Agnello. all localservices
The second image is a mock up of S.Agnello as proposed by the sindaco, but only imaginary work in progress.
Sant'Agnello is quite a large place, with 3 main squares, and a shabby neglected Circumvesuviana station right in the centre of pretty
original S.Agnello. The centre of town is a 2 minute walk away with a beautiful neoclaassic Comune (Town Hall) housing post, banks, police station, 2 bars,
aand of course the comune offices as well, and several different bus line stops. connection
Your reccomendation of 'curreri' is the best option of all, since they operate many local services, and several express shuttles to/ from Naples airport.
At your service when I can manage the keyboard.
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Re: Help - local knowledge of Naples and Sorrento needed please
Here I am.
The first image is not actually S.Agnello, but the last bit of Sorrento before Sant'Agnello. all localservices
The second image is a mock up of S.Agnello as proposed by the sindaco, but only imaginary work in progress.
Sant'Agnello is quite a large place, with 3 main squares, and a shabby neglected Circumvesuviana station right in the centre of pretty
original S.Agnello. The centre of town is a 2 minute walk away with a beautiful neoclaassic Comune (Town Hall) housing post, banks, police station, 2 bars,
aand of course the comune offices as well, and several different bus line stops. connection
Your reccomendation of 'curreri' is the best option of all, since they operate many local services, and several express shuttles to/ from Naples airport.
At your service when I can manage the keyboard.
The first image is not actually S.Agnello, but the last bit of Sorrento before Sant'Agnello. all localservices
The second image is a mock up of S.Agnello as proposed by the sindaco, but only imaginary work in progress.
Sant'Agnello is quite a large place, with 3 main squares, and a shabby neglected Circumvesuviana station right in the centre of pretty
original S.Agnello. The centre of town is a 2 minute walk away with a beautiful neoclaassic Comune (Town Hall) housing post, banks, police station, 2 bars,
aand of course the comune offices as well, and several different bus line stops. connection
Your reccomendation of 'curreri' is the best option of all, since they operate many local services, and several express shuttles to/ from Naples airport.
At your service when I can manage the keyboard.
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The location of the second image, (location and direction as per the arrow in the first image) is about 100m fron S. Agnello station (marked with a red ring in the first image) and within the municipal boundary of S. Agnello, as marked by Google Maps, which is marked in great detail, street by street and building by building, so either Google Maps has the boundary marked incorrectly, or local usage may be different from the actual municipal boundary. .... Most of the centre of London is actually in the city of Westminster; my address says I live in Podunk, but Podunk is several miles away.
Last edited by Pulaski; Aug 30th 2020 at 3:51 pm.