Anyone driven the Almafli Cost in a 7m A Class?

[EuroTrotters]

Just looking here for opinions please?

 

[Figaro]

I had a fly n flop holiday to Sorrento and took the local bus along the coast.
I'd say in off season, October to March you'd be ok, 52 seater busses manage it just fine.
Outside off peak, no chance, it's far too busy. The busses still do it but only just.
The road is mostly quite wide having been cantilevered off the cliff face

 

[Two on Tour]

It's illegal to drive the Almafli coast road between 6am to 10pm in a MH.
We saw a MH being stopped by the police and fined when we were in Almafli itself in June this year.

 

[zaskar]

Having done it in a hire Smart Car on a fly drive some years ago, we both decided that NO WAY would we ever want to do it in a motorhome. Utterly beautiful scenery but the Italian drivers were absolute lunatics! Coaches coming at you on the wrong side of the road round blind bends and trusting in air horns! Head on collision right in front of us due to recklessness on both parts. We got back to the hire co 1 day early thinking, b*gger this for a game of soldiers, rather spend my time by the pool side!

 

[Riverbankannie]

We went on the bus, back by boat. Sorrento to Amalfi.
Left the hire car at hotel. Nowhere to stop and look if you are driving. Bus kept getting stuck.

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[Two on Tour]

We went on the bus, back by boat. Sorrento to Amalfi.
Left the hire car at hotel. Nowhere to stop and look if you are driving. Bus kept getting stuck.

We did the same, but from Salerno to Amalfi and back on the ferry as we could not face another hour and a half on the coach to get to
Sorrento.

 

[Rapido925M]

“Petrolhead” son in law hired a car for 3 days. He took it back after 2 hours and was happy to forfeit the cash!

I drove clockwise all the way round on a Sunday morning: quite unenjoyable and only managed to get parked twice. The advice is to drive anti-clockwise OR catch the bus.

As has been said MHs are more or less banned

Gordon

 

[GoldenVision]

Did it by scooter a few years back. Places to stop and admire the stunning scenery (and stunning chaos...). Best way by far.

 

[NR]

Done it in a fiat panda and that was traumatic!! Never in a million years would I take a Motorhome there.

 

[Itsmcb]

Haha, I can hear those bus horns in my head now. Deedlee, Deedlee, and I drove around there several times but maybe 30 years ago

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[NR]

P.s. what we thought was a parking area wasn’t, we realised this when our car went past us on skates, 250 euros later we got it back, as beautiful as it is it’s also hell on earth.

 

[Funnymunny]

We did it on the bus, driver had one hand stuck on the horn and the other stuck to his phone next to his ear. Not a pleasant journey and not easy to get on the bus in Sorento as you can be waiting there by yourself but the second the bus arrives the masses just appear from nowhere and literally barge you out of the way.
There were six of us waiting and three American women who had virtually given up then came back for a second go at getting on, they suggested all joining arms and presenting a united front which we did locking the masses out and allowing us all to get on board.

 

[Sapper520]

My avatar picture was taken in Amalfi in June this year. My aim was to go from the Salerno end to Sorento and back. I got as far as Amalfi and binned the idea……even in June it was chaotic, no pleasure at all.
The hotel manager told me they were in the process of banning private coaches and only public transport buses would be allowed. No MH’s or large vehicles without permission. In the height of the season odd and even number registration numbers on alternate days.

Go by boat was the advice given to me…..

Not on my list of places to revisit.

 

[Bleau’s]

We stopped in Pompeii in May and traveled around by train the station was 2 minutes walk from the site so much easier than driving in Sorento

 

[Grianan]

We stopped in Pompeii in May and traveled around by train the station was 2 minutes walk from the site so much easier than driving in Sorento

I would agree with this. We stayed at Vico Equense and the Vesuviana train which runs from Sorrento to Naples stopping at Herculaneum and Pompeii was really useful, despite having seen better days. We got a boat from Sorrento along the Amalfi coast to Positano which was beautiful - and absolutely mobbed.

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