Direct flights from Naples (Sorrento) to ... then back to the UK

Grumpelstiltskin

I stayed way out of town, beautiful views but a hassle to get into town.


There are literally dozens of hotels in Sorrento, so look at sites like Tripadvisor and as I said if you decide to stay in the town centre look carefully at the maps to see where they are.


Sorrento is good as a base you can do Pompeii and Herculanium by train, towns along the Amalfi Drive by service bus and Capri by ferry, but the town centre itself if you keep away from the tourist trap streets all the tour groups go to is honestly nothing out of the ordinary.

Andypandyboy

ClarkeKent wrote: »

Thanks for all the helpful info so far, this is great. We have £150k Hilton points from a New York hol 10 years ago that we have been maintaining. So a Venice Hilton hotel would be good, but any hotel recommendations always welcome and we can save the points for something else and nice to get a scenic, less hectic hotel. My brother went to Venice and said how much I would love even the transfer - on a boat into the centre of Venice which sounds great!

The Hilton in Venice is fantastic, it is on a very small island across from the main bit of Venice called Guideca. It has its own boat which transfers guests across whenever they wish to travel to the main bit. It is a stunning location, with wide water views down the Guidecca canal to St Marks.

http://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/italy/hilton-molino-stucky-venice-VCEHIHI/index.html



It depends which airport you fly into as whether a boat transfer is possible. If it is Marco Polo, yes, if it is the other one - Treviso, no. You can either get a private taxi boat (quite expensive) or the Allilaguna (shuttle boat)

ClarkeKent

Thankyou to all who have contributed, brilliant info. I'm all set.

richardw

Btw easyJet, Thomas Cook and Thomson fly from Manchester to Santorini.

nickcc

Sorry to be a misery guts but never put anything of value in your suitcase when travelling through Naples. My Wife unfortunately left a watch and stud Earings in her suitcase when we flew out of Naples after a great holiday in Sorrento. On our arrival back home we found all her valuables missing with chalk marks indicated on her suitcase where they were located. This must have been when the suitcases were X rayed before loading on to our return flight, hopefully this information will deter others from trusting bent baggage handlers.

Andypandyboy

nickcc wrote: »

Sorry to be a misery guts but never put anything of value in your suitcase when travelling through Naples. My Wife unfortunately left a watch and stud Earings in her suitcase when we flew out of Naples after a great holiday in Sorrento. On our arrival back home we found all her valuables missing with chalk marks indicated on her suitcase where they were located. This must have been when the suitcases were X rayed before loading on to our return flight, hopefully this information will deter others from trusting bent baggage handlers.

We never put any valuables in checked luggage just in case it goes missing. I had actually never thought about the scenario you describe, but it would be very easy to do wouldn't it?

bigadaj

Never leave valuables in checked luggage, had a colleague who left a laptop in a bag on a flight to Hong Kong, unsurprisingly it wasn't there at the other end.

Doesn't matter where you go either, baggage handlers at Heathrow almost looked on it as a perk of the job for many years, some of the wife's family worked there, though I'd hope things might have improved a bit now.

nickcc

Andypandyboy wrote: »

We never put any valuables in checked luggage just in case it goes missing. I had actually never thought about the scenario you describe, but it would be very easy to do wouldn't it?

What I forgot to mention was that my Wife's suitcase had white chalk marks over exactly where the valuables had been left so would probably confirm that the person on the X-ray machine was tipping off his accomplices.
Both our cases were locked when we got home but I suppose most people only use the usual rubbish padlocks which are child's play to open.

alanrowell

Never put anything in luggage that you can't afford to lose or is expensive.

The only reason to lock your bag is to reduce the chances of your dirty underwear appearing on the luggage belt before your bag does.

nickcc

alanrowell wrote: »

Never put anything in luggage that you can't afford to lose or is expensive.

The only reason to lock your bag is to reduce the chances of your dirty underwear appearing on the luggage belt before your bag does.

We never normally do but where we stayed had no safe so my Wife left them in the suitcase then forgot to put them in her hand luggage before we departed for home. Now all we take with us are items that have little value so I would say a lesson well learned.