How to get to Positano from Ischia
Latest page update: 7 January 2025
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The various options on how to get to Positano from Ischia which are detailed further down the page. Many visitors to Ischia come to the island as part of a multi-stop holiday that takes in some of the famous locations nearby which include the Amalfi Coast.
Positano is the jewel of the Amalfi Coast with its pretty clusters of multi-coloured buildings hugging the cliff-face next to the bright blue sea. The town doesn't have a train station and the main Amalfi Coast Road is slow during the summer, but Positano does have its own port which often provides the easiest access in and out. There are four ways to reach Positano from Ischia detailed below. |
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Option 1
This is perhaps the easiest option. Roughly from Easter to the middle of October, two companies called Capitan Morgan and Rumore offer day-trips to Positano and Amalfi on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. You don't need to buy a ticket for the whole excursion which also stops in Amalfi before returning to Ischia, instead you can simply buy a single ticket and get off in Positano which is the first stop.
The price for a single adult ticket is around €30 and there are various departure times. This is the best option if you want to travel to Positano in the morning.
Please click on the green button below for full details.
This is perhaps the easiest option. Roughly from Easter to the middle of October, two companies called Capitan Morgan and Rumore offer day-trips to Positano and Amalfi on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. You don't need to buy a ticket for the whole excursion which also stops in Amalfi before returning to Ischia, instead you can simply buy a single ticket and get off in Positano which is the first stop.
The price for a single adult ticket is around €30 and there are various departure times. This is the best option if you want to travel to Positano in the morning.
Please click on the green button below for full details.
Option 2
From the middle of June to the middle of September there's a direct hydrofoil service from Ischia to Positano offered by a company called Alicost.
This is a daily service leaving at 16:20 from Ischia Porto and arriving at 18:20 in Positano.
The adult price is €28
Please see green button for more details.
From the middle of June to the middle of September there's a direct hydrofoil service from Ischia to Positano offered by a company called Alicost.
This is a daily service leaving at 16:20 from Ischia Porto and arriving at 18:20 in Positano.
The adult price is €28
Please see green button for more details.
Option 3
It could be the case that you want to travel to Positano in the morning on a Monday, Friday or Saturday which means option 1 wouldn't be available.
That being the case you can take the Alilauro hydrofoil that leaves Ischia Porto at 10:30am every day (from Easter to the end of October) and arrives around 12:00 in Sorrento. Then from Sorrento you can take a bus (journey time of 1 hour to an hour and a half depending on traffic and time of day) or a taxi with a slightly shorter journey time.
If you don't wish to take the bus, there's another hydrofoil you can take from Sorrento to Positano. The NLG service leaves Sorrento at 12:20 and arrives in Positano at 13:05. The next sailing after that is the 15:15 NLG hydrofoil arriving in Positano at 16:10.
We can also offer private transfers for this option - we collect you from your hotel in Ischia, take you to Ischia Porto, provide you with the hydrofoil tickets for the crossing to Naples and have a driver meet you in Naples who then takes you to Positano. For a quote please send an email to [email protected] stating the date and the number of passengers.
Please see green button below for details of hydrofoil from Ischia to Sorrento.
Option 4
This is similar to option 3 in so much as you reach Positano via another location: this time Capri.
In this case you can take the morning hydrofoil from Ischia to Capri that leaves every day at 10:30. In fact this is the same hydrofoil that continues on to Sorrento but it stops in Capri first, arriving there around 11:15.
There's no onward service from Capri to Positano until the afternoon at 16:25 (arrives in Positano at 17:15) or 17:15 (arrives in Positano at 17:40 so shorter journey time) but there are several places in Capri's Marina Grande port (the port where you'll arrive from Ischia) where you can safely leave your luggage. You can then spend the day exploring Capri before sailing on to Positano.
The advantage of this option is that you don't need to wait for a bus or pay for a taxi from Sorrento to Positano which can get expensive.
Please see the green buttons below for more assistance on this option.
