Photographs have done the Amalfi Coast a disservice: they show Positano’s tower-stacked pastel houses and imply a destination that is unaffordable by design. The coast is expensive at its three famous stages (Positano, Ravello, Amalfi-town) and honest everywhere else — guesthouse towns a bus-stop away price at a third of the postcards, and the coast’s best actual asset, the sea-level trail network, costs nothing. Here is the cheap week that keeps every view and skips the sticker shock.
Where to sleep without the Positano premium
The villages of Minori and Maiori (one town east, on the same bus and ferry lines) run 70–110 euro a night in decent guesthouses and B&Bs, with beaches that are wider than Positano’s and evenings that belong to Italian families. Atrani — the coast’s smallest town, a ten-minute-to-Amalfi walk under the cliff — prices similarly and falls silent after ten. Positano can be visited as … Read More