Salerno taxi to pompeii

[tdtanc]

Good evening cruise critic peeps. Hope you all are well.

 

Got a quick question or any advice. Ship gets into Salerno at 7am. Want to get to pompeii and back by 12:30. Gonna do this by Taxi. Anyone have a recommendation for a car service or just simply walk off the ship and hail a taxi? Cost to get to pompei?

 

Thanks in advance

 

T$

[euro cruiser]

If you want to be driven I think you'd do better with a car service, that way you'll know the full fare in advance.  The problem with a taxi is that Salerno does not have fixed fares (fare info for Salerno licensed taxis here:  http://www.comune.sorrento.na.it/pagina849_tariffe-taxi.html) so you'd pay the meter for the trip and the waiting time.

 

You could take the train quite easily and inexpensively.  If you get off the ship shortly after arrival you'd have no problem getting the 7:42 train from the Duomo station (less than a one mile walk from the port) to Pompei,  then walk about a mile to the Porta Marina entrance of the ruins, all before they open at 9 AM (or 8:30 AM on Saturdays and Sundays), for just 2,40 euro.

 

For the return, the 11:09 train from Pompei would drop you at the Duomo stop in Salerno at 11:47 so you'd be back at the ship on foot about 10 - 15 minutes later.  The walk from the Anfiteatro entrance/exit to the ruins is a half mile from the train station so this would allow you a visit of about an hour and three quarters at the ruins.  A taxi or car service would get you back to the ship in about 45 minutes so you could stay at the ruins nearly an hour longer, a good reason to go with the more expensive car option.

[euro cruiser]

Maybe the both/and solution is to use the train to get to Pompei, since that will get you there at or before opening and a car won't do any better, and then take a taxi from Pompei back to Salerno.  That would cost less than a round trip plus waiting time, although not a whole lot less (not half).

[tdtanc]

Great advice and thank you for making me think about the train option. Just an FYI we want to get back at or around lunch time because we want to go to the winery close to Salerno called LeVigne di Raito. We want a tour and lunch. They get great reviews on trip advisor. 

 

Thank you

 

Here is their link just for an fyi

Welcome to Le Vigne di Raito - Le Vigne di Raito.webloc

 

Edited February 4, 2019 by tdtanc

[tdtanc]

http://www.levignediraito.com/eng/

[euro cruiser]

You'll need a car to get to the winery, so you can either take a taxi or car service directly there from Pompei or take the train to Vietri sul Mare and have a car pick you up there (it's two miles from the train station to the winery).  Don't count on finding a taxi at the station.

[tdtanc]

Thats great. Thank you. The winery has transportation so that's a good thing. They get great reviews on trip advisor. 

 

TD