Your driver waits at the excavation exit or at your accommodation. If you have just been up Vesuvius, pickup can be at the Quota 1000 car park where the shuttles end.
The drive from Herculaneum to Praiano covers about 58 km and takes about 1 hour 25 minutes. The final stretch runs along the coast road carved into the cliff, a sequence of bends and tunnels with the sea straight below — spectacular to look at, demanding to drive. Your driver knows every curve and every passing point, so you can watch the view instead of the road.
The last few kilometres into Praiano are the slow ones: narrow road, limited traffic zones and very few places where a car can legally stop. The driver takes you to the closest point your accommodation can actually be reached from and helps with the luggage — worth telling us the exact address when booking, because in these villages the difference between one corner and the next is a flight of steps.
We drop you as close to the entrance as possible. In Praiano many houses connect to the road by steps: give us the exact property name and we identify the best drop-off point in advance.
Praiano is the Amalfi Coast without the crowds: a fishing village between Positano and Amalfi, with the San Gennaro square looking out to sea and the path down to Gavitella beach, the only one on the coast facing the sunset. Just beyond lies the Fiordo di Furore.