Plan a 7-day Amalfi Coast and Capri charter itinerary: Positano, Amalfi, Li Galli, Ischia and Procida, marine park rules, berthing at Capri and a sample week.
A 7-day Amalfi Coast and Capri charter itinerary usually starts in Naples or Sorrento and works between Capri, Positano, Amalfi, the Li Galli islets, Nerano, Ischia and Procida. It is the most scenically dense week in the Mediterranean, and the shortest on distance: almost every leg is under two hours.
What makes it hard is everything else. This is a protected, congested, permit-bound coast where the berths are few and the day-boat traffic is relentless. This guide covers how crews sequence the week around those constraints, and where Guest Trip removes the spreadsheet stage.
The season runs May to September, and June and September are the balanced months. July and August bring maximum heat and congestion, particularly around Positano and Capri, where the anchorages fill with day boats from mid-morning and the tender traffic makes a calm lunch stop hard to find. May and late September give you the same coast with room to move.
The water is generally benign, but the coast is steep-to with few genuinely sheltered bays, and afternoon breezes plus ferry wash make many anchorages roll. Plan the swim stops for the morning and be honest with guests that this is a coast of towns and views rather than of long lazy anchorages.
1. Book Capri and Amalfi before you promise them
Capri's Marina Grande has limited berths and advance reservation is essential in peak season; Amalfi and Positano are smaller again. Many superyachts spend the day off Capri and the night somewhere with room, using the tender for the town. Decide which nights are alongside and which are at anchor before the itinerary goes to guests, because it changes the whole shape of the evening.
2. Learn the marine protected area zones
The Punta Campanella marine protected area covers the tip of the Sorrentine peninsula and the water around the Li Galli islets, and it is zoned: the strictest zones are closed to navigation, anchoring and swimming, and the intermediate zones restrict anchoring and may require authorisation to moor. The Regno di Nettuno area around Ischia and Procida is zoned on the same principle. The zones and the authorisation process change, so the current ordinance is the reference — not last season's notes.
The practical effect is that anchoring on this coast is a shortlist rather than a choice. Know which bays are open to your LOA, which need a buoy, and which are pass-only.
3. Plan the icons as passes and tenders, not stops
The Blue Grotto is entered only in small local rowing boats and only in calm conditions; the Faraglioni are a slow pass; Positano is a tender run ashore from a crowded roadstead. Sell these to guests as what they are — a morning of spectacular coastline seen from the water, with a tender excursion or two — rather than as anchorages, and nobody is disappointed.
each day gets a headline and a description, so a day built around a tender excursion reads as a plan rather than a gap.
4. Use Ischia, Procida and Nerano as the counterweight
The Amalfi towns are the reason guests booked, but three or four days of them in July is exhausting. Ischia gives you thermal spas and a proper harbour, Procida is the quiet, photogenic alternative to Capri, and the Nerano bay on the Sorrentine peninsula is where crews go for lunch — Spaghetti alla Nerano exists for a reason. These are the days that give the week its breathing space.
5. Time the days against the day-boat cycle
The coast fills from about 10:00 and empties from about 17:00. Crews who move early get the swim stops and the photographs; crews who move at 11:00 spend the day in wash. Plan the anchor-down moments for early morning and late afternoon, and use the middle of the day for a passage, a long lunch aboard or a town visit when everyone else is on the water.
6. Layer the onboard programme onto the route
Provision in Naples, which has excellent supply and the region's specialities on the doorstep. Plan the ashore dinners for Capri and one Amalfi town, keep at least two dinners aboard at anchor off Ischia or Procida, and put the spa on the days with the most tender running. The chef will want the Sorrento lemons and the local mozzarella; give them a market morning.
7. Publish it as a live page
This is a coast where a swell makes Positano untenable, a berth falls through, or the Blue Grotto closes for the morning. Publish the itinerary as a guest site the crew can edit rather than a document that dates on day two.
the itinerary publishes as a PIN-protected, branded guest site and can be updated mid-charter without re-sending.
Day 1. Embark Naples; passage to Capri, swim at Marina Piccola; welcome dinner aboard. About 2 hours. Day 2. Capri: Faraglioni pass, Blue Grotto by local boat if calm, evening ashore in Capri town. Short hops. Day 3. Li Galli and Nerano: morning swim, long lunch ashore, evening off Positano. About 1 to 2 hours. Day 4. Positano and Amalfi: tender ashore, Fiordo di Furore and the Emerald Grotto. About 1 hour. Day 5. Sorrento: town morning, lemon groves, Vesuvius views; quiet night at anchor. About 1.5 hours. Day 6. Ischia: Castello Aragonese anchorage, thermal spa afternoon. About 2 hours. Day 7. Procida (Marina Corricella) then short passage to Naples; disembarkation brief. About 1.5 hours
Total steaming is well under 100 nautical miles. On a coast this short, the itinerary is a sequence of experiences rather than a passage plan.
In places, but the shortlist is short. The Punta Campanella marine protected area is zoned, with the strictest zones closed to anchoring and navigation and the intermediate zones restricted or requiring authorisation. Check the current ordinance for your vessel and the specific bay.
Yes. Marina Grande has limited berths and advance reservation is strongly recommended in peak season. Many larger yachts spend the day off Capri and the night elsewhere, tendering guests ashore.
June or September. July and August bring the highest temperatures and the worst congestion around Positano and Capri; May and late September offer the same coast with far more room.
Not directly. The grotto is entered only in small local rowing boats, in calm conditions, and closes when there is any swell. Plan it as a possibility rather than a fixture in the itinerary.