*POST UPDATED OCTOBER 2026
Hello friends! It feels so great to be bringing you this piece today: my first travel post in over a year! Allow me to present to you: my Ravello Travel Guide, Visiting the Amalfi Coast Part I! Covid put a lot of my travel plans on hold over the last year, and the post I’m sharing today is all about my first foreign trip in 21 months! Can you actually believe it? Our last international trip was in December 2019 to Lyon, so when the chance came to visit the Amalfi coast in September just gone, we jumped at it! This is the first of three posts about our trip; the next will cover Amalfi & Positano, and the final one will cover all things Naples. I’m so happy to finally be able to write a travel post again!
My Ravello Travel Guide is below – it’s a comprehensive list of everything you could possibly need to know about visiting the town. I’ve included recommendations of where to stay, eat, drink, what to do, and how to get there. If you only take one recommendation from this post, please let it be having a drink on Palazzo Avino’s terrace – I’m begging you.
Enjoy!
why ravello?
Ravello is a small town perched high up in the mountains with dramatic, sweeping views of the Amalfi coast below. Boyfriend and I were in town with his family to attend a wedding, and we took the opportunity to explore as much as possible. We were there for four nights and ended up loving it! Ravello is a real sleepy and quiet town – perfect for relaxing and recharging. It feels a world away from the hustle and bustle of the bigger towns along the Amalfi coast, and that’s something that suited us down to a T. Because it’s located quite high up, the views from basically every angle are majestic – facing out to sea you can spot Minori and possibly Atrani below, while facing back towards the mountains you can see Scala, the oldest town on the Amalfi coast.
Bonus: the entire Amalfi Coast – including all 15 municipalities – is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site! It is considered an area of “of great physical beauty and natural diversity”!
So really the question is: why not Ravello?
getting there
Due to the towns location high up in the mountains, there is no one quick and easy way to get there. Here are the steps we took getting from Dublin to Ravello.
we flew with Aer Lingus direct from Dublin to Naples, which took around 3-hours.
there is only one road up to Ravello, and it is an extremely steep and winding one. Some people at the wedding rented cars at Naples airport & drove to Ravello, but I would say you’d need to be pretty confident behind the wheel to opt for this. If you’re looking to get public transport, I think it takes around 3-hours and you’d have to get two separate buses. For an easier life, we took a private car from the airport to Ravello, which took around 1-hour. Boyfriend’s parents booked the company so I’m not exactly sure which it was, but later in our trip we booked another private car with Simply Amalfi – who we would definitely recommend!
the cars and bus drop you off at the edge of town as Ravello is mostly pedestrianized. This wasn’t a big deal for us as we only had backpacks, but it is something to keep in mind if you have bigger or heavier suitcases – the town is rather hilly.
be sure to check theDepartment of Foreign Affairs websitefor updates/changes regarding the Covid-19 pandemic. All that was required when we visited was a valid Covid-19 Vaccination Cert, and a Passenger Locator Form should they need to contact us during our stay.
*2025 UPDATE: this point is largely irrelevant now, but I’m leaving it here for posterity.
where to stay
