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Amalfi Coast Yacht Journey

Private Yacht Charter · Naples · Capri · Positano · Amalfi Coast
8 Days · 7 Nights
From USD 25,000+ per person
"The Amalfi Coast by private yacht — Capri's Faraglioni at water level, the Grotta Azzurra, Positano's harbour at dusk, and the cliff-face villages that no road fully reveals."
The Journey

The Amalfi Coast,
from the Water

The Amalfi Coast from a private yacht is the experience that every photograph of the coast attempts to reproduce and none can — the cliff-face villages, the terraced lemon groves, and the limestone massif dropping directly into the Tyrrhenian Sea visible as a single composition from the water in a way that the SS163 road built into the cliff face above can only approximate. The 40-kilometre coastline between Positano and Ravello, which UNESCO designated a World Heritage Site in 1997 for its exceptional cultural landscape, is most legible from sea level: the relationship between the fishing villages that were accessible only by boat until the coastal road was completed in 1853, the convents and gardens on the cliff edges above them, and the water that has been the coast's primary highway for two millennia.

The Amalfi Coast Yacht Journey is built around the argument that the coast's most famous destinations — Capri, Positano, Amalfi, Ravello — are all best approached from the sea, and that the connections between them are most rewarding when the route itself, rather than the destination alone, is the subject. The yacht provides the pace that the coast demands: the ability to anchor in the cove below the village rather than searching for parking above it; to approach the Faraglioni of Capri at water level rather than from the viewing platform above; to enter the Grotta Azzurra in the rowing boat that the cave's low entrance requires and exit back to the yacht in the open sea; and to watch the Positano harbour at dusk from the deck rather than from the road above.

This eight-day itinerary integrates the yacht with three of the coast's most considered luxury addresses — JK Place Capri above the Marina Grande; Le Sirenuse in Positano on the cliff above the harbour; and the Belmond Hotel Caruso in Ravello at 350 metres above the sea — whose individual quality makes the nights ashore as rewarding as the days on the water. Naples provides the embarkation and the cultural context: the Museo Nazionale, the Spaccanapoli, and the pizza tradition that the city has maintained since the 18th century as the standard from which every subsequent pizza has been measured.

Signature Moments

Six Encounters
with the Amalfi Coast

The Faraglioni at water level, the Grotta Azzurra by rowing boat, Positano harbour at dusk, and Ravello at 350 metres above the sea.

01
Capri Faraglioni — The Sea Stacks at Water Level
The Faraglioni of Capri — the three limestone sea stacks off the island's southeastern shore, the most reproduced single image in the Tyrrhenian Sea, approached by the yacht at water level where the scale of the formations is most immediately comprehensible and the arch of the central Faraglione di Mezzo is wide enough to pass through under sail. The Marina Piccola cove for swimming in the turquoise water below the sea stacks; the Grotta Azzurra (Blue Grotto) on the northwestern shore for the rowing boat entry beneath the 1.2-metre limestone arch where the refracted light produces the bioluminescent blue that made Capri the most visited island in the Mediterranean in the 19th century.
02
Positano — The Harbour at Dusk from the Deck
Positano from the water at dusk — the moment when the fishing village's dome, the painted houses on the cliff face, and the beach below the church converge in the light whose quality the town has been producing every evening since the Saracen raids of the 9th century drove the coastal population up the cliff and created the particular architecture of houses stacked on houses that defines the Amalfi Coast's visual identity. The yacht anchored in the Positano harbour for the night, with the Le Sirenuse terrace on the cliff above and the Champagne Bar visible from the deck — the most complete single view available of what Positano actually is.
03
Ravello — Villa Cimbrone's Garden of Infinity at 350 Metres
Ravello on the cliff above Amalfi — the hilltop town at 350 metres whose Villa Cimbrone's Garden of Infinity terrace provides the highest single viewpoint of the Amalfi Coast accessible without a trekking permit, where the coastline is visible as a single composition from Capo d'Orso to the Punta Campanella and the sea below appears as a flat plane in the light that the southern Italian summer produces. The Belmond Hotel Caruso's infinity pool at the same elevation; the Ravello Concert Hall in the Villa Rufolo garden (annual summer concert series since 1953, where Wagner composed part of Parsifal's Klingsor's garden); and the walk through the medieval town above the coast that the SS163 road can only observe from below.
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Naples — Museo Nazionale, Spaccanapoli, and the Original Pizza
Naples before embarkation — the Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Napoli for the Pompeii and Herculaneum collections (the most complete surviving Roman artefact collection in the world, including the Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun and the Secret Cabinet of erotic art); the Spaccanapoli for the Baroque churches whose interiors represent the most concentrated accumulation of 17th-century religious art in southern Italy; and the pizza at L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele (established 1870, two varieties only, the marinara and the margherita, the standard from which every subsequent pizza in the world has been measured and found wanting). The cultural context that makes the coastline south of Naples comprehensible as the continuation of a civilisation rather than a series of picturesque villages.
05
Le Sirenuse — The 1951 Cliff Hotel Above the Positano Harbour
Le Sirenuse in Positano — the 1951 hotel that the Marchesi Sersale family opened in their summer villa on the cliff above the harbour, operating with the same family ownership and the same philosophy for 70 years. The Champagne Bar's terrace view across the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Faraglioni of Capri; the La Sponda restaurant whose candlelit terrace is the most recognised single dining image on the Amalfi Coast; and the particular quality of arriving at Le Sirenuse by tender from the yacht in the harbour below — the integration of the water-based and hotel-based programme that the Positano geography makes uniquely available.
06
The Amalfi Coast from the Sea — The View the Road Cannot Provide
The Amalfi Coast from sea level — the UNESCO World Heritage coastline visible as a single composition from the water in the way that the SS163 cliff road, built into the rock face 200 metres above, cannot provide. The relationship between the fishing villages and the sea that was their only highway until 1853; the convents and gardens on the cliff edges visible from below rather than above; and the coves accessible only by boat where the swimming is clearest in the morning before the coastal breezes begin. The view that every photograph of the coast attempts to capture from a single vantage point and that the yacht provides as a continuous experience across five days of navigation.
Key Highlights

What Makes This Journey

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Private Yacht — Capri to Amalfi, Five Days Under Sail
A private yacht charter from Naples — five days of Tyrrhenian Sea navigation covering Capri (Faraglioni, Grotta Azzurra, Marina Piccola), Positano (harbour anchorage, beach coves), Amalfi (the cathedral town, the Grotta dello Smeraldo), and the coastal villages between them. The yacht as the primary accommodation and the primary transport: the coves accessible only from the water, the towns approached from the sea, and the coastline seen as the continuous composition that the road above cannot reveal.
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Three Iconic Addresses — JK Capri, Le Sirenuse, Belmond Caruso
Selected nights ashore at the coast's most considered luxury addresses — JK Place Capri above the Marina Grande; Le Sirenuse in Positano on the cliff above the harbour (arrived by tender from the yacht below); and the Belmond Hotel Caruso in Ravello at 350 metres above the Tyrrhenian Sea. Three addresses whose integration with the yacht programme makes each night's arrival as distinctive as the day on the water that preceded it.
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Southern Italian Culinary Programme — Naples, Positano, Ravello
The culinary programme across the journey — the pizza at L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele in Naples (established 1870, the reference standard); the onboard cooking using the morning's market produce from Positano and Amalfi; the La Sponda candlelit dinner at Le Sirenuse; and the Belmond Hotel Caruso's restaurant whose Ravello terrace provides the highest dining view available on the coast. The cooking of Campania — the San Marzano tomato, the buffalo mozzarella, the Cetara colatura di alici — at each source.
Sample Itinerary

Key Moments & Movements

The Amalfi Coast yacht season runs May to October. The yacht is based from Naples (Mergellina or Posillipo marina) and navigates south to Capri, west along the Sorrento Peninsula, and east along the Amalfi Coast to Salerno. Total cruising distance approximately 150 nautical miles. The itinerary integrates three hotel nights with five nights aboard; crew, catering, and all onboard services are provided throughout.

Every Richseen yacht journey is individually crafted. Yacht specification, route variants, and hotel availability are confirmed at the time of booking. Weather routing may adjust the day-by-day sequence; the itinerary below represents the typical programme in settled summer conditions.

Day 1
Naples Arrival — Museo Nazionale · Spaccanapoli · Pizza
Arrive at Naples International Airport with private transfer to the hotel near the Posillipo marina. Afternoon: the Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Napoli — the Alexander Mosaic (the most detailed surviving Roman floor mosaic, 3.13 by 5.82 metres, depicting the Battle of Issus 333 BCE); the Pompeii Room with the original frescoes removed before the volcanic ash could destroy them; and the Secret Cabinet, opened since 2000. The Spaccanapoli for the Baroque churches. Dinner at L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele — the marinara and the margherita, in the conditions that the 1870 establishment maintains: no reservations, no decor, no alternatives.
Naples Hotel · Pre-Embarkation
Day 2
Embarkation — Naples to Capri · Faraglioni · Marina Grande
Morning embarkation at the Posillipo marina; the crew briefing and route overview. Departure south across the Bay of Naples (20 nautical miles, 2 hours under sail). The approach to Capri's northeastern shore: the Faraglioni sea stacks visible from 10 kilometres as the island's most distinctive profile element. The Grotta Azzurra on the northwestern coast — the rowing boat entry beneath the 1.2-metre limestone arch at the tide's low point, where the refracted Mediterranean light produces the blue that gave the cave its name. Anchor in the Marina Grande for the overnight; check in to JK Place Capri above the harbour for the night ashore.
JK Place Capri
Day 3
Capri — Villa Jovis · Faraglioni Arch · Li Galli Islands
Morning: Capri on foot — the funicular from the Marina Grande to the Piazzetta (the town square whose café tables and the specific quality of the morning light make it the most photographed single square in the Tyrrhenian islands); the path to Villa Jovis (the 1st-century Roman imperial villa where Tiberius ruled the Empire for 10 years from the cliff above the sea) for the view across to the Sorrento Peninsula and Ischia. Afternoon by yacht: the Faraglioni arch passage by tender; the Marina Piccola cove below the Faraglioni for swimming; and the navigation northwest toward the Li Galli archipelago (the Sirenuse of Greek mythology, visible off Positano's southern shore) for the late afternoon anchorage.
Aboard Yacht · Capri to Positano
Day 4
Positano — Harbour Arrival · Le Sirenuse · La Sponda Dinner
Morning anchor in the Positano harbour — the approach from the sea that reveals the village's stacked architecture in its most legible form: the church dome, the painted houses, and the beach below assembled in the composition that no road view replicates. Tender ashore to the beach; the village on foot up the stepped streets. Check in to Le Sirenuse by the path from the beach — the most distinctive hotel arrival on the Amalfi Coast, arriving by sea and ascending to the cliff above. The Champagne Bar at sunset. Dinner at La Sponda — the candlelit terrace dinner whose setting on the Le Sirenuse cliff face is the most recognised single dining image on the Amalfi Coast.
Le Sirenuse, Positano
Day 5
Amalfi — Cathedral · Paper Museum · Grotta dello Smeraldo
Morning navigation east from Positano along the cliff-face coast — the towns of Praiano and Conca dei Marini visible above the cliff, the road carved into the rock face at 200 metres. Amalfi by tender — the Cathedral of Sant'Andrea (9th-century origins, the Arab-Norman façade added in the 13th century, the crypt housing the relics of Saint Andrew brought from Constantinople in 1208); the Museo della Carta (the paper museum in the restored 13th-century paper mill, where the Amalfi hand-production technique that supplied the Vatican and the Mediterranean trade for 400 years is demonstrated). The Grotta dello Smeraldo (Emerald Grotto, accessible from the sea by tender) for the stalactite formations and the Christmas crib submerged in the cave floor since 1956. Anchor below Ravello for the night.
Aboard Yacht · Amalfi
Day 6
Ravello — Villa Cimbrone · Hotel Caruso · Coastal Return
Morning ascent to Ravello — the 350-metre hilltop town above the coast, reached by tender to Atrani and then the road up through the lemon groves. Villa Cimbrone's Garden of Infinity — the belvedere terrace at the cliff edge from which the Amalfi Coast is visible as a single panoramic composition from Capo d'Orso to the Punta Campanella. The Belmond Hotel Caruso's infinity pool at the same elevation for the afternoon. The Villa Rufolo gardens and the summer concert pavilion where the Ravello Festival has been presenting concerts since 1953 in the garden where Wagner set Klingsor's garden in Parsifal. Dinner at the Belmond Hotel Caruso before the tender return to the yacht for the final night afloat.
Belmond Hotel Caruso, Ravello
Day 7
Coastal Return · Sorrento · Bay of Naples · Disembarkation
Morning navigation westward along the coast — the return passage that reverses the outbound route in the opposite light direction, making the cliff-face villages and the limestone massif most vivid in the afternoon conditions that the morning passage could not provide. The Sorrento Peninsula's southern shore; the Bay of Naples approach with Vesuvius defining the northern horizon. Disembarkation at the Posillipo marina by late afternoon; transfer to the Naples hotel for the final night. The Chiaia waterfront for the evening passeggiata — the particular quality of Naples at dusk, when the city's energy is at its most immediately hospitable.
Naples Hotel · Post-Disembarkation
Day 8
Departure — Naples International Airport
Final morning in Naples — the Castel dell'Ovo on the waterfront promontory (the 1st-century Roman villa converted to a castle by the Normans, free admission, the view of the bay and Vesuvius from the battlements providing the geographic orientation for the week's navigation); or the Capodimonte Museum for the Titian, Raphael, and Caravaggio collections in the 18th-century Bourbon palace above the city. Private transfer to Naples International Airport (Capodichino) for onward connections.
Naples International Airport
Luxury Stays

Where You Rest Matters

Via Provinciale Marina 2, Capri
Capri — 1 Night
JK Place Capri
Via Provinciale Marina 2, 80073 Capri
JK Place Capri above the Marina Grande — the boutique hotel whose 22 rooms and suites look across the Bay of Naples toward Vesuvius and whose rooftop pool provides the most elevated swimming view available on the island below the Piazzetta's level. The hotel that the Capri design tradition — white walls, limestone floors, antique furniture, and the specific quality of the island light — produces at its most considered scale. Positioned directly above the Marina Grande where the yacht anchors; the descent to the tender landing by hotel golf cart.
Via Cristoforo Colombo 30, Positano
Positano — 1 Night
Le Sirenuse
Via Cristoforo Colombo 30, Positano, Salerno
Le Sirenuse — the 1951 hotel on the cliff above the Positano harbour, opened by the Marchesi Sersale family in their summer villa and maintained by the same family for 70 years. The Champagne Bar's terrace view across the Tyrrhenian Sea; the La Sponda candlelit restaurant; and the arrival by tender from the yacht below — the integration of the water-based programme with the hotel that the Positano geography makes uniquely possible. The hotel whose image, reproduced on every Amalfi Coast travel feature for seven decades, is most itself when experienced from the harbour before ascending to it.
Via San Giovanni del Toro 2, Ravello
Ravello — 1 Night
Belmond Hotel Caruso
Piazza San Giovanni del Toro 2, Ravello, Salerno
The Belmond Hotel Caruso in Ravello — the 11th-century palazzo at 350 metres above the Tyrrhenian Sea, whose infinity pool overlooking the coast provides the highest single luxury leisure view on the Amalfi Coast and whose terrace restaurant looks across the same panorama that inspired Wagner, D.H. Lawrence, and Gore Vidal (who lived in Ravello for 30 years). The ascent from the yacht anchorage below Atrani, through the lemon grove paths and the medieval town, produces the most distinctive single hotel arrival on the Italian coast: arriving from the sea, ascending to the cliff, and finding the infinity pool at its edge.
Exclusive Experiences

Moments Designed for You

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Yacht
Private Charter — Capri to Amalfi, Five Days Under Sail
A private yacht charter from Naples — five days navigating the most celebrated coastline in the Mediterranean, with the full crew service, onboard catering using the morning's market produce from Positano and Amalfi, and the flexibility to anchor in the coves accessible only from the water. The yacht provides the pace that the Amalfi Coast demands: the ability to approach each town from the sea, to spend the night in the harbour below the village, and to see the cliff-face landscape as the continuous composition that the road above cannot reveal. The most complete single method of experiencing the UNESCO World Heritage coastline available.
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Capri
Grotta Azzurra and the Faraglioni Arch — The Island from the Water
The two experiences that make Capri most comprehensible from the water — the Grotta Azzurra (the rowing boat entry beneath the 1.2-metre limestone arch where the refracted light produces the bioluminescent blue that made Capri the most visited Mediterranean island in the 19th century) and the Faraglioni arch passage by tender (the central sea stack's arch wide enough to pass through by small boat, at the distance from the yacht that makes the formations' full scale most legible). The island experienced at sea level rather than from the viewing platforms above, in conditions that the yacht's tender makes most directly accessible.
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Culinary
From Da Michele to La Sponda — Campanian Cooking at Source
The culinary programme across the journey — the pizza at L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele in Naples (established 1870, the marinara and margherita prepared to the standard that has not changed since Raffaele Esposito named the margherita for Queen Margherita of Savoy in 1889); the onboard lunch prepared by the yacht chef using the morning's produce from the Positano market; and the La Sponda candlelit dinner at Le Sirenuse on the cliff above the harbour. The cooking of Campania — the San Marzano tomato, the buffalo mozzarella of the Piana del Sele, the Cetara anchovy colatura — experienced at each of its sources across seven days.
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Ravello
Villa Cimbrone's Garden of Infinity — The Highest View on the Coast
Villa Cimbrone's Garden of Infinity in Ravello — the belvedere terrace at 350 metres from which the entire Amalfi Coast is visible as a single panoramic composition, from Capo d'Orso east to the Punta Campanella west, with the sea below appearing as a flat plane in the southern Italian summer light. Reached by ascending from the yacht anchorage below Atrani through the lemon grove terraces and the medieval Ravello town — the ascent that makes the view's elevation most immediately comprehensible. The Villa Rufolo garden where Wagner composed the Klingsor's garden scene in Parsifal and where the summer concert season has been performing since 1953 in the setting that inspired it.
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