Positano cascading down the cliffs to the sea
N°3Itinerary sketch · Coastal

Positano·Ravello·The water

Cliffs& Sea.

Nights5
Boat days2, private
SeasonMay · Jun · Sep
PaceSea-level slow
01The idea

The coast road is for arriving. After that, the Amalfi is best read from the water.

The Amalfi Coast punishes the hurried: one road, high season, everyone moving at once. So this sketch barely uses the road at all. A cliff-edge suite becomes your fixed point, and the sea becomes your corridor — a private launch waiting at the dock whenever a town, a cove or a lunch calls.

In between: Ravello’s gardens and evening chamber music, a walk along the Path of the Gods before the heat, and a lemon grove where lunch takes three hours because it should.

5
Nights above the sea
9
Private doors opened
48h
To your first proposal

This is a sketch, not a package. Dates, pace, houses and tables all bend around who’s travelling — no two versions of this journey have ever left the studio the same.

02Day by day
Day 1 · Arrival

Up the coast, down a gear.

A private car from Naples or Rome delivers you to a suite carved into the cliff — terrace, sea, silence. The only plan tonight is dinner on a terrace in Positano, ten minutes and one thousand steps of view away.

  • Cliff suite check-in — prosecco on the terrace, sea below
  • Dinner in Positano, table at the balustrade
The Amalfi coastline glowing at golden hour
First evening, golden hour
Day 2 · The water

Your own stretch of blue.

The launch idles at the dock at ten. From there the coast rearranges itself: grottoes lit from below, fishing villages you’d never reach by road, a swim wherever the water looks best, lunch in a cove where the kitchen is reached by ladder. Skipper’s local; anchor drops where you point.

  • Private launch, full day — grottoes, coves, and nowhere to be
  • Lunch at a dock-only trattoria, feet from the tide
  • Prosecco at anchor as the cliffs go amber
A private launch cutting across deep blue water
The corridor, by launch
Day 3 · Ravello

A thousand feet up, strings tuning.

Ravello sits above the heat and the noise. Morning in the gardens of Villa Rufolo and Villa Cimbrone — the Terrace of Infinity, precisely named — then an unhurried lunch, and in the evening, chamber music with the sea as the fourth wall.

  • The Terrace of Infinity, early, before the day-trippers climb
  • Evening concert — a string quartet, a cliff, a sunset
  • Dinner in the village, two minutes from the last note
A string quartet performing in warm light
Ravello, chamber notes
Day 4 · Paths & groves

The Gods’ walk, then lemons.

Out early on the Path of the Gods — the coast from above, goats included — finishing before the sun means it. Reward: a family lemon grove where lunch is whatever the garden gave that morning, and limoncello is a verb. Afternoon at the pool, or a cooking session if your hands are restless.

  • Path of the Gods with a local walker, first light
  • Lemon-grove lunch — three hours, zero apologies
  • Optional stove time: scialatielli, from flour to plate
Amalfi lemons hanging in a grove
Sfusato amalfitano
Day 5 · Farewell

One more morning on the water.

A slow start, then the launch once more — this time toward Capri’s cliffs for a last swim off the Faraglioni, or simply drifting below your own coastline one final time. Farewell dinner back on the cliff, lights of the fishing boats stitching the dark.

  • Half-day sail — Capri’s rocks or your own quiet cove
  • Farewell table on the cliff, boats lighting the horizon
A boat's wake glowing in the sunset
Last wake of the trip
03Moments

The frames you’ll keep.

Boats resting inside a rocky sea cove
The covesRooms the sea keeps for itself.
A restaurant terrace set for dinner above the sea
PositanoA table at the balustrade.
A curtained terrace table set above the water
WaterlineLunch, tide-adjacent.
The open sea at first light
The blueEvery shade the coast owns.
04Where you’ll sleep

Suspended between rock and water.

A bed on a cliff terrace high above the sea
The classic · Positano side

A cliff-edge suite

Terrace over the vertical town, a pool cut into the rock, and the dock — your real front door — a lift ride below.

An elegant suite with a soft neutral palette
The alternative · Ravello

A villa above the noise

For travellers who prefer gardens to beach clubs: eleven rooms, a cloister, and that view from the Terrace of Infinity next door.

Houses are named in your proposal — we hold allocations at a handful of properties we know room by room.

05In good hands

Door to dock

Private transfers from Naples or Rome, and a skipper on call — the coast road used exactly once in each direction.

Hosts, not guides

A skipper born in the bay, a walking guide, a lemon farmer and a cook — people we’d invite to dinner.

Tables & tickets

Balustrade tables, concert seats and beach-club day beds held in your name before you land.

In-trip concierge

One WhatsApp thread, answered by a person in Rome, for anything — from sea state to a fourth seat at dinner.

One contact

A single itinerary designer from first sketch to the flight home — no handovers, no call centres.

Weather-proofed

Boat days move with the forecast, not the other way round — the itinerary reshuffles itself and your tables follow.

06Make it yours

Start from this sketch.

Tell us who’s travelling and what you’d change. A first, itemized proposal comes back within 48 hours — built once, for you.

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