How to Visit Capri Italy in 2026: Ferries, Fares, Tours and What to Know

The one mistake that costs people their morning

Naples has two passenger terminals for Capri and they are about two kilometres apart. Molo Beverello, below Piazza Municipio, is where the hydrofoils leave from — about 50 minutes, from €26.50. Calata Porta di Massa, further east, is the ferry terminal — 60 to 85 minutes, from €14, and it takes luggage and pets the hydrofoils will not.

From Sorrento there is only one place to leave from and the crossing is 20 to 40 minutes, which is why so many Capri day trips are sold out of Sorrento. Every boat, from wherever, lands at Marina Grande on the north shore. Getting to Capri has every route with its fare and its season.

Getting to the island in the first place

Six of the trips listed here board on the mainland instead and bring you across themselves, so there is no ferry ticket and no queue. That is the shortcut most first-time visitors do not know exists.

The landing tax nobody mentions

Every non-resident who steps ashore on Capri pays a landing tax: €5 per person from 1 April to 31 October, and €2.50 from 1 November to 31 March. In practice it is already inside your ferry fare, so most people never notice paying it. It turns up as a line on some tour listings and as nothing at all on others, which is why it looks like a surprise when you see it.

What a day here actually costs

Capri's reputation is expensive and half of it is earned in the restaurants. There is no admission to the island. What costs money is the crossing, the ride up the hill, and a short list of places that charge to go in.

• Free: the Piazzetta, the Belvedere di Tragara with its view of the Faraglioni, the Arco Naturale walk, the pebble beach at Marina Piccola and every public path
• €2.40: the funicular from Marina Grande to Capri town, or any bus ride; a day ticket is €7.20 plus a €1 deposit
• €2.50: the Gardens of Augustus, the cheapest paid view on the island
• €14: the Monte Solaro chairlift, return
• €18: the Blue Grotto, arriving on a tour boat
• From $51 upwards: a boat trip or a guided day

The Blue Grotto, and why most fares stop short of it

The €18 breaks down as €12 for the rowboat that carries you inside and €6 for the entry itself, paid in cash at a floating ticket office at the cave mouth. Of the trips listed here, only two put that inside the fare. The rest either stop outside and leave you to pay, or do not go at all — and two of them say so in writing rather than letting you find out aboard.

It also closes. The entrance is about a metre high, so any swell lifts a rowboat into the roof of it and the boatmen shut the cave, deciding on the morning. Four listings carry a written clause that the tour then runs without that stop and no refund is issued. The Blue Grotto tours page sets out which trips include the ticket and what happens when it is shut.

Getting around once you are here

You cannot bring a car, and you would not want to. The funicular climbs from Marina Grande to Capri town in four minutes for €2.40, every fifteen minutes, and it closes for January and February with a bus in its place. Buses run on to Anacapri in about fifteen more, and from Anacapri out to the Blue Grotto and the Punta Carena lighthouse in about twenty each. Taxis work to fixed fares of €17 for up to four passengers and €20 for up to seven. The map page has every leg with its time.

Where the tours actually meet

Almost all of them meet along the quay at Marina Grande, and almost all of them give a landmark rather than a street number, because the street number will not find you a boat. Pier 21 on the Banchinella. Molo Zero, with the painted zero on the wall. Bar Gabbiano opposite dock 23. Lo Zodiaco, 200 metres left of the ferry arrivals. A set of white umbrellas past Da Francuccio. Allow twenty minutes from stepping off the ferry, not five — finding the boat is the commonest complaint in the reviews of every operator here.

How long to stay

Two things are worth booking before you arrive: any boat between June and September, because the small ones cap at ten or twelve and they fill; and anything at all on a day when cruise ships are in. The best time to visit covers which days those are. Everything here refunds in full at 24 hours, so early booking costs you nothing.

If you would rather not assemble the day yourself, the Capri Italy day tours bundle the crossing, the transport and a guide into one fare.

Every trip named here is compared on price, hours and what the fare covers at Capri Italy Tours.

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Trips that suit a first visit

Capri Italy Small-Group Tour: Blue Grotto, Anacapri and Capri Town

Includes the Blue Grotto ticket and the rowboat transfer, and covers both towns in one seven-hour day.

From $142 per person

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Capri Italy Small-Group Island Boat Ride with Swimming and Limoncello

Two hours round the island from Marina Grande, with a swim off the Faraglioni, for the price of a lunch.

From $105 per person

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Discovering Capri in one day

A shuttle and a boat ticket rather than a guide, if you would rather have the transport solved and the day your own.

From $59 per person

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Get the terminal right, land at Marina Grande with twenty minutes in hand, and the rest of a Capri day looks after itself.