Ten trips here run seven hours or more, and what they buy is island time rather than a lap of the coast: land transport, the high half of the island, and two or three hours that are yours. For a day shaped round swimming rather than sightseeing, the Capri boat tours let you set the route yourself.
Seven hours with a certified guide, the Blue Grotto ticket in the fare and the island shuttle included. Twenty-three travellers, and a written substitute itinerary if the cave is shut.
From $142 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Seven hours covering both island tickets — the grotto and the Gardens of Augustus — with a live guide, an air-conditioned vehicle and two hours of your own in Capri town.
From $136 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Eight hours from Positano, Sorrento or Capri with brunch, an aperitif and a steward aboard, calling at the grotto, Punta Carena, the Grotta Verde and forty-five minutes at Punta Ventroso.
From $473 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The transport rather than a guide: a private air-conditioned vehicle, two hours at Monte Solaro and two in Capri town, meeting at Pier 23 outside Bar Gabbiano.
From $59 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Eight hours from the mainland taking in the Blue Grotto, the Gardens of Augustus, Villa San Michele, the Piazzetta and Villa Jovis, with forty-five minutes swimming off Marina Piccola.
From $419 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The same eight-hour circuit on a yacht, with three hours ashore on Capri and an hour at Marina Piccola, boarding at Sorrento, Positano or Marina Grande.
From $774 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Seven to eight hours split between Capri, the Sorrento coast and the Amalfi Coast, with a skipper and a hostess who guides, and travel time inside the quoted hours.
From $1,894 per group, up to 12
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Eight hours from Sorrento, Positano or Marina Grande with two hours at the Faraglioni and half an hour in the Grotta Verde, plus a cabin with beds for four, WiFi, a hot shower and an IMO-certificated captain at the helm.
From $1,527 per group, up to 8
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A full day along the Amalfi Coast instead: Li Galli, the Fiordo di Furore, the Emerald Grotto, two hours in Positano and ninety minutes in Amalfi.
From $567 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Eight hours from the Porto Turistico at Capri along the Amalfi Coast for up to ten, stocked with prosecco, white wine, beer and snacks, and the Capri landing tax already covered in the fare.
From $2,249 per group, up to 12
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Anacapri, Monte Solaro and Villa San Michele are 275 metres above the water. Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
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Seven or eight hours that buy you island time rather than a lap of the coast. That means land transport as well as a hull: a shuttle or an air-conditioned vehicle between Anacapri, Monte Solaro and Capri town, and two to three hours on your own feet in the middle of it.
Capri divides into two halves that do not compete for the same hours. Sea level is the grotto, the caves, the Faraglioni and the swimming off Marina Piccola. Above 200 metres is Anacapri, Monte Solaro, Villa San Michele and a view most single-day visitors never see. A day tour is the only format on this list that covers both.
No boat goes to 589 metres. Monte Solaro, Villa San Michele and Anacapri's own quiet are a bus-and-chairlift proposition, and four of these fares include the transport for it.
Two of these days include the Blue Grotto ticket and reach the cave early, when a two-and-a-half-hour wait would otherwise swallow a short trip whole.
Funicular, bus, chairlift, ferry: a full day hands the connections to a guide. On an island where the buses are frequent and the taxi queue is not, that is worth more than it sounds.
Every one of these leaves two to three hours unstructured in the towns, which is when Capri stops being a schedule.
| A full day tour | A short boat trip | |
|---|---|---|
| Typical length | 7 to 8 hours | 1.5 to 3 hours |
| What it reaches | Both towns, the high island, and the coast | The coastline and the swimming |
| Land transport | Included on four of them | None |
| A guide | On three of them, licensed | A skipper who talks |
| Time in the water | Up to 45 minutes | 20 minutes, and it is the point |
| Blue Grotto ticket | Included on two | Never |
| From | From $59 per person | From $51 per person |
The honest summary: a boat trip is the better afternoon and a day tour is the better day. If the ferry over and back already eats four hours of your daylight, the day tour is what makes the remainder work.
Check what it includes before you compare prices. A $59 day that buys a shuttle and a $142 day that buys a guide, the grotto ticket and the shuttle are not the same product, and the gap between them is smaller than it looks once you have paid the €18 yourself.
Work backwards from the last boat. A seven-hour tour plus two crossings is most of a day; getting to Capri has the timetable logic.
Expect stairs. One operator asks for a moderate level of fitness and says the day does not suit reduced mobility. Capri is vertical.
Book several days ahead in season. These cap between twenty-three and twenty-five, and they fill from June.
Anyone with four hours off a tender. A seven-hour day does not fit inside a cruise call, and trying it is how people miss the all-aboard. A two-hour boat trip from Marina Grande does fit, with room either side.
Anyone whose day is really about swimming. These are sightseeing days with a swim attached at best; the private boat tours invert that ratio.
And anyone visiting in January or February. The funicular is closed, Villa Jovis is shut, Villa San Michele is shut for February, and the grotto closes at 2pm. A day tour built on those pieces has fewer of them to work with, and the best time to visit says what is left.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start, so you can hold a date while you decide.
See Top ToursEvery trip named here is set against the rest on price, hours and what the fare covers at Capri Italy Tours.