Capri Italy Visitor Information

Capri has a reputation for being expensive, and half of that reputation is earned in the restaurants rather than at the gate. There is no admission to the island itself. What you pay for is the boat over, the ride up the hill, and the short list of places that charge to go in. This page prices all three, and then says what to do when the weather takes the Blue Grotto away from you. Once you know what the day costs before a single fare, the Capri Italy day tours are easier to weigh against a ferry ticket and a bus.

What a day on Capri actually costs

Two travellers who take the ferry from Sorrento, ride the funicular both ways, walk the town and swim off Marina Piccola will spend well under €60 between them before lunch. The same pair who add the Blue Grotto and the chairlift are closer to €120. Neither figure includes a meal, and that is where Capri earns its name.

There is no ticket for the island — here is what you do pay for

Capri is two working towns on a lump of limestone, not a gated site. Nobody checks anything when you step off the boat except the landing tax that is already inside your ferry fare. The Piazzetta, the Belvedere di Tragara, the walk out to the Arco Naturale and every public path are free.

Four places charge. The Blue Grotto is the one that surprises people, because its fee sits outside almost every boat fare: on a tour boat you pay €12 for the rowboat and €6 to go in at the floating office at the cave mouth, and if you arrive independently from Marina Grande you add the €24 public motorboat on top. Villa San Michele is €12, Villa Jovis €6, and the Gardens of Augustus €2.50. Only two of the trips listed here put the grotto ticket inside the price, and the Blue Grotto tours page says which.

Landing at Marina Grande, and the first twenty minutes

Every boat lands at Marina Grande, on the north shore. It is a working harbour with a beach, a row of ticket offices and a great many boats, and almost every tour in this list meets somewhere along it. Give yourself twenty minutes between the ferry and a boat departure rather than five: the piers are numbered, the numbers are not in an obvious order, and the walk along Via Cristoforo Colombo takes longer than it looks with a bag.

The single most common complaint in the reviews of these trips is not the trip. It is finding the boat. Where an operator gives a landmark — Pier 21, Molo Zero, Bar Gabbiano, the white umbrellas — use the landmark, not the street address, and message them the day before if there is a number to message.

Up the hill: funicular, bus or taxi

Tickets are sold at Marina Grande in front of the ferry offices, in Piazza Martiri d'Ungheria in Capri town and in Piazza della Pace in Anacapri. Buses to the Blue Grotto and to the Punta Carena lighthouse both run from Anacapri and both take about twenty minutes.

How long each part of the island takes

What to bring, and what to leave behind

A swimsuit under your clothes, because almost every boat here anchors and puts a ladder over the side. Flat shoes with grip: the lanes are stepped and polished smooth, and the beaches are pebble rather than sand. Cash for the grotto office and for any docking supplement your charter charges on the day. Leave the big bag; there is nowhere to put it, though one operator lets you store luggage at its shop by Marina Piccola. And leave the car — non-residents cannot bring one over for most of the year.

If the sea is up

The Blue Grotto closes whenever the swell or the wind makes the rowboat transfer unsafe, and the decision is taken on the morning by the boatmen rather than announced in advance. Several operators state in writing that if it shuts their tour runs without it and no refund is issued. That is worth knowing before you book rather than after.

Two things follow. Book a trip that has somewhere else to go — a lap of the coast, the caves, the towns — so a closed cave costs you a stop rather than a day. And keep an indoor option in your pocket: the towns, the Certosa, the Gardens of Augustus and a kitchen all work in weather that stops the boats. The weather page sets out which months this happens in.

Every fare here refunds in full up to 24 hours ahead, which is the other half of the answer. When you are ready to see what each one covers, Capri Italy Tours lays them out side by side.

Sources

Checked on 5 September 2026. Hours, fares and timetables belong to the bodies that publish them and they change with the season. The official pages are the place to confirm before you travel.

• Azienda Autonoma di Cura, Soggiorno e Turismo — the Blue Grotto
• Azienda Autonoma di Cura, Soggiorno e Turismo — hours and prices
• Capri.com — 2026 ferry schedules and fares
• Capri.net — getting around the island