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The best bargain hotel along the car-trafficked main drag, the family-run Corso is in the old section of town.
Its biggest selling point is great people-watching from your window during passeggiata—either overlooking the busy Corso or from sought-after rooms 52–55, whose shoe-wide balconies hang over quiet, pedestrianized Via S. Cesareo.
The plain accommodations feature exceedingly firm beds, lackluster modular furnishings, and a generous amount of elbow room—don't let them stick you in a tiny one—but the overall effect is a bit antiseptic.
Rooms above the trafficked Corso are, as you'd expect, noisy, as is the restaurant terrace that overlooks the street, so if you can't stand rumbling buses but can't score one of those ideal rooms, go for nos. 62–65 (no view, but still on the building's quieter back side).
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Corso Italia 134, Sorrento (1/2 block beyond Piazza Tasso)
tel. +39-081-807-1016
www.hoteldelcorso.com
Closed Dec–Jan
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Planning your time: Sorrento has maybe 2-3 hours of mediocre sightseeing. To be brutally honest it is probably the least interesting town in this area. It is only famous for its location.
Sorrento makes an ideal base for exploring Campania thanks to its location at the nexus of regional public transit—pretty much the only place from which you can get anywhere without having to change mode of transportation: Trains direct to Pompeii and Naples; ferries to Capri; buses or ferries down the Amalfi Coast.
If you prefer the home-base style of travel, Sorrento is the perfect base. Figure on three days/two nights here (hit Pompeii on the train ride down from Naples—you can store your luggage temporarily at the Pompei train station—then spend one day each visiting Capri and the Amalfi Coast).
If, however, you prefer to travel from town to town, just treat Sorrento as a way-station to switch from train to bus or ferry; skip Sorrento entirely and sleep in a more interesting locale on the Amalfi Coast or Capri.
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