Have our trip coming up, and started looking into Train Tickets.......and the schedules are pretty rough to deal with, as we have tours planned, so 'fixed' times we need to be there. I hear horror stories about the trains being late, so I'm now kind of worried about not getting there in enough time (for example--I need to be at Pompeii 9AM--and only train around that time gets there at 8:55AM). Since its a month out, do schedules change or get added? Other trip is Vietri (or Salerno) to Naples--trip down is pretty easy, but ONLY train coming back is like 2.5 hours, because of several stops.
I kinda thought it be a little easier to book trains, but either I'm doing it wrong, or its not as easy as I thought lol.
I'm not afraid to drive in Italy, but I hear parking is a nightmare. We plan to visit the Amalfi towns too, but planned on ferries for that. Don't wanna pay $100/day for car rental, and only use it a couple days.