Renting a car/driving around Naples – feasible for Germans?

Question

Hi everyone, we're planning a trip to the Naples area, but we're staying in a neighboring town that's within easy reach of Naples city center, Pompeii, Mount Vesuvius, and the Amalfi Coast. We're considering renting a car, but everyone throws up their hands when we mention that we plan to drive there.

We don't even want to drive into the city center – but can anyone tell us how "tiring" the journeys are, for example, from the airport to the smaller villages, or in general, whether the "main roads" are just as chaotic, and whether no "foreigner" can cope with the Neapolitan driving style, and you'll just lose your nerve there… We'd like to spend our vacation accident-free 🙂

juergen63225 · Answer

In the city streets it is Italy:-), I was already there with the motorcycle, the Vespas have no fears of being visited, strangely never happens. Better to take a little flasher than an SUV. Otherwise there are well-developed highways, motorways (toll), Pompeiji has large parking spaces,

tinkerbell263 · Answer

Have fun in the big city traffic in southern Italy.

If you don't know the road network, it gets tricky because you have to pay attention to traffic next to the Navi. Spontaneous trace changes without blinkers are completely normal. In such corners simply adapt to traffic and let others in. (I'll let you in if you have to pull over).

You don't have to be afraid. But say goodbye to the idea that everyone has to wait for you just because you would have gone

funship · Answer

In 1987 it was all very easy. You have to adapt.

pfefferprinz · Answer

We were even with our own car in Massa Lubrense on the peninsula of Sorrento. To Naples, however, we did not dare by car. But otherwise everything was good.