Your char­ter includes an expe­ri­enced, Eng­lish-speak­ing skip­per, all fuel, fresh­wa­ter, and a ful­ly pri­vate ves­sel for the dura­tion of the day. The typ­i­cal itin­er­ary cov­ers a cir­cum­nav­i­ga­tion of the island, a Blue Grot­to vis­it (sub­ject to sea con­di­tions), swim­ming stops at sea caves and coves, and a lunch stop at a water­front restau­rant of your choice. Option­al add-ons include onboard cham­pagne, arti­san antipas­to, snor­kel­ing equip­ment, and pri­vate pho­tog­ra­phy. All ves­sel options — from clas­sic Gozzi to lux­u­ry open yachts — are avail­able for Capri charters.

Yes, and it is one of the most gen­uine­ly spec­tac­u­lar nat­ur­al expe­ri­ences in the Mediter­ranean — but the qual­i­ty depends on con­di­tions. Arriv­ing by pri­vate char­ter means your skip­per can opti­mize the tim­ing for ear­ly morn­ing, when crowds are thinnest and the inter­nal cerulean light at its most extra­or­di­nary. Entry into the grot­to itself is always via small row­boat (man­aged by the local coop­er­a­tive, with a sep­a­rate fee of approx­i­mate­ly €18 per per­son), regard­less of how you arrive. When strong swell clos­es the grot­to — which hap­pens fre­quent­ly in spring and autumn — your skip­per will sug­gest the island’s equal­ly beau­ti­ful sea caves on the north­ern coast.

Both can work, but Capri is espe­cial­ly reward­ing as a pri­vate half-day or full-day expe­ri­ence because the coast­line includes mul­ti­ple sea caves, icon­ic view­points, and beau­ti­ful coves that deserve time rather than a rushed stop.

Yes — a port fee of approx­i­mate­ly €100 per ves­sel applies to boats dock­ing at Capri’s main piers at Mari­na Grande and Mari­na Pic­co­la. This is sep­a­rate from any per-per­son land­ing tax. Many guests on pri­vate char­ters choose to bypass the port fee by anchor­ing off­shore and access­ing the island via water taxi, or by din­ing at a beach club like La Fontelina that pro­vides a pri­vate dock for restau­rant guests. Your skip­per will advise the most prac­ti­cal approach based on your itin­er­ary and the day’s conditions.

Arriv­ing at Capri before 10 AM gives you a sig­nif­i­cant advan­tage: the first fer­ries from Naples and Sor­ren­to don’t typ­i­cal­ly arrive until 9:30 – 10 AM, mean­ing the ear­ly morn­ing win­dow is sub­stan­tial­ly qui­eter. The piazzetta, the funic­u­lar, and the Blue Grot­to approach are all most enjoy­able before 11 AM. Most of our Capri full-day char­ters depart between 8 and 8:30 AM for exact­ly this rea­son. If Blue Grot­to access is a pri­or­i­ty, an 8 AM depar­ture is strong­ly recommended.

A Capri and Posi­tano com­bi­na­tion is one of our most request­ed full-day itin­er­aries, though it requires an ear­ly depar­ture (8 AM) and a longer char­ter (8 – 9 hours) to do both jus­tice. The route typ­i­cal­ly cov­ers: depar­ture from Sor­ren­to → Li Gal­li Islands swim­ming stop → Capri cir­cum­nav­i­ga­tion and Blue Grot­to → lunch at Mari­na Pic­co­la or a beach club → return via Posi­tano for a late after­noon stop before sun­set. We don’t rec­om­mend com­press­ing both into a short char­ter — each des­ti­na­tion deserves ade­quate time.