Who they are
Amalfi Charter runs private skippered charters from an address on the Amalfi seafront, Via Lungomare dei Cavalieri 382. The founding year is not stated anywhere on the official site, and neither is much about the company beyond its VAT number. That is a small thing, but it sets the tone: this is a business built around direct conversation rather than published detail.
One oddity worth clearing up before you book. The website says Amalfi; the company's TripAdvisor listing is filed under Minori, the next town east. The two are not contradictory — plenty of Amalfi Coast operators are registered in one comune and moor in another — but it is worth asking which pier you are actually meeting at. Also be careful with the names: Amalfi Coast Boat Charter, Amalfi Boat Rental and Premium Boat Charter are separate companies.
Where you sail from
Amalfi's harbour is small and split by function. The Molo Pennello, the long arm you see as you come down into Piazza Flavio Gioia, handles scheduled ferries to Positano, Salerno and Capri. Private boats and RIBs instead cluster in the Darsena, the inner basin on the western side, two minutes on foot from the cathedral.
Practically: arriving by SITA bus, you get off at the Piazza Flavio Gioia terminus and you are already at the port. Arriving by car, the covered car parks under the square and along the coast road fill by nine in the morning in high season, so allow time or consider the ferry from Salerno instead. Your exact meeting point arrives with the booking confirmation.
Minori, where TripAdvisor files the listing, is a few minutes along the coast from Amalfi.
The fleet
This is where the site goes quiet. It refers to a "large fleet" of boats and small yachts, and the sunset tour page mentions craft from 26 to 50 feet — roughly eight to fifteen metres. No models, no names, no specifications: the fleet page did not load its content when we checked.
That gap matters, because the difference between an eight-metre gozzo and a fifteen-metre open boat changes everything — passenger numbers, comfort when there is a swell, whether there is a toilet aboard, how much fuel you burn. Before you confirm, ask for the exact model of the boat allocated to you and its maximum capacity, and get the answer in writing.
Tours and prices
The catalogue covers Capri as a full day, Capri by night, the Amalfi Coast as a half day or a full day, a sunset cruise and wedding charters. Stated durations are two hours for the sunset and seven hours for the full-day coast trip; the half-day and Capri durations are not given.
On price, we have to be blunt: there is none published. The FareHarbor booking system embedded in the site returned no rates when we checked it, and the individual tour pages carry no "from" figures either. The only numbers the operator does state are extras: 100 euro per boat plus 5 euro per person for landing at Capri, on top of entry to the Blue Grotto and the Emerald Grotto and any restaurant lunch. Included in the price, according to the site, are the skipper, fuel, towels, and drinks — beer, soft drinks and water on full days, prosecco and snacks on the sunset run.
A quote-only model is not a flaw in itself; plenty of private charters work that way. It becomes a problem when it sits alongside the pricing complaints described below.
Booking and cancellation
You can book online, or over WhatsApp on +39 333 4821326 — reviewers name Vera as the booking contact and describe her as quick and helpful — or by phone on +39 089 852149 or at info@amalficharter.it. Skippers are listed as Italian- and English-speaking.
The cancellation terms are stricter than the Amalfi Coast average: a full refund only if you cancel more than 14 days ahead, nothing inside 14 days or for a no-show. Weather is the exception — if the operator cancels for sea conditions, you reschedule or cancel at no cost. Fourteen days is a long lead time for a trip most people finalise a fortnight out, so if your flights or ferries are at all uncertain, factor that in.
What reviewers say
On TripAdvisor, Amalfi Charter holds 4.7 out of 5 from 235 reviews and ranks second of 16 tours and activities in Minori. We found no Google Business listing for the company.
The positive themes are consistent. Many people describe the day afloat as the high point of their trip; skippers are named and praised as professional and willing to reshape the route; the boats come across as immaculately kept; and the pre-trip messaging is repeatedly called easy.
Equally clearly, though, there is a cluster of strongly negative reviews — reported by the people who wrote them, not verified by us — that circles around specific complaints: rates altered after booking, inflexible non-refundable deposits, an engine failure with no replacement boat offered, and complaint handling described as unsympathetic. They are a minority of the total, but they are similar enough to each other that they cannot be waved away as one-offs. We do not know whether they relate to a particular season or a particular member of staff; they are public reports, and we pass them on as such.
A full day at Capri is the headline product — with the landing fee charged as a declared extra.
Direct or through GetYourGuide
Booking direct has two real advantages: you talk to the person who will drive the boat and can shape the itinerary before you pay, and the net price is sometimes lower with no platform commission in it. With Amalfi Charter, though, you pay for that in flexibility — the 14-day cut-off is severe, and there is no published rate to benchmark the quote against.
GetYourGuide flips the trade-off. Most Amalfi Coast products cancel free up to 24 hours before, you can reserve the date and pay later, support answers in your own language, and the price is visible before you hand over anything. In exchange the itinerary is the one in the listing, with less room to improvise. If you want a private day out of Amalfi with prosecco and a snorkelling stop, the private Amalfi Coast boat trip is the closest comparison; for something short and fast there is the two-hour speedboat run from Positano or Praiano. The full list of Amalfi boat tours at least shows you the price bands that are missing here.
Alternatives
If the missing price list is what puts you off, look at Blue Amalfi Charter, which publishes a full per-boat rate card, or Cruise & Snorkel Amalfi Coast, which sells per-person seats at a fixed price rather than the whole boat. For a private charter with unusually uniform reviews and no recurring complaint theme, Diamond Cruises Amalfi also works out of the Amalfi area.
To place all of this in context, our guides to private Amalfi Coast boat tours, boat rental and yacht charter explain what changes between the three formats, and the operator index collects every review we have written.