Who they are
Iamme Ia! was founded in Sorrento in 2014 by three friends the website describes as travellers and entrepreneurs at once. Since then the company has traded as a licensed partner of Gray Line, the international sightseeing network that appears in the footer as "Gray Line Corporation, Sightseeing Amalfi Coast" - the 1910 copyright date belongs to that brand, not to the Sorrento agency. On TourRadar the legal entity behind the name is listed as Reve srl.
It helps to place the business correctly from the start: Iamme Ia! is an excursion agency, not a boat owner. It sells organised days - coach, guide, tickets, sometimes a leg by sea - and buys the nautical part from local boatmen. The website only implies this; Gray Line says it outright, noting that local operator details are supplied on the voucher.
Where they leave from and how to get there
Everything revolves around the Info Point at Piazza Tasso 16, Sorrento's main square: arrive on the Circumvesuviana train or by bus and you are a few hundred metres away, and anyone staying in the centre can walk. Tours starting in Naples use a separate meeting point given at the time of booking.
For the gozzo trips the site does not name the embarkation pier. Sorrento's commercial departures split between Marina Piccola, where the ferries and hydrofoils berth, and Marina Grande, the old fishermen's quarter: both are walkable from the centre, the first downhill past the Villa Comunale gardens, the second down the lane of via Marina Grande. Ask which quay applies when your voucher arrives.
The SS163: a nine-hour land tour also means a great many hairpins.
The fleet
There is no fleet in the strict sense. The road vehicles are not detailed anywhere on the site - neither models nor capacities - and at sea a single boat type appears: the traditional Sorrento gozzo for a maximum of twelve guests, with an English-speaking crew. If you like to know in advance which hull you will board, how it is powered and how many seats it has, you will not find that here. It is the clearest difference from the coast's owner-operators, who put every boat in the shop window one by one.
Tours and prices
The price list is public, which in this part of Italy is far from a given. Prices from the official website.
By road, the classic Positano-Amalfi-Ravello day costs 109 euro per person for nine hours from Sorrento, the same figure as from Naples. Pompeii and Vesuvius are 115 euro for eight hours, Capri and Anacapri with the Blue Grotto 175 euro. The Sorrento walking tour is 49 euro for three hours, and a three-day Ischia package is offered at 579 euro per person.
At sea, the Amalfi Coast boat tour taking in Positano and Amalfi from Sorrento is listed at 185 euro per person for eight hours, and the Capri island trip at 165 euro. Mixed coach-and-boat days in semi-private form run to 229 euro per person for the Amalfi Coast from Naples and 269 euro for Capri and Anacapri. Private departures are priced per group: 313 euro for the Amalfi Coast from Sorrento, 499 euro for Capri and Anacapri, 593 euro for Capri from Positano, 650 euro for Capri from Amalfi and 80 euro for a Sorrento-Naples transfer. Landing tax of 10 euro per person is extra.
Booking and cancellation
You can book through the website checkout, in person at the Info Point, by telephone, or through the distribution channels: GetYourGuide, TourRadar and the global Gray Line portal. The featured products carry a free-cancellation label and the Gray Line listing states a full refund up to 24 hours before departure. The full contractual terms sit on Iubenda and did not load when we checked: if cancellation rights matter to you, ask for the text in writing before you pay.
What reviewers say
On TripAdvisor the agency holds 4.7 out of 5 from 2,120 reviews; on TourRadar 4.9 out of 5, but from only 22 reviews. We found no Google listing we could attribute to the company with confidence, and the GetYourGuide supplier page returns an access error.
Three themes recur in the positive reviews: the guides, described as engaging and able to tell you more than the signage does; the logistics, meaning comfortable vehicles, contained group sizes and priority entries that actually work; and the driving on the coast road, which anyone unused to Amalfi hairpins always mentions. Office staff are also frequently praised for answering quickly before departure.
The most common criticism concerns weather-driven changes to the itinerary, for instance Vesuvius crater closures with a substitute stop offered instead. Beyond that, no recurring complaint stood out in the sample we read.
Ravello is where land tours earn their keep: you cannot reach it by boat.
Booking direct or through GetYourGuide
Booking on the agency's own site means dealing with the people who actually run the day and, on private formats, having room to move the timings. In exchange you accept the operator's terms, which here are not fully readable.
On GetYourGuide most products carry free cancellation up to 24 hours before, reserve-now-pay-later, support in your own language and a review archive tied to verified purchases. For the same stretch of coast you will find the day from Naples taking in Sorrento, Positano and Amalfi with a boat leg, rated 4.8 out of 5 from 1,471 reviews, and the Sorrento trip to Positano and Amalfi with transfers included, 4.9 out of 5 from 4,615 reviews. Direct booking can be marginally cheaper; the protection if you change your mind is almost always clearer on the platform. To compare departures quickly, start from the Sorrento catalogue.
Alternatives
If you want a real day at sea with a crew that owns its boats, look at Limoncello Charters, which works private-only out of Sorrento with four hulls of its own, or SalBoat, a Marina Grande fishing family whose group prices are among the lowest around. To work out how train, ferry and bus fit together before choosing an excursion, our guide to Amalfi Coast boat tours and the departures from Sorrento page lay out the options; arriving through the airport, start instead from departures from Naples.