Capri from Napoli self tour guide

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Hello all.

One of the Med ports with many options to choose from is Napoli. The port is very close to the city and to many attractions. One of the top attractions is the beautiful Island Capri. 

To tour Capri you have 3 options : Using boat tour (starts around 200$ PP without dinner) , use 3rd party vendor (around 140$) or tour yourself , I will focus on the tour yourself option.

Even for tour yourself you can choose to take ferry tickets from the boat (99$ PP in the cruise planner) or to buy them directly (45 $ PP). 
When we decided to visit Capri RCL excursion for self Capri tour was already fully booked so we went and did it ourselves.

There are two options when you buy the ferry ticket , one is to do it in the port or you can book them ahead of time , get a voucher and replace it in the port.
We booked our ticket in https://www.capri.net/en/t/napoli/capri .
When booking the ticket , please make sure you book the one that goes out of    Molo Beverello , this is the fast ferry port and the one which adjust to the RCL peer.
You will see many companies , but just book using the one that you like their schedule. 
We used LNG for the 8:35 am ferry going back at 16:30 PM, LNG have a very good advantage since they have special lines for online tickets.  The ship is docking at 7 am so 8:35 is very doable. Since you need to convert the voucher to tickets , the safe time to go of the ship is around 8 am. 
If you want to buy ticket in the port take into consideration they are not accepting credit cards.

Here is a "map" to the location : 

 

Since Capri is very poplar destination  the key to enjoy it is to start the tour early morning before all the queues.
We had some delays getting off the ship (our fault) so we only disembark  at 08:18. It only 5 minutes from the ship to the ferry port. 
You need to go out of the port and cross the parking lot were many taxi driver will try to sell you a day tour to anywhere (I am sure if you will tell them you want to visit Rome they will say no problem). Before the end of the parking area go to the left were you will see the ferry areas and building . the first window is the LNG online ticket which I was happy to see as there was zero line and we exchange the tickets in no time. They also told us were to get the ferry and we got on it just on time.
The ferry ride takes around 50 minutes.

 

Once the ferry arrived Capri port you will see on your left side a small port were you can book a ride to the blue cave if you want or you can continue forward and right to the ticket booth were you can buy bus tickets to Capri and AnaCapri , funicular tickets or to take a Taxi.
Bus and funicular tickets cost between 1.4 to 2 Euros PP one way. Taxi ride will cost around 20 Euros  

The ticket booth :

 

We bought the funicular ticket to Capri , again since we came early their were no lines. To save some time we also bought tickets to the way back.
The funicular entrance is 1 minute walk to the left   to cave like entrench were you need to stamp the tickets and get in. The rides takes less than 5 minutes.
The funicular will bring you near the main streets (if you can call it like that) of Capri were you can choose to roam around Capri or to take the buss near by to AnaCapri were you can take the chairlift (9 Euros both way) to the highest point in the Island. the chairlift takes around 10 minutes with a very nice view during and after the ride.

Since we have done last time the chairlift we decide just to walk around Capri streets which some are located on the side of the hill . After that we went to drink some coffee in one of the coffee shops , Capri is very expensive but there are places which are more expensive from other , so please read the menu first if you don't to pay 7 Euros for espresso ...
To Enjoy the view , we went to Augustus gardens in Capri (7 minutes from the funicular) , you pay 1.5 Euros and the view is amazing.

 

It started to be hot and we decided that we would like to shorten the visit so around 1 PM we took the train down to the port and went to the ticket booth of the ferry to replace our 4:30 PM ferry tickets to something earlier . My spouse explain the situation to the lady in the booth using the Italian she learned long time ago  and she happily replaced the tickets. Since we had time until we needed to board the ferry we went to one of the port restaurants (after checking the menu) and got a tasty lasagna and fresh salad , this plus two draft beer was around 28 Euros.  When we went to the ferry docks we could see huge lines to the funicular and to the ticket booth , so again , come early   
Ferry ride back was 45 minutes and 7 minutes after we were back on the Wonder of the Seas.

To conclude , going to Capri by yourself is easy and much cheaper if you direct buy the  ferry tickets. The all on board was 7:30 PM which gives you enough time to do it without worries to miss the ship.