re: Italy in July - Family trip with young kids

I really enjoyed eating pizza in Naples and then visiting Vesuvius and Pompeii. Some say Herculaneum is even better but we didn’t go there.

The highlights of our time in Positano were a chartered boat tour that included Capri and a private boat rental that I piloted (with relative ease) up and down the coast.

Rome is pretty self explanatory. Kids like ruins. The Vatican is amazing. If you are religious also visit Paul’s supposed final resting place. Eat in Trastevere if you can.

Edit: we ate at L’antica Pizzeria da Michele in Naples, and it was definitely worth it. They hand out numbers at the door and then you stand around until your number is called. We paid our driver a little extra and he found a shady guy who sold him an upcoming number so we didn’t have to wait for an hour or two.