Naples · Backpacking

At Via Melisurgo 15, a few minutes from Molo Beverello and the Piazza Municipio metro, so the island ferries and the airport bus are both walkable. Dorms and private rooms, and a location that puts you between the port and the old city rather than out by the station.

The city operator runs the buses, Metro Line 1 and all four funiculars on the same ticket, which is what makes Vomero and Posillipo cheap to reach. Buy from tabaccherie or the app before boarding and validate on entry; inspectors do work the funiculars.

Toledo, Università, Municipio and Materdei were each commissioned from a different architect and artist, and you see them for the price of an ordinary metro ticket. Toledo's mosaic light shaft is the one people come for. Ride the line end to end in an hour if it rains.

A full pizza folded into quarters and handed over in paper, sold from hatches on the street for a couple of euro — roughly a third of what the same pizzeria charges at a table. It is the standard cheap lunch in the old city, and it does not travel: eat it within a few minutes.

Roughly: €20–30 for a dorm bed, €1.10–1.30 for a coffee standing at the counter, €2–3 for pizza a portafoglio, €5–8 for a cuoppo or a rosticceria lunch, €8–12 for a sit-down pizza with a beer, and a few euro of ANM tickets. Under €50 a day is comfortable — until you add Pompeii at €20 and Herculaneum on top, which is where the week's money actually goes.