# Is Vomero & Arenella a Good Area to Stay in Naples? Map & Verdict

Verdict: Mixed. Fine for some travellers, wrong for others.

Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-naples/vomero-arenella
Every Naples district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-naples.md

A quiet grid on the hill 100 m above the centre, with Castel Sant'Elmo and the best view of the bay. You will ride a funicular every day of the trip.

Facts: 30 min walk to the centro storico; 40 min to the airport; 25 min to the beach; price €€; best for families, quiet, longer stays, business trips; lines Metro 1, Funicolare A, Funicolare B, Funicolare C.

Vomero is the planned district on the hill: straight streets, plane trees, Piazza Vanvitelli in the middle, and Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino on the lip above the city. It is where Neapolitan families live who could afford to leave the centre, and it feels like it. Arenella, further north, is the same idea with fewer shops and a longer trip.

Getting down is easy and constant. Line 1 runs from Vanvitelli to Dante in a few minutes, and three separate funiculars drop to Via Toledo, Chiaia and Montesanto. Getting home late is the catch: the funiculars stop in the evening and the metro is not a night service, so the end of a long dinner in the old town is a taxi up the hill.

Book here for a family, a long stay, or a second visit. You get quiet nights, supermarkets rather than souvenir shops, safe streets and rates below Chiaia. You do not get Naples on your doorstep, and on a three-day trip the twenty minutes each way in both directions is a real share of the holiday.

What works:
- Line 1 at Vanvitelli, Quattro Giornate and Medaglie d'Oro
- Three funiculars connect to Via Toledo, Chiaia and Montesanto
- Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino are inside the zone
- Quiet at night and safe to walk, which the centre is not
- Rates below Chiaia for a bigger and newer room

What does not:
- Everything you came to see is downhill, and 100 m below you
- The funiculars stop in the evening; a late night home means a taxi
- Arenella is ordinary residential with a longer trip and no reason to book it
- Restaurants here shut earlier than in the old town
- The walk down is 25 minutes and the walk back up is not the same walk

Hotels in Vomero & Arenella: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D1298%26dest_type%3Ddistrict%26group_adults%3D2%26no_rooms%3D1

## Other districts in Naples

- [Toledo & the Quartieri Spagnoli](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-naples/toledo-quartieri-spagnoli): Recommended. Via Toledo, the alley grid above it, and the western half of the old town down to the port. The best-connected place to sleep in Naples, and the loudest.
- [Chiaia, Santa Lucia & Posillipo](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-naples/chiaia-santa-lucia-posillipo): Recommended. The royal city and the seafront: Piazza del Plebiscito, the Galleria, the Santa Lucia hotel strip and the Capri ferries. You pay the highest rates in Naples for it.
- [San Lorenzo & Piazza Garibaldi](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-naples/san-lorenzo-garibaldi): Mixed. Via dei Tribunali, the Duomo and Napoli Sotterranea at one end; the central station and the cheapest beds in the city at the other. Which end you book decides the trip.
- [Sanità & Capodimonte](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-naples/sanita-capodimonte): Mixed. The valley behind the archaeological museum: catacombs, baroque staircases and the cheapest rooms within walking distance of the old town. The walk is uphill.
- [Fuorigrotta & Bagnoli](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-naples/fuorigrotta-bagnoli): Avoid. Cheap rooms on the far side of the hill, by the stadium and a dismantled steelworks. It looks close to Naples on the map and it is a tunnel and 20 minutes away.