Top Pompeii Half-day Tours

Great quick-hitting tour. 2 hrs in Pompeii is not long but still felt like we got a great history and tour. Tour office will store your luggage for $6/per piece of luggage. Office is located upstairs in the bldg next to the train station (just across from Pompeii entrance). Guide was entertaining and informational.

This is a really worthwhile trip. The two sites are spectacular; I think tour guide provided far more information than an audio tour would. Everything was organized and very clear. The only knock on the tour was that the lunch stop was in a food court in a mall (!) The whole tour would have preferred to stop at an Italian restaurant. There must be a restaurant between Ercolano and Pompeii that can meet everyone's dietary requirements ... Other than that A++

It's been a dream of mine to visit Pompeii my entire life, ever since doing a school project on Mount Vesuvius. This tour brought everything to life in a way I could never have imagined. Our guide (I'm sorry I can't remember her name) was incredible - very informative, knowledgeable, and able to bring us to sites while avoiding the lines with her expertise of the area. Definitely wear comfortable shoes and bring a fan if you're traveling in the summer - it gets HOT but is SO worth it! Seeing Villa of the Mysteries in person was one of the coolest pieces of history I've ever seen, definitely worth seeing. My only note is technological - the earphones provided for the tour were incredibly difficult to stay in your ears, especially when sweating on a hot day, so it made it tricky to hear the guide if you weren't holding it up to your ear. But not the fault of our guide! Overall, a guided tour of Pompeii is a must - you won't know what you're looking at by yourself, it's easy to get lost, and you'll miss expert knowledge of the history. We can't wait to come back and see even more of the ever-changing sites at Pompeii.

My 20 year old grandson loves to hike. We took the tour but my husband and I stayed at the bus level. My grandson absolutely loved the hike. It was a very small group with only the guide and one other hiker. They were all used to hiking so it was great for them. He got great pictures all around.

We booked Sabrina for a private family tour of Pompeii with our two young children, and she was brilliant from start to finish. She struck exactly the right balance for young kids…bringing the ruins to life through stories about everyday Roman life, food, and how people actually lived, rather than just reciting dates and facts, which kept both children genuinely engaged the whole way round. She was also great at pacing the tour to suit us, adjusting the route and tempo so the kids never got bored or overwhelmed by the July heat, while still giving us adults plenty of fascinating detail. Her warmth and patience with the children, combined with real depth of knowledge, made this one of the highlights of our trip to Sorrento. Highly recommend Sabrina for any family visiting Pompeii with young kids….she made ancient history genuinely fun for all of us!

Everyone agreed this was the highlight of our trip. Our guide Lello was absolutely incredible to say the least. It ended up just being our little group of four in his group so we got a private tour of Pompeii. He was so knowledgeable but his personality was what made the tour exceptional. He took us around and we got to see a lot in our time there. I would definitely request him and this tour!

We all thoroughly enjoyed our vineyard tour, tasting and lunch. It started with a warm welcome and then a private tour for our group of 6 around the vineyard in a golf buggy. It's a beautiful place with its own ruins, a stables, a hotel, a small 'zoo' and a pretty outdoor seated area for lunch and tasting. We were initially given a glass of spumanti, which was lovely, and then taken to our table. Our group were sat on our own table and had our own sommelier. She was lovely and really funny. We were given a glass of white, a rose and two reds alongside our lunch, which was also great. We bought another bottle to share as well, although we probably didn't need it! After a long morning exploring Pompeii this was a perfect way to spend the afternoon and one of the highlights of our holiday. It's also very close to the main Pompeii train station - we walked from the park and then got a taxi back.

Our tour guide, Elisa, was amazing! From the moment we walked through the gates she told us what we could see with a very engaging mix of humour and knowledge. She took us to all the best spots and told us many of the stories behind the ruins and had answers to any questions our group had! There was points within the tour where she let us go and wander for 5/10 minutes in places where there was a lot to explore but most of the tour was in our group of 11 which I think was a perfect size after seeing some other tours whilst we were there in huge groups. Thank you for making exploring Pompeii so enjoyable and bringing the history to life!