Herculaneum 3D Skip the line Walking Tour

Naples, Italy

2 hours (approx.)
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Toss the boring guidebook and feel as if you are stepping back in time 2,000 years to get a feel for what daily life was like in ancient Herculaneum with this unique augmented reality guided tour. Slip on a pair of AR glasses and follow your guide through the ruins for renderings of Roman houses, shops, baths, and more. This AR-focused small-group experience is ideal for all ages.

Walk amongst the ruins of Herculaneum with a guide
Engage visitors of all ages with AR glasses to bring Herculaneum to life
Take in the archaeological site alongside a tour guide
On-site tour assistant and skip-the-line tickets for a seamless experience

What's Included

AR GLASSES
Tour Assistant
Skip the line ticket
Recorded Audio available in 6 languages
Freedom to independently explore the archaeological site after the tour

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Herculaneum Ticket Office
80056 Ercolano, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy
Head to the snack area next to the ticket office. Your tour leader will be waiting close to the vending machines with a sign that has "AR Tour" written on it. Please arrive 15 minutes early

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Operating hours
.2:30 pm

Itinerary

Parco Acheologico di Ercolano

2 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Near public transportation
Most travelers can participate
Once the tour is over and the augmented reality glasses are returned, it is possible to stay in the archaeological park and explore the site independently.
The tour will take place regardless of weather conditions, so it is advisable to dress appropriately.
This is a walking tour, please ensure you wear the proper shoes.

Children under 8 years old can access the park with a standard ticket, but they cannot use the 3D technology.
Children under 18 must show a valid identity document or passport at the ticket office
AR glasses can also be worn by participants who already wear eyeglasses.
Please arrive at the meeting point at least 15 minutes before departure time.
If you are late, we will wait for a maximum of 5 minutes. After that, the tour will start out of respect for the other participants.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Reviews

4.2

based on 19 reviews

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Relaxed, friendly, informative

Louise_W, Oct 2024

Very friendly host. Gentle pace around 2 hours. Very informative. 3d a great option to see the region before the eruption and understand how people lived. We were late due to train issues. Suggest arrive early...

VR is a novelty but a welcome one.

stuart_b, May 2024

The VR is simple but effective. It added a nice dimension to the tour. Our guide was knowledgeable and very personable. It is not a big site and this tour seemed to cover all the basics with an interesting twist.

Herculaneum is a memorable experience.

Shawn_R, May 2024

Overall, this was a great experience. We had a wonderful tour guide, who was very knowledgeable and friendly. Using 3D technology to see rendering of the past was helpful, although the headset around your neck for the duration of the tour is a bit tiring. All that said, we would do this same tour again. Thank you so much!

Herculaneum is fabulous but this tour ruins it

tom_g, May 2024

The glasses are barely useful and the recorded commentary with them is not only brief and boring but only available at a few fixed points where the glasses are activated. The tour guide merely shuffles the group from one place to another before telling you to turn the glasses on again. This means that you are whisked past 99% of the site without a moment to appreciate or learn anything at all. After two stops this was obvious, so we handed the glasses back and started the tour again having completely wasted our time spent with the pleasant but useless guide.

Response from Host, May 2024

We appreciate your feedback. It's important to clarify that our tours are led by experienced tour leaders who guide participants through various points of interest. The glasses provided are integral to the experience, offering augmented reality reconstructions of the monuments, enhancing the overall tour. We understand your decision to abandon the tour after only two stops might have seemed rushed. However, we believe that continuing the tour could have allowed you to fully appreciate its value.

Great value, great guide

Mark_R, Dec 2023

It was great being able to compare Herculaneum and Pompeii and see all the important places with a local, knowledgeable guide was spectacular.

Suggestive walk around

ALESSANDRA_c, Nov 2023

Thanks to Chiara ,that is a lovely young woman, we could walk throug the Ercolano Ruins discovering by the 3d glasses what it should have look like , its colours, daily life , architecture. Ercolano is a smaller but different site from Pompei but also worthing a visit to understand how the eruption affected differently . Thanks Chiara

Immersion dans la cité d'Herculanum

Valerie_T, Apr 2025

Très belle expérience. Cette Visite a été très instructive et la possibilité de visualiser les reconstructions virtuelle-ment permet de mieux comprendre la cité d'Herculanum . Encore merci à notre guide pour sa gentillesse, sa patience et ses commentaires. Une expérience à faire, et dans notre cas avant celle de Pompei, nous a permis d'avoir une approche différente. Je recommande vivement.

Interessant, mais aurait pu être encore mieux si la guide avait pris le temps de nous donner plus d’explications…

Yann_J, Apr 2024

C’est une façon sympa de découvrir Herculanum. Cependant, mon avis est mitigé car mes lunettes ne fonctionnaient pas très bien. J’avais toujours un décalage entre les explications et ce que je voyais. La Guide a essayé de régler le problème mais à chaque fois cela se reproduisait. . En pratique, il s’agit d’une promenade d’environ 1h30 dans les ruines d’Herculanum, avec huit zones sur lesquelles on active les lunettes. C’est tout de même intéressant même pour des adultes. À la fin de cette visite on peut rester aussi longtemps que souhaité sur le site pour prendre le temps de voir les autres lieux non inclus dans les explications avec les lunettes. À noter que nous avons attendu 25 minutes avant de débuter la visite… Enfin, je pensais que la Guide nous donnerait davantage d’explications. En pratique nous n’avons pas eu beaucoup plus d’informations que celles de l’audio guide en français.