Looking for the best way to explore the legendary ruins of Pompeii? Then join an expert archaeologist guide on this fascinating small group walking tour, and discover the secrets of Italy’s buried city. Frozen in time by Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., Pompeii provides an incredible snapshot of life in Roman times. You’ll beat the crowds with skip-the-line tickets, and your guide will show you the best of the city’s important sites and hidden gems.
What's included
English-speaking archeologist guide
Skip-the-line Pompeii tickets
Guided walking tour of the Lost City
Walk streets frozen in time
Guide tips
Itinerary
Meet your guide at Bar Sgambati
Your tour starts at Bar Sgambati next to Pompeii train station. Find your archaeologist guide holding a company sign and join the group. Before you go in, hear a short intro about Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius.
Enter Pompeii Archaeological Park
Use your skip-the-line tickets, and walk straight into Pompeii Archaeological Park. As you follow the old stone streets, your guide explains the layout of the city and what daily life looked like here.
Explore the forum and Roman baths
After entering the city, you reach the forum, the main public square of Pompeii, surrounded by temples and civic buildings. From there, you continue to the Roman baths, where your guide points out changing rooms, heated floors, and steam areas that once made this a favorite place to wash and relax.
See the ancient bakery
Next, stop at the remains of an old bakery. See the stone mills and ovens that once turned grain into bread, and get a sense of how bustling this corner of the city would have been.
View the plaster casts of victims
Then, follow your guide to one of the most moving stops in the area with the plaster casts of Pompeii’s residents. Your guide explains how archaeologists created these forms and what they reveal about the eruption’s final moments.
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Fri, 01 May 2026
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An amazing experience, just 90 minutes later!
Brenda H.
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April 27, 2026
It was a lifelong dream of our family, and the family with whom we were traveling, to experience Pompeii in person… it meant the world for us to be able to do so.
Best laid plans can go awry, even for meticulous planners like us ~ our morning started out with some chaos when the bus we were to take from Napoli Centrale left, come to find out, from a satellite bus station a few blocks away from the Napoli Centrale bus/train depot (shame on you, Flix bus, for not making that clear whatsoever in the booking summary/tickets that were sent our way, but I digress…)
Missing that bus forced us to get on the regional train, which was fine, but now, instead of arriving 45 mins before our tour we arrived right as it was supposed to be beginning…
I was in touch with customer service once I realized our tight timing. They advised us to proceed to the meeting point and hopefully we would get there by five minutes past the tour start time…
We were getting off the train three minutes past that point… We 8 ran to find the meeting location….people need to know that there are two entrances to Pompeii!!
To get to Café Vittoria, you must go past the first/seemingly sole entrance, follow a hill down and to the left, which then gets you where you need to be.
Our customer service experience went from helpful to flat/dismissive once we had been running around the first Pompei entrance desperately trying to find our tour guide/group..
Our group had a wonderful experience with the Towns of Italy information booth at that second Pompeii entrance… They understood our issue, and immediately got us booked on a tour 90 minutes later… We are forever grateful to them.
Our tour guide Erica was absolutely magnificent… Personable, funny, informative. Fantastic!
The use of the personal headsets made all the difference where at points you are in the mix with many different tour groups… We could always hear Erica clearly!
Awesome day at Pompeii
John K.
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April 27, 2026
It’s a huge site, but we’re able to cannabis various parts of it and get a better understanding of what happened at Pompeii. Our guide was great. We’d recommend the beginning museum for kids. It set the stage for what they’re about to see with a little more clarity since Pompeii is just ruins
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Suzannr B.
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April 17, 2026
Our guide was excellent and kept us informed and entertained at every turn. She avoided crowds and gave us plenty to do and see after the tour was over. We would highly recommend.
Vikki B.
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April 09, 2026
Great job, the tour guide was very knowledgeable and engaged
Great tour!!!
Dayna F.
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April 05, 2026
The Pompeii Ruins Tour was AMAZING! Our guide, Luisa, was excellent! We loved our time! Would highly recommend!
Loved it!
Jennifer H.
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March 30, 2026
My family loved this tour! Our tour guide made it interesting and easy to ask her questions. She was very professional and knowledgeable about the ruins and Pompeii area.
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James C.
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March 23, 2026
Giada was great. We really enjoyed the tour.
Amazing job!!
Andre R.
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March 22, 2026
Our tour guide was exceptional with her knowledge. We learned so much about the ruins and the life in Pompeii. Worth every penny. Would definitely recommend.
Great Pompei tour
Karen S.
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March 19, 2026
Marissa was a wonderful guide, making sure we saw the best parts of the ruins in our 2+ hours. She is very knowledgeable and we very much enjoyed all of the information she shared.
Jill C.
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February 18, 2026
Julie T.
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February 11, 2026
Our tour guide was awesome and very knowledgeable.
Tracy D.
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November 01, 2025
Caterina L.
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October 16, 2025
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Julia J.
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October 09, 2025
I’m so glad I did the tour so that I wasn’t wandering around aimlessly, not now what I was looking at. I learned a lot but felt there could have been more information and enthusiasm from the guide.
Highlight of our trip!
Kari M.
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October 07, 2025
This was a fantastic tour! Our tour guide was engaging and knowledgeable. Had we wandered through Pompeii on our we would have missed so much. This tour was one of the highlights of our two week trip to Italy.
Patty W.
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October 06, 2025
Sarita P.
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October 03, 2025
Frank T.
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September 29, 2025
Great tour
Gary L.
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September 28, 2025
The guide engaged the group in the conversation. He was funny and witty. Good overview of the history of the site. Meeting location was a bit hard to find. We would highly recommend this tour
Lisa T.
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September 25, 2025
William S.
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September 10, 2025
Tour was fun
Stephane P.
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September 08, 2025
A little bit repetitive but worth it if you like ruins!
THOMAS R.
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September 07, 2025
A lovely day
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Elizabeth B.
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September 01, 2025
Our guide, I think her name was Ensa? Was so interesting and friendly! She was so helpful since we had to leave the tour a half hour early to get back to the bus. I would love to have seen more of Pompeii!