Pompeii and Herculaneum Tour from Naples, Sorrento and Rome - Archaeologist Guide

Visit Pompeii and Herculaneum in one day
from Naples, Sorrento or Rome

This is a one-day tour of Pompeii and Herculaneum led by an expert archaeologist guide. From Naples and Sorrento, you meet your guide and driver at the meeting point and travel by minibus. From Rome, you take a high-speed train to Naples and join your guide there.

Priority entrance tickets to both sites are included, and groups are limited to 20 people. The guide speaks English, and the total duration is 7 to 11 hours depending on the departure option you choose.

Meet everyday Roman life in Herculaneum

You first travel by minibus to Herculaneum and enter with priority tickets. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this town is so well preserved that you can see everyday Roman life up close.

Spend about 2 hours walking the ancient streets with your guide, seeing well-preserved buildings, mosaics, frescoes and even carbonized wooden objects. Highlights include the Temple of the Augustales, the ancient beach area, the thermal baths, the Forum, the Samnite House and the gymnasium.

Walk through Pompeii with your guide for about 2 hours

After Herculaneum, the minibus heads toward Pompeii. Before reaching the archaeological park, you stop for about 50 minutes at the Centro Commerciale La Cartiera shopping center for a break.

In Pompeii, you enter with your included ticket and take a guided walk of about 2 hours. Your archaeologist guide explains how the eruption buried the city and what its streets, public buildings, shops and private homes reveal about Roman society. You see highlights such as the Marina Gate, the Basilica, the Forum, the Forum Baths, an ancient bakery, a thermopolium, wealthy private houses and the famous plaster casts of eruption victims.

Return to your departure point

When the tour ends, you return according to the departure option you chose. Guests from Sorrento are dropped off at Piazza Angelina Lauro. Guests from Naples and Rome return to Starhotels Terminus near Napoli Centrale.

Guests from Rome then board the included high-speed train back to Rome Termini on their own.

※ The itinerary and the order of visits may change depending on local conditions.
※ The tour runs rain or shine.