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Naples Shore Excursion: Pompeii Half Day Trip from Naples

Pompeii, Italy

From $71.25

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up to 24 hours before the experience starts (local time)

4 hours
Pickup offered
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Visit Europe’s largest archeological site and one of Italy’s top attractions on this half-day Naples shore excursion to Pompeii. Your expert local guide offers a comprehensive look at the haunting highlights of Pompeii. See the thermal baths, the Forum, and Lupanare on this tour that is not to be missed, and explore worry-free thanks to Viator’s guaranteed on-time arrival to your ship. If time in Naples is limited, this it the best way to see it all!

Guided tour of Pompeii with included admission tickets
The Forum, Thermal Baths, and the Lupanare brothel
Narration by a professional driver-guide
Port pickup and drop-off
Covered by Viator's worry-free policy: guaranteed on time return to your ship

What's Included

Professional guide
Port pickup and drop-off
Transport by shared air-conditioned minibus
Worry-Free Shore Excursion Guarantee
Headsets to hear the guide clearly
Entrance Ticket to Pompeii Archaeological Site (18 euros)

Gratuities
Food and drinks, unless specified

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup point

Naples port

Start time

09:45 AM

Pickup details

pick up will be outside the dock of your cruise ship, driver will show a sign with your name

What To Expect

Experience the haunting history of Europe’s largest archeological site on this guided tour from Naples. Explore the site of the famous disaster nearly 2,000 years after is occurred and follow your expert local guide through the city’s key landmarks. Explore the Forum, Thermal Baths, and Lupanare brothel as you learn about how some 20,000 inhabitants of this UNESCO World Heritage-listed destination were buried under ash.

Your tour includes narration from a professional guide, plenty of time to explore Pompeii, round-trip transportation from your ship port and guaranteed on-time return to your boat.

Worry-free Shore Excursion:

We will ensure your timely return to the Naples port for this activity. In the rare event your ship has departed, we will arrange for transportation to the next port-of-call. If your ship is delayed and you are unable to attend this activity, your money will be refunded. See our terms and conditions for full details.

Pompeii Archaeological Park

2 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking, unless booked within 1 day of travel. In this case confirmation will be received as soon as possible, subject to availability
Not wheelchair accessible
We require a minimum of 2 participants in total every day to operate this tour. There is a possibility of cancellation after confirmation if there are not at least 2 participants for this tour. In the event of this occurring, you will be offered an alternative or full refund
Near public transportation
Infants must sit on laps

Most travelers can participate
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Lead Traveler's document ID picture required (tour purpose only)
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 30 travelers

Cancellation Policy

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

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.

Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Reviews

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Frustrating

robyn_H, May 2024

Very disorganised at the beginning but not the tour guides fault. Bus broke down. Delays getting started

Terrible, better to go on your own!

Minaz_K, Apr 2024

We had a terrible experience with the tour company! No designated pick up area. We waited almost 45 minutes for a bus in the sun. Once we got to Pompeii, we waited another 30 minutes for people to use the bathroom and the guides to get organized. The tour itself was very slow moving and we wound up leaving to tour in our own and not waste any more time. They also had 2 tour guides and split the group up, but sent 2 families with one guide, and the remaining 30 with another which made absolutely no sense. So we were stuck in a huge group waiting for everyone to use the bathroom and take pictures. We overall wasted a 1.5-2 hrs just standing around waiting when we should have been in the city seeing the sites. Many of the group left to do their own thing, less than half of the participants stayed for the whole tour, which speaks to how bad it was.

Great tour

Nicoletta_M, Apr 2024

The tour guide explained very well with good knowledge. Excellent experience even if it was very busy but the tour was brilliant.I will recommend it.

The Roman Town of Pompeii.

Thomas_P, Mar 2024

Patience is key as there a lot moving parts and time ia a mere tool and does not define the tour exactly. Pompeii is more about structural and cultural observation and not a death query. If you come for people buried in ash you will be disappointed.

Great tour and tour guide

George_N, Mar 2024

Our guide Elisa was fun, informative and knowledgeable. Great time to take this tour, crowds were minimal.

Of the several Viator...

Linda_H, Jan 2024

Of the several Viator tours I booked, this was a true disappointment. We were not met at the cruise ship with the driver of the 8-person van holding a sign with our name on it, as we had been told to expect. . After 15-20 minutes, we found a 45 person bus parked down the street. We were in a large group touring Pompeii, could not hear well, nor could we easily ask questions. This is a Viator tour I will not recommend.

Perfect Pompei

Robert_M, Dec 2023

The site is amazing and our guide was so knowledgeable!!…………………… But the review sight insist I write more when I don’t want to

Guided tour of part of the Pompeii ruins

Mike_O, Nov 2023

Pick and transport was excellent our guide was slow and spent too much time on each building. Consequently only able to cover part of of the site at Pompeii. We did leave the main party on venture of on our own to see more of the site. For the others it was disappointing that they missed out on so much.

Highly recommend

Elaine_R, Nov 2023

Wonderful guide with loads of information and detail Great pace. Truly a wonderful site worth seeing

The greatest part of...

Zhuoyi_Z, Nov 2023

The greatest part of Pompeii Ruins visit was during the inside tour guided by the English tourist guide and she was really nice and helpful.

A great tour

Paula_M, Nov 2023

The 2hr guided tour showed and explained the life, eruption and ongoing discovery of Pompeii. We did feel that folks with walking capabilities may not have enjoyed the pace, given uneven surfaces.

A great informative and entertaining tour.

Michael_M, Nov 2023

The service was great. Our host met us at the cruise ship terminal. Hopped on the bus and headed to the ancient city. Very descriptive tour by a thorough guide. Amazing to experience such history.

This is a tour that you must take to fully appreciate Naples!

Nancy_R, Nov 2023

Martina was our guide. She was engaging and very informative. Pompeii was so enjoyable. I wish that we had more time to check out the museum in Naples w/all of the artifacts.

Excellent!!

Sandra_H, Nov 2023

Great excursion....from pick up...professional guide....to drop back to ship. Would highly recommend booking with Viator

Not the best experience

Elizabeth_B, Oct 2023

Unfortunately it was a rainy day which certainly didn't help. However, the whole process of finding the tour bus at the pier was a bit of a nightmare. I reached out to Viator the night before for pickup instructions, and again the next morning. I didn't hear back from them until 9:15 AM for a 9:45 pickup. Again, the torrential rain at the time of pickup didn't help. The guide Gennaro sp?) stood outside the port with an 8X10 paper with several names on it - we never saw it. It took quite a while to find the correct bus (we weren't the only ones who had trouble finding it). In my opinion the rest of the tour was not very organized - chaotic to say the least at the gates of Pompeii. The actual guide inside Pompeii was great, though.

Completely disorganized

Royale_S, Oct 2023

Very disorganized and wasted a lot of time! Did not stick to time schedule, made other stops and didn’t take us back to advertised and point.

Amazing place. If raining buy a poncho and umbrella.

Andrew_A, Oct 2023

Great trip. Very informative. It was pouring with rain when we were getting picked up from the cruise ship. ( so if you are in the same situation buy a poncho and an umbrella before you get off the ship, otherwise you will be soaked as there is no shelter while waiting for your guide out the front of the terminal. We bought ponchos on the ship. Did not put them on because we thought “ we will be straight on the bus” we got soaked and then put them on. And also bought an umbrella from the street sellers for $5 euro. Would have paid $20. ) Once on the bus , the guide was great. We dried a bit and had a Fantastic tour of Pompei. Return trip was on time. It was well worth getting wet for.

Give yourself a full day here to see everything. It’s massive.

Joflick, Oct 2023

I needed to get a extra ticket which we were told was now 19 Euros. So at the cash only window I give a 20 Euro bill to which the lady said she could not give change ( mind you it’s a cash only window and she said she didn’t have a 1 euro coin. At this point I throw my hands in the air and walk away. You know what I checked on my way out… she was still only showing the one coin ( which was not a 1 euro) still pulling same game. Argh! Not Viator fault. But know it’s now 19 Euros not 18 as advised when I purchased this tour. And btw didn’t even get a map. This place was huge. You definitely need more time there!

Angelina is awesome.

DanTrottier_S, Oct 2023

Angelina (?) was awesome. The guide was okay. Mary had a little lamb, it's fleece was black as charcoal, everyrime it hopped the fence you could see it's little a**hole.

Huge disappointment....

Leanne_L, Sep 2023

this tour was marketed as a small group tour with mini van transport. instead there were at least 35 people in the group and a big bus was used. The tour was also marketed as starting from 9.45am but by the time they picked everyone up, it didn't start till 11.30am and actual Pompeii visit was only 2 hours but tour took total 5 hours. Lots of time was wasted waiting for others in the group to catch up. Would not recommend this tour.

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