Five long reads, each settling one decision a listing page cannot. Which of the two tickets you need, how long you should actually allow, whether you want a guide, which base turns Pompeii into a morning rather than a day, and which month to come. If you want a quick answer instead, the Pompeii Italy guided tours listings and the blog are shorter.
The one to read first depends on what you have already decided. If your dates are fixed, start with the ticket guide, because Pompeii Express will not open the Villa of the Mysteries and that is the choice people most often make by accident. If your dates are open, start with the seasonal guide. And if you are still weighing whether to go at all from Rome, the guide to getting there gives you the hours before it gives you the fares.
The park sells two tickets to the same gate for €20 and €25, and they buy two different cities. One of them will not open the most famous painted room in the Roman world.
Read the guide →Sixty-six hectares, four published routes and a standard tour that runs two hours. Which parts of the city each length actually reaches, and the one decision that changes all of them.
Read the guide →A ticket costs €20 and a guided walk with the ticket in it starts at $34. So the question is not really the money. It is what an unlabelled city does to an unprepared visitor.
Read the guide →Four bases, two railway companies, three station names that catch people out, and journey times from thirty minutes to three hours. Which base makes Pompeii a morning and which makes it a day.
Read the guide →A 20,000-a-day cap, an afternoon slot a third the size of the morning one, twelve free Sundays a year and a gate that shuts at 17:00 in winter. When to come, and when to arrive.
Read the guide →The practical detail sits on visiting Pompeii, the layout on the site map, and every fare is compared on Pompeii Italy Tours.
