Pompeii Ruins: Private Half-Day Tour with Top-Rated Local Guide

Experience the magnificence of Pompeii on a private half-day tour with a top-rated local guide. Skip the line, explore the ruins, and immerse yourself in the history of the ancient Romans.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Tours of Pompeii with Lello & Co. - Our guide will bring to life the strong remains of Pompeii telling you numerous anecdotes, secrets and stories, and taking you through the most fascinating sites of this ancient city. You will have an unforgettable journey to the Teatro Grande; he will let you hear the acoustic perfection of the auditory of the *Teatro Piccolo. You will learn how was life in Roman Times, walking through Pompeii’s main streets to end with the main square (the Forum) with all its markets just as the ancient Romans did, breathing the roman atmosphere and visiting the thermal baths, the domus, the Gladiators’ Gym,the mills, the Lupanare, famous for its erotic frescoes and much more…
What's Included
  • Local guide
  • Private tour
  • Professional guide
  • Professional art historian guide
  • Guaranteed to skip the long lines
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information

Pompeii boasts a unique and extraordinary beauty, with its position as an outdoor museum that immerses visitors in the history of old Rome.

It met its fate in 79 AD due to the disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius, resulting in the city being smothered and eventually buried under heaps of ash and pumice.

Our highly-rated local guide will transport you back to the era of the Roman Empire, when Pompeii and the Volcano Vesuvius region were among Italy’s most stunning resorts. Allow your guide to navigate you through the impressive highlights of the Pompeii remains: explore the gladiator’s gymnasium and Isis Temple; experience the still-intact acoustics of the theatres and marvel at the embellishments in the Baths and Menander’s House.

Moreover, this private tour guarantees a stress-free experience: skip the queues at the entrance and enjoy the services of our guide who is committed to providing all the information you require.

  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
Location
Hotel Vittoria
Piazza Esedra
Our guide will wait for you at the entrance of the Coffee shop Vittoria. Kindly be 10 minutes before the starting time at the meeting point since tickets are booked for that time and it is not possible to enter later.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Karensabourin
Jul 10, 2024
What a great experience! - What a great experience! Our guide was very knowledgeable and brought the city to life! Having the private tour is a must. They were able to avoid the crowds and customize the experience to our interests. Cannot recommend enough!
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Jonathan_b
Jun 2, 2024
Amazing experience delivered with passion - Hugley engaging for everyone in our group, we had been on a coach tour in Pompeii previously and did not rate it. Lello brought Pompeii alive so you could understand what life was like when it was the busy city it was and also what happened when the volcano erupted. I personally love detail and he pointed out to us lot's of the little things that were very clever at the time.
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Annette_w
May 22, 2024
The best personal tour! - Rosanna was such a charm to have a private tour with! She navigated us through the crowds like a pro, and engaged my teenage kids with thoughtful questions. Of course Pompeii is so huge that we couldn’t see everything, but the time flew by so fast. I wouldn’t get a large tour!
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Northstar54332388521
Dec 19, 2023
Excellent 1/2 day Pompeii tour - What an amazing tour! We cannot recommend Lello enough! Highly knowledgeable, a lyrical story teller keeping you engaged for the entire tour. We will use Lello any time we come to the area. We did not want the tour to end! Thank you Lello!!!
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A4322xxtomp
Oct 9, 2023
Great tour and guide! - Tour guide Roxanne was awesome. Very knowledgeable and fun to spend the day with. She was great! Got to see all the main spots of Pompeii and learned so much from Roxanne.
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John
Sep 17, 2023
Excellent tour and good value for money Recommended highly - I recommend this tour highly as the guide was personable,knowledgeable and an excellent communicator Do plan your trip to Pompeii carefully as getting there can take some time
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Matthew_s
Jun 27, 2023
Informative and Fun - This was a great, informative private tour. Our guide was knowledgeable and entertaining and put the sites in historical context that was understandable and interesting.
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Christinetr1155mc
Jun 17, 2023
Excellent All Around! - We booked a private tour of Pompeii and it was a fabulous experience from start to finish. Maria was vey helpful with scheduling the tour; she communicated and responded clearly and it was easy to pay online. After I booked it I decided to add the option to have a driver take us from our hotel in Sorrento. Maria made it easy to add that on. Our guide, Italo, was wonderful. Friendly, polite, knowledgeable, and pleasant to be with. He made the experience completely enjoyable. We learned so much about Pompeii and he gave a great tour. He clearly know his stuff and likes what he does. 6 out of 5 stars! 😄 Our driver, Guido, was excellent. A very kind and polite young man. He chatted with us along the way, and was very attentive and respectful. After the tour we asked him to recommend a local place for lunch, and he gladly brought us into the town of Pompeii to a local pizzeria. Overall this tour was one of the highlights of our trip. The ruins in Pompeii are incredible and the experience was so much more than I was expecting. Highly recommend.
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864janisj
May 26, 2023
Pompei with Italo/ The Best Guide - Italo, our guide, was fabulous. He was knowledgeable and gave us good insight to the life of Pompei. I would recommend a private tour with him. He made it fun and we moved through the city at a good tempo. Booking with Trip Advisor was easy and reasonably priced.
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Arizonapopi1
Oct 5, 2023
GetYourGuide gets an A for overall coordination. Maria was our guide on 5 October, and she was good. - The coordination for this tour was amazing from the moment of making the reservation to the return by van after the tour was over to our original pickup place. GetYourGuide gets an A for overall coordination. Maria was our guide on 5 October, and she was good. Speaking slowly and patiently waiting for the 25-person group to move about. She was also good about not letting others jump the line. The tour itself is a group walk-about while sharing the paths with other similar-sized groups. Pompei was busy. The way to improve the Pompei experience is in the off season with a guide. This isn’t our preferred type of tour but having a guide is a terrific enhancement to what could be an otherwise uninspiring walk-about.
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