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Small-Group Pompeii and Herculaneum Tour from Sorrento or Naples with Skip-the-Line
Departures run from Sorrento or Naples in air-conditioned transport, and the group stays small. The ride passes the Bay of Naples with Vesuvius in view, and the guides use the two sites to show how Romans lived before the eruption of 79 AD.
Entry skips the long lines, which leaves more of the day for walking through Pompeii and Herculaneum. The same eruption preserved the two cities in different ways, and seeing both gives a fuller picture of ancient Roman life than either alone.
Cruise passengers can join from the Naples and Salerno terminals, and travelers already in Pompeii can meet the guide there.
Itinerary
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Via Molo Manfredi, Salerno
Via Molo Manfredi, 84121 Salerno SA, Italy
Salerno port. The driver or guide waits as passengers disembark, holding a sign reading "MondoGuide". The tour returns to the port at the end.
Naples
Stazione Marittima, 80133 Napoli NA, Italy
Outside the main exit of the Naples cruise terminal building. The driver or guide waits there with a "MondoGuide" sign. The tour returns to the port at the end.
Via Correale, Sorrento
Via Correale, 80067 Sorrento NA, Italy
Sorrento option: the tourist bus parking at Via Correale 25, where the driver or guide waits with a "Mondo Guide" sign. Transport from Sorrento is included.
Via Galileo Ferraris, 40, Napoli
Via Galileo Ferraris, 40, 80146 Napoli NA, Italy
Naples option: in front of the Hotel Ramada by Wyndham Naples, Via Galileo Ferraris 40, where the driver or guide waits with a "Mondo Guide" sign. Transport from Naples is included.
Piazza Esedra, 10/13, Pompei
Piazza Esedra, 10/13, 80045 Pompei NA, Italy
Pompeii option: outside Suisse Restaurant at Piazza Esedra 10/13, where the guide waits with a "Mondo Guide" sign. One-way transport from Pompeii to Herculaneum is included.
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Archaeological Park of Pompeii
The Roman city preserved by the Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD. The guided visit takes two and a half hours and covers the best-known areas and frescoes.
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Odeon - Teatro Piccolo
A look at the Teatro Piccolo of Pompeii, also called the Odeon.
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Teatro Grande
The most important theatre in Pompeii.
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House of Menander
One of the richest and most magnificent houses in ancient Pompeii, in architecture, decoration and contents.
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Stabian Baths (Terme Stabiane)
A vast complex between the brothel lane, the Holconius crossroads and Via Stabiana. It is the oldest bath complex in the city.
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Lupanar
The most famous brothel in the ruined Roman city.
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Via dell'Abbondanza
The main street of Pompeii.
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House of the Faun
One of the largest and most impressive private homes in Pompeii.
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Foro de Pompeya
A look at the ancient main square of Pompeii.
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Basilica
An open portico that gave shelter to merchants and other activities.
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Archeological Park of Herculaneum
A quick lunch break is available before the transfer, at the traveler's own expense. After Pompeii, a two-hour guided visit of Herculaneum follows, where wooden structures, mosaics and everyday objects survived the eruption.
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House of the Stags
The house takes its name from marble statues of stags found in the peristyle.
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La Terrazza di M. Nonio Balbo
Marcus Nonius Balbus was the city's major benefactor and rebuilt or built many public buildings. On his death he was made patron and given many honours, listed in the long inscription on his funeral altar.
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College of the Augustales
Believed to have been a centre of the cult of Emperor Augustus and the headquarters of the Collegium Augustalium, or possibly the local curia.
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Casa del Rilievo di Telefo
The house possibly belonged to Marcus Nonius Balbus, one of the town's leading benefactors. It has its own private access to the adjoining Suburban Thermae to the south, which is unusual.
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Partem Domus lignea - Casa del Tramezzo di Legno
Important for the elegant wooden partition that has survived.
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House of the Skeleton
Probably formed from three smaller buildings. Its name comes from human remains found in a second-floor room in 1831.
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Central Thermae
Built around the beginning of the 1st century AD and, as was common, divided into men's and women's baths, each with its own entrance.
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Casa Sannitica
A layout typical of the Samnites, an ancient Sabine people of the central Italian mountains. A gallery with Ionic columns skirts the atrium, and the rooms are frescoed.
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Casa del Bel Cortile
One of the most original houses in Herculaneum: a courtyard with a stairway and a stone balcony replaces the atrium.
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House of the Grand Portal
A domus in the centre of the archaeological area with many rooms, colonnades and frescoes, and charred remains of wooden parts.
Via Molo Manfredi, Salerno
Via Molo Manfredi, 84121 Salerno SA, Italy
End point for the Salerno option.
Naples
Stazione Marittima, 80133 Napoli NA, Italy
End point for the option from Naples port.
Via Galileo Ferraris, 40, Napoli
Via Galileo Ferraris, 40, 80146 Napoli NA, Italy
End point for the option from Naples train station and Rome.
Via Correale, Sorrento
Via Correale, 80067 Sorrento NA, Italy
End point for the Sorrento option.
Ercolano
80056 Ercolano, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy
End point for the Pompeii option.
What's included
- One way transportation from Pompeii to Herculaneum (option from Pompeii)
- Round-trip transportation to/from Naples (option from Naples)
- Guided tour service in both Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Herculaneum entry tickets and 'Pompeii express' entry tickets
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- Immediate assistance buying the best round-trip train tickets from Rome to Naples (option from Rome)
- Assistance buying train tickets from Rome to Naples, plus transportation from Naples (option from Rome)
- Round-trip transportation to/from Sorrento (option from Sorrento)
- Round-trip transportation from Naples to Pompeii and Herculaneum and back to Naples (option from Rome)
Not included
- Meals and drinks
- Personal expenses
- Gratuities
- Round-trip train tickets from Rome to Naples
Good to know
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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- A minimum of 6 people per tour applies. The tour may be cancelled after confirmation if there are not enough passengers; in that case an alternative or a full refund is offered.
- At Pompeii and Herculaneum, children under 18 enter for free, showing a valid form of ID.
- The drop-off point depends on the tour option selected.
- Baby car seats provided for infants aged 0-3 years
- Up to 21 travelers per booking.
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Guiding available in: en.
Meeting point
- Salerno port. The driver or guide waits as passengers disembark, holding a sign reading "MondoGuide". The tour returns to the port at the end.
- Outside the main exit of the Naples cruise terminal building. The driver or guide waits there with a "MondoGuide" sign. The tour returns to the port at the end.
- Sorrento option: the tourist bus parking at Via Correale 25, where the driver or guide waits with a "Mondo Guide" sign. Transport from Sorrento is included.
- Naples option: in front of the Hotel Ramada by Wyndham Naples, Via Galileo Ferraris 40, where the driver or guide waits with a "Mondo Guide" sign. Transport from Naples is included.
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- Pompeii option: outside Suisse Restaurant at Piazza Esedra 10/13, where the guide waits with a "Mondo Guide" sign. One-way transport from Pompeii to Herculaneum is included.
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