Take a day tour from Rome to visit the fascinating ruined city of Pompeii. This great value tour offers you maximum flexibility. Book your seat on the coach at a great value price and on the day you can decide whether to pay extra to join the guided tour or explore on your own.
Stop on the way to see the beautiful city of Naples and admire its incredible array of historic buildings.
However much you have heard about Pompeii nothing can prepare you for the extraordinary experience of visiting a place where life abruptly ended on a fateful day in AD79.
Discover amazing details about this once prosperous city of shops, villas, taverns, gyms and brothels. Walk the streets and see the well-worn cart tracks and the pedestrian crossing points.
Find out how the Pompeians lived, worked and played. Visit the houses, the theaters, and the baths. See everyday objects perfectly preserved for centuries by the smothering ash. View haunting plaster-casts of the fleeing inhabitants and some of their domestic animals.
Everyone should visit Pompeii at least once in a lifetime. It is a unique and powerful experience.
- Tour information
- Activity schedule
- Itinerary
When does it run?
Daily
Duration
14 hours
Start time
Via Piemonte, 34: 0715h (07:15am)
Pick up from city centre hotels: Between 6:30am - 7:00am
Meeting point
Pick up is available from selected Rome hotels (in the areas of Termini, Navona, Vaticano, Via Veneto, Trevi, Coliseo, Aventino, Piazza Fiume/ Porta Pia, San Giovanni, Piazza di Spagna, Via Nazionale and Villa Borghese).
If your hotel is not in one of these areas you will need to meet the shuttle at Via Piemonte, 34 (the nearest station is Termini)
(We require your hotel details in order to arrange your pick up. If you do not have this information at the time of booking, please contact the local activity operator at least 48 hours prior to the start of the tour with these details)
See on map
Ending point
The tour returns to the starting point
- Tour information
- Activity schedule
- Itinerary
For your Pompeii Round Trip Shuttle from Rome, you can take advantage of the complimentary hotel pick-up or you can meet your guide at Terminal at Via Piemonte, 34 directly.
The journey to Pompeii takes around 5 hours and there will be two stops on the way.
First stop will be for 30 minutes in the historic city of Naples where you will have time to explore on your own. Naples has one of the greatest concentrations of historic monuments anywhere in the world. It boasts magnificent architecture, especially from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Important landmarks in Naples you might like to see include the Piazza del Municipio, Umberto Gallery, San Carlo Theatre, Piazza del Plebiscito and the Royal Palace.
Just before arriving in Pompeii you will stop at a pearl and cameo factory.
Step back 2000 years and explore the ancient city of Pompeii, the world’s most famous archeological site. Together with the nearby city of Herculaneum, Pompeii was destroyed during a two-day eruption of the volcano Vesuvius in AD 79.
The catastrophic event buried Pompeii under 22 meters of ash and pumice, which preserved the city buildings and objects to a remarkable degree. The bodies of the citizens decomposed under the ash leaving spaces which were later filled with plaster or resin by archeologists to create eerie statues of the victims in the last seconds of life.
You can walk the streets where the citizens of Pompeii went about their daily lives. Notice how the stones are worn with cart tracks. Also look out for the stone blocks that allowed pedestrians to cross the street and which also acted as speed controls for carriages! In the ground you can see small shiny tiles called cat eyes. The moon’s light or candle light reflected off these tiles and gave light, so people could see where they were walking at night.
You can see the Forum, the center of cultural and political life, the bath houses, and the Lupanare (the brothel) with its erotic frescoes.
Look at some of the homes and see how the Pompeians lived. In the villas of the rich you can see many beautiful murals. A good example is the House of the Vettii an example of a home owned by wealthy merchants. You can also see the House of the Tragic Poet – a typical middle-class house which has a mosaic of a chained dog and the inscription “Cave canem” ("Beware of the dog!").
You can visit the The Anfiteatro (Amphitheater), where Pompeians went for entertainment, usually gladiator fights. As well as the plaster casts of the victims of the eruption, you will see many everyday objects such as pots, which survived under the ash.
After 4 hours at Pompeii, you will board the coach for the return to Rome.