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How to tour Herculaneum

HERCULANEUM BY IN POMPEII TOURS  Here we are, back again! Guided tours of Herculaneum being our newest blendeavour (hardworking hybrid blog?) on Blogger that will discuss and debate tours of the Herculaneum archaeological area. Our team will deliver the written word about Herculaneum and only God can judge them.  Expect regular articles and commentary about our fully private Herculaneum tours and shared group tours of Pompeii, some of which include a visit to Herculaneum led by a working archaeologist guide.  The warts and all Pompeii tours blog that we have given a home at Private Pompeii Tours is well worth a look, so go there and read about the whys and wherefores of how to tour Pompeii before you book one. Our expert Pompeii tour team takes care of the verbiage there. Visit guided tours of Pompeii to make your day trip to Pompeii a special day indeed!  Several high quality documentaries and rather polished YouTube videos about Herculaneum have put "the other Pom

IBT SCAM Pompeii tours, Tiqets SCAM Pompeii, Touristation Pompeii on Piazza Esedra

 Piazza Esedra, the Pompeii tour meeting points melting pot for the worst of the worst Pompeii tours out there. Most, if not all are resold by Tiqets.com, the "Amsterdam-based" tour reseller that you will find all over Google when you search for destination activities. Tiqets, too tight to pay for staff in Europe so their call centre is in India. Enquiries routed to careless Indian operators causes total chaos and nothing works (we have road tested their call centre half a dozen times). If you have ever hired an Indian to code your website or do your SEO, then you'll know what we mean. Your money for your booking just pennies in the big Tiqets bank, complaints summarily ignored.  India aside, Why do Tiqets insist on working with criminal cowboys such as IBT? They are cheap, they offer many departure times, ergo they are profitable. It's not important that IBT has dozens of terrible reviews on Google and elsewhere, because negative reviews about IBT on the Tiqets we

Private Pompeii tours

 This brief but important article will tell you how to get the best private Pompeii tour . One must consider the merits of booking a private tour in an archaeological site where there will likely be thousands of other tourists milling around. Is there a way to guarantee good old fashioned value for money? After all, Pompeii tours with a private guide don't fall off the back of a lorry, they can cost upwards of several hundred dollars. Read on, and all will be revealed!  Timing is everything! Book a private Pompeii tour with an expert archaeologist guide after following our guidelines: (1) Tour in the late afternoon for undisturbed space amidst the ruins of Pompeii. (2) Choosing the right day is of equal or even greater importance (Tuesdays and Thursdays are our picks). (3) Know that on the first Sunday of every month, museums and archaeological sites in Italy are free for everyone and that means beyond busy, especially Pompeii. (4) Best time of year? Spring and late Autumn. If

Pompeii tours - help, advice and instructions!

 At Napoli Centrale station before your guided Pompeii tour from Rome , here's some important advice! If you are lost, late, or just need assistance relating to Pompeii tours from Rome , call us on +353 1 443 4403.   Tours of Pompeii - a few pointers to help you on your way! You should have already booked your Pompeii tour online, this is a golden rule. The same goes for guided tours of Herculaneum . Do not go to Pompeii from Rome or anywhere else without booking tours of Pompeii in advance. Reason being because just like Rome, at venue entrance points, you'll likely be gathered on to a tour that just won't be what you came for.  Another word of advice, when you do book online, avoid tour companies with 1000s of reviews. Too many reviews means big groups and impersonal service for a rather detached experience. Always book with Pompeii tour operators that have somewhere between 10 and 50 reviews on TripAdvisor, for example. Besides, most Pompeii tour reviews are fake.

Bullet train from Rome to Pompeii ruins

 It could be a godsend for tour operators and tourists alike! Every day all year round, travellers with accommodation in Rome book tours of Pompeii . Invariably this means booking private transport, a bus seat (the stupid way - wasted time sat in traffic and stressful), or catching the bullet train (clever - what we provide). It goes without saying that the bullet train between Rome and Naples is part and parcel of most of our day trips from Rome to Pompeii , as it guarantees a quick and ultra-comfortable journey for our clients.  At time of writing, the bullet train only goes as far as Naples. Thereafter, our Pompeii tour clients must board a second local train departing from Napoli Centrale Piazza Garibaldi to Pompeii main town station. Travel time is 49 minutes. For most, getting on a train is an easy thing to do. For some, it's WW3. We don't know why, but, as Depeche Mode called it back in '84, people are people! It did not go unnoticed when an American lady wrote a

Askos Tours I

 There is a story doing the rounds about Askos Tours in Pompeii. It concerns a digital tour operator based in Ukraine that partnered with Askos earlier this year. It will take some believing, and the nuts and bolts are quite shocking, so read on...  The digital tour operator in Ukraine built a Pompeii tours website in wartime to survive, to help friends survive, many of whom were and likely still are in trenches and under fire, as this video of WWI in 2023 illustrates. They also do In Lviv Tours , a remarkable and unique project that helps injured, disabled and traumatized veterans become tour guides.  Askos Tours nets well over 3m euros annual with a staff of at least 20. Larger than life boss Emiliano Tufano has gone on record many times to bleat about his agency being "small" and in opposition to mass tourism. This is a lie. He schedules as many tours as possible every god-given day. His tours epitomize every ill of mass tourism, indeed, Askos tours have become the

The physical impact of tours in Pompeii

 Pompeii tours are becoming as popular as sightseeing in Rome and it's getting easier to move from Rome to Pompeii to tour both in one day. Ten million people visited Rome from overseas in 2022 while three million made the trip to the famous ruined city. THREE MILLION? That's an insane amount for what is a small seaside town today.  Pompeii scavi (archaeological area) is a huge open space covering around 65 hectares, therefore the physical impact of tourism is significantly less than that of the Colosseum in Rome, for example. The Flavian Amphitheatre occupies just two hectares in Rome city centre, encircled on three sides by lanes of traffic and a frantically busy metro station, ergo physical impact is real. Restrictions on how many people are allowed inside the Colosseum at any one time are becoming more oppressive year on year - tickets are extremely hard to come by. Before 2019, Colosseum tickets were easy to book in advance, even next day. Today, the opposite is true.

From Rome to Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius

 People like you check review portals and social platforms before booking a tour on a website. Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Trustpilot and Tripadvisor serve reams of information and photos that connect travellers with trusted activities in a meaningful way. As a trusted and established tour operator, we are proud to announce the addition of a brand new Pompeii tours category to the In Pompeii Tours website.  The next addition to our Pompeii tours category will be a guided tour of Pompeii that visits Vesuvius too. We'll likely call it Day Of Fire. Travellers will be able to walk around the crater rim ("Sentiero del Gran Cono" / Path of the Great Cone) of Vesuvius after touring Pompeii's ruins. Plans are afoot to create activities that include visits to Stabiae and Oplontis in conjunction with either a Pompeii tour or Herculaneum tour.  We'll increase our own quantity and type of excursions to Mount Vesuvius in due course. These will undoubtedly mean more da

Tour Pompeii from Rome

 You can now tour Pompeii from Rome with In Pompeii Tours. There are six activities to choose from, all of them day trips from Rome to Pompeii but each one absolutely unique. There are three tours to Pompeii and three more that visit both Pompeii and Herculaneum.