ポンペイ＆ヘルクラネウム1日ツアー（入場料と昼食付き）

This is a review for the Pompeii & Herculaneum full day tour booked through Jet2.com whilst we were staying in Sorrento. Well worth doing this tour, our guide Francesco was excellent and very knowledgeable and it was very well organised. Pick up from our hotel was at 7:30am. When we arrived at Pompeii we had time to go to the toilets and sort out radios and headphones so our guide could talk to us. We had 2 hours to be showed around and we entered about 9:30am and it wasn't too busy or too hot at that time. Be warned there is no shade once in the site, there are no facilities and it can get very hot. Wear comfortable shoes as there is lots of walking, bring water and possibly a hat. Pompeii is huge, so don't expect to be able to see everything. We were guided around and our guide told us that they have only unearthed approximately 30% of the site so far and even now to see everything it could take about 5 days! So you are only getting a snapshot of the site. It's incredible though. It was explained that Pompeii was the commercial town, a place for trade and lots of visitors. Lunch wasn't included in the cost of our tour but the guide offered us the opportunity of having lunch at Hotel Vittoria for 20 euros per person. This included a drink, Salad or chips, Pizza, Pasta and ice cream. Well worth it. Next call was Herculaneum, entrance at 1:15pm, we had 1 hr 30 mins here. Herculaneum is much smaller than Pompeii but far better preserved, due to the pyroclastic material that covered it. A lot of Herculaneum has also not been uncovered. Herculaneum was a wealthier town, a seaside retreat for the rich and their second homes, so there is actually more to see here, more artefacts. Again, well worth a visit.

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Guide & driver were excellent. Was not very happy about the late change to my pickup location but driver & guide accommodated us on the dropoff.