Pompeii Small Group with an Archaeologist and Skip The Line

Magical place. Very informative.

Absolutely amazing! Our guide Maria did a terrific job explaining the site to us. Will 100% recommend to others for this tour.

If you want to visit Pompeii and receive a true experience then you need to book with Eliana Sandretti. We traveled to Pompeii with limited knowledge, Eliana was able to explain the city, their way of life & impact that was made in the surrounding areas. She guided us to various areas, giving us an overview while focusing on important facts. Two in our family were very much into history while myself and husband were interested in learning. Eliana was able to use her vast knowledge to cater to all of us. Not only did she work as an Archeologists in Pompeii, her mother had as well. Her method of storytelling made our trip unforgettable. She answered all our questions whether they were simple or complex. We walked away from this tour wanting to come back in the future. A huge thank you to Eliana!!

The morning of our group tour, I got a text from the tour company saying there weren't enough people for our tour and they would be charging the extra for a private tour for 2 of us. The tour was already expensive enough, so we opted not to do the tour at all. I felt they should have provided the tour because we had already paid for it. We're headed to pompeii and will hire a guide there.

Very interesting but also engaging. The site is huge so it would take days to visit thoroughly. It is important to make a targeted visit to fully grasp the meaning of the visit without visiting everything. It’s a glimpse of life then in the Roman provincial cities

Mariagrazia gave our family a wonderful tour of the Archeological Park. She guided us through the truly giant city and really provided great historical context for the sites!

I'm from Naples and I don't remember having ever been to Pompeii seriously except for a school trip. Luckily, Eliana happened to be on the Internet and from the first minutes we found ourselves projected into a world of stories that none of us thought possible. It was totally original and not at all stressful, the people of Pompeii were ahead of what I thought. She guided us in the squares and told us anecdotes of politics, then we ended up in the domus with beautiful frescoes and explained the techniques of paintings. It was beautiful, I highly recommend!

It should be reiterated that Pompei, but also Oplontis and certainly Paestum, is a must visit location for anyone staying in this area. Pompei itself is (always) very busy, very busy even at the end of September. But there is a lot to see. Pompei is very large and not everything has been uncovered yet. With a Latin-Greek secondary education as a background, the theory is at least partly tested against reality. We have all learned about democratic Rome, what luxury and lifestyles were common, but seeing it is something else. The petrified bodies (replicas now) evoke many emotions. You can easily spend a whole day here.

We scheduled and paid for this "group" tour at least a month ahead of time. Four days before the tour Eliana sent me a text suggesting that we take a private tour which jumped the cost from 160 Euros to 220 Euros. I told her we wished to stay in the group tour to which her response was: "At the moment I don't have a group tour in that time." Then why was a small group tour "in that time" , for 160 Euros, available to schedule online? Since you have to cancel 24 hours ahead of time, I sent her a text the day before to ask if she had enough for a group tour to which she didn't respond in time, so we cancelled. We got there, took the self guided tour only to see several group tours going on "in that time". Maybe the tours were not Eliana's company, but she certainly did not offer up any suggestions since she, herself, did not have a "group" tour at the time. The self guided tour was frustrating but still interesting and moving. It's confusing to get around the many different "sections" so I highly suggest a guided tour, but I would not book it through this website as I saw other people had this problem as well. I highly recommend making the stop to see Pompeii, it was incredible!!

Eliana was amazing, we had the best time! We did a private tour and thought it was incredible. She took us around all the key parts of Pompei and then gave us directions for after the tour was over. We will book again when we are next in Pompei. Thank you!