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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 fak...

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...