Tufo Tours

 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 ...

 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...