Price of Visiting Pompeii: Cost of the Tours and Tickets

There are different ways to visit Pompeii, but if you allow me a tip, there is nothing like doing it with an expert guide to help you contextualize everything you see, understand how its inhabitants lived, what were their customs...

If you have little time and want to avoid headaches, you can join an organized tour. But if you prefer, you can also do it on your own. We compare prices for tickets, tours, excursions and transportation methods below:

If you prefer to visit Pompeii on your own and do the tour on your own, without a guide, tickets cost about 28€. It is best to buy tickets online and in advance to avoid queues and make sure there is availability the day you are going to travel there.

Visiting Pompeii is a unique opportunity to see the best preserved Roman city in the world and contemplate monuments such as the Forum, the Basilica or the temples of Apollo and Jupiter. I tell you these and more details in my article on how to get tickets to Pompeii.

What is included in the ticket price

• Access to the ruins of the city of Pompeii

What is not included in the ticket price

• Transportation to Pompeii
• Guided tour
• Audio guide
• Meals, drinks or snacks

If you are visiting the Eternal City, you can take an all-inclusive excursion to Pompeii from Rome for just over 140 euros. You will travel by private bus leaving from the center of Rome and head to the city of Vesuvius without interruptions or stops in between.

Once there, as the tickets included in the price include skip-the-line access to the archaeological site, you will enter without further delay. This is one of the many advantages of booking an excursion to Pompeii from Rome

In addition, you will be accompanied at all times by an expert guide who will tell you everything you see, telling anecdotes and stories of how the inhabitants of this city lived and how they were surprised by the eruption of Vesuvius.

What the excursions usually include

• Round trip transportation by bus or private minibus.
• Professional English speaking guide
• Skip-the-line entrance to Pompeii
• Entrance to Mount Vesuvius National Park (in summer) or Naples (and winter)

What the excursions do not usually include

• Snacks or refreshments during the tour
• Transportation between your hotel in Rome and meeting point
• Souvenirs

The proximity of Pompeii to Naples makes the excursions to Pompeii more economical: you can book an excursion with guided tour for 68 € on Hellotickets.

If you prefer, you can also complete your day with a climb to Vesuvius and even with pick-up at your accommodation in Naples :::link|text=by booking an all-inclusive excursion|element=pa-4851:::.

In any case, it is best to book online in advance to check prices, availability and make sure there is space on the day you want to travel.

What is usually included in the excursions

• Round trip transportation by bus or private minibus.
• Professional English speaking guide
• Skip the line tickets to Pompeii
• Vesuvius climb (if you choose this option)
• Transportation from your hotel in Naples (if you choose this option)

What the excursions do not usually include

• Snacks or refreshments during the trip
• Souvenirs

If you are passionate about archaeology and history, booking a private guided tour of Pompeii is undoubtedly the star option.

For two hours, you will immerse yourself in the life and customs of the first century A.D. in the city of Pompeii and, with a private professional guide, you will discover all the secrets of this commercial metropolis that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.

In addition to monuments such as the Amphitheater or the House of the Faun, you will have the opportunity to see frescoes, works of art, houses, buildings and stores of the time. A trip back in time in which only you and your group will participate.

What the excursions usually include

• Private guided tour of Pompeii
• Professional English speaking guide

What the excursions do not usually include

• Transportation from your accommodation - Entrance fees to Pompeii

• Snacks or refreshments during the tour

• Souvenirs

If you want to go to Pompeii on your own from Rome, you can do it by train, by bus or in your own car (in case you have rented one during the trip). By train, if you choose the high speed train (to take just over an hour to get there), the price is around 25 € each way.

If you choose the bus, the price is quite cheaper, as it costs just over 30 € each way and the car is certainly the most expensive way, and can cost about 60 € per day rental (plus gas and taxes, insurance, etc.). Anyway, to find out more and to organize your transportation, I recommend you to check this article on how to get to Pompeii from Rome.

To get to Pompeii from Naples you can take a Trenitalia commuter train which costs just over 3 € and takes only 40 minutes. There are frequent trains throughout the day, so you don't have to worry too much about schedules and you can buy your ticket at the same station in Piazza Garibaldi in Naples.

The best stop to get off is Porta Marina, as it is the closest to the access to the archaeological site of Pompeii. Although this option is easy, quick and inexpensive, there is nothing like taking an organized tour to soak up all the history the ruins of Pompeii have to tell.

So that you have all the information at your fingertips, here is a comparative table with the best options to visit Pompeii