Price of Visiting Pompeii: Cost of the Tours and Tickets

There are different ways of visiting Pompeii, although if you'll allow me to give you a piece of advice, there's nothing like visiting it with an expert guide who can help you contextualise everything you see, understand how the inhabitants lived, what their customs were...

If you're short of time and want to avoid headaches, you can join an organised tour. But if you prefer, you can also do it on your own. We compare prices for tickets, tours, excursions and transport methods below:

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

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

What's included in the ticket price

• Access to the ruins of the city of Pompeii

What is not included in the ticket price

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

If you're visiting the Eternal City, you can take an all-inclusive excursion to Pompeii from Rome for just over €140. You'll travel by private coach from the centre of Rome and head to the city of Vesuvius with no breaks or stops in between.

Once there, as the tickets included in the price include skip-the-line access to the archaeological site, you'll 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, recounting 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 private bus or 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 trip
• Transport 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 ¤ at Hellotickets.

If you prefer, you can also complete your day with a climb to Vesuvius and even pick you up from 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 excursions usually include

• Return transport by private bus or minibus.
• Professional English speaking guide
• Skip the line entrance to Pompeii
• Vesuvius climb (if you choose this option)
• Transport 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 definitely the best option.

For two hours, you will immerse yourself in the life and customs of the 1st century AD in the city of Pompeii and, accompanied by a professional private guide, you will discover all the secrets of this commercial metropolis that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

In addition to monuments such as the Amphitheatre and the House of the Faun, you will have the opportunity to see frescoes, works of art, houses, buildings and shops of the time. A journey back in time in which only you and your group will take part.

What the excursions usually include

• Private guided tour of Pompeii
• Professional English speaking guide

What the excursions do not usually include

• Transport 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 go 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 much cheaper, costing just over €30 each way, and the car is definitely the most expensive way, costing around €60 per day (plus petrol and taxes, insurance, etc). However, to find out more and organise your transport, I recommend you check out this article on how to get to Pompeii from Rome.

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

The best stop to get off at is Porta Marina, as it's the closest to the entrance to the Pompeii archaeological site. Although this option is easy, quick and inexpensive, there is nothing like taking an organised tour to really 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