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Top 15 Guided Tours from Sorrento

53 tours  ·  from $5 a head

The 15 best guided tours on the Sorrento coast, each with its price, its length and the kind of traveller it suits. Number one leads for a reason, so start there.

Pompeii: Entry Ticket and Guided Tour with an Archaeologist - From Porta Marina to the Forum
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Pompeii: Entry Ticket and Guided Tour with an Archaeologist

1.Pompeii: Entry Ticket and Guided Tour with an Archaeologist

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 19,459 reviews · 2 hours · from $35Our pick

Walk Pompeii’s ancient streets with an archaeologist and local guide, seeing the Forum, House of the Faun, Lupanar and more. The two-hour tour includes a Pompei Express entry ticket and a group of up to 20. Guides such as Teresa, Anna and Raffaella bring daily Roman life into focus, then point you toward useful places to see on your own.

“Great despite the weather. Rained for the duration of the tour but our guide did his best to get us the full experience and then we were able to stay after the tour was over so we explored more ourselves.”

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Pompeii: Entry Ticket with Optional Audio Guide - Following the streets, baths, and market
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Pompeii: Entry Ticket with Optional Audio Guide

2.Pompeii: Entry Ticket with Optional Audio Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.2 · 12,360 reviews · from $26

Walk Pompeii’s ash-preserved streets at your own pace with a reserved entry ticket. Choose the ancient city only or add suburban villas, including the Villa of the Mysteries. An optional audio guide helps explain temples, baths, homes, and public spaces. Plan for a large, uneven site, and bring comfortable shoes, water, and an ID if borrowing a guide.

“An awesome experience and will come back to see more.”

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Pompeii: Skip-the-Line Entrance Ticket with Audio Guide - Find your bearings before following the audio
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Pompeii: Skip-the-Line Entrance Ticket with Audio Guide

3.Pompeii: Skip-the-Line Entrance Ticket with Audio Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 2,509 reviews · from $39

Explore Pompeii independently with a one-day ticket, audio guide and map. Exchange your voucher at the provider’s office above the Circumvesuviana station, then visit the amphitheater, small theater, public gym, homes, frescoes and casts at your own pace. An optional guided tour may be available for an extra fee, but it is not part of the listed ticket.

“We opted for audio guide but better if you get a guide to take you around. It is huge and like a maze!!”

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Pompeii: Skip-the-line-Ticket and Guided Tour - Porta Marina Superiore and Pompeii’s main streets
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Pompeii: Skip-the-line-Ticket and Guided Tour

4.Pompeii: Skip-the-line-Ticket and Guided Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 1,152 reviews · 2 hours · from $64

Explore Pompeii with an archaeologist guide on a two-hour tour with reserved entry, a headset, and a map. Visit the forum, baths, temples, bakery, great theater, and brothel, and look for frescoes and mosaics along the way. Guides have included Ester, Roberta, and Marcela. A semiprivate option limits the group to 12.

“Paul was great! We were a group of 6 who signed up together and it ended up being only us, which was a bonus. The size was ideal. He was easy to hear and had a lot of information to share. It took just under two hour on a beautiful day, and we had extra time to explore after. Highly recommend!!”

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Pompeii: Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Entry - Reading the Forum, Basilica, and Antiquarium
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Pompeii: Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Entry

5.Pompeii: Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Entry

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 812 reviews · 2 - 3 hours · from $58

Walk Pompeii with an Italian- or English-speaking guide and priority entry through a separate entrance. In two to three hours, you’ll see major civic sites such as the Forum, Basilica, baths, and Theater, along with homes and a bakery. Small-group and private options are available. Guides including Frankie, Angelo, Anna, and Salvatore have been praised for clear storytelling and thoughtful routes.

“We visited Pompeii today and were guided by Anna, who was absolutely outstanding. Born in Pompeii, she has an incredible personal connection to the site, and her passion was evident throughout the entire tour. As an art historian, her knowledge was exceptional—she knew the answer to every question we asked. She led us to the most fascinating and important areas of the site and brought Pompeii vividly to life with her insights and stories. This was one of the best guided tours we’ve ever experienced, and we couldn’t recommend Anna highly enough.”

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Pompeii: Skip-the-Line Entry Ticket with Digital Guide App - Reading the city from the domus to the Forum
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Pompeii: Skip-the-Line Entry Ticket with Digital Guide App

6.Pompeii: Skip-the-Line Entry Ticket with Digital Guide App

★★★★★★★★★★4.1 · 770 reviews · 1 day · from $22

Visit Pompeii Archaeological Park with a one-day entry ticket that skips the ticket-office line and a smartphone guide with audio and an interactive map. Walk the Roman streets at your own pace, from elegant homes and shops to theaters, baths, and the Forum. Download the guide before you arrive: Wi-Fi is not free on site, and mobile service can be unreliable.

“Had a fantastic time exploring Pompeii, such an amazing site, definitely recommend a visit!”

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Pompeii Express Guided Tour by Train from Sorrento - From Sorrento station to the Pompeii entrance
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Pompeii Express Guided Tour by Train from Sorrento

7.Pompeii Express Guided Tour by Train from Sorrento

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 770 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $65

Meet an English-speaking assistant at Sorrento station, take the train to Pompeii, then explore its main public monuments and famous houses with a local guide. Guides such as Gino, Mena, and Roberta bring the ruins to life with history and humor. Site admission, return train tickets, and headsets are included; you can stay longer after the tour.

“Easy to book, easy travel from when we met the tour guide at Sorrento station until we arrived at Pompeii. Gino our tour guide was fabulous, very informative, humorous and made it a great experience!!!”

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Skip the Line Pompeii Guided Tour from Sorrento - The Basilica and Macellum bring the Forum indoors
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Skip-the-Line Pompeii Guided Tour from Sorrento

8.Skip-the-Line Pompeii Guided Tour from Sorrento

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 722 reviews · 5 hours (approx.) · from $90

Travel from central Sorrento to Pompeii by air-conditioned coach, then explore the ruins with an official guide and skip-the-line entry. The route covers the Forum, Via dell’Abbondanza, baths, Lupanar and theater. Guides have included Lulu, Lucio and Roberta, though names vary. Expect about two hours at the site and uneven ancient paving.

“Friendly welcoming guide, easy transportation and our knowledgeable guide for Pompeii provided tons of information. Would suggest!”

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Pompeii Ruins Half-Day Tour from Sorrento with Guide - What the timing really means
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Pompeii Ruins Half-Day Tour from Sorrento with Guide

9.Pompeii Ruins Half-Day Tour from Sorrento with Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 714 reviews · 4 hours (approx.) · from $97

Travel from Sorrento by shared air-conditioned van for a guided two-hour walk through Pompeii. You’ll see the Forum, Thermal Baths, and Lupanare, with guides such as Grace, Erica, and Maria explaining how the buried city worked. Hotel pickup is offered at selected Sorrento addresses, and admission and headsets are included.

“An absolutely amazing tour with an incredible guide. So knowledgeable and pleasant, an absolute joy to be with. Out only feedback is about our driver. We had a 1 hour drive from our hotel to Pompeii and would have loved to have heard more about the history of what we were driving through. Beyond calling our names at the hotel, he never spoke another word to us. Having said that, the most important thing we have to say is that we will never forget this tour for all the right reasons!!”

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Skip the Line Guided Tour of Pompeii led by an Archaeologist - Is $95.53 good value?
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Skip the Line Guided Tour of Pompeii led by an Archaeologist

10.Skip the Line Guided Tour of Pompeii led by an Archaeologist

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 703 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $95Top rated

Walk Pompeii with an English-speaking archaeological guide in a group of no more than 15. In about two hours, see Via dell’Abbondanza, the Forum, Stabian Baths, and Lupanar, with skip-the-line entry included. Guides named by visitors include Lello, Italo, Ana, and Clelia. Bring ID, wear sturdy shoes, and arrive on time.

“Very knowledgeable guid. We had a great time learning about the city of Pompeii. Thank you so much for your time!”

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From Sorrento: Pompeii and Vesuvius Guided Tour with Lunch - Walking up Mount Vesuvius
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From Sorrento: Pompeii and Vesuvius Guided Tour with Lunch

11.Pompeii and Vesuvius Guided Tour with Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 683 reviews · from $130

Spend a full day traveling from Sorrento, or Vico Equense on selected departures, to Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii. Hike toward the crater, eat Neapolitan pizza on the volcano’s slopes, then explore the Forum, baths, and other Roman sites with a local guide. Transport, park tickets, lunch, and guides are included.

“Madalaena and John (driver) made our day at Mt Vesuvius and Pompeii very enjoyable. If you've come to Italy seeking Roman history this is the most complete area of ruins to be found. Being based close to the Amalfi coast is a big plus.”

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Pompeii private tour with an Official Guide - Choose a duration that suits your day
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Pompeii private tour with an Official Guide

12.Pompeii private tour with an Official Guide

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 631 reviews · 1 to 3 hours (approx.)

Walk through Pompeii Archaeological Park with an official guide devoted to your group of up to 14. Guides such as Silvia, Daniela, Carmine, and Claudia are praised for bringing the ancient city’s buildings and daily life into focus, adapting the pace, and answering questions. The entrance ticket is not included, and the visit lasts about one to three hours.

“Giusi was prompt and very knowledgeable. We all enjoyed the tour and found it to be very informative.”

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Ercolano: Herculaneum Entry Ticket with Optional Audio Guide - Audio guide or quiet exploration?
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Ercolano: Herculaneum Entry Ticket with Optional Audio Guide

13.Ercolano: Herculaneum Entry Ticket with Optional Audio Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.1 · 581 reviews · 1 day · from $21Best value

Walk Herculaneum’s cobbled streets at your own pace, stepping into preserved buildings, shops and baths and seeing frescoes and traces of daily life. The ticket includes entry, with an optional digital or physical audio guide. There is no live guided tour, so plan how you want to explore before you arrive.

“Magic to wonder around the town and reflect on how it was. Good to go out of season as well so less crowds”

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Pompeii Skip-the-line Tour with Archaeologist Guide - The forum, where civic life gathered
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Pompeii Skip-the-line Tour with Archaeologist Guide

14.Pompeii Skip-the-line Tour with Archaeologist Guide

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 559 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $71

Meet your guide at Hotel Vittoria near Pompeii’s entrance for a two-hour walk through the excavations. An archaeologist leads you past the forum, theaters, baths, gladiator barracks and Lupanare, explaining how Romans lived and how Vesuvius buried the city in AD 79. Groups are capped at 16, and admission is included with the guide.

“I chose this tour because I wanted a small, intimate group, and with someone who really knew their stuff. Well, we were not disappointed! The guide (totally forgot to get his name) walked us through many places and fully explained everything we were looking at. It was a fantastic experience and he made the (more than) two hour tour a delight.”

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From Sorrento: Path of the Gods Guided Hike with Transfers - Four hours on old mule tracks, with route choices
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From Sorrento: Path of the Gods Guided Hike with Transfers

15.Path of the Gods Guided Hike with Transfers

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 530 reviews · 6 hours · from $94

Ride from Sorrento to the Path of the Gods for a guided, roughly four-hour hike on old mule tracks above the Amalfi Coast. Guides such as Nino and Monica lead groups along a route chosen for the day’s conditions, with trekking poles provided and a possible stop at a shepherd’s hut. Expect rocky footing, big sea views and a rewarding workout.

“if you want to see some fantastic views this is the hike to take. I found the higher route tricky but they offered us an alternative route which was alot easier. where really good shoes, hiking shoes are the best. I was wearing trainers and struggled during parts. The food at the end was an added bonus, very tasty. Bring some Euros to give the farmer after your meal. Tour guides really nice. overall great day!”

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