Pompeii Tour guide

[dkata]

I am trying to decide whether to pre-book a tour guide now to meet us at Pompeii for a 2 hour tour; or

just wing it and hope there is a tour guide outside the gates of Pompeii who is looking for people for a tour. (I assume that the guide would wait until they had 10 people for a tour) We are going in october.

 

what has been your experience?

[hun]

We had pre-booked a great guide last fall, but we did it all via Rome In Limo. My suggestion is to pre-book, so you can better choose the quality of the guide. Enjoy!

[hbrote]

They do have audio guides available at the entrance and Rick Steves has an audio guide with map avail on his site. We used this on our last trip and worked out fine.

[lynncarol]

It's been several years since my husband and I visited Pompeii. We opted to join a group of six folks whose guide was waiting to amass a group total of ten. 15 minutes later, we were still only a group of 8. The other six (who had been waiting longer than us) insisted he start anyway. When the guide balked, those six folks headed for the audio-tour booth. Suddenly our guide had an epiphany, ran after them, rounded us up and started his tour. I have to say, he did give an excellent tour (once he finally got started).