Have any of you ever taken the Mondo guided tours That RS suggests? Did you book in advance? We will be staying for a few days in Catania and Sorrento after our Sicily tour and want to see the Amalfi Coast and the Naples Archeological Museum. Many thanks!
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We did one of the Rick Steves Mondo guided tours of Pompeii. Mondo is a tour agency offering many tours separate from the Rick Steves Shared ones.
Yes, they must be booked in advance. The RS ones will only operate with a minimum number of people and also have a cap on how many they will take per tour.
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Yes, we did a Mondo shared tour of the Amalfi Coast (Positano, Amalfi, and Ravello) on 24 March 2017, departing from Sorrento. I highly recommend it. All arrangements were made by email a few weeks before we left home. In case it is not clear, the vehicle is a very comfortable van (maximum 8 people, I believe). They drop you off in Positano, Amalfi, and Ravello and you are on your own for around 1.5 to 2 hours in each town (the driver tells you when to meet back at the van). The way our tour day (about 10 hours) went, there was enough time to have a sit down lunch in Amalfi and still visit the cathedral. In Ravello, the gardens of Villa Rufolo and view of the Mediterranean were stunning. Most amazing was the price - only 50 Euros per person. To hire a private guide for a full day would run you more than 10X that, based on our experience on a previous trip to Tuscany.