I'm returning to Pompeii this summer for the third time and am thinking about approaching things differently--I've done my own tour in the past. Has anyone on the list just shown up at Pompeii and looked around outside the ticket booth for a guide? (Rick writes, "Live guides cluster near the ticket booth." To be honest, I've never noticed.) What has been your experience? How much did you pay for a tour? Alternatively, has anyone used the audio guide? What did you think of that?
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Stockton, CA, USA
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Yes there we guides all over when I was at Pompeii a few weeks ago. We got there pretty close to opening time, so that might be a good time to check. We didn't take a tour, but we did get the audio guide which was VERY extensive. It covered a lot of the city, in almost to much detail for my taste. So we skipped around to the stuff we were most interested in. Really glad we had it though!
Melissa
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Collierville, Tennessee, USA
513 posts
Hire Gaetano Manfredi. His contact information is in Rick's book. We did a tour with him in March 2003, and he was a great guide. We recommended his tours to friends who went in May 2006, and March 2007. Our friends hired him for a tour and were very pleased. You can see him on Rick's most recent DVD.