Pompeii Tours Top 10 Things Your Should Know

Best Time to Go on a Tour of Pompeii
Indispensible Things to Take with You on a Pompeii Tour
How To Find A Good Pompeii Guide
Ways To Improve Your Pompeii Tour Experience
Buying Your Pompeii Site ticket

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Best Time to Go on a Tour of Pompeii

If you are visting in the summertime, it is generally always better to avoid the site between 1pm and 3pm due to the immense heat. Ironically, if you book multi-stop a shore excursion from a cruise ship on a busy day, this is exactly the time that you will end up there. If you are planning your tour of Pompeii in the summertime, then its best to try to avoid overlapping with the cruise ship groups which tend to fill the site between 9.30 am and the middle of the afternoon.

If you have the freedom to chose your time, then just as the site opens before the groups arrive can be great. Otherwise, the next best time is later in the day towards closing time.
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Indispensible Things to Take with You on a Pompeii Tour

Forget about your usual touristic visit....Pompeii is an archeological site. Therefore it is essential to be prepared with flat comfy shoes. Walking around the site of Pompeii, you will find uneven ground everywhere you turn.

Also remember to bring a bottle of water, a sun hat and sun glasses, in addition to comfy shoes.
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How To Find A Good Pompeii Guide

Avoid referring to non qualified guides for your visit to the site of Pompeii. All authorized guides can easily be recognised by the small shield they are required by law to wear.

Never accept proposals from the guards of the site to show you around. They are there to help you for generaly information and in case of emergencies.
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Ways To Improve Your Pompeii Tour Experience

Carry with you always some paper tissues as the toilets are generally pretty un-equipped for use. With that in mind, its generally best to take advantage of the ones outside the site before you enter as the toilets inside Pompeii site are generally pretty indecent.

There are three entrances to Pompeii and all would allow you to have a good visit to the site. Each entrance shows you something different. So, its useless to line up with the rest of the crowds at the main entrance, as long as you don't mind walking a bit further, you can enhance your experience and get away from the crowds.

You would easily plan a tour that enters through one gate, and then exit from another. Bear in mind however, that the gates are not all in the same vicinity, so plan your time well in case you need to return to a cruise ship for example.

At the entrances, there are always free maps included in your entrance ticket. However you must ask for them since no-one will bother to tell you otherwise.
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Buying Your Pompeii Site ticket

Save time On Buying Your Ticket
It is possible to pay your Pompeii site entrance ticket at all the entrances. Here you'll also find most necessities and foods you may need to keep you going.
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you should also know that you can only do this using cash. Also most food concessions and souvenir sellers only take cash money. There are two places where you can get money out of an atm...one is Porta Marina, and the other is along the road in the main town of Pompeii.