Herculaneum Skip-the-Line Guided Tour with Archaeologist

A trip back in time, thanks to the guide who explained how things were back then and what happened on the day of the eruption.

Had two amazing tours with Headout - the guides were funny, friendly and enthusiastic and really brought the places to life. So glad I booked tours - I would have missed so much without them! Highly recommend.

Visite très intéressante avec notre guide Alfredo, qui est également archéologue. Le site a pris vie grâce à ses explications : fouler les vestiges d'une telle cité qui a disparu en quelques instants est émouvant. Site bien préservé, visite guidée bien organisée (avec une oreillette individuelle pour bien entendre le guide) et un guide sympathique et compétent, nous recommandons cette expérience !

Very informative and I think we saw ALL of the sights at Herculaneum. What an awesome place to visit and go back in time! The guide was exceptionally knowledgeable but at no point did she say she was an archaeologist and could well have been just a tour guide, which made me question whether she was indeed an archaeologist. If she wasn't, why advertise the tour was with an archaeologist? There was a lot of hanging around before we started, despite checking in 15 minutes before. We weee just ready to go when we had to wait for my two children to get children tickets, and THEN the whole group was told they had to check in their bags despite others having larger rucksacks than us. Didn't seem fair and seemed a waste of time. But these were logistical problems, easy to fix. We really enjoyed the experience, and it kept the kids entertained for over 2 hours! Thank you.

We would have liked to have been able to choose at the end of the tour whether we really wanted to have a 90-minute lunch break or use the time on our own in Pompeii. Which we would have liked to do in order to go to the other area that we had not yet seen. The meeting point for the onward journey could have been shown beforehand. It would also have been nice to have been given a map of Pompeii.

Antonella was a terrific guide; she made Herculaneum come alive with her descriptions and information. Super enjoyable tour. We loved it. Brilliant!

Herculaneum is amazing and the guide shared some interesting information but the ticket suggested it was a guided tour with an archaeologist but she seemed to be a regular guide

We visited Pompeii and Herculaneum each on two separate days, each needed up as an Askos tour. Our guide at Jercuneum was fantastic, but our guide at Pompeii was not actually an archeologist and the group size was not small. I was disappointed. I feel like I did not learn much. And the guide's English was not fluent.

The tour guide was passionate about the subject and very knowledgeable. He was keen for us to understand the difference between Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The tour really benefited from having an archaeologist guide. Well worth the extra money to listen to his explanations of the buildings and people.

The guide was so motivated and had so many knowledge from the archeology etc He hadxa master piece made with pictures Wich gave super illustration. We can recommend him

Ticketing experience was excellent. The rendezvous point was at the gate to the park and it wasn't clear that the meeting place was further in, a pleasant unaffiliated security guard was directing people. The tour representative was very welcoming and helpful. The tour itself was great. The guide hardly paused for breath but he was a mine of information and very interesting. My only regret is we had booked a bus to Vesuvius in the afternoon, otherwise we would have stayed and looked around some more. If you plan to stay all day, bring something to eat as there is an area you can eat in, but the only food availble is in vending machines.

Our guide,Michael, was a wealth of information. He packed so much in it was sometimes dizzying. The site is full of items and covering them in two hours is challenging. Sorry the museum closed before could get in.

We had a fabulous experience on our two hour archaeologist-guided tour of Herculaneum, owing to our brilliant & knowledgeable tour guide, Luciano Leone. In terms of the booking process & experience with Headout, the website was easy to navigate, the booking confirmation was clear & the meeting point information was helpful; I also booked the pompeii guided experience & found the meeting place far easy to locate on the Hercalaneum tour, primarily owing to the tour organiser ASKOS being easy to spot with her signage. I would suggest that the description of the meeting place as outside the ticket office within the archaeological park could just be further clarified to state that the ticket office is a few minutes walk down the park & to the left. But overall it was far far clearer to find this tour than it was to locate its equivalent in Pompeii, where the meeting place was more complicated in its description despite its detail - in this scenario the tour organiser would've greatly benefited from a sign like the ASKOS tour had in Herculaneum. Equally helpful was the follow up email I received from Headout regarding travelling to the site via the circumvesuviana train & the need to change train in order to reach the site. This was great info to have in advance of travel. Once the ASKOS tour organiser had introduced us to our tour guide outside the ticket office, our fantastic tour was immediately underway before we even entered the site with info about the park itself. Luciano was immediately a warm & welcoming guide, whose enthusiam, professional experience & knowledge was not only palpable, but contagious. Within the constraints of the 2 hour tour time frame, Luciano endeavoured to provide us with as many fascinating facts as he could, & help us understand Herculaneum as it once was, as well as how it now is. His brilliant show & tell folder & archaelogical 'insider' knowledge made for a fabulous, engaging experience that we would thoroughly recommend to anyone. Overall, we felt we received a brilliant tour that really made us feel like we had seen Heculaneum in great detail, Luciano was thoroughly impressive in his English skills, warm & friendly persona, his vast knowledge & his sheer love of archaeology at Herculaneum. Luciano tried to answer any questions asked & we would have loved the tour to have lasted longer so we could've heard more of his brilliant info. Grazie mille, Luciano !

Luciano made Herculeum come alive with his passion, knowledge and expertise in the area.He was patient, clear and respectful in his approach. A great and excellent guide for this amazing city with its rather terrible end.

Herculaneum was a fantastic place, much better perserved than Pompeii. The guide (Dr Luciano Leone) was so knowledgable and Enthisiasic he made the tour so bery interesting and enjoyable. I would recommend his to anyone and everyone.

We had a great day and thoroughly enjoyed the day, we arrived 20 minutes late due to traffic in Naples station, and was blown away by our tour guide, he did a fantastic job, very knowledgeable and informative, which was great, PS carry on with the great work that you are all doing Giuseppe and Sophie

Vinc(Enzo) our guide was fantastic. So knowledgeable. He made Pompeii come alive. He knew exactly what was worthy of seeing and explained everything thoroughly. He answered all questions thoughtfully and expertly.

The tour was excellent and our Archaelogist Sylvia did a fantastic job explaining all the history of the site and the details of the eruption with great knowledge and humour. Can't recommend the tour enough.

The tour with an archeologist who worked at the site was worth the extra charge and the visit was so much better for having booked in advance. The guide brought the site to life and gave us a better understanding of what we were looking at. She was also very mindful of the heat and sunshine and did her very best to keep us in the shade where possible without detracting from what we were looking at. The infomation provided prior to the trip regarding travel and access was invaluable I am ot sure I would have had such a stress free journey had I not had the information to hand.