What an amazing tour! We cannot recommend Lello enough! Highly knowledgeable, a lyrical story teller keeping you engaged for the entire tour. We will use Lello any time we come to the area. We did not want the tour to end! Thank you Lello!!!

Tour guide Roxanne was awesome. Very knowledgeable and fun to spend the day with. She was great! Got to see all the main spots of Pompeii and learned so much from Roxanne.

The coordination for this tour was amazing from the moment of making the reservation to the return by van after the tour was over to our original pickup place. GetYourGuide gets an A for overall coordination. Maria was our guide on 5 October, and she was good. Speaking slowly and patiently waiting for the 25-person group to move about. She was also good about not letting others jump the line. The tour itself is a group walk-about while sharing the paths with other similar-sized groups. Pompei was busy. The way to improve the Pompei experience is in the off season with a guide. This isn’t our preferred type of tour but having a guide is a terrific enhancement to what could be an otherwise uninspiring walk-about.

I recommend this tour highly as the guide was personable,knowledgeable and an excellent communicator Do plan your trip to Pompeii carefully as getting there can take some time

This was a great, informative private tour. Our guide was knowledgeable and entertaining and put the sites in historical context that was understandable and interesting.

We booked a private tour of Pompeii and it was a fabulous experience from start to finish. Maria was vey helpful with scheduling the tour; she communicated and responded clearly and it was easy to pay online. After I booked it I decided to add the option to have a driver take us from our hotel in Sorrento. Maria made it easy to add that on. Our guide, Italo, was wonderful. Friendly, polite, knowledgeable, and pleasant to be with. He made the experience completely enjoyable. We learned so much about Pompeii and he gave a great tour. He clearly know his stuff and likes what he does. 6 out of 5 stars! 😄 Our driver, Guido, was excellent. A very kind and polite young man. He chatted with us along the way, and was very attentive and respectful. After the tour we asked him to recommend a local place for lunch, and he gladly brought us into the town of Pompeii to a local pizzeria. Overall this tour was one of the highlights of our trip. The ruins in Pompeii are incredible and the experience was so much more than I was expecting. Highly recommend.

Italo, our guide, was fabulous. He was knowledgeable and gave us good insight to the life of Pompei. I would recommend a private tour with him. He made it fun and we moved through the city at a good tempo. Booking with Trip Advisor was easy and reasonably priced.

We took an 4 person guided tour. Our guide was very knowledgeable and spoke great English. He made sure we never waited for anything. He was respectful of others but didn’t allow anyone to push us. He was entertaining but factual. I’m pretty sure his name was spelled Etaly! He gets my highest rating!!

Our guide was Lelo. He is exceptional. He drew us in to the history, culture and lifestyle of the ancient city and we were mesmerized. He knows so much about the site and offered a context of relevance for us. Lelo's passion about Pompeii is contagious. His depth of knowledge is incredible. He is also funny and playful. We had a great time. The three hours flew by. Not to be missed. We toured with our 20 something kids.

This review is based purely off of the actual tour guide we had, not the company itself. Unfortunately though, the tour guide is the part we need to be excellent, not the admin team. The admin office were very communicative & provided lots of information for our booking with reminders the day prior. I was disappointed that I had booked a “half day tour” (expecting maybe minimum 4-6 hours), however received a confirmation email the day prior that the tour had been scheduled for 9am - 11am. If I had known this prior, I would not have booked this guide. Now onto the actual tour. We arrived half an hour before the actual arrival time as specified (8:50am) so we could grab a bite to eat & keep an eagle eye on the tour guides arriving so as not to miss out on where we had to be as I had been looking forward to touring Pompeii for over 10 years. At 8:50am (the time our guide was to collect us) we began to get nervous as we’d seen many groups come & go but still had not seen a sign for Lello & Co.. At around 8:55am, worried we had missed out, we called the office however were unable to reach them which resulted in communication via WhatsApp. We explained that our guide was no where to be seen, to which we received a reply advising that our guide was “waiting with a sign with your name on it”. We could see no such person with said sign. We wondered around & saw nothing. By chance, we overheard another couple looking for the same tour group, we then huddled together to find our guide, by now it was 9am. Still. No. Guide. At this point I felt like I had organised a scam, not a tour guide. Eventually, we saw a man hurrying towards the crowds (definitely not onsite prior to 9am) with a small sheet of paper with our names on it (mind you - it was held at waist height which made it hard to read even with the small crowd). We then found our last couple in our group, as they also could not find the guide & were on the phone to the company’s office. The tour guide - “Italio” We walked through the gates after waiting for Italio to hastily organise the tickets for our group, being pointed to wait off to the side until this was done. We then spent around 15 minutes outside of the ruins talking about the map (which he did not have a copy of himself) & other things not entirely necessary to the tour. Italio made jokes that were of poor taste regarding sex & the brothels leaving an even more sour taste of this man who was late. Time was ticking away for our 2 hour slot. By 9:25 we finally began in the ruins. I felt that Italio was not engaging in the way he discussed what we were seeing, I felt myself wandering away out of earshot to go to take photos & see for myself rather than listen to his meandering talk. Italio did not seem to know or understand history, as there was a few things he mentioned that were not correct that my partner & I picked up on. Italio rushed us through each display & got snarky when one of the ladies asked a question that he had talked about outside the ruins. I did not feel comfortable to ask questions, nor did I feel Italio was competent to answer them. Our tour finished right on the dot at 11am with Italio wandering off into the crowds. Mind you, he had a group of 7 people and didn’t bother to ask one persons name (only our surname was on the sheet of paper at the start). I might be biased as we have now had 2 tours in Rome with another company (who unfortunately did not offer a tour of Pompeii on our chosen date) and experienced what we can only describe as outstanding. Very knowledgeable & passionate guides with history backgrounds/ degrees in the field. Our tour with Italio only reminded me of the teachers I had in high school that made you hate school and not want to learn. I would not recommend Italio to anyone I know & will encourage anyone who asks to wait/rearrange their days to go with the other tour group than settle for what is available. I guess you get what you pay for, however todays tour left us wanting for more & disappointed leaving the ruins.

Amazing day. Even in the rain. Italio was our guide and he was very knowledgeable, interesting and had a nice sense of humor. Brought to life Pompeii in a very real way. Highly recommend! Skipping the king lines was invaluable!

Italo was an incredible guide. So full of energy, so knowledgeable, and so fun! He brought Pompeii to life for me and my family. I would highly recommend him to anyone traveling to Pompeii

Lelo(our tour guide)is truly spectacular. Honestly speaking, I never leave reviews. If you enjoy culture, history, authenticity, go with this place and SPECIFICALLY ASK for Lelo. You will get 30+ years of knowledge on the ruins in 3 hours. He was born in Pompeii and knows so much about the ruins. He will show you things and tell you things other tour guides won’t. He is by trade an archeologist and knows all the employees there. He will show you the best spots for pictures, give you such a detailed history, show you small details you would’ve missed and so much more. He is funny, beyond intelligent and sincerely a great time. He lives and breathes these ruins and you can tell it is truly his passion. My wife and I had an amazing time with him on the tour. Lelo, if you read this, thank you again for an amazing experience and the time with you flew by, it has been the highlight of our trip so far. We Highly highly recommend Lelo!!

Amazing tour! Our favorite of all the tours during our trip. Our guide was very knowledgeable and made things super interesting. Lots of stories and pointing out things we wouldn't have noticed ourselves. He made the tour both funny and informative!

Lello was extremely knowledgeable and conveyed his passion for the history of Pompeii. He adjusted his pace to accommodate my use of a cane. He provided historical information as well as relevant stories. This tour was definitely a highlight of our time in Italy. We would highly recommend!

Lelo is an archeologist with an immense understanding of all things Pompeii and the explosion of Mt Vesuvius in 79AD. I have been to Pompeii in the past in a large group tour. If I had to do it all again, I would ONLY do a private guided tour with an archeologist. Worth every penny! Lelo has a way to make you “feel” like you were there when mt Vesuvius exploded. Grazie Lelo!

We toured Pompeii with guide Rosanna. She was super and gave us a good flavor of what living there would have been like as well as the history, politics and geographical factors. Rosanna was solicitous of my wife's walking endurance and tailored her presentation to our needs. Ask for her by name!

Having Lello as our guide was phenomenal. He was interesting, interactive and outright entertaining. Having an earbud made it easy to stay engaged and interested in the tour. Typically, I disengage from tours like this in part because I cannot hear the guide and get bored.

I am so glad my friend and I booked the private Pompeii tour. Our guide was wonderful and so knowledgeable. The area is massive but she was able to make sure we saw all of the highlights in under 3 hours. I would definitely recommend paying extra for the private tour because some of the larger groups were struggling to hear their guide and fit into some of the smaller places.

Fabrizio (Fabio) was a fantastic, enthusiastic, entertaining, friendly, cheerful, informative guide who made our visit to Pompeii far better than our previous visits. He pointed out subtle details that we would likely have missed on our own... details that put so much of this ancient city in context that enabled us to envision what it might have been like to live in Pompeii at the time with glorious splendor. Without his guidance, Pompeii simply looks like a sun-beaten monochromatic pile of ruins.