Ways to visit/Segment · Private tours · Surveyed August 2026
Five products on this page are sold privately, and four of the five are priced per group rather than per head. That single fact decides everything. We priced the reference product — two hours with an archaeologist, entry ticket included — for one, two, four and six people on the same September date: $323, then $173 each, then $101 each, then $93 each. Against $57 for the cheapest scheduled walk the gap narrows from roughly six times to under twice, but it never closes. What the money buys is not a discount, it is your own pace. The ratings are the strongest on the site, 4.8–5.0★, on review bases small enough to say so.
Sorted by price, not by commission. The colour of a price carries size only — cheaper to dearer, never good to bad.
| Tour | Starts | Length | Rating | From | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pompeii Wheelchair-Accessible Tour with a GuideThe only step-free product we track, and the only one built for wheelchair users. Fourteen reviews is not a track record — it is a start. | pompeii | 3–4 h | 5.0 (14) | $107≈€93per group | Book |
| Private All-Inclusive Tour from NaplesPrivate from Naples with transport folded in, three hours. Sixteen reviews; treat the 4.9 as promising rather than proven. | naples | 3 h | 4.9 (16) | $184≈€160 | Book |
| 2H Private Tour with an Archeologist GuideThe reference private walk: two hours, an archaeologist, priced per group. 831 reviews make this the only private product here with a real base. | pompeii | 2 h | 4.9 (831) | $317≈€275per group | Book |
| Private Family Tour with an Archeologist GuideBuilt around children — shorter legs, the dog mosaic, the amphitheatre. Per group, so the per-head cost falls with every child. | pompeii | 2–3 h | 4.8 (239) | $346≈€300per group | Book |
| Private Tour with an Archaeologist (3h)Three hours per group, the deepest visit money buys at Pompeii. Also the most expensive line on the whole site. | pompeii | 3 h | 4.9 (202) | $519≈€450per group | Book |
Nothing in this camp right now.
Independent guide · surveyed August 2026 · live prices via GetYourGuide
ON THE FROM PRICE — “From” is the floor GetYourGuide advertised on the day we checked, and it moves with their promotions. It is not what you pay: where a product sells several options, the cheapest one you can actually put a date against is usually dearer. We priced all 62 products option by option on 13 August 2026, for one adult on a September weekday, and on 23 of them the bookable price was more than 15% above the advertised floor. The option counts in the table are what came back on that date.
ON THE EURO FIGURES — Euro figures are conversions at the European Central Bank euro reference rates rate of 13 August 2026 (€1 = $1.1534), shown because the park charges in euro and most visitors here do too. They are an indication, not a quote: GetYourGuide bills in the currency you choose on its own site, and its rate on the day will differ from the central bank's.
$317–519
Our call — Adding people never makes these cheap, but it makes them reasonable: $173 a head for two, $93 for six.
$107–184
Our call — Smaller review bases, and the only step-free product we track sits here.
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Our call — For one or two people this is the honest comparison, and it is not close.
Four of the five products here are priced per group, and platform pages display that number the same way they display a per-person price. Everything on this page follows from dividing it by your party.
Run the reference product through it, and do it with the entry ticket included so the comparison is fair. On the same September date that walk costs $323 for one person, $346 for two, $403 for four and $559 for six — the group rate steps up past four, it does not stay flat. Per head that is $323, $173, $101 and $93, against $57 for the cheapest scheduled walk. The gap closes from roughly six times to under twice and then stops closing. Nobody should book this to save money; they should book it because the guide answers their questions rather than twenty other people's.
The other thing to weigh is evidence. Ratings here are the strongest on the site, 4.8–5.0★, but three of the five products have fewer than 250 reviews and two have fewer than twenty. A high average on a thin base is a promise rather than a record, and we would rather print the base than round it away.
Per group is not per person, and the listing price looks the same. Platform pages display one number. On a per-group product that number is the whole booking; divide it by your party before comparing it with anything else on this site.
Small review bases cut both ways. Three of the five products here have fewer than 250 reviews and two have fewer than 20. High ratings on thin bases are weak evidence, and we would rather say so than print a 5.0 as if it settled the matter.
Confirm the entry ticket in writing. Group walks almost always include the named €20 ticket. Private products vary, and a guide-only booking leaves you buying entry separately under a 20,000-a-day cap.
One guide means one point of failure. Group departures usually run whatever happens. A private booking depends on a single person being available; ask what the operator does if that guide cannot come.
It depends entirely on how many of you there are, because four of the five products here are priced per group. We checked the reference two-hour archaeologist walk with the entry ticket included on the same September date at four party sizes: $323 for one, $346 for two, $403 for four and $559 for six. Per head that is $323, $173, $101 and $93, against $57 for the cheapest scheduled group walk. So a private guide never undercuts the group walk — but past four people it costs about the same as a mid-priced scheduled tour, and you set the pace.
For the group, not per head: $317 to $519 for a party of one or two in our 13 August 2026 check. Two hours with an archaeologist is the reference point at $317 with tickets bought separately or $323 with them included; $519 buys three hours with the same kind of guide. Watch the listing prices that read lower than that — the wheelchair-accessible product advertises “from $107 per person”, which is its $323 group price divided by three. Confirm on the booking page whether the entry ticket is inside the price or added at checkout.
Not always, and this is the one thing to check before paying. Group walks on this site are sold with the named €20 ticket included as a rule; private products vary by operator. The Includes list on the booking page is the authority, not the price.
Usually yes, for one unglamorous reason: pace. A private guide can cut the route short, sit down, or skip a street when attention runs out, and a group of twenty cannot. One product here is explicitly built around families and is priced per group, so the cost per head falls with each child rather than rising.
It can skip the ticket office, not the gate. Since entry became named, everyone passes the same ID check at the entrance. What a private booking reliably buys is a start time of your choosing inside the day's slots — which matters more than the queue, because only 15,000 of the day's 20,000 tickets allow entry before 13:00.
Further than a group walk. There is exactly one guide per booking, so availability is thinner: one to two weeks in high season, more for a specific morning. Most listings here cancel free up to 24 hours before, so an early booking costs nothing but protects the slot.
One product on this page is built for it, and the park's step-free route starts at the Piazza Anfiteatro entrance rather than Porta Marina. Ancient basalt paving with high kerbs is the reason a specialist product exists at all — read the listing's own accessibility notes before booking, and contact the operator about your specific chair.
A private tour is your party alone. A small-group tour caps the number of strangers, and where a listing states a cap we print it. Where it does not, the words mean nothing enforceable — the difference in price between the two is usually the difference between a stated number and an adjective.
And if none of these fit — the €20 gate ticket and a good book beat a bad tour every time.
Live dates and prices for three picks from this page, served by GetYourGuide. Each is also in the table above with its rating and review count. We earn a commission on bookings made through these windows, at no extra cost to you.
The baseline here2 hours, 4.9★ over 831 reviews. The cheapest window on this page.
+$29 over itBuilt around children, and the same per-group logic — the more of you, the lower the head price.
+$202 over itThree hours instead of two with the same kind of guide. The deepest visit money buys at Pompeii.