Sorrento - Trip to Pompeii, Herculaneum, National Archaeological Museum of Naples

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So staying in Sorrento next month and would like to visit some combination of Pompeii, Herculaneum and/or National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

Wonder if anyone has any experience/suggestions of what would work well as a day visit? eg:-
- Just go to Pompeii for a 1/2+ day.
- Or Pompeii and Herculaneum with a day visit.
- Incorporate the National Archaeological Museum of Naples in the day.

While a fully organised trip from Sorrento would be nice, I believe the train station is literally across the road from the Pompeii entrance, and it's only about a 10min walk from the station near Herculaneum so all doable without organised transport.

Looking at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, it looks great, but seems to add yet a couple more hours journey time on, so would seem like adding too much on.

Thanks...


ps: I think the museum building at Pompeii itself is currently closed :(
 
Pompeii alone can take a full day of you try to see all of it. Very tiring as well depending on your fitness! I'd say just do that, as adding a trip into Naples and back to Sorrento will add 30 mins each way just in travel time excluding catching the underground to the Naples Centro Historico.

I can't comment on Herculaneum but it's supposed to be good as well
 
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As above, Pompeii is quite a big site and seeing all of it could easily take most of the day if you're interested in looking at/reading/taking everything in. I wasn't too fussed about seeing it all so spent half a day and moved on. There's tons of ticket resellers and the official Pompeii ticket site isn't obvious also.

Tour guides seemed quite popular here, talking groups and couples through the history and stories if that's something you wanted.

Bear in mind temperatures, as when I went last October it was sunny with no cloud and temps of 25 deg. Sun cream and water is a must as you'll do plenty of walking. Some bits aren't the easiest to walk either as it's a mix of gravel, dusty mud, uneven stone slabs, steps.
 
Been to Pompeii and Herculaneum, worthwhile doing them both with guides if you can. Personally thought Herculaneum was the more interesting of the two. If you can get to it, I thought Paestum was really good as well
 
NeilF said:
Yes. At a hotel in Sorrento. There's 8 of us.
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It might be worth seeing if they do the trips and how much they are too.

We booked a Vesuvius trip that included a vineyard tour which was amazing, we also did a land train tour which took us to a lot of places including limoncello makers.

As people say the train is one line so you cant go wrong with that either.
 
AnastieByte said:
Im in Sorrento next month and would appreciate some restaurant advice please.
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Torna a Surriento Trattoria Pizzeria
You cant book so be prepared to wait or just get lucky with a table. Incredible food!

La Cantinaccia del Popolo
Huge queues pretty much all night. Lunch seemed to be quiet and easy to get a table.

Those would be my top two. Otherwise you can't go wrong with anything reviewed well on Google.

Goes without saying but stay away from the tourist traps off the main square etc.
 
Biz.Kid09 said:
Torna a Surriento Trattoria Pizzeria
You cant book so be prepared to wait or just get lucky with a table. Incredible food!

La Cantinaccia del Popolo
Huge queues pretty much all night. Lunch seemed to be quiet and easy to get a table.

Those would be my top two. Otherwise you can't go wrong with anything reviewed well on Google.

Goes without saying but stay away from the tourist traps off the main square etc.
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Thanks that’s very helpful
 
Pipe & Slippers said:
Agree with this. I’ve been to Pompeii twice, once under my own steam and again with a proper guide. It’s a wholly more satisfying experience when you know what you are looking at
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Pompeii is epic but one of my core memories is standing on a street corner next to a couple of shops with carvings that indicated what the shop was. Whilst waiting I watched 4 tour groups come past, stop and have a lecture about what these shops were. No two stories were the same.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
In Sorrento is a train station that will take you to all those places including Vesuvius on the same line.
It's also very cheap.
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Did the same in October last year, it weren't half hot in Pompeii. Getting about on the local train was easy enough with some Google foo. Apart from the awful buskers and persistent begging on the train, it was all good.

Had my little one in tow so wasn't able to fully explore Pompeii, it was just too hot and hard work for her. I personally would budget a day.

Sorrento itself is lovely and would recommend getting the boat to Capri just for the cable car to the top

Biz.Kid09 said:
La Cantinaccia del Popolo
Huge queues pretty much all night. Lunch seemed to be quiet and easy to get a table.
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Tried to get in this restaurant on evening 3, queue was too long, joined the queue earlier on day 4 just before 5:30pm, I think, and was seated for the first sitting. Amazing food
 
d_brennen said:
Did the same in October last year, it weren't half hot in Pompeii. Getting about on the local train was easy enough with some Google foo. Apart from the awful buskers and persistent begging on the train, it was all good.

Had my little one in tow so wasn't able to fully explore Pompeii, it was just too hot and hard work for her. I personally would budget a day.
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Mrs reminded me that when we went, Italy was suffering a heatwave.
On that train it was so hot that it looked like two elderly Italians were slowly dying in front of me, nobody took any notice so I gave them water and my wife had a cold spray on her.
Nice to see in other countries the locals don't help their own either.
 
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