The Bay of Naples, one booking at a time.
Which Pompeii tour actually gets you a guide who knows the site. Whether the Blue Grotto will even open that morning. If the Amalfi drive is better by boat. Every tour around Naples, reviewed and ranked.
The days you come to Naples for.
Pompeii under the volcano, the Amalfi Coast by boat, Capri and its blue cave, the pastel cliffs of Positano, and a pizza where it was invented. The handful of days most Naples trips are built around, and the best way to book each.
The Amalfi Coast, however you want to see it.
By boat from the water, on foot along the Path of the Gods, or the long slow drive with a hundred hairpins. The most photographed coast in Italy, and the tours that actually do it justice.
Pompeii: the tour makes the difference.
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Skip-the-line entry is the easy part; a good archaeologist turns a field of rubble into a living city. These three carry the most travellers — the full list sorts the rest by how you want to see it.
The guided ruins, properly explained
A specialist walks you through the forum, the baths and the plaster casts — the difference between a photo stop and understanding what you are standing in.
Pompeii and Vesuvius in one day
The buried city in the morning, the crater that buried it after lunch. The classic pairing, with a minibus up the mountain road so you only walk the last stretch to the rim.
Herculaneum, smaller and better kept
Half the crowds of Pompeii and twice the upper floors still standing — wooden doors, mosaics, even carbonised furniture. The connoisseur’s Vesuvian day.
The tours everyone around Naples takes.
Every review →More travellers book these than anything else on the bay — and what each one gets right.
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Naples Underground Entry Ticket and Guided Tour
Walk through Naples from Greek waterworks to Roman theater remains on an official guided underground tour, with optional pizza at the end.
From · $21
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Entry Ticket and Guided Tour with an Archaeologist
from $35
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Entry Ticket with Optional Audio Guide
from $26
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Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist
from $40
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Pompeii Ruins & Mount Vesuvius Day Tour
from $120
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Sorrento, Positano and Amalfi Full-Day Tour
from $107
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Sorrento, Positano & Amalfi Coast – Small Group Tour
from $76
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Catacombs of San Gennaro Entry Ticket & Guided Tour
from $15
Capri, the blue cave, and the quieter islands.
Everyone goes to Capri; far fewer make it to Ischia’s thermal gardens or tiny Procida. The boats leave Naples early — here is which island day is worth your one.
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What your money buys around Naples.
Every tour on the site, sorted by what it actually costs. A great Naples day can start at the price of a margherita and a cold beer.
Pompeii tickets, a street-food crawl, a pizza class — the everyday best of Naples.
The classic day tours: the Amalfi Coast, the Capri boats, Pompeii with a proper guide.
Private drivers, chartered boats and the once-a-trip splurge down the coast.
In Naples, eat standing up.
The pizza was invented here and the best of it is fried, folded and eaten on the street. Work the backstreets of the centro storico one taster at a time, then go underground to see the city beneath the city.
- 1Street Food Walking Tour with Local Guidefrom $47
- 2Authentic Naples Street Food Tour With Local Expert Guidefrom $50
- 3Authentic Naples Food Tour with 8+ Tastings of Pizza, Wine & Morefrom $105
Things you can only do around Naples.
You can eat well and see ruins across Italy. A city frozen under a live volcano, a sea cave lit from below, and the pizza’s actual birthplace belong to this bay alone.
A city under the volcano
Vesuvius buried Pompeii in a single afternoon and preserved it whole: bakeries with the bread still in the oven, election slogans on the walls, plaster casts of people where they fell. It is the largest excavated Roman city on earth, and the volcano that did it still smokes on the skyline above the ruins. A guide is the difference between rubble and a living street.
- 1Entry Ticket and Guided Tour with an Archaeologist★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 19,459 reviews
- 2Entry Ticket with Optional Audio Guide★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 · 12,360 reviews
- 3Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 12,264 reviews
The Blue Grotto
Row into a sea cave off Capri through an opening barely a metre high, and the water lights up an electric blue from a second arch hidden below the surface. The Romans built a nymphaeum here; today you transfer into a tiny wooden boat and lie flat to get in. It opens only when the sea is calm — which is exactly what makes the day you get in feel earned.
- 1Island Boat Tour with Blue Grotto Stop★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 · 2,071 reviews
- 2Day Trip to Capri and Blue Grotto From Naples & Sorrento★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,023 reviews
- 3Capri and Blue Grotto Day Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 966 reviews
Where pizza was invented
The Margherita was made in Naples in 1889 and the city has guarded it ever since: sixty seconds in a wood oven so hot the crust blisters, a dough left to rise for a full day, San Marzano tomatoes grown at the volcano’s foot. A class here is less a cooking lesson than an initiation — and you eat what you make.
- 1Pizza-Making Workshop with Drink and Appetizer★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 5,411 reviews
- 2Authentic Pizza Making Class in Naples with Appetizers and Drink★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,178 reviews
- 3Neapolitan Pizza and Tiramisù Making Class★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 839 reviews
Book these before you fly to Naples.
Most of Naples you can arrange the night before from your hotel. These you cannot — they run on sea conditions, ticket releases and summer crowds that do not wait for your flight.
- 01Island Boat Tour with Blue Grotto StopThe grotto opens only in a calm, low sea — a swell shuts it with no notice. Book a Capri tour that refunds the grotto leg when it cannot run.
- 02Entry Ticket and Guided Tour with an ArchaeologistThe small-group Pompeii tours with a real archaeologist cap at a dozen people and sell out days ahead. The on-site ticket window will not get you onto one.
- 03Pompeii Ruins & Mount Vesuvius Day TourThe crater path closes in high wind, and timed-entry tickets are released in advance — arriving on spec can mean no summit that day.
- 04Island Boat Trip with GrottosIn July and August the fast ferries to Capri fill by mid-morning and the island caps arrivals; a booked boat day holds your place.
When the rain blows in off the bay, go underneath Naples.
Naples has a second city beneath it — Greek-Roman aqueducts, wartime shelters, catacombs lit by candle. Add a pizza class over a hot oven, a cooking lesson, or an afternoon with the mosaics, and a grey day quietly becomes the best one.
Around the bay — where the day goes
Pompeii273 tours
Mount Vesuvius100 tours
Herculaneum58 tours
Capri126 tours
Amalfi Coast213 tours- Positano109 tours
Ischia21 tours- Everything to book →
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Pompeii, Amalfi, Ravello Day Tour with Private Transfer
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Pompeii and Herculaneum: Private Tour from Naples
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Ruins of Pompeii & the Amalfi Coast: Full-Day Private Tour
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