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Pompeii: Walking Tour with Augmented Reality Glasses and Entrance Ticket Included
4.4
56 Ratings
Pompei
Step into the past with an immersive walking tour of Pompeii using augmented reality glasses. Explore the ancient ruins and see them come to life before your eyes.
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Pompeii Archaeological Park - Our tour assistant will wait for you at the entrance of the archaeological park and will lead you along the main route where you will be able to see Pompeii as it was in the past and as it is today thanks to our 3D glasses with augmented reality.
What's Included
- Self-guided exploration of archaeological site post-tour
- Multilingual audio recording available in 5 languages
- AR Glasses for an immersive experience
- Dedicated Tour Assistant
- Included entrance ticket
Additional Information
Put on your augmented reality glasses and enjoy a unique, innovative and engaging tour of the archaeological excavations of Pompeii. Enter a different era and discover what Pompeii was like before the eruption of Vesuvius through augmented reality.
Meet the Tour Assistant to learn the itinerary and easily find out how to use the glasses. All routes and reconstructions have been developed by a team of archaeologists and experts to show you how life was in Pompeii before the eruption. Your Tour Assistant will accompany and assist you throughout the tour.
The glasses create holograms superimposed on the existing ruins, and show you what the most significant temples, houses, squares, theaters and buildings looked like before the eruption of 79 AD. (augmented reality) compared to today (reality).
Walk among the ruins with your small group, and remember that our tour is suitable for people of all ages!
- Once the tour is over and the augmented reality glasses are returned, it is possible to stay in the archaeological park and explore the site independently.
- The tour will take place regardless of weather conditions, so it is advisable to dress appropriately.
- This is a walking tour, make sure you have comfortable shoes.
- Children under 8 years of age can enter the park with a standard ticket, but cannot use the 3D technology.
- Arrive at the meeting point at least 15 minutes before the departure time.
- To obtain free tickets for children under 18, before the start of the tour, you must go to the ticket office and present an identification document confirming the age of the minor. In this way, the ticket office staff will verify the age of the minor and provide you with the free ticket.
- Augmented reality (AR) glasses can also be worn by participants who already use prescription glasses
- If you arrive after the scheduled departure time, please contact us.
- The tour does not include the suburban villas (Villa dei Misteri)
- If you are late, we will wait for a maximum of 5 minutes. Then the tour will begin out of respect for the other participants.
Location
Coffee Shop Vittoria
Via Mare
Piazza Esedra, near the Vittoria Coffee Shop. It is recommended to arrive at least 15 minutes before departure time.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.4
(56 Ratings)
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Sybilk467
May 29, 2024
A beautiful way to bring history to life - It was totally worth it! With the AR glasses you simply have a better idea of what it used to look like. The tour shows the most important stations. Ideal for getting a good overview and also ideal with children. After that you can continue to explore Pompeii on your own and you also get a map. For those interested in going into more depth and details, it might not be the first choice. Sara is our guide and was a knowledgeable and very nice guide, we felt in good hands. Thank you!
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E8571amdavidg
May 7, 2024
Great way to see Pompeii - Great way to see Pompeii
The guides were excellent. Very thoughtful and interesting
Look after the group really well. Taking special care of one of our friends who needed a stick to get around so was quite slow.
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Giamb0g
Apr 24, 2024
A new way to experience Pompeii - The 3D glasses give an incredible view of Pompeii. The ruins take on a new dimension and the experience is incredibly enriched.
The guide also carried out his job very well, without going into too much detail, answering questions and even involving the younger members of the family. Thanks Cyrus!
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Janet_v
Apr 17, 2024
Great 3D experience - The tour guide Roberta was excellent, and the 3D experience was worth every penny! It was amazing to see how beautiful the city looked in all its colour.
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Shawn_r
May 9, 2024
Pompeii was a memorable experience - Overall, this was a great experience. We had a wonderful tour guide, who was very knowledgeable, passionate about Pompeii and friendly.
Using 3D technology to see renderings of the past was helpful, although the headset around your neck for the duration of the tour is a bit tiring.
With that said, we would def use the same tour again. Thank you so much!
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Vls73
Apr 29, 2024
A fascinating way to see Pompeii - Rainy morning for long stretches. Despite this, our guide, Sara (young, but expert in managing times, requests and itinerary), accompanied us through the ruins, answering our questions and appearing helpful and courteous from different points of view, both with the little ones and with the elderly, even in the (also very simple) use of goggles. Truly a great experience.
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Maria_g
Jun 20, 2024
VR Virtual Tour Review Other Than Expected - VR Virtual Tour Review Other Than Expected!!
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This review has no reflection on our guide! The 3d tour was totally disappointing that it was not a full narrated tour as we only used the glasses 5 times in a 3 hour tour!! We spent our entire three hour tour not knowing exactly the history of what we were seeing unless we asked or called the guide back to a specific spot. Definitely not worth the cost per our group of 11.
Pro
- great guide
- patiently answered our many questions
- took us off the beaten path to uncrowded roads
- 3d virtual glasses easy to use
- the visuals were nice
Cons
- guide needed to speak louder so those in back could hear
- the virtual audio tour needed more information beyond the Vr portions
- the VR was more of video. it really didnt orient to the background
- 7 of the 11 returned audio and glasses in early prefering to listen to the guide.
Overall nice, but left us all disappointed!!
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Formerfembot
Oct 8, 2023
Almost what I've been hoping for - The AR experience was less than it appeared to be on the website. It was cool, but the tech was rough (didn't actually overlay in real time/space; I spent a lot of time spinning in circles trying to see and/or catch the images over where they belonged) and the glasses weren't clean to begin with. I'm glad I did it because it was novel and it did illuminate the past a bit. A proper guide with a picture book might do nearly as well though.
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Richard_d
Aug 6, 2024
Try another guide - I would skip this one. Compared to other tours we’ve had this guide was unenthusiastic and spoke with back to the group for much of the time. He also didn’t keep track of the group and just moved forward. We missed half the tour as we couldn’t find him. The glasses were ok, 1 minute created snippets at various locations.
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Magdalena_e
Jun 12, 2024
No tour guide with mediocre images of a few spots in Pompeii - This has been a really sad experience for me and for my family. From the beginning, the tour started by the tour "operator" having another person with him to "train him". He talked to the other guy more than he talked to us. Unfortunately for him, I understood more italian than he thought. At one point I overheard him call me a really bad name. I confronted him about it, but of course he denied it. This is not the worst part of the tour because despite this, my family chose to continue the tour. The glasses had very mediocre graphics of certain places during a very partial tour to say the least. The recordings that accompanied the "images" of what Pompeii looked like before eruption pretty much just talked about us "imagining" ourselves smelling the fresh focaccia at the market or telling us how lucky we are to be in a certain space. Not informative at all. Please be aware that there is no tour guide on this tour. He is just there to operate the glasses. He did ask if we had any questions, but when asked the simplest of questions he did not have an answer and just followed with "if you have any other questions let me know". I've taken many tours all around Italy, and I have to say this was by far the worst tour I've ever taken. I did read in the details before booking that there isn't a professional tour guide, but this angry guy took it to another level. He was not interested in being there at all and just talked to the "trainee" about his issues. I feel sorry for the other guy for being trained by this dude. Overall, a horrible experience. Two thumbs down.
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