Pompeji Eintrittskarten: Erkunden Sie die antike römische Stadt mit Audioguide oder Archäologenführung

I have the priveledge of having been a close relative and friend to many Oxford and Cambridge - associated historians and archaeologists over the years. If our guide was an expert on Pompeii, then he clearly had contempt for the people he was guiding through the site, of which I happen to know a reasonable amount and was expecting far more from. To confirm a few of the obvious howlers - the Greeks did not abandon Pompeii because of Vesuvius and their knowledge of volcanology: the city was shaped by a succession of cultures. Founded by the Oscans, it came under strong Greek/Magna Graecia influence in the 6th century BC, passed through Samnite control, and was eventually conquered and integrated by the Romans in the 1st century BC. Also, from the Forum, you can see the head of Jupiter, not Augustus. Next up, prostitutes were likely not associated with the word 'lupanare' because they 'howled' at sailors and traders for business. Also, there is no evidence that 17,000 people died at Pompeii, nor that sexually transmitted diseases were completley absent, or that growth of residents was stunted purely due to lead poisoning... or, indeed, that the Forum's marble was stolen by Napoleon (noting that new, engineered marble slabs were clearly not from the first century AD). At the same time, the statue of Artemis in the Temple of Apollo is not the original (this is held in a Naples museum); nor is it likely that its base was made of wood... the temple is also of Roman construction, not Greek, built in approx. 120BC in the Doric style. The guide also spent quite a bit of time focused on sex, in a graphic way. That was just about bearable to our family, as my son is almost 13; but there was at least one very young child on the tour aged no older than 10 (my wife is a seniour paediatrician and stated - had this been in the UK - she would this have raised it a safeguarding concern and had the guide / service investigated, assuming you also have child protection rules in Italy?). The list goes on, noting that I kept quiet on the tour, though came very close to challenging the guide and starting an argument just before departure when he suggested that residents were of the habit of using large amphorae as toilets. This is all quite frankly completely unacceptable and no guide has any business working on tours speaking such nonsense... some of which was actually quite offensive. Needless to say, the best part of our time at Pompeii was the 4.5 hours we spent at the venue after the tour (the latter also neglecting most key sites) had concluded. Finally, I'm curious as to how the coastline moved 20km further out from Pompeii after the eruption, as it is now approx 1-2 km away... and how an excavated skeleton could still be in a state of early - mid decomposition on site after 2,000 years in the ground? Just total nonsense. Did you think we were all American?

The audio guide was not provided in multiple languages, contrary to what was advertised. My conversation with the help center (AI) did not lead to any solution. The audio guide is not structured logically and only takes you through a few spots in Pompeii. It wasn't really immersive either, as the AI required so many prompts to figure out where I was that a regular internet search was more helpful and contained fewer errors. The "fast track" entry was no faster than the regular line, because after booking online you first have to pick up a voucher and then redeem it at the ticket counter, which means standing in line twice.

The document they give you doesn't work for entry. You have to walk all the way to the other end of the venue to get the actual tickets. If you don't buy a physical guidebook, they don't even give you a map; they tell you to grab one inside (if there are any). The audio guide you download onto your phone only lasts 35 minutes. None of this is mentioned on the website.