Published on Jul, 2024
Excellent day trip from Naples.
Easy pick up from our hotel and transfer to Pompeii with Roberto. Bit of a wait at Pompeii due to a pair of no-shows, but then we had a 2 hour ish guided tour of the ruins with Analisa. She was superb - funny, knowledgeable and excellent company. We cannot recommend her highly enough. The reasonably short, laid back walk around was exactly what we like. Pompeii itself is great, but I think we got lucky with unusually rubbish weather and a lack of cruise ships in port, so it wasn't overly busy.
We quickly got the cultural bit out of the way, and Lorenzo picked us up for the main event - visits to two local vineyards on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. I can't remember the names, but both were excellent (I can't remember much at all from the last part of the tour). The first one was fancy and shiny with excellent wine, very polished with a golf buggy tour around. The second one was a more basic operation but more interesting for me. Wine possibly not as good as the first one, but also nowhere near as expensive. Both had excellent food included. And plenty of wine tasting, more importantly. Lorenzo then took us back to our hotel in Naples where I needed a short nap to compose myself before going out for tea.
Overall a splendid day out which me and the wife feel was a very lucky find. It's exactly the kind of thing we like to do on holiday.
The city of Naples itself, and the surrounding area, is a great place for a long weekend away. We loved it, really interesting city full of stuff to do.