Having a guided tour of Pompeii was definitely necessary with the sea of tourists. The guides that organized the trip were great at grouping people and sending them on their own way. I will say the wine tasting was the best part of the tour. A 'light lunch' turned out to be a gourmet 4 course meal

The tour guides were all wonderful, Chris, Francesco, and Sal picked everyone up on time and then brought us to Pompeii. we split up by languages and our Pompeii guide was fantastic (sadly I forgot her name!), she gave great context to the ruins. you could spend a couple days in Pompeii, though we only spent a couple hours - which was fine because it was very hot, I couldn't have done much longer. We then met back up with Chris the groups split up more: those on the wine tasting were taken to Cantina del Vesuvio winery. We tasted 5 wines across an antipasta course and a pasta course lunch and got to meet the owner, before getting to see some of the vineyard, the bottling, and the cask areas. We were then taken back to our drop off points by around 3. 5/5 if you're not looking to spend all day at either the ruins or the winery.

Had a good day trip. Pompeii was fascinating, although somewhat busy in the most popular sites due to large numbers from a cruise ship. Overall very good. The wine tasting part was excellent, with a very nice lunch and wine tasting in idyllic location on slopes of Mt Vesuvius