The guide was very engaging but the tour could have moved faster. We were a small group, eight in all, and could have easily covered more ground in the two hours we had on site. We had toured Pompeii earlier in the day and also felt that some of the frescoes highlighted on this tour did not match the quality of what we saw in Pompeii, leaving us to wonder if there are better examples of Roman art in Herculaneum that we didn't see.

The small group size allowed our guide to personalise the experience, relating it to our knowledge of Pompeii and local history. He brought alive what it must have been like to live in Herculaneum before the eruption, and how it came to an end. We preferred the visit to Herculaneum to Pompeii.

I was with my children aged 27 and 21 and we all enjoyed our tour, with the two other participants. The guide although Italian spoke fluent English, was articulate and informative. He gave us the broad history of Herculaneum and the specify history of particular parts of the town as we walked around it.