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The Pompeii tour guide trap is easy to fall into because it even affects channels that are generally regarded as respectable. Here are three ways to avoid it. Let's go through each one individually.

1. Booking Pompeii tours through limousine service providers and private drivers.

When it comes to booking tours of Pompeii, this may be the simplest method. This occurs when you arrive at Pompeii in a privately booked vehicle. Most of the time, private drivers are found through a website for car services or a network of companies that provide them with customers.

After the driver has earned your trust upon arrival, you will be offered additional services to enhance your visit.

But here's the problem:

Private guide quality does not necessarily imply private driver quality. This is an instance of misplaced trust. By providing additional services and adding the services of a guide, the drivers hope to increase their income. After charging you the full amount, they use a cell phone to look for the guide. However, it is rare for drivers to be willing to pay the guide their official fee.

It also frequently occurs at the last minute, making the quality of the guide you receive a lottery.

You should be aware that the best guides may have only worked with these private drivers once or twice before; However, as a result of not receiving the appropriate compensation for their services, they tend to avoid the experience. For instance, I have my preferred pre-selected group of drivers because I have worked with virtually all drivers in the Bay of Naples for 20 years. However, I accept this kind of work very rarely these days.

2. Guides on the spot:

These are local guides at the Pompeii archaeological site's main entrance. A lot of these "guides" started out working in tourist shops a long time ago. They were able to automatically qualify as guides after learning a few foreign language words.

You are aware that just because you decide to become a local guide one day does not mean you have the skills to convey to visitors what a place truly means to them.

This might accomplish for specific spots on the planet, however for the intricacy of Pompeii, it isn't sufficient. Even after half a century, many of these self-declared guides are still there to welcome visitors to the site. They have constructed a formalized booking gazebo or tent outside of the main entrances to Pompeii since the end of 2008. The risk that you run is the same regardless of the system, and that risk is to achieve a very low level of guiding.

The "on-the-spot" Pompeii Tour "guides" typically enter the site, provide you with a brief tour, and then leave you to "explore the site on your own."

Why are they doing this? Why do they abandon you in the center of the building? They leave you in the middle of Pompeii so they can hurry back to the gazebo and get their names on the list in time to give a second tour to more unhappy customers. Who would have thought it?

As a result, you'll have to continue exploring on your own rather than receiving a more appropriate tour that involves being escorted from beginning to end for several hours.

I am not implying that each and every guide outside of the website is of subpar quality. There are also good guides there. However, if you find a guide outside of Pompeii in this way, you run the risk of getting a low-quality guide because you can't pick your guide because of the waiting list system. The waiting list system means that you will be assigned to whoever is next on the list, even if you meet a guide outside who you like. All of it is a matter of chance.

You might think to yourself, "How could all this happen at such a significant and world-renowned location?" And you have every right to inquire. It's because of industry corruption and mismanagement, but that's a different article. Let's take a look at the Pompeii site Guards, one more group you might encounter.

3. Site Guards at Pompeii The Site Guards are in charge of controlling the site and protecting visitors. However, the things that people complain about the most are those that are within their control, such as the stray dogs, the filthiness of Pompeii, and the fact that many of the houses on the site are closed.

* There is nobody to ask data or course.

Why is all of this taking place?

because guards sometimes offer their services to visitors who are inside a site and need information instead of controlling the site and making sure everyone is safe. They started doing this likewise to oneself proclaimed guides many years prior, and they are still there.

Some site guards are working illegally as guides if you get hurt instead of helping you.

Each person, in my opinion, is their own profession. Leave the site security to the guards. Book a good guide before you arrive if you want one.