Depart from your hotel or cruise ship to take a tour to the ancient town of pompeii stop at the pompeiiruins entrance where youll meet if this is the selected tour option your licensed tour guide otherwise after having bought the ticket you will get inside the ruins and enjoy it by yourself guilty of decimating pompeii and herculaneum in ad 79 mt vesuvius looms over the bay of naples like a beautiful silent menace stopped in their tracks by the eruption of mount vesuvius herculaneum