Affiliate disclosure
The short version: some links here earn us a commission, you pay the same either way, and no operator pays to be featured.
Which links are affiliate links
Every "Check availability" button, and every in-text link that opens a tour's listing, points to GetYourGuide or Viator and carries our partner tag. Six of the eleven tours here are booked on GetYourGuide and five on Viator. If you book after clicking one, the platform pays us a share of the commission it already earns from the operator. Your price is identical to the price you would see going straight to that listing, because our cut comes out of the platform's margin and is never added to your ticket.
Those two platforms are the only affiliate relationships on this site. There are no hotel links, no display advertising, no sponsored posts and no paid reviews. Nothing on this page or any other earns us money from an operator, a pizzeria, a restaurant or the city itself. If a third network is ever added, this page and the footer disclosure will name it before the first link goes live, not after.
What it does not change
- Inclusion. Every experience that clears the tests, a real food tour or cooking class in Naples, Italy with a published route or menu, genuinely bookable right now by an individual on a live product page, with figures that survive being read twice, is here. Seventeen listings were read and eleven are shown. Five of the six held back carried fewer than twenty reviews, and two of those also sat below 4.0, one of them rated 3.0 on a single review. The sixth is a duplicate: the same private host sold a second time on the other platform at a price that shifts with group size, so we card the listing whose figures could be confirmed twice rather than count one tour as two.
- Ordering. No operator can buy a position and none has been offered one. Where a category leads with one tour, that tour is the most-reviewed in its category, a rule you can check yourself against the numbers on the cards. That is why the street food walk with 5,699 reviews leads its hub and the official pizza class with 3,599 leads its own, rather than either of them leading everything.
- What we say about them. Naples feeds you brilliantly for almost nothing, and this site says so repeatedly: a pizza a portafoglio runs about two euros at the famous windows, a fried cuoppo three to six, a sfogliatella around two, and a whole self-guided circuit twelve to fifteen euros. That walk gets its own free guide rather than a grudging footnote. A cooking class teaches one dish properly instead of showing you the city, and is described that way. A $175 private tour is a lot of money next to a $33 market walk, and the pages say who each is actually for. None of that helps a booking along, and all of it stays.
- What we leave out. This site lists food experiences you can reserve a place on, so pizzerias, friggitorie, market stalls and the street windows are off-scope as products however good they are, and they are covered as editorial rather than sold. A listing whose figures could not be confirmed on two independent reads does not get a card either, and that rule has already cost this site a tour it would happily have listed.
- Things we earn nothing from. The two-euro pizza window on Via dei Tribunali pays us nothing. So does the Pignasecca market, the queue at the city's most famous pizzeria, every sfogliatella counter in the guides, and the free self-guided route that competes directly with the paid walks. All of them still get their say wherever they beat a paid ticket.
Ratings, review counts and prices
Every rating and review count on this site is the platform's own published number, read off the live listing and then read a second time on an independent pass before it was printed. Nothing is averaged across platforms, rounded up or invented, and where the two reads disagreed the figure was left off the page rather than smoothed over. The eleven tours carry 15,423 traveller reviews between them, and that total is the sum of the real per-listing counts. Two listings hold a perfect 5.0, one across 540 reviews and one across 337, and the most-reviewed tour in the city holds 4.9 across 5,699.
Prices are handled the same way and come with a bigger caveat. What you see is a current from-price, the cheapest option on that tour at the time it was read, refreshed on a roughly monthly cycle. Per-person prices run $33 to $175, with most of the market between $35 and $69. Rates move with the date, the season, the group size and the country you book from, so the live listing is always the authority on what you will actually be charged. A price that reads differently in two places usually means the platform is showing you a localised currency, not that the rate changed. What you would spend eating on your own is a separate matter and it is quoted as street prices in euros, from the counters themselves, not as anything we can sell you.
The same rule covers policies. Cancellation terms, meeting instructions, group caps and dietary handling are the operator's own words from its own listing, not a house average. All eleven tours here cancel free up to 24 hours before they start, and if one ever stops doing so, the card stops saying it.
If you would rather not use our links
Search the operator's name on GetYourGuide or Viator directly, or go to the operator's own website and book there. Food Raphael Tours and Events, Naples Bay Tour, Do Eat Better Experience, Eating Europe, Luigi Marra, Cooking Italy and Withlocals all sell their own places. We would genuinely rather you spent an afternoon eating with one of them. The category pages, the price arithmetic, the FAQ and the guides work exactly as well as research whether or not you ever click a booking link.
Questions about any of this: email us. How the listings are checked in the first place is on the about page.