![]() Doing both tours, you get two different tour guides. Sure, the original tour shows you 110/160 rooms (40 more rooms on the explore more tour), but you go so swiftly past many of the rooms there is no time to contemplate or even really see them. Although I'm glad I spent nearly $50 for the tour and then the explore more tour (basement and attic), the tour was more like a fast paced commercial for the house than anything else. The house is incredible and I highly recommend researching it before going. I recommend driving 2 hours in the other direction and visiting Hearst Castle instead! Adequate pricing for this tour taking into account that there is nothing inside that originally belong to Mrs. I would not go again and it does feel like a rip of. Gardens are empty so you don't have what to photograph there either. ![]() ![]() What exactly are they protecting? I've been in historic sites filled with priceless antiques that allow photography sans flash. What a huge upled with the ban on indoor photography. No original artifacts are in the mansion. As an experienced traveler and travel blogger/photographer, I was super excited to visit this place however the entire experience left me fairly disappointed! Pompous $37 entrance fee for a 1 hr tour filled with a lot of "no one knows" and "we think" is not really what I would call a good deal (especially when you consider that a ticket for the Louvre museum that has an unimaginable amount of artifacts is $15).
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