Great tour with a child. My granddaughter age 10 and I visited this museum in March 2018. We had a wonderful time, held her interest the entire time we were there.
Review by: Raymondo Traitz, March 2018
Most fun I had in a wile and extremely interesting
Review by: Patterz, March 2018
Interesting museum...wold recommend
Review by: Gaylene L, March 2018
What a fantastic wealth of information! My 21 year old daughter, our friends and I all had a great time here. You learn SO MUCH about the spy business and plenty of hands on exhibits to have fun with. Its a MUST DO in D.C.!
Review by: Alexander Z, February 2018
Very good place for your kids and maybe you to spend 2-3 hours. Lot of interactive exhibitions and interesting materials. The only negative is cost - adult with 2 kids under 12 is 49 from Viator and 55 at the door.
Review by: Dixie T, February 2018
Very good-kids loved it
Review by: Lori M, February 2018
My daughter, who is 17, and I had a great time at the spy museum. We listened to the headphones, climbed thru the tunnel as quiet as possible and had a great time doing it. It was fun to watch her jump as the shark swam at her. Great time.
Review by: adt88, December 2017
A lil small and confusing lay out. Excited to see the bigger museum in 2018. Items in Shop are interesting.
Review by: Noelle C, December 2017
This tour was amazing!
Review by: Suzanne R, November 2017
Maybe the rain forced everyone inside, but this was a super 3 hours for many folks. Adults and the kids were engrossed in the interactive portions of many of the exhibits. Leave plenty of time to play.
Review by: Ray R, November 2017
Spy museum is fantastic.
Review by: peggy f, November 2017
My 11 grandson lived it!!! Very crowded but it was the highlight for him
Review by: sanjay_air, November 2017
International Spy Museum is a must see attraction in Washington DC, was what our Hop on Hop off tour guide told us. So we decided to visit even though it has general admission fee of 21.95 per person. when i tried to book on line, it showed fully booked for that day. I booked it through Viator helpline and got tickets for same day with discount for 19.5. Our overall experience of the exhibits and activities undertaken at Spy museum was nowhere close to satisfactory even. The reception asked to shom my voucher which i could not open since there was no WiFi there and my mobile did not have net connectivity, It is frustrating to see no wifi provided in today's times which is available in all other museums with free entry. _br/_ initial briefing and conduct with the groups by the museum staff was extremely casual and we were sort of left to our own self guided tour. they asked us to assume some spy identity but thereafter nothing much happened except at the exit when they asked you some questions and based on the answers given you were either allowed to exit or asked to give up._br/_ one whole floor is devoted to James Bond, which is a waste of time, and neither entertaining nor educative._br/_ Food /drinks are not allowed to be taken with you and most visitors who carry foodstuff are not provided with any space inside where one can eat own food with dignity. we had to go out and eat on the pavement._br/_ when we asked what about the activities as spy tasks? they said you can undertake those by paying 15 each for those activities, and they have four such activities. They appeared neither interested in providing further information about the additional paid activities nor they seemed to care if we would take those or just leave._br/_ I keep feeling why are they charging 21.5 for this museum? in Washington dc there are so many world class museums which are free, and yet we did not have time to visit all of them. I regret i wasted my money and time visiting International Spy museum. I could have visited any other museum on National Mall and felt better._br/_ Final verdict: DONT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY BY VISITING INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM.
Review by: sanjay_air, October 2017
International Spy Museum is a must see attraction in Washington DC, was what our Hop on Hop off tour guide told us. So we decided to visit even though it has general admission fee of 21.95 per person. when i tried to book on line, it showed fully booked for that day. I booked it through Viator helpline and got tickets for same day with discount for 19.5. Our overall experience of the exhibits and activities undertaken at Spy museum was nowhere close to satisfactory even. The reception asked to shom my voucher which i could not open since there was no WiFi there and my mobile did not have net connectivity, It is frustrating to see no wifi provided in today's times which is available in all other museums with free entry. _br/_ initial briefing and conduct with the groups by the museum staff was extremely casual and we were sort of left to our own self guided tour. they asked us to assume some spy identity but thereafter nothing much happened except at the exit when they asked you some questions and based on the answers given you were either allowed to exit or asked to give up._br/_ one whole floor is devoted to James Bond, which is a waste of time, and neither entertaining nor educative._br/_ Food /drinks are not allowed to be taken with you and most visitors who carry foodstuff are not provided with any space inside where one can eat own food with dignity. we had to go out and eat on the pavement._br/_ when we asked what about the activities as spy tasks? they said you can undertake those by paying 15 each for those activities, and they have four such activities. They appeared neither interested in providing further information about the additional paid activities nor they seemed to care if we would take those or just leave._br/_ I keep feeling why are they charging 21.5 for this museum? in Washington dc there are so many world class museums which are free, and yet we did not have time to visit all of them. I regret i wasted my money and time visiting International Spy museum. I could have visited any other museum on National Mall and felt better._br/_ Final verdict: DONT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY BY VISITING INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM.
Review by: Charles J W, October 2017
This tour was amazing!
Review by: Suzanne M, September 2017
Fun museum with lots of interesting exhibits.
Review by: Chip K, September 2017
We got there about an hour and half before closing. Definitely need more time to see it right. at least a couple of hours. Very cool stuff
Review by: Allegra B, September 2017
My husband and I took our boys, ages 10 and 7, to see this attraction, and I would rate it as fine, but it was not spectacular. We went on a Saturday -- our only opportunity during our trip, so another day might have been better -- and it was very crowded. One good thing about Viator: I had printed off the tickets but forgotten them in the hotel room, but the museum was able to redeem them via my phone AND we were able to skip that line. When we entered the museum, after getting the tix, there was a long line to the one elevator that takes you to the first stop in the tour. We waited approximately 25 minutes in that line. The first two stops were somewhat interesting and somewhat guided, and you got the sense that the rest of the tour would be similarly guided, but not so. What followed was a series of rooms where we constantly had to make sure we didn't lose our kids full of spy stuff. The kids enjoyed it somewhat, but overall the visit turned out to be too much at one time and yet not enough. I don't mean to sound negative, because it was interesting, but I would recommend visiting the museum at a nonbusy time when you have time to really look at the items without the masses of people around.
Review by: sumati n, August 2017
An amazing place for kids over 7years as well as adults. The history of espionage is well captured and displayed. the section devoted to James Bond and its exhibits are a treat to all Bond fans
Review by: dasirkin, August 2017
I wish I had purchased this tour directly at the museum instead of through Viator. When I purchased the tickets I was not aware that there were additional options that could be purchased for Spy Experiences - and I had in fact only purchased the general admission tickets. So when we arrived at the spy museum at 11 am we found out about these additional activities that my kids REALLY wanted to do and we were told we would need to purchase these Spy Experiences separately which was more money than buying the combo ticket directly from the International Spy Museum would have been and also we would have needed to pre-book a time slot and the only times available were for much later in the day when we had other activities planned. So while my kids thought the museum was ok, they really wanted to have the Spy Experience that we were unable do when we wanted because we had not booked in advance with the right activities. It would have been really nice if Viator had advised us of these facts.
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