Derek was hands down the best tour guide!! He was funny and did so well with our 5th graders. He was full of knowledge and kept us laughing and engaged the entire tour!!! We enjoyed seeing everything The Capital had. Thank you!
The Capitol is probably on everyones list when visiting DC. The bulding itself is beautiful and you are able to make great pictures from the front and back. We really enjoyed that. So the review is more for the tour on the inside. We were shocked about how short it was and that it were only three rooms with some statues {most of them were unknown to us} in it+ a 15 mins video about the Capitol. I have to say that this tour is free, so we cant complain about that really! We also knew that we will not be able to see very important rooms in there. It was just odd because you are losing a lot of time on that property and afterwards we did not know why we came. It says to be there 45 mins early for security - you dont have to! If you dont make it, they will put you in the next tour 10 mins later. It did not really matter that we reserved tickets online and were there so early. Everyone in there and even in front of the building+security was really nice though and the tour guide itself was also great -although not really a tour. So if we knew beforehand we wouldve skipped it.
Wonderful guided tour of our nations capital. The tour has a 13 minute orientation film which was really interesting and informative. The tour itself was extremely good and professional. We got to see many historical areas of the capital building (excluding the House and Senate chambers). Those require separate passes. I got to go into the House of Representatives chamber and hear the Senate in session which was really cool because I had a House of Representatives and Senate gallery passes. I will definitely be back on my next trip to Washington DC.
Ai