This is the most impressive of all the mansions. If you do this one first, all of the others will not be so interesting! You can take a self-guided tour with headphones, as in most of the mansions. It's really hard to believe that people actually lived here. Buy the 5 mansion tour is you have a couple of days... More

Wealth at its best in visiting the Breakers. We enjoyed our tour and leaning more about the Vanderbilt family.

Been to all the mansions, this one is the grandest. Wish we could of lived back then. Great tour and narration. Beautiful views with expansive ocean deck.

Impressive from every facade, each time you think you can't be more in awe, you turn a corner and find you were wrong. The ocean facing facade is especially fantastic, with its sweeping lawn going down to cliffs overlooking the Atlantic (although you won't directly access the ocean or Cliff Walk from here due to fencing. This was our first... More

The home itself is over the top and beautiful. One of the better mansion tours. I would suggest this one as a "should visit."

When you're doing the Newport Mansions, save this one for last.........it's the granddaddy of them all and MOST impressive! All the mansions in Newport are so well preserved and the audio tours are GREAT! I love how you can listen to a little or alot, depending upon your interest and time constraints. You can pick up the Cliff Walk right... More

We were in awe of the mansions in this area. Just huge and gorgeous! Upon arriving at The Breakers, we parked in the lot across the street. Free parking, by the way, and that's rare up here! You pay as you walk in. It is $19.50 pp. It does include an audio tour with headphones. I really enjoyed the audio... More

The Breakers is a "summer cottage" of the Vanderbilt's. It's size and opulence is definitely something to be marveled. But although this is the hailed as the biggest and best of all Newport mansions, The Breakers isn't actually my favorite because their grounds are a little lackluster. (If you want to tour breathtaking gardens, visit The Elms--their mansion isn't as... More

I have always been fascinated with how the Vanderbilt Family lived but I kept having to remind myself that this was just a "summer" getaway house. The audio tour is nice and gives you more than enough detail on every room.