This was a very well organized tour. The tour guide has you meet 1/2 hour beforehand in order to gather the group and get you into the building. The process is much like going to the airport, as you need to have your passport with you, and go through security. Once you are through security, the guide hands you off to a parliamentary tour guide. You will only see about 5% of the building, but it is very impressive. Walk the boulevard when you’re finished.

We thought we were paying for a private guided tour of the palace. Location meeting point was difficult to find. ‘Guide’ took us in and then disappeared. Avoid and do your own thing.

The meeting time was at 15:00 on Trip Advisor, then the guide told me that I should arrive 30 minutes earlier. But that was not indicated anywhere on the description of the visit or on the ticket.

Bran Castle is a beautiful castle, epitomising the traditional fairy tale castle. I believe it is the most visited attraction in Romania. Whilst I enjoyed the castle and exhibits, including the unbelievably gruesome torture exhibition ( pay extra) it is so, so busy. Like a production line. I didn’t feel I had time to read the info or take in what I was seeing as you felt pressured to keep moving.

Book this tour if you want to question your life choices. Otherwise, get your ticket directly in person or online (60 lei) and save the 32 pounds as there was no value-add from my tour today. Booked after reading reviews here and was looking forward to it, but the actual experience made me feel like I was scammed. The tour lasted around 25 min, had a grand total of no more than 200 words said to me. Would've been shorter if I hadn't insisted on just reading the museum descriptions on the wall myself while the gentleman stood there waiting. I was the only one for my time slot, and was not assigned any of the tour guides praised here in other reviews. My guide did not seem like he really cared about the castle nor knew anything substantial to share with visitors. The recipe went: we go into a new room, "this is the king's bedroom", point at fireplace, "many fireplace, keep them warm, very nice", then we would hurry into the next room to repeat a similar repertoire with the same level of detail. You can imagine the disappointment and irritation one might feel hearing the stark contrast vs other tour guides that are leading other tours in the same room - providing any amount of actual tour-guiding.... I kept waiting for the guide to start giving the tour, but that was it. There were rooms that he said I didn't even have to bother going into just because there was a small queue. I felt rushed. We ended up in the courtyard where he hastily said good bye and pointed me to the exit. As I walked down alone later, at 11:40 thinking about how I will spend my time since my 1-hr tour ended within 30min, and how much money the tour company must be making from so little work - I saw the same guy take another 2-people group up the castle. Instead of the Bran Castle Skip-the-Line Guided Tour, Skip-the-Bran Castle tour felt more fitting for my experience today. Also note the meeting point is not at Bran Castle, check your ticket.

Company should improve clarification about meeting point. I contacted the company the day before and told me that the guy who will led us to the entrance will have a shirt with the company logo, but not logo not nothing. Other people was confused too

Great place but what they really need is people who speak English. I found very few people spoke English there which I was surprised.

Astonishing building like never see before. Everything is so original. You'll definitely visit for the second time.

We booked the 1pm tour and turned up at meeting point at 12.30 as requested by organiser. But then there was a lot of waiting around and time wasted by lethargic security. The tour started at 13.45. As we had a short stop in Bucharest we tried to cram as much as we could so paid here to get tickets in case there's none available when we get there. But we still had to wait for people who just turned up on the day and bought their tickets there and then. I understand that tickets are not guaranteed on the day, but if you have more than a day in Bucharest just check in the parliament first. We had to leave halfway through tour for the airport, as we understood that the 90 minute tour would start at 13.00 and end by 14.30, that proved too optimistic on our part.

Tour operator was a no show. Managed to take the tour by standing in queue for open spot, then paying separately. This was a ripoff.

The logistics of our visit (meeting point, tickets, etc.) were fine but the guide inside the parliament palace gave us only an abbreviated tour that did not even include the chambers of the two parliamentary bodies. Some friends who toured the building on the same day on a tour arranged by our river cruise company were shown those chambers. Very disappointing as the parliamentary chambers are the main function of the building.

Highly recommend! We booked castle tickets via Booking.com and when we met Maria to collect the tickets from Transylvanian Wonders, we booked the tour and did not regret it for a second. Greg was funny, very very knowledgeable and really made our visit!

Very easy way to see the Palace. You can probably do it cheaper on your own but the price is still good value and it saves the hassle of trying to organise everything yourself. You need to be at the meeting place 30 minutes before the tour starts. Very well organised. Bring your passport otherwise no entry. Tour itself is interesting, and you get to see most of the major rooms on the first two floors. 70 per cent of the building is unfinished but what is complete is impressive, and built exclusively with Romanian materials.

Lots of information. Wonderful tour with a funny and interactive guide. Would go definitely go again.

We assumed this was some sort of smaller group tour and were looking forward to the experience. The entire role of the person “leading” the tour was to show up 20 minutes late to a group of about 20 people and to laterally walk us to the line up for the official tour.