Interesting place to learn a bit about Vietnam’s history during the times when it was a French colony and during the Vietnam war.

If you have only a couple of days, skip it. However, it was interesting to see if you have time to kill in Hanoi. Price is reasonable and some of what you can see is terrifying in a good way.

We enjoyed our visit and we found some of the information very disturbing, we tried to educate ourselves while in Vietnam and here gave us a lot of information we would generally not have known.

The "Hanoi Hilton" was easy for us to visit as we were staying at Somerset Grand Hanoi which is actually built on some of the old prison grounds. Only cost a few dollars and worth seeing to learn about the treatment of prisoners in Vietnam.

We visited Hoa Lo on an awful weather day in Hanoi, however we did not let it spoil our visit of the old prison, which we were shown around as part of our Hanoi tour given by two students. Although there are plenty of information...More

I was blown away by the guillotine. The gift shop is midway, not at the end, so don't think you are done when you reach it. The wax figures of prisoners really bring it to life.

Interesting museum mostly concentrating on the prison during French occupation, but also the use of the site during the Vietnam War to house American pilots. Certainly looks at things from a different angle to the Western perspective of that period.