One of worst places to visit, always has been. I once entered in winter time, showing around a female companion from overseas. Before she knew it she was brutally attacked and yelled at by some arian sales women at the back end claiming she was ripping a shawl. My companion had a real fancy one not resembling the stuff they were selling. I made my way up to place of incident in fluent German to ask what this impolite brutal violation was. Suddenly they forgot all their German... Known rip off place for ages. Avoid their parking lots . No, and their glass art aint that good.

Let's face it. The main attraction of the Glashuette is the massive parking area, albeit parking is for a fee, which is at the entrance of the historic center of Monschau, where traffic by car is restricted for license holders. However, having parked the car, take the opportunity to step into the Glashuette complex. We were in luck, because a glas blowing demonstration was being conducted, which held our attention for a while. The glass shop is overloaded with glass objects, which I won't call junk, because I am convinced that many objects were hand crafted by artisans, but it looked like a junk shop by the sheer amount of objects shown on the shelves. Furthermore, behind the glass shop are more shops, a restaurant an exhibition and a museum, some with an entrance for a fee, but most attractions were closed, the restaurant permanently I am afraid, so there was nothing to hold us there and delay our visit to historic Monschau. This review reads a bit negative I realize now when reading it back. Because maybe we were there too early in the day, or on the wrong day, and the Glashuette has surely potential when everything is open en running, I will choose a three point rating.