Hi, oktober 2023 we did a 3-hour tour with Steffi. Wow, this was amazing and so beautifully told by Steffi!. Steffi was a great tour guide, we did the tour in English and props to Steffi for her good English!. If you ever get a chance to do a tour do it dont hesitate, you will hear great story's and see places that you are not possible to visit when u explore colditz by yourself!. this tour we stay with met the rest of my life thank u Steffi!. Greetings, from the Netherlands! From willem & jelmer.

We booked the guided tour which was fantastic. We went to places in the castle that other visitors do not get to see. The guide was very knowledgeable and funny. Afterwards we were left on our own to explore the museum. You get a history pad and it brings everything to life, it was amazing. We spent over 4 hours in the castle ! Definitely would visit again and I cannot recommend the guided tour enough. Worth every penny!

I read Ben Mackintyre’s book “Prisoners of the Castle” ahead of my trip which made my visit extra meaningful. The new Histopads are great and the tour was worth booking as you get to see places not open to the public. Thank you to your guide Steffi. Don’t expect to buy souvenirs there—the shop is basically a ticket counter.

A very imposing place. Lots of work still to be done to the site as its still full of secrets. Had an English tour with Steffi. She took a small group of us around inside and outside of Colditz. We got to see areas normally out of bounds to those that just pay to see the museum. The cost of the tour includes the cost of visiting the museum, but you visit the museum on your own after the guided tour. The your with Steffi lasted 90 mins, so good value for money. If you are on a budget, you can access the courtyards areas without paying and get a sense of the place, but you will miss out. Plenty parking adjacent to the castle on the day we went.

The interactive tour at Colditz Castle is probably the best I've ever taken in any museum I've visited (and I've visited a LOT of museums), and while it mostly covers the astonishing ingenuity of the escape attempts while the castle was a POW camp, it also explores its history from its evolution from fortress to royal hunting lodge to insane asylum to POW camp and back to insane asylum before becoming a youth hostel and museum. I was mostly interested in its time as a POW camp (though some of its history as an asylum is even scarier) and there are many exhibits from that era - mostly originals, but some recreations or props from films and TV shows about the camp. The interactive tour features activities for children but won't bore the adults, and while Colditz hasn't always been the kind of place you'd take your kids and many of the escape attempts failed, most of the stories the tour tells are of commendable inventiveness and determination.

This was a gift from my wife for my retirement. I have wanted to visit for years, watched no the the TV Series and Film as a young boy. As I walked through the double gates I was taken back to my childhood. The guided tour is well worth what ever my wife paid. Our guide was knowledgable, compassionate and at the same time humorous . You visit places that are not accessible with the HistoPad tour ( more later ). The guided tour was published as 90mins but we were on it for at least 2 hours. Thank you. After the guided tour you have the HistoPad tour which covers the history of the castle and it’s time as the POW Camp. It is very well composed and very informative. Again my childhood returned remembering scenes in the tv series and film were recreated. Congratulations to the organisers for this and for keeping such an important part of that period alive

Outstanding interactive museum. Two different story lines. One about when it was actually a castle and residence. but the main one is about when it was a prison for allied officers during WW2. Put all these guys together that have escaped from other prisons and you have the most creative minds working together to try to escape. (And sometimes it worked!) Hold your iPad up in the room and out shows you people, tools, sometimes videos of what took place. Even a treasure hunt to find your “escape kit” great fun for kids of reading age too! Highly recommend!

This place is steeped in history and not just for holding allied prisoners of war. We didn’t have the guided tour as we missed the start time, however we used the info pads used for the solo tours. These were really very good and informative and the tour was well worth the money. It’s marvellous to think that we stood in places that are synonymous with modern history. There are a choice of languages both on the info pad and various films. The staff spoke excellent English. Well put together and well worth a visit.