A must see in Bucharest - Fabulous. A beautiful building. Well worth a visit. We got there at 9 and bought tickets for the 10 am tour. Had a coffee while we waited. Lucky for us it was closed on the 3 and 4 April.

Very interesting - The skip the line ticket made it easy. The guide from the company gave us his number in case we need any assistance while we are in Romania. The tour itself was interesting and the guide was clear and informative.

Recommended - Nice, recommended! Welcoming staff and knowledgeable guide. Illustrates a part of the history lived in Romania.

Very interesting and informative - The tour was very informative. The building is huge and everything is on a grand scale. Our guide was very knowledgeable and answered all our questions.

Incredible Building - The organisation for the tour was excellent. I was a few minutes late and called ahead and was told no problem. Guide was exactly where he said he would be and even dropped a pin on the map to help out. Security was the usual, you have to remember this is in essence their Houses of Parliament and you're about to wander round it. Do not forget your passport or you're not getting in. The tour is about an hour and hardly touches the surface of the building. It's a little disappointing not to see a lot more of the place. You get an idea of size and opulence but visit only a few rooms on one floor. I was hoping for the full history of the Ceaucescu's and the Communist regime but this was only mentioned in passing. It's an amazing building and I thoroughly recommend pre-booking with these guys to guarantee entrance but be prepared to be a little underwhelmed compared with what you see from the outside to what you actually see once you get in. Obviously not the guide's fault by the way.

Worth a visit - Very interesting place to visit........you go to the "reception" rooms, but you learn a lot about the building and how it was completed - worth going.

Helpful skip the line service - This is a service where they buy your ticket for you in advance and make everything easy upfront. They don’t actually provide the tour, but they make it very easy for you to get on the tour. We went in January when there were not so many people so it might not have been necessary, but since I gather it is a circus in the summer I imagine it would be helpful the . In any case, I was happy to pay for the convenience.

Visually and Vastly Interesting - Skip-the-Line is an agency that feeds its clients into the Palace's guided tour system. The availability of buying the ticket online through TripAdvisor from the comfort of my home prior to flying to Bucharest was a definite positive. As it was the only guided tour experience I had in Bucharest, I cannot comment on whether or not €29 is good value for a 90-minute tour. Skip-the-Line's instructions for finding the visitor's entrance are excellent, with my personal caveat that you avoid looking at Google Maps on a laptop or desktop as someone has located Visitor Entrance A on the wrong side of the building! The tour started on time. The group comprised about 20 people in age ranges from early 20s to 70s and as it turned out varying degrees of both fitness and mobility. The ID/Passport control and security system is much the same as that found in government buildings the world over. The key aspect is that Palace personnel use the same system. This is the first indication that the functional spaces of the Palace overlap with rooms, corridors and stairways incorporated in the tour. The tour starts at the bottom of the fairly broad marble stairs (56+ spread over 5 flights) just beyond the security control. Having twisted my knee the day before I realized my ascent would be one of the slowest. The tour guide did not offer the stairlift (available to wheelchair users) to any of the oldest generations. This flight of stairs was manageable. There is, however, a 76-step 12-14 flight stairway that did pose a serious health risk in both directions—up and coming down—for an elderly gentleman in the group. As the wheelchair users popped up on the higher floor, it was clear they had access to lifts. The tour is visually striking and encompasses half-a-dozen key rooms (but not the parliamentary active ones) and several stairways. The esplanade at the front is closed to visitors as is access to windows, where they are available, so you won't get any vista shots. I cannot comment about the content of the guide's talks because my hearing aids could not pick up her speech unless I was within a foot of her shoulder. I did however shoot several hundred fantastic interior shots of the Palace. Ninety minutes sufficed for the rooms on the tour. As 70% of the Palace rooms are unoccupied, I'd argue including one or two rooms on the upper floors (they are lit at night) and perhaps the underground bunker would greatly add to the interest and value of the tour.

Parliament visit - I didn’t buy the tour. Went to the parliament and got the tickets. But unfortunately I think that the tour is not worth the money. You will see only some halls on the first floor and that’s it.

Under Whelmed - I felt this was not really worth the money, it was an average tour.(45 minutes) 1. Did not need to skip the line- there was no line. 2. Apart from the size of the building and the money spent, there was not a lot of anecdotes and I would of expected to see more rooms /areas. I think if the tour was expanded to 2/3 hours, it would be better. Unfortunately I walked out of there thinking - was that it?