Lincoln Memorial
- Address:Independence Avenue SW, at 23rd Street NW, National Mall, Washington D.C.
- Hours:Open 24 hours a day
- Admission:Free
Must-Do Experience, People Watching, Popular with Locals, Monument - Historical
Lincoln Memorial Reviews
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This is a very good orientation tour. I thought we would only stop for photos, but we actually had time to visit the WWII, Jefferson, Vietnam Veterans, Lincoln, Korean and Iwo Jima Memorials. While we only toured the exteriors of the Capitol, White House and Washington Monument, our tour guide, Brian, provided interesting information at every stop. We also liked the cruise and lunch on the Potomac. We were very pleased with this tour.
The three drivers we had were knowledgeable and funny. There were not enough seats available on the trolley stop at the Lincoln Memorial.
Outstanding tour! Tour guide, Bill Thomas was exceptional: friendly, well informed and articulate. The memorials we saw sparkled in the darkness and the three stops during wish we had time to get out of the bus and spend time were inspiring. We walked around 1. FDR and MLK, Jr. memorial, 2. Lincoln, World War II and Viet Nam memorials and 3. Iwo Jima statue. From the bus we saw and learned the history of Arlington Cemetery (the Lees,
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the eternal light flickering at JFK's gravesite), Jefferson Memorial and other historic areas.
It was an awesome and educational night and
I recommend it with enthusiasm.
Had a fun evening tour with my friend. Despite seeing the monuments already in the day time it was great to see them at night. In my opinion the Lincoln Memorial was better at night due to less crowds. Loved seeing Iwo Jima Memorial at night too. Driver/guide was friendly and knowledgeable. We enjoyed ourselves.
Funny, knowledgable tour guide. Got to see all the highlights and especially enjoyed seeing the Iwo Jima Marine memorial with the Lincoln Memorial, Wash Monument, and Capitol lit up in a line behind it.
This was a very good tour. The tour guide, Jazzy Jan, was excellent. The only down side was that we would have wanted more time at Lincoln Memorial without cutting down any time at others.
Our family loved this trip and loved riding on the open top buses. The only problem we had was catching the busses at the stops that we made. Many times the busses just went past us and did not pick anyone up. We were stranded at the Lincoln Memorial for an extra 1 1/2 hours because we weren't getting picked up. When we did get picked up they just kept telling us that the busses were over heating and not keeping up. We were also told that some of the busses were in accidents, while one bus would come around just to sell tickets and not pick up passengers. Seems like their could have been some more busses on the routes so we didn't have to miss some of our vacation always waiting on a bus.
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Recommend the tour. The driver was informative and entertaining. It was a beautiful moonlit night (great luck/timing with that!) Rushed for time at the Lincoln/Korean War/Vietnam Memorials; only got to see two of three with time alotted. On the negative side, Viator did not notify the trolley co. of our reservation (discovered the day of the tour when we confirmed), but the trolley co. fit us in.
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It was a greta tour. Our tour guide, Bill, was very knowledgable about the area. We stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial, Lincoln Memorial, and the Jefferson Memorial. Fun and informative at the same time!!!
waited over 45minutes and no yellow line arrived at museum.....had to take red line to Lincoln memorial and walk home
It was hard to figure out how was at fault, here, but the bus driver and the tour guide argued throughout the entire tour causing unnecessary delays and tension. The tour was poorly organized with the tour guide launching into frequent side bar conversations with the bus driver while trying to deliver his canned presentation. We did not know where the bus was picking us up after our stops, resulting in further delays. The bus driver then spent time on his cell phone complaining about the driver. He also campaiged for support from the riders. What a nightmare!! We got off at the Lincoln Memorial and walked back to our hotel, rather than spend one more minute about the tour from hell.
overall it was OK .at the end of day one it took nearly 40 minutes before a bus picked us up at the Lincoln Memorial stop at 23rd and congressional. The second day it was raining so our grandson could not be up top to view the city for the first time.
While the information was pretty good, the tour guide spent much of her time looking things up on her iPod before telling us about them. She also was not a very good speaker and all her "uh's and um's" became annoying after a while. Seeing the Lincoln and World War II and the Jefferson at night were wonderful; however the Vietnam and Korean memorials are definitely better in the day light.
The start of the trip was very good, with helpful and informative tour guide and driver. However, the weather turned very nasty, as was predicted and it was raining so hard a lot of us did not even get off the bus and so actually missed out on seeing the Lincoln Memorial and surrounding war memorials. I believe it would have been better to cancel that night tour and offer us another night?
We waited at Union Station while full buses arrived. We had to walk from the Jefferson Memorial to the Lincoln Memorial because of a traffic accident. The bus is good way to see all of the monuments in one day.
