Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Address:Henry Bacon Drive, at Constitution Avenue NW, National Mall, Washington D.C.
- Hours:Open 24 hours a day
- Admission:Free
Cultural Experience, Must-Do Experience, Monument - Historical, Monument - Military
Vietnam Veterans 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.
Tour Guide seemed overworked. Did not let us out of the bus at the Marines Memorial (Iwo Jima) because it was too cold in his opinion. Let me and my family make the choice! Rushed entire group through the vietnam memorial when other tour guides were talking to their groups. Will find another tour company if we take another night tour.
Guide did a fair job. The WW II Memorial is not on the tour. This is insane. It is one of the most important sites and newest. Not sure whose fault this is, but the Vietnam Memorial Wall was not lighted. Could not see the names.
I enjoyed seeing the monuments by night but we had trolley trouble so it extended our evening quite a bit past it's scheduled time. I wouldn't recomment this because while the monuments are beautiful,I really couldn't see any of the sights. I really wanted to see the Vietnam Memorial and it wasn't visible. What a disappointment.
I went on this tour with my cousin from Italy and my son this year and compared to the same tour last year, it was most dissapointing. I was extremely dissapointed that two groups were put into one group so you promise of small groups was not upheld, the tour was done completely backwards everything like the Vietnam Memorial and things that should be seen in whatever daylight or dusk is left was done last and we saw the other sights that normally are seen in the dark to show how beautiful they are when they are lit up? The tour guide Barbara was knowledgeable but overwhelmed with the amount of people and we spent half the time waiting or looking for people in our group in 100 degree weather. I have recommended this tour to literally hundres of people since last year, and will no longer be able to do so in good conscience as there was a lot of wasted time and poorly managed with way too many people, with nothing but an extremely dim light on the top of her umbrella to try to find her, everyone was complaining especially those with children. She needlessly talked when off the bus at the areas of interest in the heat and took away our time at each site, this information she gave could have easily been discussed on the air conditioned bus instead! It was very dissapointing and I will never take this tour or recommend it to any one at my school or elsewhere again, as it is not cheap and this time was not worth the money at all.
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.
Note from Viator: Thank you for your comment. In case it isn't clear, Viator does not individually notify the tour operator of each individual who books the tour through our web site. As it says in the information section for this tour listing, "You must present a paper voucher for this tour. We will email a link to access and print your voucher at the Lead Travelers email address." That is all you should have to do to take this tour.
Great tour! I've seen all these monuments before, but it's a totally different experience seeing them at night. Our docent shared interesting stories and gave us plenty of time to explore each monument on our own. I was particularly moved by the Korean and Vietnam Memorials. I was a little disappointed that we did not go to Arlington, maybe next 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.
It is a must to call the local tour company the day before to confirm your reservation. The driver picked us up at a near by hotel & drop us off at our hotel. it was very nice of him. It was very dark at the Vietnam & Korean Memorial, not good to view at night. Overall, it's good value.
Once we started the tour it was ok but getting on the bus was another story. I had reserved ahead and confirmed prior as required. But when they started loading the bus, the tour rep called off "hotel names" and loaded the bus with those people first. She also took money on site for additional people from hotels who had not reserved a seat but came along anyway. Eventually we got on the third bus after nearly 20 plus minutes of waiting. Trouble seeing statues as we drove by because most were not lighted. Not tour operators fault but beware that it was very dark at both Korean and Vietnam War so hard to see anything. Wouldn't count the flame for Kennedy as a tour highlight because it was pointed out as a flickering orange light when we were probably half mile away or more. Thought we would at least drive by his gravesite. It was a good way to see alot in three hours but definitely could use some fine tuning - especially at the beginning.
Liked the stops we made. It look a little too long, but was worth the money. The Vietnam Memorial was too dark to see really, so earlier in the tour would be better, when it's a little lighter.
We got to most of the places that we were to see but the bus dropped us off at the Korean War Memorial and never came back for us. Our tour guide was very good and knowledgeable about the area. Hw walked us over to the Vietnam Memorial and then over to the WWII memorial where we continued to wait for the bus to come. After about 1 1/2 hours from being left off at the Korean War Memorial we finally walked back to the Old Post Office where we started, there were 4 of us. We really wanted to see the White House and the Capitol but didn't get to see them on the tour. That was very disappointing, as we had our grandson with us, as an adult and we only have him once a year. It was also very confusing when we got on the tour, and very disorganized, we were at the top of the list but got pushed out of the line and ended up on the 3rd bus, we almost didn't get to take the tour at all.
The coordination was not very good at the start of the tour. It started off late and mixed up. After we go on the buss at the Old Post Office we needed to pickup a group at the Capital bldg and then had to go back to the initial pickup spot to pick up another group. Then we went back to the Capital bldg for a second time to begin the tour. When we got there it was determined that we had too many people for the bus and I am not sure how they fixed that. However, the tour guide was very good and we didn't miss anything. Basically the tour started 30 mins late and ended 30 mins late. One problem with after dark tour is that some of the monuments are not well lit and are very difficult to see after dark. The Vietnam, Korean and WWII all fall into this category.
I was disappointed in the Vietnam war memorial, it was very difficult to see in the dark. Our tour guide was very well informed, and kept the bus entertained.
The stops at Lincoln, Vietnam and the Korean Monuments were too short to even see all three. Since the Iwo Jima monument was not well lit, it would have been better early in the tour!
