Quite a disappointing experience overall. When I was planning this trip, we were to arrive in Wolfsburg on the monday and depart on the wednesday, allowing a full day for the autostadt. However the factory tour dates were not published so I booked the initial entrance, overview tour and the tower tour and checked back daily for the factory tour. When October bookings were available, the tuesday was not, we had to arrive earlier than planned on monday, quite rushed and pay the initial entrance fee a second time. The place attracts a lot of overseas visitors which requires planning so I feel we should be able to book everything for the same day as one day is really enough here. The factory tour itself was very underwhelming having previously visited the porsche and mercedes sites in Stuttgart. It left late so was cut short, which didn't really matter as we only got brought around in a golf train to be shown robots making body panels. There were no workers to be seen assembling engines on the tour at all. The overview tour was quite basic, covering the grounds and pavillions. The museum, even though it had a lot of cars, had very little in the way of racing memorabilia and the gift shop had no small souvenirs like pens or fridge magnets etc. The tour of the tower was the only saving grace, it was quite impressive. All of the staff we met were very friendly and helpful but all in all it just resembled an oversized showroom.