Regional Museum Mikulov

For the basic guided tour of the castle rooms, the interior and information are not worth the price of admission. These are not furnished interiors of a historic castle. It's just a chaperoned walk through a museum of random objects that seem unexceptional if you've visited a lot of collections, castles, and museums.

The tour is in Czech and non-speakers get an audio-guide. The audio guide was long-winded and dry. The tour guide talked at a different pace than the audio-guide and either moved to the next room faster or slower than the text moved. Our tour guide was extraordinarily irritated if we were stuck in the previous room listening to the audioguide, waiting for it to catch up, but then lashed out at us in fury when we tried to move to the next room without her supervision. But it was very hard to hear the audio-guide at all with her loud tour going on right next to you in the same room. Really, I can't get over how rude and unprofessional the tour guide girl was. From the get go, she acted as if she was mad she had to give a tour at all. We bought tickets 5 minutes before it started. She rushed inside on the hour without making sure everyone who paid was present, and then berated us angrily for being 3 minutes late. She spent the rest of the tour hounding us in exasperation whenever she got the chance. My goodness, what an unhappy place.