Museum of the Palace of the Parliament — Attraction in Bucharest

The official website is unfortunately quite unclear when it comes to purchasing tickets. From what we understood, tickets must be bought in person at the Palace, and you only need to call ahead if you have a group of more than ten people.

We arrived at around 12:30, only to find that all tickets for the day had already sold out, with entry reserved only for those who had pre-booked. As we were flying home later that day, we tried to purchase tickets through third-party websites but found that they were all sold out too.

Fortunately, we came across a wonderful representative named Maria from Transylvanian Wonders, who also operate through Get Your Guide. She was able to arrange a place for us on a tour that same day, which was a huge relief.

The tour itself was very informative, and the guide was both friendly and humorous, despite clearly having delivered the same tour countless times before. We were told that the tour only covers about 3% of the building’s rooms, but even so, it was fascinating. The tour lasted approximately 45 minutes to an hour and was conducted in English. We did pass another group whose tour appeared to be in Italian, but this sort of information is not clearly provided on the official website.

My advice would be to book through a reputable third-party website in advance. It may cost a little more, but it saves a lot of uncertainty and avoids...

The Museum of the Parliament as know in Romania as "House of the people" is the second largest building in the world and it's a must to visit in Bucharest. We visited just 7% percent of it. The rest is closed for the public. We had a good TourGuide, named Corina. For the entrance there is security like in the airport and you are not allowed with drinks or anything else. It was build during the comunism in Romania and it was done with materials of very good quality such as white marble that you see it almost everywhere but also a room with soms pink marble that is a rarity. A lot of wood and good and very big carpets. There are a lot of big rooms, big stairs and big windows. The building is amazing if you listen the tour guide to understand what you are seeing and hiw was made and why is like that. I posted a lot of pictures and movies to understand better. In some of the rooms in some moments during the year there are fairs and in one of it ( the one with the green glass on the ceiling ) almost every year there is new years eve party. The building is unique. The construction started in 1984 and for it a neighborhood ...

Biggest and most pointless building in the world. Wish I could give it less than 1*! So many amazing places to visit in Romania, this is not one of them. If you can, choose somewhere else to see. No character, no style, no joy in the whole building, it feels flat, confusing and miserable. Just horrible. The tour guide was as unenthusiastic as the energy of the building, his tour consisted of 'here is big beige room no1', annnnnd 'here is big beige room no2'. The size and expense of this building whilst the country was forced to use food rationing cards is mind boggling. The fact that they flattened the most beautiful part of Bucharest to build it on is even more insane. The cost of the pink marble in just 1 of the rooms could feed every person in the county for 2 days. Honestly I hated everything about this building, including giving more money to it in entry fees. In my opinion, the best thing to do is get the scrappers in, knock it down, and put the money raised, back into...