Chateau-sur-Mer

I'm going to cut to the chase and skip the politeness and be directly honest with you about the tour.

If you receiving a semester of college credit for the store, then it is for you. If you just visited another mansion with a 'concise' audio/iPod tour (and found yourself skipping ahead), then this tour is not for you. I believe are knowledgeable tour guides name was Dianar.

While our tour was filled with very, very thorough knowledge, it was simply too many words for me. After 40 minutes we were still in the first room on the tour. I started to get dizzy when I looked around and counted how many rooms were left on the 1st floor alone. I started to have anxiety thinking about how I should have packed a lunch, and brought portable seats with me.

I recommend to the facility that they offer an abbreviated tour for people with shorter attention spans like myself. I really think this would be an amazing house to see but I wasn't mentally prepared to be there for hours, and I was piqued by hunger and thirst. I had to dash...and when I did, 2 others joined me in the same mental state.

Maybe there should be a warning that you should bring a picnic with you. Maybe that warning would have mentally prepared me. So now I'm giving you the WARNING so you can enjoy the house and be mentally prepared for a Collegiate course.

The takeaway here is that this tour is for a highly motivated individual that wants to discover all the secrets of art, architecture, and mansions. I think I'm going to try to come back to this house -- I did give it 4 stars after all. It could be 5 Stars if I was more mentally prepared. So next time I'm going to see if there's an abbreviated tour or pack the picnic, the collapsible chair, and maybe a flask.