Hello fellow travelers. I’m visiting Prague next year and am interested in WW2 history. I’m curious if anyone has done the Anthropoid Tour that includes the Lidice massacre site outside of Prague. What were your general impressions? Is it worth doing? If so, Is there any particular tour company you recommend? Thx.
Have you got a link to the tour so I can look at what it offers.
I have visited all the mains sites of the Heydrich assassination and many of the memorials to the assassins and the victims of the massacre .Lidice I have visited several times very thought provoking museum there with videos of the survivors talking about what happened there and what happened to them ( various language subtitles). Lidice can be reached by bus from Veleslavin.on my last trip there they had recently opened a house in the new village ( about a 10 minute walk away) that was built for the survivors of the massacre and it is set up the way it was when built in 1947/8. It is run as an education center and mu guide was the daughter in law of one of the survivors.
I think an organised tour as long as it is a smaller group tour might be worthwhile but it would depend on what it covers.i have had an interesting in the Heydrich assassination for many years and have visited many places on my numerous visits to Prague.
https://www.viewfromprague.com/operation-anthropoid-self-guided-tour/ , i found this self guided tour but it does suggest ypu take 2 days and it is basically much of what i have done over a few visits, you can use this as a comparison to any tours you might want to do.
I am seeing an Anthropoid tour from Viator at $147
Personally, I'd just simply get the WWII tour within Prague.
For ex. $40
https://anthropoidtour.com/price-and-contacts/
OR
100 Spires Tours is often recommended. It is tipped-based, you pay what you feel is appropriate.
https://www.tours-prague.eu/tour-ww2-free.phtml
Lidice is very near the airport and can be easily reached by bus or by UBER/Bolt
If you aren't on a budget, then you can certainly do the full offer.
Enjoy!
Personally, I would read Callum Macdonald’s book, The Assassination of Heydrich (if you haven’t already). A more recent book is David Cameron’s, The Assassination of the Butcher of Prague. It puts any tour into perspective, unlike the movies about Operation Anthropoid which are somewhat inaccurate in parts. We did a tour many years ago, but didn’t go to Lidice. There was another small village, Lezaky which received the same treatment as Lidice.The tour we did, really just went past where he was shot and the Church where the Czech SOE agents had their final stand.
You might want to read Dave’s excellent trip report: https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/trip-reports/eight-days-in-prague-in-october-a-solo-traveller-s-trip-report. Based on his recommendation, we are planning to use Art of Your Travel for this tour when we are in Prague next spring.