Advance ticket sales - edited list

BUDAPEST

(P) Great Synagogue: buy at the door. absolutely no problem but be aware of the hours. http://www.greatsynagogue.hu/gallery_syn.html#4

(P) House of Terror: buy at the door. closed on Monday. http://www.terrorhaza.hu/hu
(P) Heroes' Square: FREE
(P) Vajdahunyad Castle: mostly free, but the Agriculture museum tickets (inside) you can buy at the door. http://www.vajdahunyadcastle.com/tickets-to-the-vajdahunyad-castle-budapest
(P) Holocaust Memorial Center: buy at the door, but be sure to leave a generous donation in the box inside.
(P) Hungarian National Museum; buy at the door http://hnm.hu/en

(B) Memento Park: buy at the entrance http://www.mementopark.hu/
(B) Hungarian National Gallery: buy at the door http://mng.hu/en
(B) Buda Castle Park: Free (?)

(P) Hungarian National Parliament: purchase on line in advance as soon as possible http://hungarianparliament.com/tours/
(P) Any theater tickets: purchase in at least 3 months in advance; better yet, the day they go on sale.
(P) Zoo; at the entrance http://www.zoobudapest.com/en
(P) Szechenyi Baths: in advance http://szechenyispabaths.com/

Accademia (Michel. David), Anne Frank House and Van Gogh. Many on your list are public places, the Ponte Vecchio for example. How did you come up with this list?

Richard,
I got the list from RS book. These are the ones that we are interested in visiting. Not that we will hit all of them. Thanks for the help.

For Amsterdam, I'd definitely get Van Gogh Museum & Anne Frank House prior to arrival

Rick's book specifically states which of these are either important or required to reserve. If not so stated, then it should not be necessary. If the book covers the same attraction in two places, such as a basic listing and then later a self-guided walking tour, then see both, as the more detailed ticket info is probably in the walking tour section.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is free-access, so you don't need to worry about that one. The Pantheon was a walk-up site in 2015 (but quite crowded), but just recently someone posted that it will be charging admission in the future, not sure how soon. Probably best to Google for current information on the situation there, and maybe check again just before you depart for Rome to get the latest scoop on what's going on.

But Laura's right: a good guidebook will answer this question.

Thanks, Laura, it saves listing all the ones which are free or in the open.

The only one in Vienna that needs prebooking is the Opera, if you intend to actually attend a performance.

In Venice, you can buy a combo ticket at the Correr Museum that also allows entry into the Doge's Palace. It is recommended to get the tix at Correr as the odds of having a line are pretty low...I can attest - our 1st visit to Venice we stood in line almost an hour to get into Doge...the 2nd visit, we got the combo tix at Correr with no lineup and bypassed the line at Doge. (we revisited Doge because hubby and I got separated the first time by a large tour group going thru, and I ended up missing a lot of the displays as I was trying to find him and rushing thru).

The Correr museum itself is very interesting.

Now - by Campanile do you mean the St Marks bell tower? Can't get advance tix for that (that I'm aware of) - but if the line up is long (we had about a 45 min wait) - you can take a water bus across to San Giorgio (from San Marco) and go up that bell tower - the price was slightly cheaper, the line (when we went) was non-existent, and there were maybe 4 other people up top (it is smaller). The views over to St Mark's Sq were gorgeous tho!

In Rome, you can look at getting a Roma pass (we did on our first visit). If the lines are long at the Colosseum, you can get entry only tix nearby at the entrance to the Forum, or you can get advance tix if you want to join a tour. If you just want to go in and see it on your own, I don't think advance tix are needed.

Hi,

Since you have the Army History Museum in Vienna (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum ) listed, there is also the counterpart in Budapest, the Military History Museum on Castle Hill, well worth visiting and seeing at least once.

Thanks to everyone.