Mystic Seaport Reviews

Very enjoyable morning in Mystic. Very helpful staff. Plenty to see at ones own pace. Great to see how life was and how the skills are kept alive. A lovely area.

Impressive reproduction of a whaling town. I liked touring the last whaling ship and the training ship. Also I like the museum and touring the town buildings.

Always a good experience! Lots to see and do while learning about life before!

Always one of the most interesting places to visit.

way more interesting than i thought it would be. great fun for kids and adults. lovely for a day out.

Really quaint little town. Looking forward to heading back there again in the near future

We came here on the 4th of July as I had seen they were having a number of events. The ticket prices seemed a bit high at first, but after walking around for several hours we saw maybe half of the exhibits on the property. They also will let you leave and come back, even validating your receipt to return another day. Which you might need to do to see everything. If you like seeing history up close and even interacting with it directly this is a great place to see it. They have so many pretty large ships currently in restoration which the fantastic craftsman here work on. Currently in their tent is the Mayflower II. Very knowledgeable staff and volunteers, definitely a must see for any history buffs especially sailing/whaling history.

Awesome, so much amazing history and being able to go onto the ships was amazing! The gift shop, however, way overpriced $60 for long sleeve tee? Wow

Everything you want to know about whaling and living in that time frame. Excellent

Love Mystic and Old Mystic Ct beautiful place and peaceful my family and I love it!

I loved this place. The lady of the print store was super nice! and the gentleman of the second floor at the whaling building was great and very knowledgeable. Thank you!

Very cool, need more than a day to really see it all.

Great place learn something new every time I go there. Only sad note for me is that they don t have carriage rides with the horses. REALLY MISS that.

I drove a group here for a field trip. The employees were very nice and the program they have for bus drivers is great. Free coffee and pastry and admission. Scenery is beautiful. Fudge of many kinds. Great experience

Nice but need to give them my first born for entrance fee

A great 6-8 hour day. Tons of activities. Great food.. Seriously great food. Attentive and friendly staff many in character. Truly historical and educational. Kids A+++

A good mix of exhibits and people to show and tell about their area.

If you have any interest in nautical history, this place is your Disneyland. Multiple ships are available for tours as well as a functioning drydock used for restorations (currently the Mayflower II is in).

The United States and shipping. Not cheap with a good $ 28 entry, but has a lot to see.

I could have spent MULTIPLE days here. Heck...I could have spent MULTIPLE days just watching the blacksmith work.
If you have the time, plan for a two day visit and take a class or two. The staff are incredibly friendly and knowledgeable. I learned more than I knew possible about about ropes, topper splicing, printing, blacksmithing, ship building, and so much more. Everything has an authentic feel without being cheesy or campy. Learning AND having fun... The perfect combination.

If you love sailboats and history, this is the place to see. Scenery is beautiful and you can sail a boat for $15

Mystic seaport is good and fun, however, and yes I did go to mystic seaport before with my class at school and we stayed the night thier and slept on a docked boat and anyways, Mystic Aquriam and Mystic Seaport are totaly different places, Mystic Aquraim is were you go see all these cool and fantastic animals! But Mystic Seaport is were you talk about the peolple and pilgrims in the 18 and 17 hundreds and ships like back then for example like the Joseph Conrad and everything is the best but the gift shop is really expencive and a mood ring cost 4.99 jesus crist really for a mood ring thiers a lot things thier at the gift shop that is really expencive so make sure that you bring about 50 bucks thier with you!

My son attended a week long sailing camp at the Mystic Seaport Museum. It was inspirational along with museum tours and full of fun activities. I myelf loved the town and enjoyed kayak riding at the Mystic river during camp time.

Very crowded and we had the dog with us. Plan to go back Tuesday.

So lame that you can't even walk around without paying the $30 entry fee.

I have been a member for the past 7 years and living near I get to visit often. There is always something new to see, the staff is friendly and a great place to visit any time of year. Be sure to visit the shipyard and see what they are working on. Right now it is the Mayflower 2.

Absolutely incredible place. Well worth a days time.

Great open air museum. Recreates a whale fishing village with buildings and boats.

U have to visit this place once if you live close by, it was very educational and overall a very fun experience

Awesome place to walk around! Beautiful grounds and boats!

If you like sail boats, this is the place for you and the whole family. It's self tour so you can take your time and you will want to see everything. They give you a map and the building are all numberd, some have a staff person who can answer all your questions and give demostrations. You can go on several ships. Great place for all ages. They also have benches placed around so you can rest, several restrooms throughout and eateries.

Great place to visit for all ages. Nice outside pathways to exciting exhibits and fascinating viewings of all kinds of species inside. Great educational and fun sea lion performances. The Beluga Whales are spectacular.

Received a whole new appreciation for ship building from this tour. The restoration of the Mayflower II was in progress and it was awesome to see.

This us a great place to exercise, experience history and enjoy the fresh air

Very cool! My 8 year old and I loved walking through all the old buildings & seeing how a seaport looked in the early settlements. I highly recommend visiting if you are into the colonial times.

Mystic Seaport is a great maritime museum. It is informative and fun for all ages. The employees are knowledgable and friendly. We spent the greater part of a day at Mystic Seaport when we thought we would only be spending a couple of hours.

I have been going here since I was 8 years old and I still can t WAIT to go! Amazing place, truly!

Absolutely great, first class operation top to bottom

Crazy ... What you can do with an old shipyard ... You felt like you were going back 100 years and more

Didn't have a lot of time to spend here and didn't want to spend $28 per person to go see some boats by the water. Aquarium is a better trip in my opinion. Cute buildings, cute gift shop, but unless you pay admission you can't actually get to the water area to see anything. Latitude 41 restaurant nearby was absolutely incredible!

Great job on the rennovations! There's much more to do and see than before.

Very educational. A lot of information about the old seafaring life. Many things to see and do.

Plan to spend several hours here to make it worth the price of admission. That's not a dig on the museum- it's just big! It's clear that a lot of thought and planning went into the experience. Food is available on-site.

Well done lots to see
They are restoring the Mayflower 2

Don't let the price put.you off. There's a lot of history here, plenty to see, and the staff seems to really know their stuff. It was also cool to see an actual ship being repaired for sailing.

It is full of pictures and photography is not allowed. The paintings are beautiful to appreciate and learn more about the history of the town.

Such a wonderful experience, took a group of 6th graders and everyone had a blast!

Such a good time, kids loved it. There is so much more there now.

Lots of small little buildings with different activities to check out. Just a fun place to explore on a nice day

Everything I expected. Spouse was on a Walker, and the automatically cut her price, without asking. Great adventure for our 11y/o

This was a great day visit! The place is clean, spaced nicely, well equiped for handicapped and has lost of interactive learning for all ages! Dog friendly outside!

This is a great seaside recreation of a whaling town -with the real whaling ship - the Charles Morgan restored and docked. There are many demonstrations of seaside town crafts from the bygone era - and although many of us do not agree with whaling today - to see how the people who depended on the trade and fishing is very interesting. I first came as a child and many of my schoolmates and I have dear memories of seeing the living history here in the ship and in the many demonstrations that are given. I have also brought adults visitors from around North American and the world and they have enjoyed their time visiting.

Please Note that dogs -except for service dogs - are not allowed into the exhibits - this is a heads-up for those that travel with their dogs!

Awesome. Definitely go, lots like Sturbridge village

America's premier Maritime museum. An amazing collection of historic ships, boats, and buildings. I'm so glad to have rejoined as a member! They are now hard at work at restoring the Mayflower 2.

It was an interesting museum. Nice to see the old boats in the harbor and read the history about each. May not be that interesting for kids.

A great summertime fun place to take your kids. They will love it! And you will too! If you like and are interested in history! I recommend it and its couple miles of i95.

Our only disappointment was not planning enough time to go here (we went for a couple hours, I'd recommend a full day, if possible).

So much great nautical history here. The docents are very knowledgeable and entertaining. Be sure to frequent the live demonstrations to really get your full value. The seining and whaling demos were super interesting and the figurehead exhibit was beautiful.

Allow at least half a day or more. Lots to see and explore!!

I went a few years ago and a month ago was not impressed at all .
Each time most of the buildings were closed .
We did the entire place in less than 45 minutes .

Was extremely disappointed

Small harbor that features sailing ships on display.