Plimoth Plantation Reviews

I bet this is normally a really cool experience, but asking full price admission for half of the experience left us a bit disappointed. I understand the need for COVID-19 precautions, but it was a bit ridiculous. Face masks are required at all times despite being in the fresh, open air 90% of the time. On top of that, only a few people are allowed in the homes and huts at a time - if the face masks are required, why is this necessary? Also, a couple of the staff members were very aggressive about the masks - someone should remind them that some people have disabilities or medical conditions that make mask wearing difficult.

On the bright side, the Wampanoag people on site were wonderful. In particular there was one gentleman making head pieces who was so friendly and knowledgeable. In the English pilgrimage, the actors could have been more engaging, but it was still nice to see the village. I wish that we could have seen more of the stations, but there were a lot roped off with no people or signs nearby for explanation of what they were.

A must see. Fantastic place and the people there are great.

Good recreations in this time of pandemy for family

Step back in time and get a real sense of how the Pilgrims lived...the actors know their parts well and are fun to interact with

Fun place to bring the kids to learn! Nice walking trails with people dressed in costumes of the time. Love this place and then go downtown after for ice cream and waking on the rocks by the ocean (and THE ROCK of course)

Great living museum! The weather was a bit rough (low 40s and raining), but the Native Americans and Pilgrims kindly invited us into their homes to warm by the fires. Great place for the kids to learn.

Interesting historical reenactment of the time the first settlers arrived. The local Indians and guides on site bring a good interactive spirit to the experience. The overall campus is not that large, and not that well maintained, so in our view the entrance fee is too high, specially considering that no student discount is provided.

I thought it would be ok but not this good when i walked to plimoth plantaton i knew it would be fun i'm very happy.

Its good not for aomeone with difficulty walking. But great actors.

I hadn't been since I was a child, and was pleasantly surprised at how interesting it was to visit. We really enjoyed watching the canoe burnout, and were able to ask a lot of questions and learn a whole lot.

Fascinating living museum. The actors in character in the English village were informative and believable! I found that the best part. Plenty of free parking.

In the footsteps of the Pilgrim Fathers. Here you have to go.

Awesome look at the earliest of colonial and native American life.

not fully operational due to covid..slightly dissapointing

Well maintained, interesting, informative, and the staff go out of the way to make it fun.

I love living history museum and this does not disappoint. The staff is knowledgeable and friendly. They encourage interaction and this is a great place to bring a family. The museum involves a lot of walking, and if the weather has been wet, has dirt paths and could be very difficult to traverse with a mobility device. There are tables where lunch can be eaten and places where food can be bought. There is a rather extensive gift shop both for kids and adults. The fudge is fabulous.

I remember this place from years ago. I feel like it has gone way downhill. I guess if I weren't coming from so far away, I'd still say it was worth bringing a child to. Not all, but several of the period characters were very good. The Nye barn has a few animals. It is mostly a collection of signs describing the animals they'd like to have but don't.

The Native American area was okay but the English Settlement area was the best

The place is very nice,but the personal thing that you need is it should be paid.

If you're a history buff and enjoy early American history then this is a must visit place. The natives do not pretend to be from the colonial days, but they will answer any and all questions you may have regarding their culture. The "colonists" do act, however, according to the Pilgrim era. They put on a good show and make the atmosphere of the replica village more believable.

Great exhibit, educational museum and the village is fun. 5 stars for the view from the fort and for the hidden horticultural center and English gardens.

100% worth the trip! Amazing American History told in a factual, accurate & fun way. They even do educational meals you can have served to a group or get a very close ' true to the times ' meal at the cafe. They serve burgers, chicken nuggets and full turkey dinner plates. It is impressive from start to finish.

Very cute place. I would recommend this for kids 6 and up. You HAVE to try their stone baked focaccia bread with their house made lemonade. Brownie points if you can score a table under their pergola outside. Heaven! Also, I recommend purchasing the full pass which allows you to visit all three exhibits. The grist mill is a must, especially on a day when they are grinding corn. Also, if you have older kids (reading age), I recommend the third exhibit that is on the water.

They don't allow pets. We had an 8 lb chihuahua in a carrier on our backs, he would have stayed in the carrier the whole time and never disturbed anything or anyone, but regardless, we could not go in. Very dissappointing. I understand why a large dog who may pee or poop couldn't go in, but our dog was well controlled.

Wonderful place for education, lovely staff and scenery

Worth seeing, interesting, living museum with actors in historical costumes

It was beautiful but honestly really boring. We paid $110 for three adults and a toddler and it wasn t worth it. I was expecting plaques outside the houses with some sort of explanation of what I was looking at but there was nothing. Everything looked the same and I was disappointed I didn t learn anything as I m a big history buff.

Lovely place. Really helped to understand the era, worth visiting

Fascinating (- but a little tired?) We went end of season and it certainly felt like it. The native America section could usefully be expanded and improved.

Fantastic Living Museum of the Settlement at Plymouth by the Pilgrims. Not only does it bring the Childhood Stories of the Pilgrims to life, it clears up a lot of misconceptions. People that work there are excellent at staying in character and very pleasant and helpful. One of the highlights of our vacation to New England last year.

Not well kept. Too expensive for what they have. We spend less than 1 hour there.

Here you get a lot of history from all the settlers who came to the US in the 1800s.

A wonderful way to spend your day. The portrayers are inspiring...take the time to chat with them and you will learn of life in the colony in an atypical way. Great value, definitely worth the $ !

Time travel, for all. A bit hot in Aug., but worth it.

I was not too impressed. Did not get much for history. For the price of the tickets I would recommend going to a museum in Plymouth that has true history. Way too overpriced.

This is a great interactive historical site. We got to chitchat with Miles Standish, and Native Americans making a canoe. Great place to take the kids!

Very cool little place to come and visit for the afternoon. If you wanted to see the history of Plimoth, this is the place. Spend the afternoon here learning and seeing how the first settlers lived. Kids are welcome and adults will find plenty to keep busy.

Actually had fun with the wife going back in time just wish there were more exhibits

An impressive place, worth visiting. Congratulations to its creators, especially its director Jessica Rudden

Excellent actors who must spend hundreds of hours researching their characters and the times they lived in. It was so much fun!

Positive experience however, I was disappointed there was very little mentioning of American Indians. It seemed to me another history lesson from a white perspective.

Great experience. History is valuable for our children to understand how this country was valued and not taken for granted!

It is beautiful for what you want to learn from life from before

Although the entire village is not the original settlement, it was recreated well and it was great to walk through the park and see Native American settlement and a 17th century village of first immigrants. There are some actors in the village who were dressed like people of those times and who you could ask questions and talk about life happening on your particular visit date. Really cool place to visit for all history lovers!

Super cool place. The reenactors were fascinating and very good at their job. However the place as a whole is more expensive than I can generally afford.

great historical place .. I never see some thing like that in my life

The park has done an amazing job of bringing the pilgrims and the native Americans who lived here during that time to life. The cast members are very knowledgeable and were more than happy to answer any of our questions.

A little overpriced, but a couple of the English characters are far more knowledgeable than I had expected. Also, a very scenic place.

This was the best part of my trip to the area. I'm big on national history and seeing this was one of the best places I've been to see, smell, learn, and do. I'm sure in the regular tourist season it is bustling with more but for us it was great. I highly encourage anyone visiting to take the prescribed route from the visitor center, to the native area, followed by the crafts center and then to the Plimoth village. It sets you up in a wonderful way to think a d understand about the life there in a different way. In the native area the descended members of the actual tribe (I don't want to disrespect them by misspelling the tribal name) that lived there are available to answer all your questions and pique your interest from modern perspective looking back. Once you get to the Plimoth village proper the people speak to you as one from the time period. The craft area shows you very much how the crafts of the time period worked and looked giving you great perspective and a whole lot of hands on experience.
Overall we found the employees and re enactors to be friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. It was a little awkward to start a conversation with the Pilgrim settlers (when they asked where we we're from we said Colorado. Naturally it had never been heard of in that time period.) But to be honest if we time traveled then it WOULD be a very awkward conversation.
Overall excellent. If you can only do one historically related excursion in the area I'd suggest you do this one.

Descriptive terms "tired", "lacking enthusiasm", "sloppy", and "disappointing" all come to mind. Plimoth Plantation was remarkably under-developed for the cost of admission, and all their money appears to go into new buildings rather than into professional staff, informational displays and the two re-enactment villages. The re-enactment staff did a good job with what they had to work with, but they had virtually no day to day items--food, hand tools, hand work, etc. to work with. No weaving, no food preparation, no making of things, virtually nothing. Both village gardens were very poorly tended and very poorly labeled.

The pottery display was simply excellent.

The "museum" was sparse at best, under-labeled and under-described, with a centerpiece of a cow morphed with a sailing vessel (????), which unfortunately spoke more to the lack of authenticity all around than it did to anything else. The museum definitely appeared to lack a good curator as well as a lack of adequate funding to be called a museum.

The parking lot was worn and tired looking, and most of the paths were unpaved.

The zoo was remarkably pointless--why were they curating goats when they couldn't put together a decent museum? It struck me as a remarkably pointless way to try to preserve heritage from the pilgrim times when there are so many more valuable areas to spend limited resources.

The grist mill was good, and well staffed. The parking area was adequate, but it was clear the town itself was not very interested in keeping up good appearances, given the poor quality of their outdoor tourist map. Worn, faded, yellowed plastic, it was hard to read, and indicative of a town that really did not care about its heritage, let alone cared to put its best foot forward for visitors. The signboard was a sad commentary on a town that appeared stuck on itself rather than interested in being a part of American history and sharing that with others.

I went to this place without my family and I got to show them everything. Its so cool.

Love this place. The actors are great. Make you feel in the 1800's

Makes you think about the brave people that crossed the Atlantic in search of freedom and a better life. Migration makes nations richer.

A beautiful day to spend here. The reenactors were outstanding and very informative. If you have even a small interest in Colonial history, Plimoth Plantation is worth a visit.

Wonderful living history tour of what life was like 400 years ago.

We have been to this living museum many times and we love coming because we learn new things each time we visit. It is an amazing historical.lesson.

Loved this place as a child. Lasting memories! Must visit!

A very real museum, the characters are live, it could be in better conditions but the experience was very good

Pretty cool place to take the kids and learn about history. A little overpriced in my opinion though

Very interesting history of the puritan pilgrims on mayflower

This place is so much fun , they have a few things for the kids to do .
However to experience the village and really take the time to asborb it I recommend going at least once kid free

I often like historical tourism, but this place was disappointing. First we stopped at the Native American village, which is staffed by actual Native Americans whose outfits and actions seem appropriately historical but who do not pretend to live in the 17th century. These staffers are nice but interacting with them was uncomfortable. Then we proceeded to the colonial village, where some of the staff re-enact the past while others provide present-day interpretation. Among the actors there were surly men and silent women. I would have preferred these exhibits without the actors.

Nice you learn about the whole history and first settlers of New England ...

The price is outrageous! $38 for adult? $24 for children? Supposed to be non profit?

This was such a cool place with a great deal of history behind it. The live action actors really makes this place shine!

Not to happy with this, but like my husband said at least we help contribute money. The person at the ticket counter was not friendly at all and some of the people acting didn't do what they should of.