Great tour. The guide made it - giving her own personal experiences. Unfortunately only had 20 mins to look into museum - not enough time.

Having a guide made the visit to Statue Park more meaningful. The time spent with the guide at the 'private museum' gave great insights into life before democracy. We recommend this tour as a valuable history and cultural lesson!

The bus leaves at 11.00 not 10.30, we waited at square lost as no guide turned up until 10.50. The tour was great and so was the guide.

Definitely worth it so long as you're seriously interested in the history of Hungary under Communist rule. It is a very information-dense tour and quite long, not fun-filled and bubbly as advertised! Our guide was excellent and gave us a bit of personal insight into life during Russian occupation as well as an overview of Budapest's history through the ages while we travelled to the statue park on the bus. The statue park is still being developed and isn't as sophisticated as you might expect but still very interesting. On a gloriously sunny day, packed with tourists taking photos, it took a bit of concentration to imagine how oppressive these statues must have looked lining the streets of Budapest. After about an hour and half at the park, it's back on the bus to the tour office where there is a little 1960s room where we could look at paperwork and medals etc.

Our guide certainly made the statue park interesting and pertinent. His personal remembrances of his family living through this time gave us a deeper understanding of life under the Soviets. Sitting around the re-created Soviet-era apartment at the end was a great idea and made a fitting ("fun" isn't the right word) end to the tour.