Reviews of Falstaffs Experience, Stratford-upon-Avon
Review by Margaret Doherty on 27th August, 2008
Add your review Date visited: 23rd August 2008
Just happened to be passing this old tudor building, when I noticed it had a museum and gift shop to visit - so followed the crowd up the courtyard. A man in tudor costume told me the cobbled carriageway is the oldest surviving in Stratford and goes back to Shakespeare's time. Decided to go into the museum, which was surprising large, set over 2 floors in a huge building. Recreations very realistic and make you really think about what it was like hundreds of years ago and how lucky we are now. The plague cottage, the tavern recreations and the dark alleyway were particularly atmospheric. I was told it was the most haunted building in England and I can believe it, you can just feel the past all around you! Well worth a visit and a nice change from all the Shakepeare rounds and stuffy museums.
Review by Joseph Fordham on 11th July, 2008
Add your review Date visited: 27 June 2008
What a wonderful and mysterious place! I didn't know it was there, tucked away along Sheep Street just a few minutes up the hill from Waterside. My family and I tentatively walked along an old cobbled courtyard, which we were reliably informed Shakespeare has walked upon, before we came to the gift shop and museum. The museum is the largest in Stratford and full of interested objects and facts on Stratford and English history, told through a series of atmospheric waxwork figures. The children dressed up in the costumes provided and we took their photographs while they were in the stocks they keep in 'The Witches Courtyard'. Well worth a visit. It is also apparently the most haunted building in the world and has been investigated by Most Haunted, which only adds to the atmosphere.
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