Obviously, visitors can still enjoy Colonial Williamsburg without a full access ticket, but sometimes it makes sense to buy one. Buying a ticket might make sense if you…
- have at least one full day, ideally two, dedicated to Colonial Williamsburg. There’s so much to do.
- enjoy living history museums, engaging with actors, and learning about life in the colonial days.
- want to see inside the buildings.
For us, we couldn’t rationalize the steep ticket prices for the time we dedicated to visiting the site, a half-day, plus an evening. Though we had four days in the area, we used those days for other attractions we prioritized, like Jamestown, Yorktown, and going to the coast for Fort Monroe.
We weren’t interested in the living history aspect of Colonial Williamsburg, but it would have been nice to see the inside of the Governor’s Palace and the Capitol Building. If there were less expensive individual tickets for just those sites, we would have toured one of them.
Even though we didn’t buy tickets, we still had a wonderful time at Colonial Williamsburg.