![]() So go, and ask for Victor! You will not be disappointed. Please arrive 30 minutes before your scheduled tour time to find parking or use a ride share service. Due to construction in the area parking is very limited. Parking is available in the front lot, and there is overflow parking in the Santana Row garages across the street. The tours are meant to be taken back-to-back like I did today. Winchester Mystery House offers complimentary parking to guests. The ghost tour goes places you don't get to go in the main house tour (like the attic and the basements), but if you only do the ghost tour, you miss out on almost all the main history of the house. The House is available for tours every day, with flashlight tours given several times a year, on Friday the 13ths and every Halloween weekend. Note for the pro traveler: do both tours if you really want to get a full view of the house. The Winchester Mystery House is located in San Jose, California, USA, at the intersection of the 280 Freeway and Winchester Boulevard. (between I-280 and Stevens Creek Blvd.) This Victorian mansions labyrinthine layout was designed to baffle the spirits that allegedly haunted. I was a little skeptical at around $70 a person for both tours after taxes, but after I was through with it I felt it was well worth it. Experience beautiful stained glass windows, ornate parquet floors, and turn-of-the-century craftsmanship. Take a 65-minute guided tour of this architectural marvel, built for 38 years from 1884. Marvel at this vast, strange and unusual place. New to the Winchester Estate: Axe Throwing at the. ![]() Haunted by the spirits of Winchester Rifle victims, Sarah moved to San Jose, CA and built a dizzying home to confuse the spirits that haunted her. The house is thought to be haunted, there is a seance room, and while she was alive, Sarah Winchester never. It turned out that only my brother, my cousin, and I signed up for the ghost tour, so we got a personalized VIP tour where we got endless access to the guide, who was more than obliging toward our many queries. Come explore the fascinating Victorian mansion built by Winchester rifle heiress, Sarah L. Specialties: Guided tours of the Winchester Estate - a sprawling 160 room Victorian Mansion built by Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester Rifle fortune. Winchester Mystery House In San Jose, CA. He was so insanely knowledgeable, had answers for pretty much everything, and was hilarious to boot. There were some legitimately creepy parts, but best of all was our tour guide Victor. After the main house tour, we went on the additional Walk of Spirits tour, which is their tour that focuses more on the ghostly aspects of the Sarah Winchester story. The house itself is a bizarro experience, with strange architecture at every turn. He was funny, with wry jokes and a well-rehearsed spiel that allowed plenty of time for questions. I went with a couple of family members in town, and on the main house tour we got Gene as our guide. The Winchester Mystery House is a lot of fun.
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