Harry S Truman Little White House Admission

Great tour with entertaining guide fully of interesting info & anecdotes. Sadly we were the last tour of the day which ended at 4.30pm today. As the tour finished the shop & restrooms were already closed despite the signs saying 4.45pm closure - a very disappointed group of about 20 visitors from various nationalities. Definitely worth going but Make sure you get there earlier & don’t believe their times.

A wonderful gem to visit in Key West. The history behind this building is amazing and our tour guide Bob was the absolute best! He even wrote a book about the history of the building and the presidents that stayed there. They did a great job restoring the place to be exactly how it was when Truman was there. My only negative about this experience was the price - $23 per adult. Kids pricing ($10) is only available if they are 12 or younger. I felt for the time it takes to do the tour and what you can explore on your own (very little) this was a little overpriced. If you are a history buff then maybe you see more value in what you are paying.

31st July 2024. The tour cost $68.85 for three of us. We were met by what seemed like quite a ‘surly’ lady who told us that we could only visit the shop and grounds without a tour. Bob was a great guide and spoke well. However, I did feel a lack of sensitivity over the Hiroshima bomb (approved by Truman) and then a second one which apparently, he might not have approved!! The tour is five rooms. A breakfast/bar type room, a dining room, two bedrooms and an area outside the bedrooms. I got the feeling that the house was quite small until I saw it from the outside. So I guess it is quite limited in what you are actually being shown. I’d read about a presidential car, but we saw no sign of it. We finished our tour 15 minutes before closing. Gift shop was nice but the rest room was locked. We asked in the shop but the lady had no key and Bob advised us to go to a public rest room 15 minutes walk further down the road. The ‘surly’ lady had gone and it seems that she might have had the key. In the heat of Key West, the walk to the rest room for a 70 year old man and his 60 year old wife is not nice. The staff didn’t didn’t care and didn’t really want to know. I’m not sure whether I’d recommend this or not. I won’t visit again because it’s quite expensive really, for a limited tour. In contrast to another visit that we did, this seemed restrictive and had what seemed like slightly tetchy staff. The Butterfly Centre up the road by contrast was cheaper, you could stay as long as you like, you could leave and come back, they had open restrooms and the staff were lovely. Huge contrast to this dark house where you aren’t allowed to photograph and even if you did, it’s very dark and it contains staff who don’t seem to have much to do with you really, except Bob with his talk.

Chet was our tour guide at the Truman Little White House. Wow… this man is so knowledgeable and passionate about history. The entire tour was so interesting. Prior to this visitation, I was unaware of all of politics happening in Key West in the past. I just loved all of the little stories that Chet told us about President Truman. This is a must do event in Key West.

This was my favorite museum simply because our tour guide, Bob, was fantastic. He knew everything there is about President Truman and the property. We also had our 9 month old and Bob was not thrown off at all and was very welcoming.