If you suffer from anxiety, stay far away from this place. Me, my bf and our 13 yr old daughter thought this would be a great idea since everyone talks about it, wrong, wrong wrong!! I hated it so much, she hated it so much! I wanted a refund, $90 for 3 ppl. We went Sunday August 11th (I assumed people would be back to school shopping)
First of all, the hours of operation suck, 9am to 6pm? How about 11am to 7pm or 8pm? We are on vacation in Galveston and drove to Houston for this, trying to get in a breakfast before heading here was near impossible to be there by 9am.
2nd, the stupid tram!! OMG!!! Cables? The tours are segregated by cables...and when the waiting area is full, you can't see the stupid cables. You get in front of about 6 doors, you have no idea what to do, we just took one which seemed to be the least popular of the 3 tours. It was okay. We were taken to a mock Mission Control center that would eventually lead astronauts to Mars in the future, the most interesting part was Jacob who spoke so passionately about future missions to Mars. After that, we had no way to make the 2 others tours or we would of run out of time to check out everything because the wait was so long.
So back in the main area...messy!!! It's just a big open room with random interactions everywhere. There was no rhyme or reason to how anything was laid out, if you suffer from anxiety like myself, you are in for a panic. We went to Moody Gardens the day before, so much better.
We watched the EMU movie, that was nice and relaxing and quiet, I could of stayed there all day.
Even the stupid gift shop sucked, they were sold out of the sizes we wanted for 3 different shirts.
If you have really small kids that need to run around and be crazy, this is the place for you. Its nothing more than a big playground.