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Free to access but you have to book your slot for the day well online and this is a building we could not visit in the past due to missing this aspect:
- print your page with confirmation of your booking and then pass the airport security style at the entrance
- we arrived on a very hot day after visiting the temporary Parliament location and we were told to wait in the hot sunny 20 more minutes for our slot. I was feeling very sick because of the weather so the kind staff allowed us to sit inside, where your group is formed after security and asked if we wanted to join the earlier tour since the were not many people; so thank you for your kindness once again
- the place is rather tight inside and does not have a proper tour area as the temporary Parliament building has for example and the air con is minimal; also there are no toilets to access
- our guide was probably a French speaker with a speech defect hence a bit difficult to understand every single word, however much he tried. He answered kindly all our questions though, proof he is very knowledgeable
- the few rooms we accessed during our 45min tour were packed with history with a huge percentage of items being original as they were 100 years plus ago
- the guide detailed the habits of former politicians and you have all the proof there, besides lots of books, furniture etc; if you are into history you will surely like this free tour

Gorgeous building and great place to visit, if you have finished anything else there is to see downtown Toronto. This building is way cleaner and you feel safer than most of USA's Union stations for example - it reminds you of the many train stations in the UK and some other European cities.

Large, safe, very clean touchless toilets (except the door, for women), places to eat or drink, very well organised - I love it.

Great big gym located in a massive complex and I like that there are hardly any people mid week, mid day. Lots of machines to try to improve your health or 'beef up' and everybody seems to be so quiet and polite, nothing like the awfully loud, entitled people screaming in their languages as I used to hear in central London, in UK. Nowadays, if you want civilised people you have to move away from the massive cities. Also, they have got a great offer for 10 passes, never expiring, especially when you get regularly sick for many months, what is not to love? Saving money.

Massive place we reached on a very warm September day as we came all the way from the Dufferin terrace, which was at the back of the Citadel (good to know if you want to go straight to the entrance of this place).

The Citadel is packed with history and it reminds me of so many fortified European cities all the way from the Atlantic ocean to the eastern part of the Med.

Lots of info around and inside the place, entrance of around 15 CAD (if I remember correctly), souvenir shop, toilets etc

'My gosh, what a place' I think, every single time I remember this place. Why?

- the worst smelling toilets I came across, everybody was wearing a mask or covering their noses and not because of the past pandemic
- a very rude girl (brunette, shoulder hair, a bit stocky, 5'7 tall and mid '20s) who did not even listen to me when I asked her a simple question and asked me to join a queue to learn the answer to my question. What was her role there? Because door usher she was not. She made me think of some retarded and full of importance commies with her negative attitude. Not good. If you do not like your summer job, do not take such a job, missy. You bring nothing positive towards this institution.