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| - This was my second tour of this establishment within five years. Furthermore, this was my third time at this location. I was on holiday with my family recently in the greater Phoenix area, and brought my wife, whom is a longtime F.L.W. fan with me. We unfortunately just missed a 11 AM tour, and had to kill an hour until the 12 noon 90 minute tour. Unfortunately, there is no place to dine at this location, as we were very hungry. They had peanuts and candy bars at the gift shop. I was not there more than ten minutes, snapping a picture of a F.L.W. inspired chess set, when the gift shop curator scolded me in front of a large group of strangers. Insisting all products are copyrighted and may not be exposed on film. Really I thought. These products are online, pictured, et al. I respected their policy but diss liked her methods. That started this latest visit off on the wrong foot with me. I was po'd big time. I understood ex post facto that no pictures were allowed inside, but was unaware of this policy. I did not see any posted signage forbidding this prior to and while in the museum store. I just wish the curator would have handled it without humiliating my wife and I in public. I took a single picture. Such is life, let it be a waring to fellow photographers that no picture taking is allowed inside the book store, or a public flogging will ensue! In fact, durign certain areas of the walking tour, no images were allowed. Take note.
Things hit another speed bump while my wife was returning tot he book store, a 15 minutes prior tot he tours scheduled start to use the bathroom. She came running out saying they started the tour a half hour early! So here we are, having paid with taxes, 70.00 dollars for the 90 minute tour, scheduled for a 12 noon departure, havign now missed 20 full minutes of the tour! We were livid! We were at present, publicly humiliated in the gift shop, an d now the tour began a half hour early, of which we missed twenty minutes. Terrific. We rapidly join the tour in progresses, we had a terrific and informative guide. An older fellow from IL originally, who owns a balloon company in Phoenix. He saved the rest of the visit to T.W. for us. I thought, I might be rehashing the tour I experienced from 2008, but I actually learned and relearned interesting trivia concerning F.L.W. and T.W. It was a warm day, about 85, it felt hotter to us, as we are from the NE, USA. Some rooms are air conditioned, while others are not. We were granted a two hour tour for the price of a 90 minute tour, that was very nice of them, but it would have been wise to have gathered all of us well i advance, as to not miss anything.
My wife and I, despite the few set backs, enjoyed the tour and aesthetics of the property, both natural and man made. I highly recommend visiting T.W. when in the Northern Scottsdale area. We purchased several fine items from the museum gift shop, they were expectantly pleasant as we dropped hundreds of dollars in there. A drastic change of tune from the start of the day at T.W. I have been interested in F.L.W. and his architecture since my undergraduate days at college years ago. This visit was a pilgrimage of sorts for both my wife and I. The tours are usually 90 minuets,they have two one hour tours, and a few 3-4 hour tours. Our tour group consisted of 25 people, including my wife and I. A few folks were from as far away as Europe. A pleasant and diverse crowd. Much more pleasant than the woman with the stick up her rectum inside the museum's gift shop lol! One last annoyance to be aware of on this tour, at the very end of the tour, they try selling you memberships to join their F.L.W./T.W. appreciation society. That was a bit tasteless and unnecessary I thought, but they did not hassle you about it thankfully. I recommend checking the tour out earlier in the morning or in the evening, as it does get hot up on the mountain side, where this establishment is located. And by all means, do avoid walking amongst the cactus surrounding the property, it is filled with barbed cactus', rattlers, et al!!!
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