Description
A visit to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard takes you on a journey through time, allowing you to step onboard historic ships and explore magnificent museums from the Royal Navy's past. Visit HMS Victory and see Nelson's legendary warship, see Henry VIII's favourite ship at the Mary Rose Museum, dive deep onboard HMS Alliance or take a Harbour Tour and discover a working naval base from the water. Leave nothing undiscovered with an Ultimate Explorer Ticket when you visit Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard. See the history of the Georgian Navy inside The National Museum of the Royal Navy, experience traditional boat building techniques at Boathouse 4 or learn the history of Royal Navy armaments at Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower.
Service options
On-site services
Highlights
Live performances
Accessibility
Wheelchair-accessible car park
Wheelchair-accessible entrance
Wheelchair-accessible toilet
Amenities
Restaurant
Toilets
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi
Crowd
Family friendly
Planning
Getting tickets in advance recommended
Children
Good for kids
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Reviews
5
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is a nice place to hangout with family and friends. If you are fond of history and ships, this is one of the places to be. There are coffee shops and souvenir shops inside, kids will love this place too. We went in for free, minus attractions, but there are optional tickets to buy if you want to experience it fully. The free ticket will get you to some attractions. Many toilets accessible for wheelchairs as well.
4
Nice place to walk around with lots of shops and restaurants close by. Great history. The harbour tour is also woth the money, very enjoyable, the narrative made everybody laugh while feeding all the facts. We couldn't afford to go in the main dockyard but I have been before and enjoyed it. Today was a walk around the outside and around the area.
5
It's an expensive day out but you get LOADS for your money! The ships are wonderful. The "actors" are really knowledgeable and just fantastic. Then the Navy Dockyard is visible via the harbour tour (included in the price). A great day.
5
This is a great place to visit. We spent all day there but did not get to see everything, but we did get to visit HMS Warrior, Mary Rose, Victory, boat trip around the harbour, and HMS 33. The ultimate ticket costs PS51 but you can come back throughout out the year and to see everything you will need to. What made it even better was that both of the Royal Navy's aircraft carriers were both in the harbour.
5
Buy the ultimate Explorer tickets, take at least a couple of day visits, so much to see. Mary Rose is extremely good. Victory and Warrior have quite a few steps but are worth it. Take a 45-minute harbour tour. Also, take the water bus to Gosport to see the submarine museum. It's amazing. Go on board a submarine. There are lots of other museums too. This ticket is valid all year ,so we went over two days.
5
Get the ultimate year pass, it's worth it even if you go once as there is so much to do. The Victory, Mary rose and Warrior are fascinating to see, it's great, you also can have a boat tour round the docks and get boats to transport you to other museums. We had a great day.