Baltimore Visitor Center

Pretty high end Visitor Center. Great building, lots of pamphlets, and great staff. Bought a trolley ticket online and they were really helpful getting our tickets and getting us routed to the bus. The tour was just ok… but Im not reviewing that.
A small gift shop. I was impressed that they had LGBT guides to the city up front and out (so to speak) where they were easy to find and see. Clearly a welcoming city.

We stopped in at the Baltimore Visitor’s Center mostly for a pee break while killing some time around the Inner Harbor. Once we got inside, we found that the building was full of displays and TONS of information of various restaurants, museums, stores, sites, and basically anywhere you might be thinking about going while visiting the area. If they don’t have a brochure for it, it probably doesn’t exist. We wound up walking around and looking through the different places, grabbing a few brochures and finding a few places we hadn’t heard of. There is also some informational info on the history of the area so it doesn’t just provide you with the brochures but some info of its own.
My husband wound up finding out about the Harbor pass thing option which allows you to pay a reduced price for a number of locations around the Inner Harbor. You get tickets to the aquarium, Visionary Museum, Top of the World, Science Center, and a couple other options. We had planned to do several of those things and did the math and realized we’d save some cash buying that so we did. They print you out your tickets to the different places and give you info on their tour times, open hours, etc. It is all quite handy, really.
The staff was all very nice and helpful. The building is really nice and about as convenient as you can get being right in the inner harbor. The Harbor Pass thing is a pretty good deal if you plan to hit several of the major Inner Harbor spots. And they’ve got tons of info for all the different places you might be going. Pretty much a one stop shop for all your tourist needs.
Oh, and the bathroom was nice too!

Located right on the Inner Harbor, this is the place to go to find ALL of the brochures you could possibly need. History walking/​biking trails and tours, sightseeing, restaurants, museums, anything and everything that is worth checking out in Baltimore is represented here (caveat – that means everything and anything worth checking out for a tourist. It is a visitor center). They also have a charging stand and air conditioning if it’s a hot day and your phone is dying.
Glad we came here early in our trip to book some tours and get fliers and ideas for meals, museums, and sightseeing.

For a visitor center they have lots of missing brochures that rarely seem to get restocked and some of things they have hundreds of clearly never move.
But the volunteers here are top notch.
We had a great discussion with Mel this past Sunday and it’s people like him that truly put a great face on the town and what it has to offer with their friendly and knowledgeable insight.

Opened in 2004, the Baltimore Visitor Center is conveniently located near Baltimore’s inner harbor shops and restaurants. They have plenty of brochures and maps, with staff there to assist with travel, sightseeing, dining (for the Unilocal-​less), and other local attractions. You’ll also find some informational signs and displays providing a brief overview of the history and significance of Baltimore.
The last time we visited, they had a small theater area, showing a 10 – 15 minute video overview of the area, but they apparently don’t use this room any more. They have a new GPS-​enabled digital guided tour in the works, consisting of portable video players and accompanying headphones. I guess people would leave a credit card deposit (and pay any usage fee) to take these devices out for a spin. Also missing from my last visit were the free packets of Old Bay seasoning… please bring that back!
Whenever I visit Baltimore, I like to take on a sightseeing adventure or two, mixing it in with some local food and fun. I’m glad I stopped by the Visitor Center this year, as one of their friendly staffers directed me to Fort McHenry (celebrating the bicentennial of the War of 1812 this year) that I wouldn’t have thought to visit otherwise.