Standout perk: The Breakers offers an audio Family Tour that engages young visitors with stories about the lives of the ...

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Hours The mansion is open every day with tours starting at 9 a.m. and ending at 4 p.m. Tickets Tickets to The Breakers cost $32 for adults and $14 for children ages 6 to 12.

Visiting Newport, Rhode Island, can feel like stepping onto a film set, because many scenes from HBO’s hit show “ The Gilded Age ” were filmed in the city’s gigantic 19th-century mansions.

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Helen Bjurberg's elderly voice greets visitors as she recalls her summers in the 1920s at The Breakers mansion, the opulent oceanside retreat for the wealthy Vanderbilt family.