• Cellars on the large tour, while the short tour skips them; out of season both start every two hours from 9:30am, and hourly from 9am in June to September
• A summer kids' tour: "How it was to live in the castle" runs 45 minutes for younger visitors in July and August, weekdays at 12:30pm and 2:30pm, plus 3:30pm on weekends
• Lots of stairs inside, with 204 steps and 26 raised thresholds on the tour route, so plan to carry babies and toddlers; the courtyard itself is step-free

Červený Kameň is a medieval castle rebuilt as a Renaissance fortress, home to the Pálffy family until 1945 and now a branch of the Slovak National Museum. Guided tours lead through furnished rooms with painted ceilings and down into cellars the museum calls the largest in Central Europe. Outside the tour, kids can climb the northern bastion for the view, visit the falconer's yard and peek into the gatehouse prison.