Indeed, you were lucky related to the timing. I hope you managed to see the LHC and some of its detectors.
I was expecting to bring my son down inside the LHC (through an off-the-grid private tour with friends), but the pandemic forced us to cancel it. Now it is too late for such a tour as the machine has restarted, and we need to wait for the next shutdown period. My son is counting the days (maybe @gtg too in fact) ;)
Cheers!
I am eager to personally visit the LHC but unfortunately, the access to the LHC was closed because of the covid restrictions on the same day of my visit, what a coincident, lol 😂.
Hopefully, I can travel again to this place one more time in God's perfect time
Things are now much easier. We can even enter CERN again. However, the LHC is running, as I said above, so that it is impossible to go down for a visit at present. The best strategy would be to target a trip during the usual winter short shutdown. However even at that moment, it is not guaranteed that going down is an option.
I am however sure you will get another opportunity, at some point ^^
Cheers!