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Madrid Royal Palace Tour: Skip-the-Line Access, Tapas Tasting & El Retiro Park Exploration
3.9
14 Ratings
Madrid
Experience a guided exploration of the beautiful El Retiro Park. Afterwards, join your guide for a comprehensive tour of Madrid’s Royal Palace. Further, you get to savor traditional Spanish food with a tapas tasting at a renowned bar.
Experience a guided exploration of the beautiful El Retiro Park. Afterwards, join your guide for a comprehensive tour of Madrid’s Royal Palace. Further, you get to savor traditional Spanish food with a tapas tasting at a renowned bar.
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Puerta de Alcala - Around this place is the meeting point with the guide.
- Parque del Retiro - The most visited park in Madrid, it has more than 15,000 trees. It is a place full of history built by the kings of Spain in the seventeenth century as a place of rest and vacation.
- Plaza de Isabel II - Our second visit to the Royal Palace will…
- Puerta de Alcala - Around this place is the meeting point with the guide.
- Parque del Retiro - The most visited park in Madrid, it has more than 15,000 trees. It is a place full of history built by the kings of Spain in the seventeenth century as a place of rest and vacation.
- Plaza de Isabel II - Our second visit to the Royal Palace will begin here, in this square.
- Royal Palace of Madrid - It is one of the largest palaces in Western Europe, almost twice the size of the Palace of Versailles or Buckingham Palace, with 3,478 rooms.
- Jardines de Sabatini - The travelers will see the Sabatini Garden
What's Included
- Walking tour of El Retiro Park
- Snacks
- Tapas tasting in one of the most important bars in Madrid
- Professional Tour Guide
- Walking tour of El Retiro Park
- Snacks
- Tapas tasting in one of the most important bars in Madrid
- Professional Tour Guide
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Food or beverages not described in the inclusion points or description
- Hotel pick up or transfer
- Gratuities
- Food or beverages not described in the inclusion points or description
- Hotel pick up or transfer
Additional Information
- Please, be at the starting point 15’ minutes before start of the tour.
- For the tapas tasting you need to go to Calle Mayor 80, the bar “Mercado Jamón Ibérico” from 11am to 7pm. You have to go on your own, the guide does not accompany you.
- Please, be at the starting point 15’ minutes before start of the tour.
- For the tapas tasting you need to go to Calle Mayor 80, the bar “Mercado Jamón Ibérico” from 11am to 7pm. You have to go on your own, the guide does not accompany you.
Location
Plaza de la Independencia
Puerta de la Independencia of Retiro Park, in Plaza de la Independencia.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.9
(14 Ratings)
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Cvocelle
May 3, 2024
Great Experience in Madrid - All three places included on this tour were fantastic and “authentic”. All tour guides were knowledgeable and very friendly. All were helpful in giving succinct and good directions to the next location. Be aware that we had to arrive at Retiro Park (gorgeous!), then take the metro by ourselves to the palace, then walk to the restaurant for tapas. We are pretty seasoned travelers, so we’re not deterred that we had to maneuver parts of the tour ourselves.
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Chileanhoosier
Jun 17, 2023
Excellente tour de el Palacio Real de Madird - I had a wonderful time on the tour. The guide was very knowledgeable and had a great sense of humor. The palace itself is stunning and definitely worth the visit.
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Kutta2102
Feb 26, 2023
Good visit to Alcazar - Great experience with our guide Roccio. She was funny and knowledgeable about the Alcazar and we learned a good amount history without getting bored!
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Susana_v
Oct 9, 2022
Very informational tour! - Such a nice tour! Had a little break between the park and the palace. Palace was worth seeing. The retiro park was very informational, had to go back to explore the rest of it since it was only 1hr.
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Eleni_h
Jul 15, 2022
Oasis and opulence! - Retiro park is an oasis!
Sergio our guide was very knowledgeable. Fun tour of the park.
The Royal Palace is amazing. Too much wealth for kings and Queens.
David our guide was very good.
The Tapas were very little food. I do not recommend it. I’m sorry I paid for it.
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Isibhakhomen_o
Sep 24, 2023
A bit below expectations! - Madrid is a stunning city that is definitely worth visiting. If you're planning to take a tour, I would recommend booking each location separately or exploring on your own, as this is how I felt during my own tour. We had a tour guide for El Retiro Park and the Royal Palace, but we had to navigate between tours ourselves with very little time left for the tapas tasting. When we arrived at the restaurant, it seemed like they had no idea why we were there. We finally showed them our tickets, but the waiter was uninterested, to say the least, and the tapas were not very impressive - just some fried potatoes and shrimp. Nothing really stood out.
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Ellie_c
May 1, 2023
Some good, some not so good - Retiro Park: The guide didn’t add much to this visit so I recommend you do this on your own and also see inside some of the buildings which the guide didn’t take us to
Royal Palace: The tour was good but our group was too big and it took 40 minutes just to get inside the palace and for everyone to get their audio. So be prepared for that.
Tapas: you do this on your own. The guide doesn’t go with you. They didn’t speak any English and at first turned us away until we showed our tickets. After that. We enjoyed the tapas.
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Joadster5
Oct 22, 2023
Disappointing! - We have nothing negative to say about the guide. He did his best, but it was impossible. The group was too big! The palace too crowded! And the earpieces didn’t work well enough. There were 4 in our group, 3 got so frustrated they left. I stayed hoping ti get something out of it, but ended up very frustrated and disappointed. Unanimously it was our worst tour while in Madrid.
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Mario_m
Dec 24, 2023
Unless you know how to navigate Downotwn Madrid on your own, stay away from this tour! - This tour is the collection of two or maybe three activities completly unrelated. Each one has its own guide, its own set of clients and its own operator, leaving the client to navigate, on its own, from one activity to the next one. At the end of a nice visit to the Retiro Park, the guide left us to go on our own to the start point of the next activity. Not knowing much about downtown Madrid we took a taxi that took forever to reach the Isabel II explanade, a very large expanse and we couldn't locate the next guide in time. The messages from the second operator where followe by a large privacy legalese text on privacy which made dificult to read. As I mentioned before missed the staart of the tour and we had to do the visit on out own, which by the way was very easy to do. Of course the tour operator refused to refund th unused part.
My advice is that unless you know how to navigate on your own downtown Madrid, avoid this tour like the plague!
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Brunopz9489sf
Nov 13, 2023
Una ESTAFA / SCAM - Ni prestaron el servicii y NO DEVOLVIERON EL DINERO. UNA ESTAFA. NO DESPERDICIEN SU DINERO.
They did not provide the service and did not return the money. A TOTAL SCAM. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY
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