Madrid Sightseeing Tour: Panoramic City View with Royal Palace Skip-the-Line Access
3.7
243 Ratings
Madrid

Embark on a sweeping tour of Madrid. Traverse prominent landmarks like Puerta de Alcalá and Cibeles Fountain, among others. Capture snapshots of the city’s most noteworthy sights. Bypass the queue and explore the Royal Palace with a local expert.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Plaza de la Villa - Discover this emblematic place by the hand of your guide
What's Included
  • 1-hour expert-led walking tour
  • Comfortable travel via air-conditioned motor coach
  • Personal radioguided system for the Royal Palace tour
  • Exclusive skip-the-line access
  • Bilingual tour in Spanish and English
  • Royal Palace entrance and guided tour included
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Food and drinks, unless specified
Additional Information
  • Operated by a bilingual guide in Spanish and English
  • Please keep in mind that the excursion includes several visits on foot, we recommended comfortable shoes.
  • Please note that the itinerary is subject to change due to the oficial acts to be celebrated in the palace.
  • Please note that the itinerary is subject to change due to the events to be celebrated in the City (demonstrations, sport events, cultural events, official acts and public works).
  • Failure to show up at the established check-in time may entail losing the tour.
  • We will make convenient stops to rest and take pictures at Plaza Mayor, Debod’s Temple and Las Ventas Bullring, if the weather permits and always accompanied by our guide.
  • Crowds or security protocols can lead to delays in skip the line access
Location
Julià Travel Madrid
Calle de San Nicolás
Julià Travel Office
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
3.7
(243 Ratings)
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Kevin_w
Oct 10, 2022
Fantastic Tour - Our guide was great about telling the history of Madrid's fantastic architecture and about the rooms and features of the Royal Palace.
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Sheldon
Aug 8, 2022
Five hour tour of Central Madrid (walking], bus tour and royal palace - The tour , equally in Spanish and English, was about five hours long including walking around the central area, panoramic bus tour and royal palace visit. everything was spot on and the tour guide, Javier, was very knowledgable and also had a good sense of humour. Highly recommended to get a reasonable feel of the touristic parts of Madrid.
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Gary_k
Jul 24, 2019
Amazing Place, but A Difficult Tour - Our visit to the Palace was amazing. The Palace is a very interesting and beautiful. Our tour guide was not very good. She was a nice person, but she wasn't good at explaining the Palace in either English or Spanish.
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Dorothy_k
Nov 9, 2019
Good for Limited time - This was a good overview of sights in Madrid. We had limited time and wanted to see the city. The guided tour of the Palace was excellent! My only complaint is there are no hotel pickups.
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Designtrio
Feb 15, 2020
Skip the bus tour of Madrid City Highlights - Our guides were very good. But the first part of the tours was two hours on a bus and if I were to do that next time, I would just do the Royal Palace portion.
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549arielg
Oct 31, 2019
Somewhat ok - We had our sightseeing first around the city by coach there are some nuisance in the bus that some are talking while the tour guide Isabelle is talking about Madrid , we had only one stop in the plaza del toro for some photo op but in other places that is nice to take some photos we didn’t. I don’t know maybe it’s better if you take the hop on hop tour bus instead. The next one is the royal palace our guide is good sorry forgot the name Sergio or Jorge but he’s ok.Threw some jokes there and then so it’s not too boring. That tour is okey the Royal palace tou.
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Danny_l
Oct 6, 2019
Not my choice - 2 different tours joined as one Madrid highlites, very disappointing delivery of the tour my the guide, she was not interested or passionate about what she does. Was surpose to be in English and Spanish, English was an after thought. The palace tour was done by another guide, she was interested and informative. This part of the tour was great
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Andrea_m
Oct 9, 2019
English sightseeing tour disappointment - First you meet at the travel office. It is wall to wall with people, no where to sit, no directions given. We finally went and asked and your Viator paper ticket is not good on this tour, like it has been on every tour I went on. You have to wait in like and get the travel companies ticket. Also out front are local beggers because they know it's all tourists, the company never asked them to leave or to stop harassing people waiting for their tour. Then it's a little walk and down some stairs to the bus, we were fine but some older people really had a problem. The tour isn't as good as the Hop On Hop off tour and it's in english and spanish. I was under the impression it was only english, so every sentence was english then spanish, english, spanish and it made for non stop talking by the tour guide. I understand that we are in Spain and they speak spanish, I expect that, but not on an english guided tour. The Royal Palace tour was ok, but it would have been better to just do a regular tour through the palace. It's crowded and hard to stay with the group. Plus you don't have time to read the plaques by each item or in each room. I would not recommens this tour or tour company.
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Chris_g
Oct 1, 2021
Skip this sham company - Horrible experience. Simply awful. Terrible communication and not friendly, please use another organization for your touring needs in Madrid. A guide for the Palace isn't necessary and the free walking tours available in Madrid were great for €50 less.
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Crispin_b
Aug 5, 2019
Not the ideal tour - Took the Madrid and royal palace tour. Not impressed by our tour guide Isabella. I was hoping for an informative tour, but instead got a tour filled with yelling and no clear time limit on each bus stop.
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