Barcelona City Pass
Barcelona is very large and beautiful. Gaudi Haus Museum is rather disappointing. The best was the film about the life of Gaudi. It is a pity that the tickets for the Sagrada Familia did not have any choice for entrance + access to the Sagrada Familia's towering chairs.
Basically, for my visit, the CityPass was not worth it, as it is hardly possible during this time (in 5 days) to exhaust all the possibilities offered by the CityPass. Therefore I would not take the Citypass again for a Kurztripp. This is too expensive, even if the entrance to the Sagrada Familia, the public transport and a hop-on-hop-off-tour are included.
The really exciting sights are not included such as Casa Batllo, La Pedrera, Teleferico, Exposicion Gaudis in Parque Güell. Since you have to pay extra entrance. The Barcelona map is, in my opinion, mainly for museum lovers. But Barcelona still offers soooo much more.
Overall, it was okay to have bought this card, but if you buy everything separately, it ends up costing as much. In principle, it is the \"normal\" BCN card with all the trimmings, the Hop On Hop Off ticket for a day, a BASIC admission to the Sagrada Familia and Gaudi entry to the house in the Guell Park! Attention: ONLY the house. In the Guell Park one may in vain, BUT not in the part that really why you go there, say the stairs with the snake, the mosaics, the platform and so on - that costs extra and there may only be a total of 600 people a day in. The former home of Gaudi's interesting, but a \"Nice-To-Have\" - if you were buildings in the Museum of Modernism and the other Gaudi, one has seen that. All other Gaudi houses are NOT included. In addition, we were disappointed that was the card for Sagrada Familia only Basic, so no towers and no other extras.
Some things the passport does not help and you have to still pay admission anyway. I'm not sure if it was really worth it to me. The true positive was that buses and trains and the sightseeing bus was free.
The pass is too expensive. 2 points were annoying: The Park Güell is no longer there, although I have read the map comparison on the Internet. You also get the hop on and hop off sightseeing bus only in one day. Since you can not make the proposed 3 trips to 2 hours at all.
I'm not really satisfied. Even when picking up the passport, there were irritations, as it was not clear enough that the City Pass is just an addition to the B-Card. I counted on a separate, designated as such city pass. Since I was in Barcelona for 7 days, I could not use the free arrivals / departures, because I took the card reasonably for the 5 core days in operation. Public transport would have been cheaper with tens of cards. The Hop on - Hop off bus tour is not worth the money. Many things could be better explored on foot anyway, and others could also be targeted by subway. I have not encountered long lines of sightseeing (exception: Sagrada Familia), the Skip-the Line option was superfluous.
We have never been to Barcelona. Therefore, we were happy when we bought the City Pass. Arriving at the airport we were overwhelmed with brochures and paper in the tourist office. We could not use most of it. Then we started the transfer to the city Plaza Barcelona. But at the airport you can only with the normal public transport with the pass in the city. We wanted the express bus, which drives directly. Unfortunately the passport was not valid and we paid 5.60 Euro per person. It was good that we could immediately queuing up for the Sagrada Familia. I had the passport on the tablet and there were no problems. Good was also that the subways were free without annoying small change count. We could not use the discounts of the stores because the ones we were in did not accept the pass. At Hop and Hop Bus we had to find the right bus because we first thought we could take anyone. Finding the right bus did not take long, after that it was very convenient. Even the flamenco evening was not possible with a discount from the pass, as they had not accepted it. We were in the expensive Flamenco Cordobes, entrance and buffet for 2 persons 144, -Euro cost. We would like to get a discount with the pass, as I said was not. You can save the food. These are small appetizers, all of which are called tapas and of inferior quality.
Barcelona was great. We were a total of 6 days, consciously chose the city pass only for 4 days, since we were picked up at the airport by the hotel taxi. We could only use the metro with 3maligem change. The Citypass is not valid for the Aerobus! We lived very central and used the metro only on 1 1/2 days, so a single booking of Hopon Hopoff bus and entrance Sakrada would have been much cheaper, especially as you get the same discount vouchers in the bus, as the city pass. For the Park Guell, Casa Batolo, Casa Mia, etc., you still pay the full price! Conclusion: since the city center is very close to each other and we visited the museums in the great weather, the turbo pass was not a good choice.
We are not really satisfied with the turbo pass. We each had the 5-day pass for € 129.90 in Barcelona. Positive is that you can save time, z. B. at the Sagrada Familia. The whole handling including pickup at the airport is quick and easy, you can start quickly. However, one must not hope to save money with the passport. To do that, one would have to rattle off the included attractions with a tight schedule. If these do not cover 100% what you want to see for yourself, it is not possible from our experience to recover the price of the passport. Not everything that interests you is included in the passport, some things only give a small discount. a few points were negative: - It is unclear what the actual Barcelona Card is needed and what the additional expression with barcode serves. You risk getting less discount (or some things not at all) because you only have the plastic card with you. - In spite of ordering for two persons, we were initially only sent one Sagrada ticket for one person. Good that we have thoroughly checked everything first. - the first review here obviously did not work, even though I filled out everything and sent it too. Now I was (re) invited to give a rating. My recommendation: not to buy the pass, order the Sagrada ticket online and buy a multi-day ticket for the metro on-site.
Do your homework before buying this city pass.
1. COST
There are few attractions that are completely free; MOST attractions come at a discount (e.g. EURO 1 or 2 off the full price, of less 10%). And some of the attractions are really expensive and over-priced for what you get! Be aware that cafes/restaurants on the tourist route are far more expensive than those in side streets.
2. WAITING TIMES - ADVANCE BOOKING
Also, be aware in advance which attractions need pre-bookings (e.g.the Sagrada, Park Guell) or you'll have a LONG wait - possibly hours - to get in, or you'll will be turned away entirely due to no available tickets for that day.)
3. HOP ON/OFF BUS
We found the hop-off/on bus something of a rip-off: the bus covers a great distance (so it's not possible to get on/off at each attraction in one day, and the pass is only valid for one day - or you have to pay more for a 2nd day's validity of your ticket). Also, it's actually quicker/cheaper to take the metro to your chosen destinations. That way you can do/see more in one day.
4. GRUMPY LOCALS
We found the local citizens to be rather grumpy and not at all as friendly or helpful as our other destinations on their trip (to Copenhagen and Vienna). Perhaps they're tired by the end of the summer season and looking forward to fewer tourists. We were also surprised at how few spoke English (even in the tourist shops).
5. A TOURIST RIP OFF?
This was the one city where we felt we were valued only for our tourist dollars/euros. Cafes won't even provide a glass of (tap) water for free. We experienced sangria that was watered-down, and another cafe where you could not buy a beer of less than half a litre in size (and the waiter refused to bring one 500 ml beer with 2 glasses so the beer could be shared by two). And if you don't ask for a discount or produce a discount voucher, you won't be asked if you have discount vouchers (handed out with the hop on/off bus ticket, and provided in the City Pass package) that would lower the price. And some attractions are really over-priced.
6. RECOMMENDATIONS
Buy an unlimited transport ticket and use the metro to get about.
Be careful of pick-pockets.
If you do receive discount vouchers, make sure you get the discount.
Know which attractions are free and which aren't.
Prices for direct booking often cheaper than the pass. The Aerobus is missing You have to be very accurate, what the passport does not offer Total price only worthwhile with frequent use of public transport
We mostly used our metro pass and only used our city pass once. It was a waste of money for us honestly. We really wanted to go to Park Guell and we thought that was included in the pass because the pass indicates that we can get into the Gaudi museum which is in Park Guell. Well, turns out that the Gaudi museum is part of Park Guell but is separate from the actual area you want to visit. That requires an additional TIMED ticket. This is not indicated anywhere on the pass website and we were upset to learn we had to buy a separate ticket.
We only stayed in Barcelona for 2 1/2 days so for others who will actually go to all the places allowed it might be better for them but it was a big disappointment for us. Buying a metro card ourselves would have been better.
Had a 3 day pass. Unfortunately not much was possible and poorly described. For example, you could not book an Audiogide in the Sagrada familia and also not the Turmbesteigung.Das us the most annoyed. No notice in the description. In 3 days you can not visit as many museums as possible. Also in the special part of Park Guüll was no admission with the Barcelona Card.
The offer sounds good. It is composed of different passports; The pass is not worth it. You should think carefully before. Sometimes we did not get the given percentages. z. B in the park Gül
All Ryanair travelers have to be careful as the drive from Girona is not covered. All sights are very central and can be easily reached on foot, bus and train therefore only for those with a problem with the patient or far outlying sights, which are not included in the pass. Art is a matter of taste, my taste did not hit the many museums,
Ladies and gentlemen, We had the Barcelona City Pass already booked in advance in Vienna, but as stated in this passport that we have integrated the port travel for free, this was not accepted and we had to pay the harbor tour, very annoying. Also, unfortunately, was not specified that you have to book for the Guell Park in advance, because this discount I could not use it because I did not get tickets, this information was not given. Also in the Hopp on hopp off bus we had problems with the passport, which was accepted, only after long discussions and all my confirmations. On the whole, the passport from the financial was not worth it for us, as well as frequent discrepancies in Barcelona. I would expect that I at least get the price (15 €) of the two harbor tours retourniert from them, on goodwill. Greetings Birkmayer Maria
Not recommendable. Bad map material. Hop-on hop-off leads through boring streets and squares, the price only picks up the price, which really uses all "bargains".
So the turbo passes are more than disappointing. We now had the turbo pass Barcelona and the turbo pass Rome. In Barcelona we had for the Sagrada, of course, only the basics ticket, in the Sagrada, however, ea gives the possibility to lift up with an elevator, here you need again an extra ticket, which is not even the turbo pass to choose from. It is then very annoying, if you still want to look at the Sagrada and extra rausrennen has to buy the extra elevator ticket extra. Even otherwise, the pass does not really offer benefits. For the Park Güell you also need a special time ticket, if you want to see the monument, this is not included in the turbo pass or you can not book.