Madrid: Royal Palace Expert Guided Tour with Optional Tapas
Description
Join a 2-hour guided tour of Madrid's Royal Palace. Admire the works of art by Giordano and Goya as you explore the palace at a leisurely time during the day with an expert guide who has an in-depth knowledge of the home of Spanish royalty. Meet your guide at the Ópera metro stop located at Plaza de Isabel II in front of the Teatro Real. After a stroll through the picturesque Plaza de Oriente, take advantage of skip-the-line access to the palace. Enjoy visits to the Throne Room, the Gala Dining Room and the private royal apartments. The rooms will come alive with the lively and fascinating explanations of your professional guide. If you have selected the tapas tasting option, you can go on your own to "Mercado Jamón Ibérico" Restaurant at Calle Mayor 80, where you will be given a Iberian Products tasting: ham, pork loin, salchichón sausage, chorizo sausage and Manchego cheese, with a drink, bread, and olive oil.
Tour Options
Itinerary
This will be the meeting point with the guide.
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.
The travelers will see the Sabatini Garden
Highlights
What's included
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Please, be at the starting point 10’ minutes before start of the tour.
- Please check which option did you select as the inclusions are different depending on the option
- If you have selected the option with tapas tasting, you will have to go to "Mercado Jamón Ibérico" on your own: Calle Mayor 80. You can go to the restaurant from 11am to 7pm
- Opening days and times may be modified in the case of special events
- Even with priority entrance, you may have to wait at the security check
Reviews(898)
Very informative guide . Elena was sweet and answered all our questions with patience.finding the place was tricky. I wish we had pick ups for the tours. Finding pick up places in new town is quite a challenge for tourists.
Had a fantastic time. Tour guide was very prepared ahead of the meeting point. She was extremely knowledgeable in the palaces history. I strongly recommend using IBE Tours.
Benny are tour guy was very informative, knowledgable, patient with the group and provided a lot of good information, history and background regarding the royal family, along with intricate details of the various respect spectacular rooms we visited.
The tour itself was great. Lovely guide and super informative. We had opted for the optional tapas which didn’t work out at all. The place they told us to go to wouldn’t let us in. Had to do a dispute to get $$ back. Forget about the ad on.
Rather functional, sizeable group (30?). I’m not sure having the guide added very much vs walking round on your own with an audio guide.
The Madrid palace should not be missed. The colorful rooms were a sight to behold. Our tour guide was so knowledgeable and awesome.
Good morning, The Royal Palace is a wonderful, charming monument – you really mustn’t miss this visit! We’re delighted that you enjoyed the tour with us. Best regards
Ainhoa has been a great guide. Combine knowledge with enjoyable explanations that make the tour very bearable and not boring.
Great tour of the palace. It was nice to have the skip the line option and have someone walking with you, rather than just using a self-guided listening device.
The guide was French and I could not speak Spanish so even if I had a lot of knowledge of the Royal Palace that I also doubt it I could not transmit it. He understood absolutely nothing. Don’t throw away your money that the palace is very nice and what the other guides there told us was very interesting. I contacted the company and they told me that they would refund the money for the visit deducting the cost of admission because it was an error of appointment of guide that they thought I could speak Castellano but that he could not tell me more because his boss did not work on the weekends. After this, the answering machine jumped. Of 156 euros I was returned only 38 and not what he had told me on the phone. Let's make a claim, see what obstacles we run into.
Our guide was very knowledgeable and the tour was paced well. We had time to take in the subject matter at each stop.
