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based on 61 reviews
Duration: 5 hours (approx.)
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Product code: 2140JTEBA07
61 reviews of Montserrat Monastery and Royal Basilica Half-Day Trip from Barcelona
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If the weather had been better, it would be wonderful trip. Definitely worth seeing.
Reviewed by: Pavel K, Czech Republic, April 2007
Very good tour.
Reviewed by: Camille D, United States, January 2007
The trip was good.
Reviewed by: Padmavadhi M, Belgium, January 2007
This tour featured great walks above the Monastery.
Reviewed by: Bryan T, United Kingdom, October 2006
Not enough time to see and do things. Everything was too rushed.
Reviewed by: Nora M, United States, October 2006
This tour was very good.
Reviewed by: Andrew W, United Kingdom, August 2006
Montserrat was beautiful and the tour was efficient and professional. We were a family of 7 and the 4-hour tour was enough time to see everything. Our guide was thorough and kept on smiling! Highly recommend.
Reviewed by: Anonymous, United States, August 2006
Truly amazing views.
Reviewed by: Eustacia M, United States, July 2006
The views are spectacular! Everything was very good, except that the time is way too short! The bus took an hour and 15 minutes to get there and the same back. That leaves you with an hour and a half, the guide used another half hour to explain how Montserrat works and that left us with an hour to see the black Madonna, hear the choir, do a little shopping, no time for sitting down and having a cup of coffee, no time to go to the grotto where they found the Madonna, or to go up with the train to the top of the mountain. Please keep the tour as is, but start earlier - e.g. get going at 800 and leave Montserrat at 1300!
Reviewed by: Dawid D, Namibia, September 2008
Montserrat is crowded and there was a mass being held so you cannot go inside the Basilica at any time. The free time is not enough if you want to see the basilica, take the funiculars, take even a short walk in the mountains, buy and eat lunch, and queue 2 hours to touch the Madonna. This should be a day trip. TIP: take a return train from Barcelona train station and 'do' Montserrat at your leisure. You don't need a guide if you want to rent audio tapes from the info centre.
Reviewed by: Judith D, United Kingdom, October 2007
It's a nice place. But if you don't have much time in Barcelona, you would do better to spend it in the city - there are enough sights around.
Reviewed by: Anonymous, Norway, October 2007
The guide spent more time telling us about wine in Spain than he did talking about Montserrat. A more informative guide would have made the expense of the tour worth it.
Reviewed by: Neil J, United States, July 2007
My only real complaint with this booking is that the description on the site says you have a choice to take the cog-wheel rail line up to the monastery but we were not given that choice when we checked in. The bus did stop so that one person could do this but we were told this needed to be pre-arranged and we couldn't do it. Overall the tour was good and we had a very nice guide but I would have liked getting more historical info about Montserrat and the region on the bus ride there. Once at the monastery there was a mass going on so we really couldn't tour the church at that time. When we returned for the Boys Choir performance the church was once again packed. It was worth seeing and we enjoyed but it wasn't as rewarding a day of sightseeing as I had hoped for.
Reviewed by: Joel B, United States, June 2007
It could have been better if we had a good guide. We could hardly hear nor understand what our guide was saying. It was so crowded on that day but he should have an item so we can locate him immediately. He seems to be bored for his work probably after so many years and days of repeated tours. Thanks for your kind concern. Your company will grow because you care.
Reviewed by: Helen R, Philippines, May 2007
Our guide found it easier to speak in Spanish rather than in English. The tour did not end at the harbor area as they told us so we had to get our own transportation there.
Reviewed by: Ronald K, United States, October 2006
