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based on 80 reviews
Duration: 5 hours (approx.)
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Product code: 2140JTEBA07
80 reviews of Montserrat Royal Basilica Half-Day Trip from Barcelona
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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 of America, 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 of America, August 2006
Truly amazing views.
Reviewed by: Eustacia M, United States of America, July 2006
I guess I misunderstood the guide. We did what he told us -- he left us alone to see the Madonna and that was all we had time for. But we did get to touch her and that was cool.
Reviewed by: Clovis V. P, United States of America, July 2009
Very happy we did the half day trip instead of the full day trip. Very peaceful and scenic place. Highly recommend seeing the Black Virgin up close. Bus driver and guide were upset at the people who were a couple minutes behind. They were elderly and couldn't walk as fast as the rest of the group back to the bus after the trip. I thought that was unprofessional. Otherwise, good trip and worth seeing.
Reviewed by: John H, United States of America, May 2009
Our guide only spoke broken English, and her microphone on the bus wasn't working well. We missed much of her travelogue of the area and had trouble understanding her directives for returning to the bus. Don't go on Sunday unless you can deal with large crowds attending the mass.
Reviewed by: Anonymous, United States of America, May 2009
Challenging to follow the flow of information. The guide was speaking in four languages and could only share a few sentences at a time with a very long break between information "bits".
Reviewed by: Marilynn R, United States of America, April 2009
I was disappointed that the price did not include the entrance to the museum. The tour operator did not offer to pick us up from the hotel, and they passed almost in front. They need customer service training, they are harsh. We left later than scheduled. I wish they would have left us in a more strategic place at the return, like close to La Rambla. I liked the extra sightseeing of Barcelona.
Reviewed by: Anonymous, United States of America, January 2009
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 of America, July 2007
