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(903)
The palace was beautiful with so much to see. The guide was very knowledgeable and informative. We really enjoyed this tour.
Our guide was exceptional describing the history, individual sculptures, busts, and statues. She brought palace life alive with full descriptions of the visited palace rooms. We saw palace life through her explanations. She was also sensitive to the walking needs of my wife, by providing an elevator for descending to the ground floor.
We had a wonderful time on this excursion and are very glad we booked it. The itinerary was well-planned, the guides were professional and knowledgeable, and everything ran smoothly from start to finish. The highlights of the tour were fantastic and exactly as described. The only reason I’m giving it 4 stars instead of 5 is that the tour time was changed. That being said, it was a completely seamless, high-quality experience. All was good, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a solid, well-organized tour!
Ander was a brilliant guide! Had so much fun and learnt so much about the Spanish royal court and history. Would definitely recommend ☺️
This tour was exceptional. The guide was fun and knowledgeable, and kept the pace quite reasonable. The crowd was medium that day and he kept us all together while conveying the details of the palace and history of Spain in an engaging way.
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.
