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We booked tickets for Sagrada Familia and the towers with a guide. Our guide, Victor, was excellent- the pace was just right and he explained everything making the visit so much more informative and interesting for us. Would definitely recommend.

A very enjoyable tour around Park Guell yesterday under the guidance of Raul in excellent English. Great audio system so we could hear Raul no matter how far away we were. Not at all rushed. Very informative and amusing with humorous personal anecdotes.

Did the half day trip from Barcelona to Girona with Julia Tours (left at 8am and back around 2:20pm). Bus was comfy and air conditioned. Left on time. Our tour guide was friendly and showed us around and we had a good amount of free time. Plus if you’re a GOT fan, you’ll get to see some spots from the show.

Our tour of Sagrada Familia was amazing! Olga was our guide and she was absolutely incredible!! She was extremely knowledgeable about the site and was so pleasant to listen to discuss all the details and history. Love learning about the ins and outs and the story behind every detail.

This was the only place I could find last-minute tickets to see Sagrada Familia. It was more expensive than the tickets directly from the basilica (which were sold out), but it included a guided tour. I opted to add the tower access in as well, which is about €15 more than just the guided tour. Our guide was very knowledgeable and passionate. They have to deal with a lot of other people in the area, and to still be able to communicate effectively is impressive. I can't remember the guides name, but she had blue hair, so definitely easy to keep track of in the crowd of thousands inside the basilica. I didn't deal with any disrespect or lack of professionalism, as other reviews have mentioned. Everyone I interacted with was very kind and took time to explain things. FYI, if you're afraid of heights or claustrophobic, the tower is not for the faint of heart!

My wife and I toured Park Guell and Sagrada Familia with tour guides Matthew (Park Guell) and Marc (Sagrada Familia) on November 25th 2024. We showed up about twenty minutes late to our tour of Park Guell because our taxi driver dropped us off at the wrong location. Despite this, Matthew was very understanding and accommodating to both us and others on our tour with other specific or individual needs, ensuring to either wait at a location a little longer or offer an alternative path for those who needed a bit more assistance maneuvering within the park. When arriving at the Julia Travel location after our tour, he provided nearby restaurant recommendations and tips for avoiding potential pickpocket attempts in the crowded city center. Matthew’s Barcelona experience is second to none! Marc provided an amazing tour of the incredible Sagrada Familia. His passion, thoroughness, and efficiency in conducting the tour were very impressive. Despite the heavy crowds, he did a great job directing our tour group through Sagrada Familia in an organized manner while also pointing out specific details about the church that we wouldn’t have otherwise noted. Julia Travel provided two great tours through significant locations within Barcelona. We highly recommend them to anyone looking to learn more about these locations!

Had a great time touring Sagrada Familia. Beautiful and organized tour.

Una is absolutely the best tour guide ever! Knowledgeable. Energetic. And a delight to be around her. She kept everyone engaged and we all walked away with much more than La Sagrada Familia knowledge. We learned architecture, Gaudi history, and she pointed out things most would miss. Thank you, Una!

We took the 30 person catamaran, and had a fantastic time. They stop the boat after about an hour and let the guests swim for half an hour, which is refreshing. There are no pool toys, as advertised, however. Remember to grab a life jacket to swim in the ocean. The boat needs more life jackets available on deck.

Our tour guide Maria was with Julia Tours. It was easy to see she was a regular guide as many of the others knew her as well as the staff of the Basilica. She seemed to love the space as it was “beautiful” to her (told us 18xs). BUT our tour was very poor. It was suppose to be 1.5 hours, scheduled to start at 5. We didn’t start till 5:16 and were done at 6:10. She made all kinds of recommendations of what we could go see AFTER the tour AND didn’t really provide much detail. I suggest you go to the audio tour… has to be better then what we experienced today. Felt like we had a guide who was doing her last tour of the day and just wanted to go home to her air conditioning. This tour company felt like the McDonalds down the road. Fast and efficient but no real nutrients to feed your soul.

Had a great experience with Julia Travel for both the Prado Museum and Sagrada Familia! Easy to find the meeting spots and extremely informative.

Olga was our tour guide today for La Sagrada Familia, Sunday, June 16. She was very informative and so knowledgeable regarding the basilica. This was one of best tours in Barcelona and she made it so enjoyable. We would love to come back to Barcelona again and have Olga as our guide.

The tour was good overall ! We visited the Park Guell first and then Sagrada Familia.In hindsight, I wish I had more time in the park and felt that was a bit rushed. I would like to have spent atleast another hour or two by myself but I also understand that in a tour, you have a limited time and things are as per the schedule. Since, Sagrada Familia was the second stop, I took my time to abroad the place and the museum so, Yay ! This tour is a great option for anyone looking to cover highlights of both places and offers what it promises. Be prepared for a big crowd regardless of any time of the year because these places are popular for a good reason and absolutely worth it too !

Inappropriate behavior. The tour guide left us ( me and 30 people) during the tour. We had to convince the security team of the church that we had a ticket, since only the tour guy had our tickets. The agency never responded to our calls to facilitate the situation. Too expensive service with no quality.

We did not have a great experience on the Montserrat tour on 14/2/2024. The guide arrived late at the Church and they were busy. Rest of the day was good and Montserrat provided great pics

We didn’t realize you had to get tickets to La Sagrada Familia so far in advance and we couldn’t find any tour companies online that had last minute availability. We walked into the office and Julia Travel had tickets available for the week! We were more concerned about just getting into the church and ultimately we weren’t too picky about the quality of the tour (although we did want something informative!). Ultimately, we prepared ourselves for a low quality tour because of the contradictory Google reviews for this company. BUT we ended up having a great & very educational time! Our tour guide was Renata and her English was excellent. She was very knowledgeable and clearly had deep respect for the building, which added to the tour and made it very enjoyable. We arrived at 2:45pm, walked over to the church at 3pm, gained entry by 3:20pm, and the tour ran until 4:20pm/4:30pm. I’d definitely recommend going sometime when the sun is in the East or West, because it shines through the stained glass windows of the cathedral and makes the whole interior very colorful!!!! If you are looking for last minute tickets AND an accessible tour company who can give you a solid tour of La Sagrada Familia, I’d recommend Julia Travel!

STAY AWAY from tours with Julia Travel. We had the worst experience I have ever had in my life with the Park Güell + Sagrada Familia tour. They have no clue what they’re doing (the company claims in comments that they are “professionals” but the different employees and guides we were passed around to all day seemed UNPROFESSIONAL), the staff are rude and do not communicate well with you, they lie about what the process will be like and you will waste most of your day being dragged around to places where you will wait forever with no care for you. The audio guide and headphones were not provided to everyone which caused delay, and then they didn’t even work for everyone. The bus does NOT take you to the location it says, instead you will walk to a second office of theirs and wait and wait and wait for when THEY are ready. Such a ridiculous, horrible experience and there is no excuse for it with how much all of these families paid!

The whole guided touring experience with Mr Omar as our tour guide in Park Guell and in Familia Sagrada was excellent. He gave us so much information on the history, the cultural aspect and the vision mainly that Antonio Gaudi had with his life achievements. It's not always to tell the story, but it's how you tell the story, and Mr Omar surely knows how. We are grateful.

Julià Travel was recommended to us via our hotel, however we were a bit hesitant given some of the recent one-star reviews. We eventually ended up booking two different tours through this agency and could not have been more impressed with the quality of the tours, staff, and buses. I also was not prompted to leave this review, but was compelled to after having such great experiences despite the recent one-star reviews. We attended the full-day trip to Girona and Figueres, followed by the full-day trip to Monserrat and Sitges. The buses were very clean, air-conditioned and one bus had USB outlets to charge our phones. The guides were extremely accommodating and made us feel at-ease during our free time in these cities. One even provided his phone number in the event that we had questions or issues finding the meeting point. During our tour in Montserrat, the guide noticed we were two people short as we boarded the bus. He refused to leave and contacted the couple who were missing, making sure everyone was on the bus before departing. In each city, the guided tours were informative and gave us plenty of insight as to what we could do during our free time. My only suggestion would be to arrive on-time (at the arrival time stated on your confirmation, not the time of the tour departure) as the line in the morning to check in and get your bus assignment can grow pretty long pretty quickly. I wouldn’t hesitate to book another tour with Julià Travel again.

I had a guided tour through the Sagrada Familia today. Robert, the tour guide, did a terrific job. Listening to him was pure joy! If you are so lucky as to have him as a guide, make sure not to miss the bits of wisdom he gives away for free besides the hard facts 🙂 Thank you, Robert!

Our tour guide was so difficult to understand! I am writing this as I am on the tour now. Would be much better if the tour was in either English OR Spanish. The Spanglish is hard to follow. This is my second visit to the Sagrada familia and the audio tour is MUCH BETTER. Save your money, but perhaps I just got a bad guide….

We went to monrserrat. The bus was really tide and uncomfortable. Other thing is that when we finished the tour we came back to the bus 15 min earlier, it was so cold but the driver did not allow us to jump in until the guide came. It was so rude to leave us in cold like this.