Madrid City Tour: Explore Historic Madrid With a Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Ticket
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2,705 Ratings

Explore Madrid leisurely on one of our open-top red buses. You can get on and off as you please throughout the day with just one ticket. Change routes and learn about Madrid’s history via an audio guide, now offered in 14 different languages!

Duration: 2 hours, 40 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights

Route nº 1 (Blue color) (Route)

Operating Schedule: Bus frequency: every 30-40 minutes

High season (March-October): 9am-10pm

Low season (November-February): 10am-6pm

1. Museo Nacional del Prado

2. Puerta de Alcalá

3. Salamanca

4. Plaza de Colón

5. Plaza de Cibeles

6. C.Gran Vía, 14

7. C.Gran Vía, 32

8. C.Gran Vía, 54

9. Plaza Espana

10. Temple of Debod

11. Porta de Sant Vicent

12. Toledo Gate

13. Gran Vía de San Francisco

14. Calle de la Colegiata

15. C. de Atocha, 116

16. Real Jardín Botánico

17. Museo Nacional del Prado

Points of Interest

  • Palacio de Cibeles

  • Puerta de Alcala

  • Biblioteca Nacional de Espana

  • Plaza Colon

  • Edificio Metropolis

  • Edificio Telefonica

  • Edificio Carrion

  • Edificio Espana

  • Torre de Madrid

  • Monumento Cervantes

  • Palacio de Liria

  • Templo de Debod

  • Royal Palace of Madrid

  • Museo de la Catedral de la Almudena

  • Atocha

  • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

  • Real Jardin Botanico

  • Prado National Museum

  • Parque del Retiro

Route nº 2 (Green color) (Route)

Operating Schedule: Bus frequency: every 30-40 minutes

High season (March-October): 9am-10pm

Low season (November-February): 10am-6pm

1. Neptune Fountain

2. Plaza de Cibeles

3. Plaza de Colón

7. Santiago Bernabéu Stadium

13. Puerta de Alcalá

15. Puerta del Sol

16. Plaza de las Cortes

17. Neptune Fountain

Points of Interest

  • Fuente de Neptuno

  • Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

  • Naval Museum

  • Palacio de Cibeles

  • Puerta de Alcala

  • Parque del Retiro

  • Plaza Colon

  • Museo Arqueologico Nacional

  • Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

  • Santiago Bernabeu Stadium

  • Real Academia Espanola

  • Circulo de Bellas Artes

What's Included
  • Tour map and guidebook included
  • Choose between 1- and 2-day hop-on hop-off bus tour options
  • Double-decker open top buses with air-conditioning
  • Multilingual digital audio system available on buses
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Food and drinks
  • Pick up and drop off service
Additional Information
  • Buses are adapted for passengers with reduced mobility. The features include an automatic access ramp, reserved space for wheelchairs with safety clamps and fastenings, and an extended ramp and kneeling system to the right of the bus
  • Hop-on hop-off tickets are not available for infants aged from 0 to 6 years old, as passes are free of charge
  • Please note: the regular Madrid City Tour service may be affected due to ongoing events in the city, adverse traffic conditions or force majeure reasons out of our control.
  • IMPORTANT: Some of the stops are suspended due to the pedestrianization of Puerta del Sol. We will soon offer a new definitive touristic route.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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999infinitod
Mar 16, 2024
Beautiful tour - Beautiful tour done with the family, the bus is very comfortable, the audio is efficient, you can hear it very well and they explain everything you see, congratulations, keep it up, I highly recommend it
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Turqoise_w
Feb 19, 2024
Good if you are short on time - We were only in Madrid for 2 days so this was a great way to tour the city and then decide what we wanted to explore deeper later in the day and the next day with out having to walk too much.
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Marilyn_j
Jan 5, 2024
Traveling for seniors, great option - A good way to see the city when you only have a few days, specially for seniors like us. We could see where we wanted to go back to visit.
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Shelley_a
Dec 13, 2023
Ideal way to get a good city overview - The Hop on Hop off is our go-to way of getting an overview of a new city. The Madrid tour met our expectations as we were able to see the main sights and get on and off the bus at those stops we felt were more interesting.
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Jazzventures
Mar 22, 2024
Good for huge city with minimum time and if you utilise this the right way its worth it - If you only have a short amount of time this is worth doing mind you a lot of people expect buses all the time but if you use it in a clever wa which is to hop on then hop off look around and then check the app to see where the buses are and walk through some mroe attractions to another bus stop wherethe bus will be stopping soon on the app - waiting at the same bus stop you get off at fo another bus is just wasting time - you need to walk from stop to stop and see things along the way
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Manue9712
Dec 30, 2023
We do not recommend it... - Unfriendly staff. Some brief comments, sometimes of little interest. A lot/too much waiting music. We had to change seats several times because the headphones didn't work. Due to the price (about €55) we do not recommend it.
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131rickj
Feb 28, 2024
No refund for their cancellation - One of the agents for the tour organizer explained to us on the morning of the event that it would be unable to proceed due to a large demonstration happening in downtown Madrid. She advised us to cancel. We did so. Now that we have requested a refund the company has refused to do so .
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Paula_rosmar
Jan 4, 2024
Impossible to get on the bus - We booked the City Tour Madrid online, when we arrived at the stop it was impossible to get on the buses, all full, 6 buses passed by, waiting for 2 hours and in the end we couldn't get on. We complained to the company we booked with, ticketinhotel, and the response was very prompt and they gave us our money back at the same time. But I recommend first seeing if there are many people because otherwise it is a waste of time. Very bad organization. There are not enough buses and it is not known how long they take, when on the normal bus network you can see waiting times.
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Road26318381750
Dec 22, 2023
Disastrous experience. - Disastrous. Audio guide connections for some seats did not work. In those that worked, the explanation was out of date with the journey at that time. The data offered is not updated. It did not take the full route offered, it was shortened. And the worst thing is that they announce themselves as a company with an agreement with the Madrid city council.
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Trailblazer401629
Dec 10, 2023
I would not repeat, terrible service for that price - Short hours from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and even more so as it is a holiday weekend. Price 4 people for 2 days €90. (Excessive for the passes he makes in winter). Bus passes every 20/30 minutes. Sometimes without being able to catch it because it is full. In winter I don't recommend it at all. It is worth going down to the metro, getting a voucher for 10 bus/metro trips for about €6 and reloading the card.
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