Barcelona City Pass & Tourist Cards
Review: Barcelona City Pass, Hola BCN Travel Card & Tickets
Review of favourite Barcelona tourist cards, combo tickets and travel passes like Hola BCN cards: which Barcelona City Pass will really save you money or skip queues?
Review: Barcelona City Passes
There is a wide selection of Barcelona city passes and tourist cards on offer. Research has shown that not all travel and tourist passes for European cities actually save you money. But there are a number of Barcelona passes that you can order that really offer a good deal, like the Barcelona City Pass, the Barcelona Turbopass and travel cards like the Barcelona Essentials Pass and Hola BCN Travel Card. The main thing you save with a number of these tourist passes is the long queues at some of the most famous attractions. A list and our review of all interesting passes, attraction tickets and best travel cards. Which tickets are included in each pass?
1) Recommended: Barcelona City Pass
Highly recommended! Almost every tourist wants to visit the Sagrada Familia and Park Güell. These sights are often sold out several days in advance and can have long queues. With this Barcelona Pass, Tiqets.com has combined them all into a single tourist pass.
The main benefits of the Barcelona City Pass:
- The most important tickets in one purchase. Pick your own timeslot while you book.
- You will receive your tickets immediately, it is also possible to show the tickets via your mobile phone. Unlike other Barcelona tourist passes, you don't have to pick up the tickets somewhere first.
What's included in the Barcelona Pass?
- Fast-track entry to Sagrada Familia (tower visit possible as an additional option)
- Entry to Monumental Zone of Park Güell
- Choose 1 of these 3 tickets: Casa Batlló, Casa Milà or 24-hour ticket for the 'Hop on Hop off Bus' (Would you prefer just Park Güell and the Sagrada Familia? Then buy the 'Barcelona Super Combi)
- Downloadable high-quality audio guide app for Barcelona
- More info and bookings Barcelona Pass
No availability? Check also the more comprehensive Barcelona City Turbopass that has sometimes different availability for the Sagrada Familia and Park Guell.
2) Hola BCN Transport Card
Planning to travel by public transport (metro)? With the Hola BCN Transport Card you get unlimited travel with public transport (bus, metro incl. airport and Ferrocarril city trains). After you've ordered your travel card on this website you get a special code and you can easily pick up the Hola BCN Travel Card at one of the machines of TMB, for instance at the airport.
- 48 hours for € 17.50 (book tickets)
- 72 hours for € 25.50 (book tickets)
- 96 hours for € 33.30 (book tickets)
- 120 hours for € 40.80 (book tickets)
- BCN Essentials Pass (BCN Travel Card + Sagrada Familia + Park Güell) from € 73 (Book your BCN Essentials Pass)
3) Best of Barcelona Bundle
The main benefits of this Barcelona card:
- The 3 most important tickets in one purchase. Pick your own timeslot while you book.
- You will receive your tickets immediately, it is also possible to show the tickets via your mobile phone. Unlike other discount passes, you don't have to pick up the tickets somewhere first.
What's included in the Best of Barcelona Bundle?
- Fast-track entry to Sagrada Familia
- Entry to Monumental Zone of Park Güell
- Ticket for Casa Batlló (Would you rather not visit Casa Batlló? Then book the 'Barcelona Super Combi)
- Downloadable high-quality audio guide app for Barcelona
- More info & bookings
4) Art lover? - Articket (Barcelona Museum Pass)
The Barcelona Articket (or Barcelona Museum Pass) is a great ticket if you plan to visit many art museums. This ticket (€ 38) is usually worth it even if you only visit two museums, such as the popular Picasso museum. The advantage of this ticket is that you won't have to stand in a long queue!
The Barcelona Articket offers one admission in twelve months to each of the following museums:
- Picasso museum (often big queues!)
- Joan Miro Museum
- Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
- Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
- Fundació Antoni Tàpies
- Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)
5) Barcelona City Pass (Turbopass)
The Barcelona City Turbopass is the most comprehensive city pass for Barcelona. With this pass you can visit more than 40 attractions! The Barcelona City Turbopass is valid for 1 to 7 days and gives you access to various museums and attractions. This new tourist card is especially interesting if you stay for a longer period of time in Barcelona city.
The Barcelona City Turbopass includes the following attractions:
- Ticket Casa Batlló
- Ticket Casa Milà (La Pedrera)
- Hop-on-hop-off Bus tour (24 hours) with audio guide
- Cable car Teleferic Montjuic
- Camp Nou: FC Barcelona Experience Tour & Museum
- Entrance to Barcelona Aquarium
- Optional: Sagrada Familia and Park Güell
- Optional: Public Transportation (bus, train & metro), which also includes airport transfers to and from Barcelona-El Prat Airport by public transport
- Tapas Walking Tour & Paella Cooking Class
- Catamaran Sunset Tour with Live Music
- Various activities and museums such as: Casa Vicens (Gaudí), Moco Museum, MACBA Museum, Gaudí Experiència (4D), Casa Amatller, Cripta Gaudí and Colonia Guëll, a harbor tour with “Les Golondrines”, a bike tour, a guided tour the Picasso Museum or an Estrella Damm Brewery Tour & Beer Tasting.
- Montserrat Hiking Tour
- More information and bookings Barcelona City Turbopass
Barcelona card and other tourist cards
The Internet is full of other tourist passes for Barcelona. The selection I made here only consists of discount passes that actually save you time and/or money. Avoiding the sometimes huge queues for attractions is what really makes these passes worth the money. I don't recommend the so-called Barcelona Card. It's one of those typical travel cards that probably isn't worth it.
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This blog article contains 22 fun activities that you can do for free in Barcelona.
6) Individual attraction tickets
If you only want to visit a limited number of sights, it can also be advantageous to simply purchase individual tickets instead of a Barcelona City Pass. The most popular tickets for attractions in Barcelona:
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