Barcelona Full-Day Tour: Private & Custom with a Local Guide
Overview
Spend a full day exploring Barcelona with a local host who shapes the experience around your interests, pace, and curiosity. From Roman history and Gothic streets to modernist landmarks and coastal neighborhoods, this private experience offers a more personal way to discover the city.
Throughout the day, explore a thoughtful mix of Barcelona’s iconic sights and lesser-known corners. Wander through the Gothic Quarter, admire landmarks like the Sagrada Família from the outside, uncover traces of Roman Barcelona, or spend time in neighborhoods shaped by local culture and everyday life. Along the way, your host shares local insight, cultural context, and recommendations tailored to your interests.
Before your experience, you will receive an online personalization form so your host can tailor the day around your travel style and preferences. Your itinerary remains flexible throughout, allowing you to explore spontaneously and spend more time in the places you enjoy most.
What's Included
- Online Personalization Form sent after booking to tailor your experience
- Flexible durations and start times - Pick your preferred duration when you book
- Get picked up (on foot) at your accommodation if it's central
- Private and personalized walking experience with insider tips from a passionate local
- Direct communication with your host for itinerary planning and local recommendations
- Food, drinks and tickets to any attractions
- Transportation (primarily a walking experience, public transport may be used at an additional cost)
- Gratuities (optional)
- Hotel drop off
Meeting and Pickup
This is a private walking tour. Your host will meet you at your chosen hotel, or you can select the central meeting point instead, which we recommend for the best overall experience. If your hotel isn’t listed, please choose the central landmark option. No private vehicle is included.
Via Laietana
32, Ciutat Vella, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
Detailed check-in instructions, including the exact address, are provided with your booking confirmation.
This activity ends back at the meeting point.
Detailed check-in instructions, including the exact address, are provided with your booking confirmation.
What To Expect
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Barcelona (pass by)
Basilica de la Sagrada Familia (pass by)
Jewish Quarter (pass by)
MUHBA Temple d'August (pass by)
Placa del Rei (pass by)
El Born (pass by)
Barceloneta Beach (pass by)
Additional Info
- Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- This is a private City Unscripted experience: real people, real connections
- After booking, you'll receive a short online Personalization Form to share your interests, preferences, and must-sees. Your City Unscripted guide will personally reach out to craft a fully customized itinerary that suits your style—whether you love history, food, hidden gems, or cultural experiences.
- This private tour is a walking experience. A private vehicle is not included.
- Public transportation or local taxis may be used to transfer between sites. Exact transportation costs can be discussed with your host after your reservation is finalized.
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Frequently Asked Questions (7)
The answers provided below were previously given in response to questions from City Balloon Tours customers.
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- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the tour start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the tour start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the tour start time will not be accepted.
- Cut-off times are based on the tour local time (CET).
- Online Personalization Form sent after booking to tailor your experience.
- Flexible durations and start times - Pick your preferred duration when you book.
- Get picked up (on foot) at your accommodation if it's central.
- Private and personalized walking experience with insider tips from a passionate local.
- Direct communication with your host for itinerary planning and local recommendations.
- Food, drinks and tickets to any attractions.
- Transportation (primarily a walking experience, public transport may be used at an additional cost).
- Gratuities (optional).
- Hotel drop off.
The minimum age to participate is 7. This tour requires at least one adult to accompany children..
Apr 2025If a date or time is not listed on the calendar, it’s sold out or unavailable for another reason. Support cannot assist further if a date or time is not on the calendar.
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Apr 2025Accessibility information for the Barcelona Full-Day Tour: Private & Custom with a Local Guide is as follows:
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Detailed check-in instructions – including meeting point address, Google map, and parking information – for Barcelona Full-Day Tour: Private & Custom with a Local Guide will be included in your confirmation email from City Balloon Tours. Please be sure to double and triple check your email address is correct at checkout so this important email makes its way to you!
Mar 2024Once your refund is processed, it usually shows on your card statement within 5–10 business days. The exact timing depends on your bank or card issuer.
Want it sooner? When you cancel, choose Receive a refund to my wallet instead. The credit is in your Wallet straight away and is applied automatically at checkout on your next booking when you’re signed in with the same email. You can see your balance any time in My Wallet.
If you paid part of your booking with Wallet credit, that part always goes back to your Wallet. Trip protection isn’t refundable.
Oct 2026What's Included
- Online Personalization Form sent after booking to tailor your experience
- Flexible durations and start times - Pick your preferred duration when you book
- Get picked up (on foot) at your accommodation if it's central
- Private and personalized walking experience with insider tips from a passionate local
- Direct communication with your host for itinerary planning and local recommendations
- Food, drinks and tickets to any attractions
- Transportation (primarily a walking experience, public transport may be used at an additional cost)
- Gratuities (optional)
- Hotel drop off
Additional Info
- Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- This is a private City Unscripted experience: real people, real connections
- After booking, you'll receive a short online Personalization Form to share your interests, preferences, and must-sees. Your City Unscripted guide will personally reach out to craft a fully customized itinerary that suits your style—whether you love history, food, hidden gems, or cultural experiences.
- This private tour is a walking experience. A private vehicle is not included.
- Public transportation or local taxis may be used to transfer between sites. Exact transportation costs can be discussed with your host after your reservation is finalized.
