Barcelona Bus Turistic > Reviews

Advantages: A great way to take in almost everything the city has to offer.
Disadvantages: You will look like a right tourist!

...layout of the place, as Barcelona is not particularly difficult to get around. But as we did both the blue and red line in that first day, we ended up spending about 4 hours on top of a bus, at the end of which we found we suffered from a very bad case of 'numb bum'. The second day, although only costing an extra 4 € each, was not as useful as we had hoped, as the buses go around in loops, and you have to go right round before getting back to where ... Read review

Advantages: Good Value way to see the city, good guides with useful information, Money off vouchers are handy
Disadvantages: When it rains you get stuck inside, 4 hour round trip

...about our recent trip to Barcelona was the amount of touristy things we did and surprisingly the lack of drinking. But the chance to explore the fantastic City of Barcelona seemed too good to pass up so, having visited the Nou Camp we needed to find a way to get to the Olympic Stadium on the other side of the city and rather than get a Taxi we decided to jump on the Bus Turistic. One of the first things we had to ask though was what exactly was ... Read review

Advantages: English and Spanish commentary and a simple way to see the city
Disadvantages: Long queues in peak season, and when the bus stops for 5 mins the sun is very hot!

...soon as we arrived in Barcelona the waiter, seeing us struggling with tourist maps, recommended we get on the tourist bus. Now, this is something I would never do normally - preferring to explore cities independently, but as it was 30 degrees out and I am fairly pregnant at the moment, it seemed like a good option. Updating the previous review, there are now 3 routes - red, blue and green. The red route takes 1 ¾ hour if you don't disembark and ... Read review

Advantages: Very frequent service, no queues to get on even in summer
Disadvantages: buses only go in one direction so is difficult to back-track

Using the bus turistic is a fun and relatively cheap way to travel around Barcelona. There are three routes (red, blue and green) which visit all of the main sites in the city. Using these buses is not only a fairly quick way of visitng the tourist attractions, it is also a great way of experiencing the city itself as the buses are open top and you can see a great deal whilst travelling between sites. The buses are really frequent (every 5 minutes) ... Read review