Historische tour naar de rots van Gibraltar en de grot van St. Michael vanuit Sevilla

This is a tough review to write because I feel like I can’t rate the tour accurately because it’s 2 different companies. The tour started off out of Seville on a nice tour bus and a very nice tour guide. Half way through the 3 hour ride they pull off at a rest stop for snacks and bathrooms, then the bus drops you off at the border to go through customs. You walk through customs, then across the flight landing strip, then into the city at a pace of about half the speed of smell (maybe 2km/hr…. maybe.) until you get to a giant tourist trap where you have 2.5ish hours to shop/eat. If you want perfume, tobacco, or liquor, this is great for you. If you’re on the tour to see Gibraltor, no. This is where the hitch is, apparently the tour guide from Seville is not allowed to guide in Gibraltor, so they may or not accompany you when you’re handed off to a different tour company for the things you actually came to see. This is where the experience is ruined. We were loaded on a bus and raced around the rock so fast I’m surprised I don’t have whiplash (and I’m not exactly a slow driver myself). The tour guide and overhead recording give brief overviews of what’s appearing out the sides of the bus, but by the time they’re telling you, you’ve already passed it. You get 10 minutes at the Europa point, which in actuality is 7 minutes. Then you’re back on the raceway up the mountain to what you actually are taking a 6 hour round trip journey to see: the caves and monkeys…. Of which you get 20 MINUTES TOTAL to see. We were quite literally running out of the cave to make sure we got 5-10 minutes to (maybe) see monkeys, which we luckily did. Then you’re back in the Nascar death trap back to the city. It honestly felt like the driver/Gibraltor guide was annoyed at the group for existing, as if he was fitting us in between real tours. Then they drop you off right at the border (tires basically screeching) and don’t let the door hit you on your way out to a 3 hour ride back to Seville with the nice guide who can speak again. I realized on the way back that we actually spent more time at the rest stop than we did doing the thing we went there to do, since we stopped at the same rest stop for another 20 minutes. I went back to review the itinerary to make sure my complaining isn’t due to not reading the plan. The itinerary says 40 minutes on the rock of Gibraltor…. This was the rollercoaster ride around the rock, DURING WHICH the 20 minutes of St. Michaels Cave occurs, which is actually 5-10 minutes of cave time if you want to see any monkeys in 5-10 minutes. Tl;dr Don’t waste your time or money if you actually want to see Monkeys, St. Michaels Cave, or the Rock of Gibraltor (other than shopping).

Our guide Petra was great. The tour was exactly what was described and the guides made it an excelllent tour. Good variation and very informative.

Great tour with Daniella! She was kind and shared a great deal of information clearly. Busses were very comfortable and safely driven. Touring the rock and learning the history and present day circumstances was fascinating. Highly recommend!