Having lived in Granada for 6 months now, and having shown lots of family and friends around the city, I feel well placed to recommend the Bono Turistico Passes. These prove to be great value for money when you want to take in a number of the key sites in Granada (including the Alhambra) in a relatively short space of time
The options available to you are a 3-day pass (€25) or a 5-day pass (€30). You may also be interested to know that children aged between 3-11 can use a 'child' pass that costs only €9.
What do you get for your money you ask? Well, the pass entitles you to entry to the following places:
- The Alhambra Palaces & Generallife Gardens
- The Cathedral and Capilla Real
- Monastery of San Jeronimo
- Monastery Cartuja
- Science Park
- Museums (Belle Artes and Memoria de Andulicia)
You also have entitlement to free bus journey as well with the Bono Turisticos - 5 journeys with the 3-day pass and 9 journeys with the 5-day. This is really useful, especially on a hot day, as you can take a bus up to the Alhambra (No. 30) or a bus up to the top of the Albaicin (No 7 or 31 or 35). If you venture out to the Cartuja, note that this is not easily walkable from the city centre, so again you may want to catch a bus here (No. 8).
Finally, the other great benefit of the Bono Turistico is that you can gain tickets for the Alhambra far more easily here that directly through the Alhambra website. One friend found that on the Alhambra website, he could only find tickets for 1730 in the evening, but by buying the Bono Turistico, he had a pick of tickets every half an hour for the whole day! Strange, but true.
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