Segovia and Avila Guided Day Tour From Madrid including visit to the Alcazar

Actually only the fifteen minutes free at the lunch time in the Segovia Catedral, we had no really chance to ask questions and didn't understand quite nothing from the English

For the experienced traveller, I'd recommend skipping this tour entirely. It's the old school hop on the bus, corralled like a herd, then hop back on for some photo op spots etc.... it was a rather miserable day trip unfortunately. Sergovia was interesting to see some history, but if you seek design, art and more history on your own time...this may disappoint. Avila was definitely not worth the visit on a tour. It was 1 stop to a historical sweets shop(interesting) but then nothing else after shuffling a along the roman fortification walls for a few mins before getting back on the bus. Would have enjoyed wandering on your own time, instead of being ushered around, and skipping some of the great local shops, churches and other venues. I would recommend this if you're with elderly or young children, but otherwise no. Also FYI, the bus is 1hr15mins to and fro madrid (which they don't tell you until you're there- the contact tour operator in viator will give you radio silence) and also between Sergovia and Avila it's about 45min to 1hr between each town too. And you're back by 6ish in the even, having spent a total of up to 4hrs on the bus. You can thank me later. Happy travels!

Guide Fernando was great! A great solo adventure, great for students as it was in english and spanish.

This is not a shopping trip but a good way to see a lot in a short amount of time. The guide was very nice & accomodating.

If you have the extra time in Madrid these cities are a great choice. Beautiful ruins and a lot of history. Our guide Tamara was good but I felt that the additional time of the commentaries in Spanish took away from the depth of background that could have been provided. OVERALL RECOMMENDED.

Tour ran on time and the guide was very knowledgeable, lunch recommendation was also pretty good, enjoyed the trip very much.

This tour provided us with an excellent day trip out of Madrid. Our guide, Catherine, had a large wealth of knowledge to share with us and at the same time, operated the tour with efficiency keeping us on-track at all times. We consider both Segovia and Avila a must see!

We enjoyed this tour very much! the guide was excellent Tammy and gave us a very thorough explanation of what we were seeing, the history surrounding it, and it's significance both historically, religiously, or politically. both cities are very significant religious/political sites, and the tour revolves around viewing the historical buildings, art work, and infrastructure of a 12th century city. we were only 12 or 15 people in our group. The walking was difficult uphill, bad weather, high elevation in Avila so if you have older folks, you may want to reconsider. The reason I didn't give this tour 5 stars: The tour was supposed to be english speaking. there was one person added last minute who only spoke Spanish. Our tour guide wasted a great deal of our time saying everything in 2 languages. The young lady also was 35 minutes late back to the bus after lunch. This gave us very limited time in Avila, so we could not see The church of St. Theresa as Mass had already started by the time we arrived. The tour clearly states that anyone who is late will be left behind. I am very glad our tour guide did not do that, but I felt it was very rude of our joiner to not have followed directions, which were explained clearly to her in Spanish. This, along with a snow storm as we drove up the mountain to Avila limited our visit to about 1 hour there. She also did not always stay with the group, causing us to look for her a number of times as we moved on. Again, not the tour's fault per say, but if we had stuck with English only it would not have impacted much or at all. We did not take the lunch option, choosing a nice sit down space very near our meeting area. we had a fabulous lunch of Paella at a restaurant that had 2 Michelan stars. The others on our tour said their lunch option with the tour was very good too.

Definitely worth going to see the walled city of Avila and beautiful Segovia! Avila is a site that could be something straight out of 'Game of Thrones'! The aqueduct in Segovia is an engineering marvel and the Alcazar was great. We also enjoyed the gastronomic lunch, which was very good and included some great local favorites and a nice wine.

Excellent--learned so much history and had beautiful weather to see the sights.