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Meet a local; walk, ride, eat, drink, fish, learn, bike .. experience!
Practical advantage of private Tours:
- Accompanied by a guide you will not get lost.
- If you are on a tight schedule, a private city tour can insure you make the most of your time.
- Often, private tour guides share their insider secrets.
- Sometimes, you can gain access to people and places not normally available to the general public; want to have lunch with a titled aristocracy or visit a castle not usually open to the public?
- Guides often have access to special entrances that allow them to bypass the long lines.
- History and Cultural insights are shared on the spot.
- Private guides can often take care of the transportation arrangements shuttling you between destinations (sights) efficiently.
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Photo Above - If not for our private guide I likely would have avoided the area of construction in the Valencia Cathedral and missed out on learning about the rediscovery of frescos from the 15th century.
Did you know?
Not just anyone can be guide in Spain. Guides must take specialized courses of study and be licensed for their areas of expertise. Guides are required to speak two languages in addition to Spanish. Often, to practice their profession, they must obtain multiple licenses, city, regional, state.
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Some secrets for getting the most of your private guide
- Provide enough information about yourself so that the person arranging the tour gets you the best guide. For example, if you are looking to have an architectural tour of Valencia, you might want to mention if you are a professional architect.
- Be patient and flexible, private guides can provide you with exceptional experiences but they often are relying on friendly but somewhat tenuous connections. The local fisherman the guide had planned on taking you fishing might decide it was more important to help his Uncle deliver the calf sired by a prize winning bull. The owner of the wine Bodega might have unexpected important business so your tour might now be given by other family or a company official.
- Do not over load, those that use private guides often mention it as the highlight of their travel experience (customer feedback ) but you still need to plan some time for just kicking back and relaxing.
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Plan your own Spanish Adventure!
Working with excellent local contacts throughout Spain, my recommended Spain Travel Agent designs special programs to open up some of the best-kept secrets of Spain. To name but a few of Madrid & Beyond services, they can arrange personally guided city tours, visits to wine bodegas, tickets for the bullfights, tickets for Real Madrid, cookery classes, tapas tours, and all types of transportation within Spain. In addition, Madrid & Beyond personally inspects the hotels that they recommend, offering accommodations to suit individual tastes and requirements. Working with on-the-ground experts can make all the difference."
Relationship Disclosure Please note - Madrid & Beyond does not arrange segments of trips, only trips in their entirety; they arrange private guides only for their accommodation booking customers. |
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