Caminito del Rey: Tours & Tickets

First things first: the hike itself is amazing! You get great views of the gorge and its surroundings. Meanwhile phoenix vultures are circling over your head. Be sure to bring enough water en put on sunscreen because it gets very hot! Now, the organization itself leaves quite a bit to be desired. Our tickets were apparently reserved via a local tourist office and apparently these were the "cheap" tickets. This meant we had to wait half an hour to get in. You're just standing there in the scorching heat. Our guide was also late to the pickup point because he was stuck in traffic. Then on the way to Ardales, he says this is typical Seville traffic... Then why not leave your house earlier so you make it in time? Either way: great hike, bad organization. You might be better off driving there yourself if you can get a ticket.

It's a wonderful experience, thank you. Also a guide was great and she told a lot of interesting things. Still, please separate the english and spanish groups, because now it took so much time to listen first spanish and then english version. I've been told that it takes 2-3 hours but it took 4. If this is normal, please inform that beforehand. It made problems to my schedule. But I repeat: the guide and route was wonderful!

I love trips to the nature, but this was something more. The views thruog the path ar astonishing. The remains of the old path are telling the story of danger and strong will to build something. You can feal this danger on every step of your walk. I loved it an wish to return once more with the option to visit the lake.

We sort of expected a local guide during the walk in the park, which unfortunately wasn't present. Still the tour guide took us past an unusual route before we entered the park, which was fun. Furthermore, he (probably) told most of the stuff in the bus but it's harder to concentrate without visuals.

Views were fantastic, nice easy walk, just a lot of waiting around (to get the group ready, to get in, to wait for tours in front of us, even to take the bus back) still worth it tho. Suppose to be a 3 hours tour, we left at 10 and didn’t make it back to the starting point until 3pm