Private Costa Brava and Empuries Tour with Hotel Pick-Up and Panoramic Boat Ride

Explore Costa Brava’s hidden coves, swim in turquoise waters, and uncover ancient ruins on a private tour with hotel pick-up.

Duration: 10 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Plaza de Catalunya - This tour will start from your accommodation in Barcelona.

Your guide will pick you up at any apartment or hotel in Barcelona, you are staying in. Please, make sure to specify the exact adress of your accomodation when booking.

After the pick-up is completed, you will head to the first destination of your tour.

  • Ruins of Empuries - After our guide has picked you up at your accommodation in Barcelona, you will get on the road to reach the first destination, Empuries. On the road and between the different destination from this trip, you will enjoy panoramic views, stopping at several viewpoints to take pictures of the magnificent natural landscape, which blends bright greens with the wonderful turquoise blue of the sea.

The first stop will be Empuries with its famous archeological remains. Empuries is a very important old city on the Mediterranean coast. Here you will discover ancient Greek and Roman ruins and learn about how these people once lived. You’ll follow in their footsteps as you explore their city, their streets, houses, temples and markets.a very important old city on the Mediterranean coast. Here you will discover ancient Greek and Roman ruins and learn about how these people once lived. You’ll follow in their footsteps as you explore their city, their streets, houses, temples and markets.

  • San Marti d’Empuries - The guide will take you around Sant Martí d’ Empúries, a small town built next to one of the most important ports of the Roman Empire. The place remains a medieval town today, with a conserved wall and narrow, picturesque alleys.

  • Medes Islands - We will take you near the Medes Islands on a 1.5-hour tour in a glass-bottom boat, during which you will have the chance to enjoy amazing views of the region’s rich diversity of marine life.

The Medes Islands are a 21.5-hectare archipelago that forms part of the Natural Parc of Montgrí. Between the 7 islands we will discover a stunning array of marine flora and fauna in what is known as one of the best marine reserves of the western Mediterranean.

Take a deep dive in the crystalline waters of a Mediterranean cove, surrounded by caves and natural life.

What's Included
  • Professional local guide
  • Hotel or apartment pickup and drop-off (in Barcelona city)
  • Walking tour of Empuries
  • Panoramic Ship tickets
  • Visit to the archaeological site
  • Transport by private vehicle
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Explore the Costa Brava, a treasure trove of secluded bays, transparent waters, and historic whitewashed towns.

Embark on a private tour starting from your place of stay in Barcelona, journeying to the Costa Brava in a personal vehicle, guided by a knowledgeable escort.

Plunge into the magnificent views of Costa Brava’s rugged coastline filled with secluded bays, bathe in its azure waters, and tour the intact Medes Islands through a boat equipped with underwater sight.

While appreciating its striking natural spectacles, acquaint yourself with the region’s history starting from ancient traces of the Greek and Roman Empuries standing along the coastline.

  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Other languages available upon request.
Location
Plaza de Catalunya
Placa de Catalunya
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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349balajin
Jul 31, 2024
Worth the trip - Marcel is an excellent tour guide and he covered many places with lot of finer details about the area he took us. He was very punctual and friendly.
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Orgd
Jul 24, 2024
Thank you, Marcel! - Marcel was an amazing tour guide. He continued to keep us informed on what we were seeing and where we were going. There were many opportunities to take photos, swim, shop and eat! We learned so much about the Costa Brava and Catalonian history, as a multi-generational local, his insights were invaluable. We highly recommend this trip. THANK YOU, MARCEL!
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660nisaf
Jul 23, 2024
Tour of Costa Brava with Marcel - Marcel is an amazing tour guide. I learned so much about the geographical history of Catalonia as well as contemporary knowledge about landmarks and famous people/places. It was the perfect combination of hanging out at the beach and touring different villages/communities. The food and beach in Tossa incredible and we stayed for the perfect amount of time. I can’t wait to return to share this experience with friends and family. Thank you for a great time Marcel!
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Sreyoshib2018
Jul 19, 2024
Amazing day spent in Costa Brava - My family & I had a wonderful day tour to Costa Brava from Barcelona with Marcel as our driver & guide. Marcel was full of interesting trivia & information about Costa Brava & very flexible with adjusting time spent in each location. Highly recommend doing this day tour with him specially if you have a big family with elderly people travelling with you. Nice to have a private car taking you around at your desired pace. Big thank you Marcel :)
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Ditronglor
Jul 19, 2024
Worth it - Perfect trip, we were in a small group, travelled to several beautiful places in a comfortable car. Marcel is a top guide, told a lot of interesting things. Pace was fine, we had some free time on every stop. Highly recommend the trip to anyone.
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Denise
Jul 18, 2024
Far and Wide - Our day trip was everything and more than we hoped for. Marcel had a great driving style and navigated us along the coast, to interesting sites and towns. Definitely a great day trip out of the city!
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Annach2486lv
Jul 14, 2024
We had an amazing time on our tour of Costa Brava! - We had a wonderful time. It was beautiful and we learned south about Costa Brava and Barcelona. Our guide was Marcel was fantastic.
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Gufjchshchfhfhfjcjf
Jul 2, 2024
Trip to Tossa Der Mar and Costa Brava - Xavi is an excellent guide with a extensive knowledge and very informative. Very likeable character. I highly recommend him for a day trip
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Drmmy
Mar 10, 2024
Smooth ride with great views wiTH Marcel - I have made countless trips to European countries the last 20 years. There were often for business and so too short for me to take some time to tour the cities that I visited. This time I chanced upon an all-girls trip with my daughter to costa brava barcelona based on the recommendation from TripAdvisor. We were accompanied by Marcel Simon who not just was punctual in picking us up at the doorstep of our hotel, drove us there and took us along but also was a wonderful tour host that filled us with comprehensive details of the history of Barcelona and the nooks and crooks of all the lovely places we visited that day. The car was clean and spacious for the two of us and the ride was smooth. The tour was not too long and not too short, you dont have to walk till you drop at all. Eveything was at the pace that we are used to so that we could enjoy the scenery and fresh air while taking as many lovely photos we can. There was ample time to have fresh succulent seafood lunch and we were safely back home in the city before night fall I hope I can return soon with the whole family and this time maybe Marcel will bring us in a van? Maybe summer ….
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Christopher_s
Jun 6, 2024
Great site but set expectations on the tour - This is a hard review to write. The site was spectacular and I’ve been to many places of antiquity. The tour wasn’t much of a tour. Our guide was a wonderful guy and we had a great conversation going out there. But he didn’t say much about the history and when there he pretty much bought our ticket and we had an audio guide. The audio was great and we could control it - but this has happened to be twice recently: I pay a lot for what is effectively a kind driver. So be prepared for that. Also the museum is under renovation and no one mentioned it. Finally while we chose not to do the boat tour it was available for certain hours and it would have been hard to see the site and get to any boat but the 4:00. Anyhow we had a great day and our guide was very kind. Just a heads up.
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