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Prado Museum Tour: Early Access with Expert Guide
4.1
305 Ratings
Madrid
Experience exclusive morning access to the Prado Museum and Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. Explore iconic artworks by Velazquez, El Greco, Picasso, and Dali with an expert guide. Don’t miss this unique opportunity!
Experience exclusive morning access to the Prado Museum and Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. Explore iconic artworks by Velazquez, El Greco, Picasso, and Dali with an expert guide. Don’t miss this unique opportunity!
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Paseo del Prado - The tour will commence near this stunning street, one of Madrid’s most significant. From this point, the guide will escort the group to the museum entrance, where the guided tour will begin.
- Prado National Museum - Inside the museum, the guide will discuss the significance of the Spanish National Art Gallery. Participants…
- Paseo del Prado - The tour will commence near this stunning street, one of Madrid’s most significant. From this point, the guide will escort the group to the museum entrance, where the guided tour will begin.
- Prado National Museum - Inside the museum, the guide will discuss the significance of the Spanish National Art Gallery. Participants will discover everything about the masterpieces it houses, along with intriguing facts and secrets of the building.
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía - This iconic location, popular with both tourists and locals, is dedicated to the memory of Goytisolo, a renowned storyteller and novelist of the early 21st century.
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia - Within the museum, the guide will navigate the group through the most notable works of Spanish Modern artists. Participants will gain insights into their masterpieces and uncover fascinating details about the building.
What's Included
- Entrance to the Reina Sofía Museum
- Entrance to the Prado Museum
- Professional guide
- Entrance to the Reina Sofía Museum
- Entrance to the Prado Museum
- Professional guide
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks
- Transportation
- Food and drinks
- Transportation
Additional Information
Find out why this tour received the TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Award 2025!
Be among the first to enter the Prado Museum as it opens to the public on this 4-hour tour of Madrid. This tour provides early morning access to the museum, allowing you to explore before the crowds. An expert guide will accompany you through this stunning building, showcasing…
Find out why this tour received the TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Award 2025!
Be among the first to enter the Prado Museum as it opens to the public on this 4-hour tour of Madrid. This tour provides early morning access to the museum, allowing you to explore before the crowds. An expert guide will accompany you through this stunning building, showcasing masterpieces like Velazquez’s ‘Las Meninas’ and El Greco’s ‘The Annunciation’. Gain insights into the artwork from the guide, and after a brief pause, proceed to the Reina Sofía Museum to appreciate abstract and surrealist pieces by Picasso, Dali, and others. Don’t miss the opportunity to visit two of Spain’s most significant museums!
- Please note that the tour in Prado Museum has a duration of 1.5 hour but the guide requires also some extra time to organize the tickets and whispers
- Please check which option you have chosen, as the inclusions may be differente depending on the option
- All tours are run simultaneously in English and Spanish
Location
Monumento a Velázquez
Paseo del Prado
The guide will be waiting next to the Statue of Velazquez with a sign of Amigo Tours
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.1
(305 Ratings)
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Erhan
Jun 24, 2025
BEST museum tour in Madrid with Paula! - Top experience thanks to our guide Paula!! She is simply amazing!! She made our tour fun and also very interesting with all her experience!
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Debbyoga
Jun 22, 2025
Best Tour Guide Ever for Prado and More - Paula from amigo tours was absolutely fantastic. We would use her again for everything in Madrid. Full of knowledge and so fun. Thank you.
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Liliana_m
Jun 6, 2025
Pretty deep insight into the best painters, highlighting Las Meninas and Guernica; excellent explanations of the.gu - Do not visit the 2 museums on the same day. It's very tiring. A complete overview of the different painting schools, with their best known representatives.
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Angela_k
Jun 1, 2025
Ange Melbourne - Early morning time slot to beat the crowds but sooo busy. A lot of allocated time used checking people in Once in the Prado museum a selection of pictures re history and popular artists was provided which was really interesting and relevant. A good option if just planning a short visit to museum as its collection is huge and so is the building
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Amytwig
May 20, 2025
Great information and interesting…needed more break info - Our guide was amazing. She was incredibly knowledgeable and gave excellent history of the art with interesting stories. However, we thought we were given no time between the long tour at Prado and Reina Sofia for a bathroom break and drink. She said to take the break but only gave 5 minutes after the Prado tour for the meetup. This caused a great deal of stress because we could not find the bathrooms and were late for the meeting time. We literally ran from one museum to the next thinking we would forfeit our tour of the Reina Sophia. When we got there, the guide was telling people to take a break for the bathroom and get a snack. Better communication about the break could have eliminated this stressful situation.
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Jim_w
Jan 28, 2025
Great informative tour - Tour guide lingered on representative period artwork w deep discussions. As result, we did not see 90% of the Prado collection before leaving to the Sofia tour. Overall, a great introduction, but you might want to return at a later time.
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K799jqcarmenf
Jun 19, 2025
I don't reach my expectations - In Reina Sofia very well, in the Del Prado museum the guide did not have much knowledge of art
The wait for the rest of the group at Reina Sofia was through the entrance near the Conservatory of Music, with inhuman heat and then having to go to the other entrance much cooler, you could stay directly there
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Ulysses_m
Jan 7, 2025
Not so vip afterall - The visit to the Prado and the Reina Sofia are definetely worth it. The guide was very polite and attentious explainning very well the paintings and I really learned a lot about modern art at Reina Sofia.
The issue was the group size, which in the end was about 25 people at the Prado museum (visit in spanish) and as the experience is sold with max 10 people I was expecting a different experience.
Actually, I came to an opinion that we saw a lower number of paintings due to the difficult movement of such a big group.
Maybe it were the holiday season, but at least I would rather know of the change in advance, not at a point you don’t have a choice.
Maybe next time.
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Mpalm317
Aug 10, 2025
Online Scam - Guide left us at Prado and had to buy our own tickets to other museums. - The woman at the ticket booth at the Reina Sofia said this company is was a scam. We bought tickets and a tour for both Reina Sofia and Prado Museum for 4 hours and got a 1.5 hour tour of the Prado Museum only. They didn’t even give us a ticket for the Reina Sofia so we had to go and buy new tickets and tour the museum without a guide.
We reached out to the company on that day requesting support and no one answered. So we spent €150 pp for a 1.5 hour tour of 1 museum. Not a 4 hour tour of 2 museums.
The quality of the tour was generally fine, but it was a big let down. And in the moment, you can’t really rectify it because you need to reserve tour guides in advanced.
Overall, I’d stay away from this company and find one that is on the formal museum website only.
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Deborah_g
May 16, 2025
Amigo tours is awful! Late and guides were terrible. We had Anna and Alex. No escort to the Reina!,, - Disorganized and the guides were late! Left us on our own to get to the other museum. Disappointed! We had to use Google to find our way. When we got there the guide walked so fast we had to run. We gave back the radio and did a self tour. Too bad because the museums were very nice. Will never book a tour with Amigo Tours. We have booked tours all over the world but never had a bad one. The guide even told us to complain.
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