Top 5 Barcelona Pass: Tips to Choose your Barcelona City Card

Intro: What is a City Card and why should you get one for your trip

City Cards are becoming more and more popular each year and you will find one in almost every destination. With this increasing popularity and demand, top cities like Barcelona even have more than one option to choose from! 

We have prepared this article with a selection of our Top 5 Barcelona Pass to help you make a decision on what Barcelona City Card you should buy. Some of these options will provide you with unlimited public transportation. With others, you will benefit from access to some of the most popular museums. And finally, there are a few that include access to top attractions like Park Güell or Sagrada Familia.

In this post, you will find some tips to pick the best Barcelona City Card for your trip. Have a look at this selection of top 5 Barcelona Pass and choose the one that suits you best!

Barcelona Card: a combination of transportation and museums

The Barcelona Card is organized by Visit Barcelona, the city’s official tourism board, and it is a combination of public transportation and art museums. This comprehensive Barcelona city card provides you with free, unlimited public transportation, and it gives you access to 6 of the main museums in the city, including Picasso Museum and Joan Miró Foundation. In addition, it includes free admission to other attractions, and discounts for restaurants and shopping. You can download a full list of gratuities and discounts here, and you can also visit the Barcelona Card official website for more information.

Prices:
3 days (72h): 53,00€
4 days (96h): 63,00€
5 days (120€): 75,00€

Important: please note that some of the top attractions are not included. The Barcelona Card does NOT include access to: Sagrada Familia, Park Güell, Casa Milà, Casa Batlló, or Camp Nou.

We recommend this option if you are interested in unlimited public transportation and art museums.

Tiqets Barcelona Pass: access to top attractions and city audioguide

The online ticketing platform Tiqets.com offers a Barcelona Pass with access to Barcelona’s two top attractions: Sagrada Familia and Park Güell. With this pass, you can book a time slot in advance to make sure that you have a reserved spot to Gaudí’s masterpieces. In addition, it includes a 24 or 48-hour ticket for the Barcelona Hop-on, Hop-off Bus and a downloadable city audioguide to explore Barcelona at your own pace.

If you have limited time and you want to see the city’s top attractions, this is a very good option.

Prices:
Tiqets Barcelona Pass: from 86,50€
We recommend this option if you want to visit Sagrada Familia and Park Güell.

Barcelona Panda Pass: Top Attractions, Flamenco, and Hop-on Hop-off Bus

Last, but not least, the Barcelona Panda Pass allows you to access Barcelona’s top attractions with the advantage of having a local guide to tell you all the secrets and anecdotes of these amazing monuments. 

In addition, the Barcelona Panda Pass provides you with a 24-hour ticket for the Barcelona Hop-on Hop-off Bus and a tour of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter with an optional Flamenco live show. It even includes a half-day trip to Montserrat! All in all, this exclusive city card includes:

-Park Güell skip-the-line ticket
-Sagrada Familia Small Group Tour with skip-the-line ticket
-Gaudí Houses Tour with Casa Vicens and La Pedrera-Casa Milà skip-the-line ticket
-Barcelona Gothic Quarter Tour
-Flamenco live show
-Barcelona Hop-on Hop-off Bus
-Guided tours in English, Chinese, Korean or Japanese

As you can see, this Barcelona pass is an excellent option if you want to discover the city’s top attractions with a knowledgeable tour guide in your language. This pass has been designed by The Touring Pandas and is a great option for Asian travellers who want to enjoy a small group tour in comfort and in their local language.

All the products combined would have a cost of 330€, but with the Barcelona Panda Pass you pay only 199€. For more information, you can visit the Barcelona Panda Pass section.

We recommend this option if you are interested in discovering Barcelona’s top attractions with a local guide and tourist transportation (hop-on hop-off bus).

Barcelona Card, Tiqets Pass and Panda Pass comparison

We have given you a lot of information and it may be a bit difficult to figure out what is the best option for you. So we have prepared a table to help you compare these three top picks before we move on to the next two options:

As we explained above, although we consider the first three options to be the most complete, there are two other passes worth checking: Hola Barcelona and Articket. Read on!

Hola Barcelona: a Barcelona Pass for public transportation

The Hola Barcelona Travel Card is a transportation pass organized by TMB, the city’s public transportation company. With this card, you can move around freely and enjoy unlimited journeys by public transportation in Barcelona for 48, 72, 96 or 120 hours from the time it is first validated and at any time of day.

The Hola Barcelona Travel Card is a non-transferable travel card that you can use in the metro, bus (TMB), urban railway (FGC, Zone 1), Montjuïc funicular, tram (TRAM), and regional railway (Rodalies de Catalunya, Zone 1). 

It is important to note that you can also use it to travel between the airport and the city center without an extra cost, since it includes the airport supplement for metro line 9. For more information, you can visit the Hola Barcelona Travel Card official website.

Prices:

2 days (48h): 16,40€
3 days (72h): 23,80€
4 days (96h): 31,00€
5 days (120€): 38,20€

Important: Hop-on Hop-off Bus and Cable Cars are not included

We recommend this option if you are interested in unlimited public transportation.

ArticketBCN: a Barcelona Pass for Art Museums

The Articket is the best option for Art lovers. This Barcelona Pass, beautifully designed as an Art Passport, gives you skip-the-line access to the best art museums in Barcelona: 

-Barcelona Picasso Museum
-Fundació Joan Miró
-Museum of National Art of Catalunya (MNAC)
-Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA)
-Barcelona Center of Contemporary Culture (CCCB)
-Fundació Antoni Tàpies

Apart from allowing you to skip the lines, including the usually very long line at the Picasso Museum, the Articket is also a money saver. The 6 museums combined have a cost of 69€, but if you buy this Barcelona Museum Pass you will pay only 38€. The ticket is valid for a year, so you can visit each museum any time to enjoy a flexible trip.

For more information, you can visit the Articket official website.

We recommend this option if you are interested in art museums.

Conclusion: what Barcelona Pass is best for me?

We have given you a lot of information and it may be a bit difficult to figure out what is the best option for you. So we have prepared a table to help you compare these top picks and decide which one fits your needs best. There is a Barcelona City Card for each type of traveler!

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