The Alhambra is the most-visited monument in Spain... so, if you want to visit it (and you'll probably want) get your ticket as soon as possible.
All the information about visiting this Red One (that's the meaning of Alhambra) is available at http://www.alhambra-patronato.es/index.php?id=8&L=2.
Do not forget to wear your hat/cap/whatever-you-use-to-cover-your-head and a bottle of water.
Prices are between 7-25 Euro / person depending on the type of visit.
You can buy your tickets at Ticket Master. Tickets for september can already be bought.
Warning: If you want to use the Ticket Master website, you may face the following hurdles:
- The site claims to offer an English version but the localization is incomplete. Knowing Spanish helps.
- The time-of-day selector is implemented as a Flash applet, i.e. your browser must support Flash. The applet explains the various options but it is not localized (no English for you). You can't select/copy the Spanish text either because hey, it's Flash.
- If you decide to retype the text into a translation service to figure out what it means, you will probably discover that it has taken you more than 2 minutes and so your session has expired (and you need to restart the order process from the beginning).
- A mobile phone number is required.
- A middle name is required.
- A credit card is required.
- At least with my MasterCard, I couldn't complete the checkout because it isn't "MasterCard® SecureCode™" enabled. I gave up at this point.
Finally, you can also buy the official guide of Alhambra for both iOS and Android.
Group visit
Are you interested in visiting the Alhambra with other fellow YAPCers? Please say below which day you're interested/have booked so that other people can contact and join you.
- Aug 31st:
- Sep 1st:
- H.Merijn Brand (Tux) + 1, booked the English "Alhambra Other Look" tour at 10:00
- Steffen Winkler (STEFFENW) + wife, already booked for 10:00 (until 14:00)
- Roland Schmitz (roli) already booked for 10:00 (until 14:00)
- DrForr booked for 18:30 (flights from Cluj usually arrive pretty late.)
- geira and Karl Rune Nilsen (krunen) booked for 15:00
- Jason Clifford + wife are booking 09:30 and are booking a private tour (English). I'd be happy for others who want to do a tour to join us - the price per person for the tour will be (165 Euros / the number of us on the tour) plus the 15.40 cost of the ticket to get into Alhambra.
- Sep 2nd:
- Sep 3rd:
- Sep 4th:
- Sep 5th: