It was great seeing some of Pablo Picasso’s work in his home town of Malaga. The skip the line tickets are well worth it and aren’t that much more in price than the regular tickets; the line can be pretty long so it’s worth the price. Theres an option to get an audio handset to hear different things about Picasso’s artwork. The museum has a vast collection of sketches, pottery, sculptures, and canvas artwork.

For a great flamenco show in Málaga we thoroughly recommend El Museo de Arte Flamenco, Peña Juan Breva. It's in calle Ramón Franqueo 4 in the city centre. It's usually on at 8.30pm on Thursdays and Saturdays but they can do additional shows if there's enough demand. Buy tickets in advance or get there at 8. Call +34952 221380 or +3460056 8856. Cost is €15 for adults, €10 for children including a drink and some tapas. It lasts about 90 minutes.

This was the best tour of a 2 week vacation with my wife. Joaquin was our guide for the day and could not have been a better person to show us Granada and all its treasures. Thank you for all you did Joaquin in making our very full day a day to remember. Will find you when we come back to Malaga.... (the Waikiki of the Spanish coast) 😊

We booked this tour and ended up being the only two people in the group. So, our driver arrived at the hotel to pick us up (he was on time) and he loaded us into his personal car and he drove us to Granada. We started by doing Albaycin first (unlike what the tour description says), so we walked through the city and had lunch. I invited our driver to eat with us and bought his lunch. Then it was off to Alhambra which is very beautiful. Our driver brought us to the entrance and walked in to get our tickets for us. It's a timed entrance, so they tell you what time to be at the entrance. We were able to walk the grounds for about an hour before that and see lots of great things. We were on our own to walk through the rest of the tour and then we met our driver for the departure home. All in all, it was a very worthwhile tour. I will say that our driver was very pleasant but he didn't offer a whole lot of commentary for us to explain the area or history. For the price of this tour I would have expected a bit more "color" commentary, but I wouldn't pass on this tour regardless. We enjoyed it.

Picked up at our hotel and had a pleasant ride to Granada. Joaquin showed us around the town and took us to a local place for an excellent lunch. Took us to the Alhambra and dropped us off and we have a good amount of time to explore this fabulous place. Safe and good trip back to our hotel.

We had a really brilliant trip,from our pickup outside our hotel by Joaquim,and our guide jaqueline in granada.it was an exellent experience to whitness such a beautiful and historic city,a must for any visitor to southern spain.

We took the tour from Marriott Marbella Resort. Tour guide was very knowledgeable the history and detail about the Alhambra Palace. We love the tour specially the pick up was from the Marriott Resort and not from the Marbella City Center. Tour include a free time in the Granada City center where we did lunch and shopping. Great tour.

We met up with guide for 1pm tour. We were only couple. The guide was extremely nice and very knowledgeable, his English was great. However the 2 tapas places he took us to were disgusting. They were dingy and the tapas were inedible at the second place. I decided against going to a third place. Also there was no wine information at all. Was extremely disappointed. The description of your was deceiving. They need to upgrade the restaurants they use for tapas. The only saving grace was tour guide

My husband and I were very disappointed in this tour. We paid for a private guided tour and were very surprised and unhappy when the tour guide told us he would not be accompanying us into the Alhambra and that we would be on our own to get around and explore . He explained that we needed to get on the line for the Palace tour by noon, the time on our tickets and how to get there within the large complex grounds. Because the guide was late picking us in Malaga, we had to rush to find the line for the palace tour and got confused and lost. Bottom line, we missed the time on our tickets and the highlight of visiting Granada. Our guide tried to get us in, but we were told multiple times, by multiple people that it "was not possible". Needless to say we were very disappointed. As this was a private tour we paid a great deal of money and did not get what we expected To the credit of the tour guide, he took us of a lovely tour of the rest of Granada and got us safely back to our hotel. This was our only glitch in an otherwise perfect 2 week independent tour of Spain.

We have booked many private tours so I write this review with much experience. This excursion booked through Viator was so badly managed by Pancho Tours. Firstly it lacked the correct meeting information, I telephoned the local Pancho tours office when we left our ship in Malaga. We were told to meet at Plaza Marina & look for our driver wearing an orange t shirt. The shuttle bus from the cruise port dropped us at Plaza Marina at the appointed time 9:00 am. We looked in vein for the orange shirt, after about fifteen minutes I made another call to the local office, I was told they would call me back as they did not know the driver's exact location. She called back & told us to find the tourist office which we did but of course they knew nothing of our tour! Forty five minutes after our start time we managed to find the driver, in fact he was the lead driver for another group of eight booked with the same company. We were ushered to our driver & a very small Toyota Auris car. My husband sat in the front & I with my legs cramped sat behind the driver. Our driver was to follow the mini bus with the other passengers booked on the same tour. There was no water provided in the car, the drive to the Alhambra took almost two hours as the traffic was heavy & slow as we entered Granada & the scenery is rather boring from the motorway. The first stop to view the Alhambra from a distance was worthless. The second stop to view the Alhambra from a distance was a great problem. We were not told what to expect with the walk only that the vehicles were unable to enter the old town. The walk was up very steep narrow cobble stoned rough roads, one of the passengers in the other vehicle used a wheel chair, my husband uses a walking cane. The view of the Alhambra at the tip of the hill was very nice but it was not worth the hardship for the disabled passengers. WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ADVISED IN ADVANCE OF WHERE WE WERE BEING TAKEN & WHAT TO EXPECT. The next drive was back on the motorway to the other side of the city for the entrance to the Alhambra. We were met by the guide (this tour did not include a private guide but since we were offered to join the other group we were charged an additional 30 euros each above the $601 we had already paid to Viator. The guide was very knowledgeable however, he spoke very quickly with a strong accent which was difficult to understand. We spent far too long in the gardens therefor cutting the time short in the palaces. There was no time to stop for lunch or a snack. I should have insisted we stop to purchase water for the trip back as none was provided in the car for the return trip. After the tour of the Alhambra was completed we were lead by the guide to meet the drivers it was a very long walk, I could not understand why the drivers did not meet us as we exited the Alhambra. Other vehicles were waiting for passengers, I suspect that Pancho Tours did not have the essential permits to meet at the exit. Another point about the vehicle provided for us, we have booked with Viator before & the vehicles have been comfortable Mercedes or similar style vehicles, water on board & a smartly dressed driver. This excursion provided with the lowest possible standards!

I was hoping not to write this review and gave Pancho several opportunities to give us even a partial refund, but to no avail. We paid 450 Euros to have a full-day guided tour of the White Towns from Malaga. Unfortunately we believed our guide when she told us that our expensive itinerary "wasn't worth the drive" and instead of taking us to Arcos de la Frontera as contracted, she convinced us to go to nearby Antequera instead, which she said was just as beautiful and less time in the car/more time to explore. Turns out she had actually never been there - she just didn't feel like driving us to the further afield town. There was not much to see in Antequera (or at least she didn't take us to much since she didn't know it) so we walked around fairly aimlessly for a few hours. When it was time to leave, she lost her car. We spent nearly an hour looking for it before driving to Ronda. She gave us a short uninformative tour for 30 minutes before she headed home. We would have been just as happy taking a bus to Ronda for a fraction of the price. When I let Pancho know we were sorely disappointed and we had not gotten the 12 hours we had paid for (only 8), they said they were sorry but that they couldn't help - they had already paid the guide and they weren't willing to give back any of their commission. We just wanted to warn fellow travelers that Pancho is not at all interested in customer service or making sure that their expensive guides are doing their jobs well. On the upside, Ronda was lovely and we enjoyed exploring it on our own the next day.

We travel extensively and always use our bank debit card for cash at ATM's as the rate is always better than buying Euros from a bank in the US. Malaga is a wonderful gorgeous town with great food, shopping and sight seeing and we always look forward to going there. However due to the influx of migrants, the crime rate has excelled as well as thief of credit and debit cards. We used our debit card for a purchase in a store and it was denied. We proceeded to an ATM to get out cash and a card did not work at the ATM either. Because we were on a cruise, I did not get international calling for my cell (is no good at sea) and therefore had to find a call center. This is no longer an easy task - be warned! As all seasoned travelers know, you MUST put in a vacation notice via computer on all your credit cards and debit cards before leaving the US. We had not only done such but I personally went to my Chase bank to make sure this did not happen. Well it did!! Because of the 7 hour time difference when I called the bank, I was connected to their call center in India. They were not helpful other than to tell me where I first tried my debit card for the purchase was a high credit card thief store and Chase flagged by debit card!!!!! The obnoxious girl at the call center wanted me to fax all kinds of proof of who I was. Remember I'm on a ship. Not going to happen. Banks in Spain no longer take American Cash in trade for Euros. We wanted to pay cash for the entire trip but ended up having to use credit cards. Another high crime store caused another blocked Credit card in Malaga. I hope this is helpful to all travelers who read this review. If you were going to Spain, pay the fee and by the euros in the United States.

This guided walk through Malaga was really interesting. Some interesting places to visit and nice tapas. If you want to find out more about tapas this is a good way to find out more. The people who lead the tour are very friendly and take you to some nice bars. Centro Malaga is lovely. This is a great way to spend 3 hours in Malaga!