🙋🏻‍♂️ avoid 16 MISTAKES 🚫 when you visit MADRID 🇪🇸 #090

Thank you for your videos
They are well done and clear.

I appreciate all of these so much! Are you available for paid consultations?

Thanks for the advice! Visiting the city in July very excited to check it out

All over the internet I see people saying only go to Madrid for a couple of days or skip it completely in exchange for other popular cities. I ignored this and we went to Madrid for 8 days… there are still some things we did not get to do! We will definitely be going back! It really is a great city! We went in November. It was chilly but not bad. We stayed in the center and used public transit. We had a bit of trouble with the metro ticket machines but there were often employees there to help. We definitely experienced "slow" service at restaurants but that's by US standards. It seemed to be average/normal for restaurant service in Europe. Everyone was kind and helpful in our experience. We had a difficult time communicating (the Spanish we know is from Latin America, we thought it would be similar enough… not always! lol) at one restaurant in particular but they worked with us and we enjoyed our experience still! We may have accidentally ordered some unexpected things but we just went along with it and learned that we liked them anyway. It ended up being an interesting way to try new things, lol! (it happens to us on many of our trips)

Anyway, yes definitely use public transit! And walk! You will get nice views! Driving might have been easy enough for us to do in the city, but parking would have been a nightmare! We decided to visit Toledo for a day at the last minute. We took the earliest train out and one of the latest trains back. It worked out very well. Though I do regret not paying for some kind of tour in Toledo. But we still really enjoyed our day of wandering/shopping/sightseeing!

I will be travelling to Madrid and Barcelona next 3 weeks. These are really helpful for me.

Thank you always helpful.

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Toledo is a daunting day trip. I spent two and a half days there and wish I had one more. Toledo is huge and complex. If you have, say, 10 (full) days for a vacation to Madrid, do 6 in the city, 2 in Toledo, and 2 in Segovia. Avila, too, is worth 2 days. But Madrid is such an incredible city, you can spend a full 10 days in it and not get bored.

Very informative and helpful video for us who will travel to Madrid in November.

Thank you for a excellent informative Madrid video!

What would be the best places to visit when in a long conexion in Madrid? I'll be visiting Barcelona later this year, but I'll have 13 hours do spend in Madrid, arriving there around 9am

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Muy buen vídeo. Muy profesional. Un solo "pero": el palo injustificado a mi modo de ver, a los restaurantes de Plaza Mayor. Es cierto que son más caros pero es porque tienen que pagar un alquiler más alto. No es lo mismo comer en la Plaza Mayor que en Villaverde Bajo, un poner. El escenario también hay que pagarlo. Todos, incluidos los propietarios de los restaurantes, lo pagan, en Madrid y en cualquier sitio. Y, por lo que tengo probado, si hablamos exclusivamente de calidad de la comida no son peores que otros sitios y alguno (Los Galayos, por ejemplo) alcanza una notable calidad. Ah, y los bocatas de calmares los hacen muy bien y muy baratos en cualquier bar de por allí. Ok, no es más que comida de trasnochada pa' borrachines de los 70, pero se han convertido en algo típico y parece ser que ahora son un must si visitas Madrid. Pues lo dicho: en todos los bares de Plaza Mayor y alrededores la calidad es más que aceptable y los precios, ajustados.

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