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💡 The Short Version: For entry alone, buy from parkguell.barcelona: €18 for a timed slot between 9:30 and 19:30, on sale up to three months ahead. Enter within 30 minutes of your slot, stay as long as you like, but once you leave you cannot go back in. Bookings can be moved up to the day before, never cancelled. The Bus Güell shuttle from Alfons X metro (L4) is included. Or book a tour: here the resold guided tour is the better buy. The guided tour with skip-the-line entryad is from £21.43, against €35 (about £29.99) for the park’s own ticket and its own guided tour, and it had space the same day on 30 September 2026.
The tickets, compared
Official prices from parkguell.barcelona; GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” price. Both checked 30 September 2026, converted at the ECB rate of 29 September 2026 (€1 = £0.857).
| Ticket | Official | Resold on GetYourGuide | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry | €18 (about £15.43) | From £18.43ad | The park |
| Entry and a guided tour, about 50 minutes | €18 + €17 = €35 (about £29.99) | From £14.57 to £23.57 | GetYourGuide |
| Entry and the “Plus” guided tour, about 90 minutes, 15 people at most | €18 + €29 = €47 (about £40.28) | — | The park |
| Entry and a private guide, 2 to 6 people | €18 + €40 each | — | The park |
| Entry and the Gaudí House Museum | — | From £24.00 | GetYourGuide |
- Reduced prices: €13.50 for children aged 7 to 12 and for over-65s. Children up to 6 are free but need a €0 ticket, and pay nothing for the park’s guided tours.
- Named tickets: each ticket carries the visitor’s name, which must match their ID, and staff may check it at the gate.
- Up to seven tickets per purchase; groups of eight or more book as a group.
- Changes: the date and time can be changed up to the day before, if there is space. Bookings cannot be cancelled or refunded.
- The park’s own guided tours can be booked up to 90 days ahead and meet at Carretera del Carmel 23; the standard tour runs in Catalan, Spanish, English and French.
Entry ticket, resold
From £18.43 · 4.4 stars from 89,995 reviews · valid for 1 day · book at least 2 hours ahead
Barcelona: Park Güell Admission Ticketad is the entry-only ticket on GetYourGuide, at £18.43 against the park’s €18 (about £15.43). It has more reviews than any other Park Güell product there, and had dates from 30 September to 24 December 2026. The park lists its own website, the machines at its entrances and at Lesseps and Vallcarca metro, and its service desks as its official ticket channels, and takes no responsibility for tickets bought anywhere else (parkguell.barcelona, 30 September 2026): buy from the park while your slot is open.
The mosaic dragon on the Dragon Stairway. Photo: Isiwal, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tours that include entry
Each of these includes the park entry ticket. They are booked through GetYourGuide, whose dates are separate from the park’s, and on 30 September 2026 all four had space that day.
Guided tour with skip-the-line entry
From £21.43 · 4.7 stars from 22,743 reviews · 1 hour
Barcelona: Park Güell Guided Tour with Skip-The-Line Entryad is a guided walk through the park with fast-track entry. It is the most-reviewed tour here, and runs every day.
The cheapest guided tour
From £14.57 · 4.4 stars from 2,363 reviews · 1 hour
Barcelona: Park Güell Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Entryad started below the park’s own €18 entry ticket on 30 September 2026. Its rating is the lowest of the four.
Tour with a fast-track ticket
From £22.28 · 4.7 stars from 7,652 reviews · 55 minutes
Barcelona: Gaudí’s Park Güell Tour with Fast-Track Ticketad is a guided tour with the ticket included.
With an official guide
From £23.57 · 4.7 stars from 662 reviews · 1¼ hours
Barcelona: Park Güell Skip-the-Line Tour with Official Guidead is led by an official local guide.
When your slot has sold out
- Try another day or time. Tourist slots run from 9:30 to 19:30, and the park lets in at most 1,400 visitors an hour.
- Check the resold tours. They have their own dates, separate from the park’s, and on 30 September 2026 all four above had space the same day.
- Don’t turn up on spec. The park does not guarantee entry without a booking, least of all at busy times.
- Buy only from the park or a known seller. Tickets are named, and the park recommends buying only on its own website.
The Hypostyle Room. Photo: Harvey Barrison, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
What to see
The ticket covers all 12 hectares of the park: the monumental area, the woodland and the panoramic areas (parkguell.barcelona, 30 September 2026). The queues are in the monumental section, which has a second controlled access point and a one-way route; five points on it are where visitors wait: the Nature Square, the Hypostyle Room, the Laundry Room Portico, the Dragon Stairway and the Austria Gardens. Do that section first, then the woodland. The park’s own guided tour takes about 50 minutes and its Plus tour about 90; on your own, the park says a visit can last for hours.
The monumental area
One-way route · second controlled access point · the five busiest points
- The entrance pavilions: two gatehouses at the entrance on Carrer d’Olot. The porter’s lodge, which has an exhibition on Gaudí and Barcelona, is closed for maintenance.
- The Hypostyle Room: a covered space Gaudí designed for the weekly market.
- The Nature Square (the Greek Theatre): a viewpoint over the city, edged by an undulating bench.
- The Laundry Room Portico: named after the sculpted figure on one of its columns.
- The Dragon Stairway and the Austria Gardens: the two other points where visitors wait; the gardens were an area meant for building plots.
The woodland and the viewpoints
No controlled access · paths and viaducts
- The Three Crosses: the highest part of the park, 182.30 m above sea level.
- The Palm Trees Path: a path 10 m wide that links Carretera del Carmel with the exit.
- The Biodiversity Itinerary: a 195 m walk through the woodland.
- The Low Viaduct and the Middle Viaduct: the low one is a curved line on two rows of inclined columns, the middle one imitates natural caves.
What to leave out
The Gaudí House Museum, the house Gaudí’s father bought in 1906 and where Gaudí lived, is a separate ticket; skip it if the slot is short. Two paths are closed by works (see below), so a plan that uses the Forat del Vent stairway or the Upper Viaduct will not work. Pets on a lead may enter the park but not the five busiest points or the Gaudí House Museum.
Getting there
Main entrances: Carretera del Carmel 23; Carrer de Larrard; Avinguda del Santuari de Sant Josep de la Muntanya
Your slot is the time you must be inside the gate, so allow for the climb (parkguell.barcelona, 30 September 2026).
| Way | Journey | What to know |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Güell shuttle | 15 minutes from Alfons X metro (L4) | Included in the ticket, return journey too |
| Metro L3 to Lesseps | 20 minutes’ walk, uphill | Use the entrance on Avinguda del Santuari de Sant Josep de la Muntanya, which has an escalator |
| Bus H6 or D40 | 10 minutes’ walk from Travessera de Dalt | Use the Avinguda del Santuari entrance or Carrer de Larrard |
| Taxi | To the park’s rank | One rank, on Carretera del Carmel |
- Avoid Vallcarca: the park advises against arriving from Vallcarca metro (L3) because the escalators on Baixada de la Glòria are out of service.
- Reduced mobility: the park recommends arriving by Carretera del Carmel; its paths are uneven and its ramps steep.
- Driving is not recommended: most parking round the park is for residents.
The entrance pavilions at Park Güell. Photo: Thomas Quine, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
In the park
The bench round the Nature Square. Photo: Danbu14, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Works: drainage, lighting and Wi-Fi works have closed the paths from Coll del Portell to the Forat del Vent stairway and from Casa Trias to the Upper Viaduct, for about 18 months (parkguell.barcelona, 30 September 2026).
- Bring water and dress for the weather, the park advises; its map marks drinking fountains, rest areas and sheltered spaces.
- The Gaudí House Museum, inside the park, is sold with park entry as a combined ticket on GetYourGuide (from £24.00, 4.5 stars from 9,570 reviews).
- Residents’ hours: 7:00 to 9:30 and 20:00 to 22:00 are for local residents only; no tourist tickets are sold for them.
The other Gaudí ticket that sells out is the Sagrada Família, and a small-group tourad does both (from £93.42, 4.8 stars from 1,672 reviews, 4 hours). Gaudí’s two houses on Passeig de Gràcia are compared in Casa Batlló or La Pedrera. For everything else to book before you fly, see what to book before you go in Barcelona.
Common questions
How much is a Park Güell ticket?
€18 for an adult at parkguell.barcelona, checked 30 September 2026; €13.50 for children aged 7 to 12 and over-65s. Children up to 6 go free but still need a €0 ticket, because they count towards the park's capacity.
Do you need to book Park Güell in advance?
Yes, if you want a particular time. Tickets are for a time slot, sold up to three months ahead, and the park does not guarantee entry without one. You must enter within 30 minutes of your slot, and once you leave you cannot go back in.
Is a Park Güell guided tour worth it?
If you want a guide, buy it resold. The park's own guided tour is €17 on top of the €18 ticket, €35 in all (about £29.99), while the guided tour with entry on GetYourGuide was from £21.43 on 30 September 2026. For entry alone, the park's own €18 ticket is cheaper than the £18.43 resale.
How do I get to Park Güell?
The Bus Güell shuttle from Alfons X metro station (L4) is included in the ticket and takes 15 minutes, with the return. Otherwise it is a 20-minute uphill walk from Lesseps (L3) to the entrance on Avinguda del Santuari de Sant Josep de la Muntanya, which has an escalator, or 10 minutes from the H6 and D40 bus stop on Travessera de Dalt.
Can I visit Park Güell for free?
Not as a visitor. Free entry is for registered Barcelona residents, who book through the park's Passi Verd, and the early-morning and late-evening hours are reserved for them.
