Madrid Tours in October 2025

Saw and experienced so many highlights, not only in the large cities, but also in small villages, such as a charming lunch in someone’s home. Was initially wary of the many optional excursions at additional cost, but they proved to be excellent opportunities and a good value. I don’t really feel that we missed much of what Spain and Portugal have to offer.

What a vacation! Relaxing, but thrilling at the same time. Explore have come up trumps with this trip.accomodation was awesome, varied each night a range of hotels, small family run guest houses to a manor house. All were spotless, with good facilities and a super team running each place. The trip was the right mix of challenge and relaxing. There are some long days of walking but the time flies in such beautiful countryside and time spent chatting to other pilgrims. The explore team on the trip were attentive and frankly brilliant, Lucas.our tour leader, did a great job looking after the teams needs in a totally relaxed way.His local knowledge and understanding of the environment we were walking through was invaluable and interesting.a great tour leader. Angela and Emma hosted tours of Leon and Santiago respectively. They were funny, engaging and oh so knowledgeable. We were so privileged to have them all. Us, a small group of seven, were of varying ages from late forties upwards, had an absolute ball. Each was able to find their own time, relax and find friendships which I believe will last. We laughed together and reflected together like old comrades. It was a life changing trip in so many ways. New friends, new experiences and some personal changes. Just perfect, thank you.

Every place we traveled was excellent! Timing was good with downtime and the next place. We had wonderful guides and our bus driver and director were great! Love Trafalgar! It was our fourth trip with Trafalgar.

Spain is a very large country and we wanted to see as much of it comfortably as we could. Portugal was also important. I think this trip allowed us to do everything we wanted to do very comfortably. The hotel accommodations in my opinion were excellent. The breakfast every morning was Amazing. The Trip director was very personable and knowledgeable and humorous. Our luggage was managed flawlessly and we never had to carry anything heavy up and downstairs. There was a lot of necessary bus time in order to get to all the places we wanted to visit. But the driver and the director were careful to break that up into manageable stops. There was a toilet on board the bus and the bus was very comfortable and clean. We enjoyed a number of exclusive experiences such as a home-cooked meal in a small village in Spain and a personable tour of a small cava winery. There were others. The Gibraltar experience was definitely worth doing but one day will let you accomplish that and that is what we did. I wish I had brought a bathing suit because there were plenty of times to swim either in the hotel pools or on the Mediterranean. I can highly recommend this trip. My wife and I are in our mid and late 70s and we enjoyed it very much.

It was an "Amazing" trip. We visited ten different beautiful cities in Spain and Portugal. The tour guide was excellent. The coach was comfortable and roomy. The tours were interesting and informative. I highly recommend Insight Vacations.

I loved the cities…Madrid, Salamanca, Barcelona, Lisbon, Malaga and more. I loved the food specially the restaurants and entertainment on the optional excursions. Gibraltar was amazing to see in person. The weather was perfect in the second half of September. It was fun all around