Gibraltar Shopping Guided Tour from Costa del Sol
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From $31.38
32 reviews (3.75)
Price varies by group size
Lowest Price GuaranteePricing Info: Per Person
Duration: 11 hours
Departs: marbella, marbella
Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Free cancellation
Overview
Once you have been picked up, the coach will take you on a drive along the coastal road to Gibraltar. The city center is long and narrow, extending along Main Street. Much of this bustling high street has been pedestrianized, with strategically placed benches, pavement cafes, and bars offering welcome relief for weary shoppers. Gibraltar offers duty-free prices on many goods in the stores on the famous Main Street. Among the famous British and international shop names, you’ll find many local shops.
What's Included
Free time for shopping
Local guide
Multilingual escort guide
Transportation by deluxe air conditioned coach
What's Not Included
Food and drinks, unless specified
Gratuities
Hotel pick-up and drop-off
Traveler Information
- INFANT: Age: 0 - 3
- CHILD: Age: 4 - 11
- ADULT: Age: 12 - 99
Additional Info
- Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons
- Face masks required for travellers in public areas
- Gear/equipment sanitised between use
- Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
- May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
- Please note that the duration of the tour is estimated and it can vary depending on the pick up point.
- Regular temperature checks for staff
- Social distancing enforced throughout experience
- The safety of our passengers and employees has always been our key concern at Julià Travel. The fight against Covid-19 strengthens our commitment to safety and health. Therefore we have adapted our tours to avoid large crowds and we ensured that any place
- Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
- Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons
- Face masks required for travellers in public areas
- Gear/equipment sanitised between use
- Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
- May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
- Please note that the duration of the tour is estimated and it can vary depending on the pick up point.
- Regular temperature checks for staff
- Social distancing enforced throughout experience
- The safety of our passengers and employees has always been our key concern at Julià Travel. The fight against Covid-19 strengthens our commitment to safety and health. Therefore we have adapted our tours to avoid large crowds and we ensured that any place
- Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
What To Expect
Main Street
Join us to spend a different shopping day in Gibraltar from the Costa del Sol.
5 hours • Admission Ticket Free
Reviews
Something for everyone.
tomhudson22, 21-06-2022
Fabulous resort the weather was exceptional, our Hotel looked great but let down by having to buy silly things like coffee tea or water even though we were on half board & if you wanted to take pictures from the roof top you had to buy a beverage which they "forgot " to mention when we booked also if you wanted to enjoy a morning drink in your bedroom you have to hire a kettle & is a basic emenity in 95% of hotels in the world the Hotel in question is The Grand Cerventes in Torremolinos.
We liked the hotel just not the penny pinching we encountered considering the cost & would look elsewhere in the future.
The food at the hotel although palatable was rather un imaginative & quite tasteless after second day we never eat at the hotel again, eating out was far better & thoroughly recommend Bailey Irish Bar nr the Clock Tower very fair prices & great home cooked food that was excellent can't be beaten on quality & amazing host's.
We liked the hotel just not the penny pinching we encountered considering the cost & would look elsewhere in the future.
The food at the hotel although palatable was rather un imaginative & quite tasteless after second day we never eat at the hotel again, eating out was far better & thoroughly recommend Bailey Irish Bar nr the Clock Tower very fair prices & great home cooked food that was excellent can't be beaten on quality & amazing host's.
Gibraltar Shopping and Tour!
Pawokwok, 08-03-2020
In July we stayed in Malaga, and while there we included Gibraltar Shopping and Tour experience. As usual, we did all our booking prior to our trip to Malaga, so we can get only the best for our budget. And that trip to Gibraltar for 3 persons just cost my family of 3 a good £60. Just Gibraltar Shopping Shuttle we booked with Get your Guide online. The normal pick up time is 9am and it depends from where you are coming from which you can select from the time you are booking online. The pick up time is on the dot. You have to be there where and when is due. As time for them is very important and so as for you to get more and longer experience of the magnificent Gibraltar. The earlier being in Gibraltar the better so you get to see more of Gibraltar. Shopping could be secondary to your agenda, as Gibraltar in its prominent site starts with the Rock... plus many more that you can see and experience. There will be rides available for tourists in the area and it will depend on you with your time to decide whether to take their offer for their price. But whether you are paying extra more for your tour for the time you have or you can manage to walk the entire tourist attractions in Gibraltar. It's all worth your experience. So I suggest to check all your possibilities to get the most for your budget from online booking. Always consider your time and how money will play to manage your experience of Gibraltar both for Shopping (tax-free, yes it is without tax!) and tour (be amazed at the wonder of its nature... to name a few, there's the Rock, Michael's Cave, meet and greet with the macaque on top of the peak and see the magnificent view from the top...) That is Gibraltar Shopping and Tour. There is one thing that you must have with you though! Don't forget to bring your PASSPORTS with you. With that, you are all good to go.
Jesus was amazing!
LoisG616, 17-12-2019
Today we took a trip to Gibraltar with your company Julia travel. We just had to write a review of our experience of this. We cannot praise our tour guide, Jesus, highly enough! he was outstanding in his friendliness and his humour was a delight. We live here in Spain and go regularly go to Gibraltar (we like the shopping there) So we have had some pretty awful and some very good experiences of tour operators and their staff. We have to say that Jesus was so knowledgeable and made our day just wonderful. And it was not only our opinion, we heard many passengers comment on how nice they found him. Well done Julia tours and please keep Jesus with you, he is a marvellous asset to your company. Lois & Dot Guest, Fuengirola.
Jaw dropping
Andrew C, 02-11-2022
duty free shopping a must, trip around the rock was fantastic with rock tours.
Just go you will not regret it.
Just go you will not regret it.
Great place
304sadiem, 08-10-2022
Love all the tax free perfumes and after shaves and tobacconists the prices were fantastic weather was great shopped out
A GRAND DAY OUT!!
Sandra M, 28-12-2022
A very enjoyable day trip. Guide very knowledgable. We've been on 2 previous occasions so didn't go on the rock tour but those who did appeared to have a really good time.
The Monkey Experience
Carolyne33, 03-10-2020
In all fairness, I only booked the Malaga Shopping Trip as I wanted to see the Barbary Apes and visit the other Rock, as I'd lived on the rock in Montserrat (Caribbean) for 16 years.
The bus arrived at in a timely manor and was comfortable. The German guide was very precise, in the way only Germans can be, and didn't like the fact I couldn't show him my ticket - I explained I had no wifi on my phone. (Not because I couldn't afford it, but because the phone is new and I don't know what I'm doing with 4G so couldn't get it to function. I didn't tell the guide this and think he assumed I was poor as I like to travel incognito and am not rich anyway).
It took ages to pick up people all along the Costa Del Sol and we finally arrived in Gibraltar at 10.20, about 3 hrs and 20 mins after we left Malaga. We were given till 3pm to either pay (again) for the shopping tour or go on the bus's own tour of the island. Mr guide did his best to sell us the tours (I had explained I had no interest in shopping (he thought I wasn't taking it because it was too expensive - 25 euros to be guided around a few touristy shops is too expensive, but the truth is I hate shopping, hate it) , but he didn't get I preferred to do my own thing, necessary as a photographer, and not wanting to go on the tour.
I found John Guy hanging around in a square and in fact paid him to take me to see the apes. John is famous for his singing of 'If I was a rich man' with ape accompanists (BBC) and was also shot on film in the Bond film, 'The Living Daylights'. I am famous for talking about goats and a hostel in Montserrat during Hurricanes Irma and Maria (BBC etc) so we had a bit in common. I had been planning to catch the cable car up the rock, but it was about to be closed due to high winds. A friendly cop (actually, Johns Uncle Arthur) informed us. Nevermind, I got to take a photo of John's Uncle in full police uniform on a motorbike....with his very own rabbit ears.
We didn't go all the way up the rock as we both had limited time and it was more interesting to play with the apes, though you musn't touch them first the park ranger explained. They like to be in control. They are golden apes and have orange coats. There is a monkey in charge of the States who also looks like that, I'm told.
However, John had trained a female ape to jump on his client's shoulders which gave me a bit of a fright. It was also a bit smelly, but had a soft coat and beaufitul golden fur. It sort of ambushes Johns' clients. One minute you're talking to John about the weather, the next minute you've got a parrot on your shoulder, sorry, I mean a monkey. Aaaaaargh. Pirate!
Anyway, so that was what I did on my shopping trip to Gibraltar. I did buy a fridge magnet with a map of Gibraltar, Spain and North Africa on it, complete with lucky coin, and a nice solar charged revolving hummingbird on an artificial sunflower. So far, it's either not sunny enough to charge in the UK or simply it doesn't work and I was ripped off.
Gibraltar is a rather odd place and the people seemed somewhat strange. I did like the man whose dog played the piano by hitting the keyboard with its head outside the church or Cathedral in Main Street. G and T's, taken with my breakfast and as a substitute for lunch, having eaten friend bread for breakfast at a rather overcrowded establishment, turned out to be 6 pint buckets. They do things a little different in Gibraltar! Drinks are cheaper that than the UK, food is more expensive (I think though I only had bread and avocado so don't take my word).
We were told to be back at the bus at 2.45pm to leave at 3pm. I got there about 2.40pm and nearly everyone had already returned. So don't know if that was a comment on shopping or touring Gibraltar.
I would recommend their tour as it was about the same price as mine, but I would recommend finding John Guy hanging around just past the Cathedral as he is an interesting guide and good at his job.
I could probably have got a bus myself to Gibraltar for less, but this was the relatively laziest way to get there. Make sure you phone them to confirm as I would never have found the meeting place without their direction in Malaga.
As for their tour guide, he seemed quire kind, but you can never judge a book by its cover! He was definitely German.
The bus arrived at in a timely manor and was comfortable. The German guide was very precise, in the way only Germans can be, and didn't like the fact I couldn't show him my ticket - I explained I had no wifi on my phone. (Not because I couldn't afford it, but because the phone is new and I don't know what I'm doing with 4G so couldn't get it to function. I didn't tell the guide this and think he assumed I was poor as I like to travel incognito and am not rich anyway).
It took ages to pick up people all along the Costa Del Sol and we finally arrived in Gibraltar at 10.20, about 3 hrs and 20 mins after we left Malaga. We were given till 3pm to either pay (again) for the shopping tour or go on the bus's own tour of the island. Mr guide did his best to sell us the tours (I had explained I had no interest in shopping (he thought I wasn't taking it because it was too expensive - 25 euros to be guided around a few touristy shops is too expensive, but the truth is I hate shopping, hate it) , but he didn't get I preferred to do my own thing, necessary as a photographer, and not wanting to go on the tour.
I found John Guy hanging around in a square and in fact paid him to take me to see the apes. John is famous for his singing of 'If I was a rich man' with ape accompanists (BBC) and was also shot on film in the Bond film, 'The Living Daylights'. I am famous for talking about goats and a hostel in Montserrat during Hurricanes Irma and Maria (BBC etc) so we had a bit in common. I had been planning to catch the cable car up the rock, but it was about to be closed due to high winds. A friendly cop (actually, Johns Uncle Arthur) informed us. Nevermind, I got to take a photo of John's Uncle in full police uniform on a motorbike....with his very own rabbit ears.
We didn't go all the way up the rock as we both had limited time and it was more interesting to play with the apes, though you musn't touch them first the park ranger explained. They like to be in control. They are golden apes and have orange coats. There is a monkey in charge of the States who also looks like that, I'm told.
However, John had trained a female ape to jump on his client's shoulders which gave me a bit of a fright. It was also a bit smelly, but had a soft coat and beaufitul golden fur. It sort of ambushes Johns' clients. One minute you're talking to John about the weather, the next minute you've got a parrot on your shoulder, sorry, I mean a monkey. Aaaaaargh. Pirate!
Anyway, so that was what I did on my shopping trip to Gibraltar. I did buy a fridge magnet with a map of Gibraltar, Spain and North Africa on it, complete with lucky coin, and a nice solar charged revolving hummingbird on an artificial sunflower. So far, it's either not sunny enough to charge in the UK or simply it doesn't work and I was ripped off.
Gibraltar is a rather odd place and the people seemed somewhat strange. I did like the man whose dog played the piano by hitting the keyboard with its head outside the church or Cathedral in Main Street. G and T's, taken with my breakfast and as a substitute for lunch, having eaten friend bread for breakfast at a rather overcrowded establishment, turned out to be 6 pint buckets. They do things a little different in Gibraltar! Drinks are cheaper that than the UK, food is more expensive (I think though I only had bread and avocado so don't take my word).
We were told to be back at the bus at 2.45pm to leave at 3pm. I got there about 2.40pm and nearly everyone had already returned. So don't know if that was a comment on shopping or touring Gibraltar.
I would recommend their tour as it was about the same price as mine, but I would recommend finding John Guy hanging around just past the Cathedral as he is an interesting guide and good at his job.
I could probably have got a bus myself to Gibraltar for less, but this was the relatively laziest way to get there. Make sure you phone them to confirm as I would never have found the meeting place without their direction in Malaga.
As for their tour guide, he seemed quire kind, but you can never judge a book by its cover! He was definitely German.
Not enough time
G2110EQrachels, 01-11-2019
Picked up at 7.30am, took roughly 3 hours to get there which you expect picking up at other hotels and resorts. What I didn't expect was to have to be back on the coach by 3.15pm which meant you rushed everywhere conscious of the pick up time. The experience in Gibraltar was not to be missed just a shame we had so little time there.
