Southern Spain Travel Agent Review: Family Trip , Baking Bread in Benalauria, Andalusian Countryside, Tangier Markets, Art & Food

Our trip to Spain for our family of four was a spectacular success primarily because of this travel team and our travel planner. The planner and her organization have four great strengths:

1. A network of top-flight guides—personable, knowledgeable, and extremely professional. We learned so much and were made to feel special.
2. Constant and instant contact with us via an App, whether we were in Sevilla or Granada or Morocco or Madrid or in cars or trains in between. She helped us find the right train platform in Madrid, pushed back our dinner reservations in Ronda when we stayed late at La Alhambra, and quickly arranged a fix for a hot water problem in our apartment while we were riding camels in Tangier.
3. Personalized itineraries suited to our interests and likes: people, places, and food. For example, she facilitated a two-day hike in the mountains for our sons while my wife and I explored Ronda and visited the Picasso museum in Malaga.
4. Impeccable logistics. There was always a dinner reservation at an interesting restaurant. There was always a driver waiting when we walked out of an airport or museum. There was always a guide on our doorstep at the appointed time with appropriate tickets and car for that day’s events.

For me, the trip highlights were exploring the white villages of Andalucía like Benelauria, poking into some special shops in the Tangier marketplace, seeing paintings by Velasquez and Goya at El Prado, or Picasso’s Guernica, plus some excellent seafood restaurants. For our sons, the best was their two-day hike, Morocco, baking bread in Benelauria, the roast suckling pig in Ronda, and all the good coffee. My wife, for whom I primarily planned the trip, fell in love with the white villages, the Andalusian countryside, the king’s rooms in the Madrid palace, and the flamenco exhibition in Sevilla.

At one time or another, all four of us were communicating with our planner on an App. We felt like she was always with us and we were enthralled with the people and places we met and experienced. She and her cohorts were perfect guides that made our vacation so wonderful.