Travel Review: Customized Golden Spanish Experience - 10 days

Our trip to Spain was great and we saw so much in 10 days. We arrived into Barcelona (I wish that we had spent an extra day or two there ... we really only had a day and a half). We then flew to Sevile. We took a train to Cordoba (supposed to spend the day there but left early ... it was extremely hot). We had a tour of Seville. It was the quarter final of the World Cup while we were there ...EVERYONE was watching the game. We watched on TV that was set up outside of a restaurant in a little square ... everyone was singing and dancing! Very fun and exciting! We took the AVE train to Madrid (very comfortable and easy to use). We did a tour of the Real Madrid Stadium (there was a huge line at the gift shop ... everyone was buying red Spain football shirts. We had a really good private tour of Toledo (by car/private driver). Almost all of the tour guides were great (the one in Cordoba was good ... but a bit boring) and really added to the experience. Some of the hotels were just OK ... all the beds in every hotel were hard. We could have used some guidance on restaurants in the different cities where we stayed (the hotels were not helpful at all in suggesting places) ... we ate at some really bad, expensive restaurants (that the hotels suggested). The Spain travel company was very responsive and very helpful if we ran into difficulties. Their documentation was very thorough. Could have been a bit more creative in their itinerary ... I told them we were traveling with my 14 year old son and didn't want to just do sightseeing and cathedrals, etc... We finished our stay in Madrid on the last night of the World Cup Final .... we went to the Plaza del Sol to watch the final ... thousands and thousands of people ... it was very, very exciting ...Spain won ... such a great way to end our trip!