Best Tickets for Tibidabo
Tibidabo Amusement Park: Entry Ticket
Ride everything from the 1928 aeroplane to the coaster threaded through the hillside trees, with the funicular up and the shuttle bus already on the ticket.
Tibidabo Panoramic Area + Cuca de Llum
Take unlimited turns on the five emblematic summit rides, the Ferris wheel on the cliff edge among them, with the same funicular and shuttle included. The option for a day built around the view.
Benefits
Tickets & Prices
Tibidabo sells 2 tickets: the full entry ticket opens the whole park, and the Panoramic Area ticket covers the emblematic rides at the summit.
- Entry ticket – all rides and events, the Panoramic Area, the funicular roundtrip and the TibiBus. Swap the ticket for a wristband at the Tibidabo Store on Passeig Sant Gervasi 36, then board the bus outside. Parking is the one thing not included.
- Panoramic Area ticket – unlimited turns on the Talaia tower, the Giradabo wheel, the Avio, the carousel and the automata museum, with the same transport bundle. When the full park is running, three more gentle rides open to it too.
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Prices run by height:
- Adults and anyone over 1.20 m pay the full rate
- Juniors between 90 cm and 1.20 m and over-60s pay a reduced rate on either ticket
- Children under 90 cm go free
Take the full ticket if children will use the rides, or if the historic attraction collection genuinely pulls you. What Tibidabo tickets really buy is the riding and the transport – the summit esplanade itself is free to wander if you make your own way up. Adults who ride little tend to find the full ticket steep for what they use, and the Panoramic ticket exists for exactly that visit.
Plan Your Visit
Check the calendar before anything else.
The rides run weekends, bank holidays and a handful of listed holiday dates for most of the year, and Wednesday to Sunday through high summer.
Outside those dates the amusement park stays dark, Mondays and Tuesdays included.
The Panoramic Area keeps a wider calendar and runs every day from spring through Christmas.
Gates open at 11:00, with closing between 20:00 and 22:00 depending on the day.
October and December draw the year’s biggest crowds, and May and September are the quiet months.
The Sant Genís car park costs €4.20 for the day with the free shuttle onwards. The small car park at the summit runs €18 and must be reserved online at least 24 hours ahead.
Tibidabo Amusement Park
Tibidabo Amusement Park, Pl. del Tibidabo, 3, 4, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, 08035 Barcelona, Spain · Google Maps
What to See & Do
Tibidabo has been running since 1899, and the point of the place is that the rides double as viewpoints. Original vintage machines share the ridge with modern coasters, 512 metres over the city, and locals rate the whole park for sunset above everything else. It works as a date as much as a family day.
The emblematic rides at the summit
The red Avió has circled the summit since 1928, modelled on the first commercial flight from Barcelona to Madrid and still flying with its own propeller and original radiotelephone kit. The Giradabo wheel turns on the cliff edge with the city filling the view below your feet, and the Talaia tower lifts you to the highest point you can stand in Barcelona.
Give the Museu d’Autòmats ten minutes on the way past. Walt Disney liked this collection of clockwork machines so much on a 1957 visit that he tried to buy it. The park refused, and the same automata are still whirring.
Muntanya Russa, Merlí and the big rides
Muntanya Russa is the reason coaster people make the trip: squeezed into the hillside among the trees, all sustained, fast lateral turns, and it would hold up anywhere, view or no view. Merlí, the 52-metre drop tower that arrived in 2024, freefalls with a full panorama, and kids name it and the mine train as their picks. Hotel Krueger, the haunted hotel walk-through with live actors, is the ride local enthusiasts call the standout.
The Sagrat Cor temple
The basilica rises directly beside the rides, a bronze Christ with open arms above the Ferris wheel. The crypt and the basilica are both free to enter, and the crypt is the more interesting of the two. A lift runs to the rooftop terraces at 518 metres on church hours rather than park hours, which makes it the view that stays open even on days the rides rest.
Insider Tips
- Bring a picnic. Summit food is thin and dear, and the designated picnic area on the Panoramic level near Beyond allows your own.
- Arrive late afternoon and stay through sunset. The retro rides against the evening light are the scene people go up for.
- Walk into Hotel Krueger first. Its line reaches an hour even on days the coasters are walk-on.
- Board the funicular down a little before closing, or wait out the rush. The descent queue peaks right at the bell.
- If one ride is the whole reason you are going, check the park’s notices that morning. Rides close without same-day warning, the water rides included.
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FAQs
What is Tibidabo?
Barcelona’s mountaintop amusement park, open since 1899 on the Collserola ridge, with the Sagrat Cor temple and its bronze Christ right beside the rides.
How to get to Tibidabo from Barcelona?
The TibiBus shuttle from Plaça Kennedy plus the Cuca de Llum funicular, both included with park tickets. The cheaper route runs on a standard transport fare: FGC train, the Vallvidrera funicular, then bus 111 to the summit.
What are the Tibidabo opening hours?
From 11:00 on operating days. The full park runs weekends and bank holidays most of the year and Wednesday to Sunday in high summer, while the Panoramic Area opens every day from spring through Christmas.
Can you buy Tibidabo funicular tickets on their own?
Yes. A standalone Cuca de Llum return, TibiBus included, costs €13.50. The summit esplanade is free to walk once you’re up.
Do you have to book Tibidabo parking in advance?
Only the summit car park, which takes online reservations at least 24 hours ahead. Sant Genís needs no booking and runs the free shuttle.