Gibraltar with St Michael Caves Guided Tour from Costa del Sol
Malaga, Spain
- 11 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
See the sights of Gibraltar on this full-day trip from the Costa del Sol. Travel to the British territory by air-conditioned coach, and discover its main attractions, including the legendary Rock of Gibraltar. Head inside St Michael’s Cave, meet the cheeky Barbary monkeys, and pass Europa Point, where a lighthouse marks the gateway of the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Plus, get free time to enjoy Gibraltar’s British atmosphere and duty-free shopping.
- Full-day trip to Gibraltar from the Costa del Sol
- Visit the Rock of Gibraltar, meet the Barbary apes, and tour St. Michael's Cave
- Free time to shop for British specialties and duty free on the main street
- Join the bus in Malaga, Marbella, Fuengirola, Estepona, or Torremolinos
What's Included
- Multilingual escort guide.
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Saint Michael Caves entrance fee
- Free time for shopping
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks, unless specified
Meeting and Pickup
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Join up with your guide at one of the central meeting points on the Costa del Sol: options include Malaga, Marbella, Fuengirola, Estepona, and Torremolinos.
Settle inside your air-conditioned coach. Then, journey along the coast to the British territory of Gibraltar, set on a promontory that juts into the Mediterranean Sea.
Best known for the towering limestone ridge known as the Rock of Gibraltar, this chunk of British territory is also famous for its duty-free shopping and British atmosphere, including British-style pubs, red telephone boxes, and police officers dressed in British uniforms!
On arrival, take a panoramic coach tour and see Europa Point, Gibraltar’s southernmost point, where a lighthouse stands at the gateway between the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
Next, hop onto a minibus for a guided tour of the iconic Rock of Gibraltar. On your way up, stop to visit beautiful St Michael Cave, a network of natural limestone caverns hollowed into the cliff. Marvel at the stalactites and stalagmites as you learn how the cave has been used through the centuries, and behold the largest cave, a natural grotto regularly used as a venue for concerts and other events.
Then, head up the Rock to meet its famous residents: semi-wild macaque monkeys, known locally as 'Barbary apes.' Hear the story of how the British will never leave Gibraltar until the apes depart, and capture snaps of these cheeky animals, taking care to watch your belongings!
Later, head back down the rock, and enjoy free time to explore independently. Perhaps enjoy a meal (own expense), stroll around the pretty lanes, or head for Main Street, the partly pedestrianized, long shopping avenue. Browse the department stores, international fashion chains, and handicrafts shops, and maybe snap up duty-free favorites such as liquor, watches, fragrances, and other great-value goodies.
When the time comes, return to your coach and ride back to the Costa del Sol where your tour ends at the start point.
Settle inside your air-conditioned coach. Then, journey along the coast to the British territory of Gibraltar, set on a promontory that juts into the Mediterranean Sea.
Best known for the towering limestone ridge known as the Rock of Gibraltar, this chunk of British territory is also famous for its duty-free shopping and British atmosphere, including British-style pubs, red telephone boxes, and police officers dressed in British uniforms!
On arrival, take a panoramic coach tour and see Europa Point, Gibraltar’s southernmost point, where a lighthouse stands at the gateway between the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
Next, hop onto a minibus for a guided tour of the iconic Rock of Gibraltar. On your way up, stop to visit beautiful St Michael Cave, a network of natural limestone caverns hollowed into the cliff. Marvel at the stalactites and stalagmites as you learn how the cave has been used through the centuries, and behold the largest cave, a natural grotto regularly used as a venue for concerts and other events.
Then, head up the Rock to meet its famous residents: semi-wild macaque monkeys, known locally as 'Barbary apes.' Hear the story of how the British will never leave Gibraltar until the apes depart, and capture snaps of these cheeky animals, taking care to watch your belongings!
Later, head back down the rock, and enjoy free time to explore independently. Perhaps enjoy a meal (own expense), stroll around the pretty lanes, or head for Main Street, the partly pedestrianized, long shopping avenue. Browse the department stores, international fashion chains, and handicrafts shops, and maybe snap up duty-free favorites such as liquor, watches, fragrances, and other great-value goodies.
When the time comes, return to your coach and ride back to the Costa del Sol where your tour ends at the start point.
Port of Gibraltar (Pass By)
Europa Point (Pass By)
1
St. Michael's Cave
1 hour • Admission Ticket Included
2
The Rock of Gibraltar
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
3
Main Street
3 hours • Admission Ticket Free
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Infants must sit on laps
- Most travelers can participate
- It is necessary passport number, nationality and full name of all participants. A current valid passport is required on the day of travel.
- Travelers must obtain their own visas, passports, vaccination certificates and all relevant documentation required to enter the countries this tour travels to. Please consult your local authorities for more information.
- Julià Travel reserves the right to modify the itinerary due to force majeure reasons.
- The tour includes several stops for pickup/drop-off along the Costa del Sol.
- Our buses are not adapted for wheelchair users. Please note this when booking.
- The duration of the tour includes transport.
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 40 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Everything was very good. We liked it. The guide was friendly and did his job very well. We can recommend this trip for everyone.
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This tour makes for a long day from Malaga! Our bus ride was over 2 and 1/2 hours. The coach bus company makes many stops along the Costa Del Sol, so it is very slow going. Once we got to Gibraltar, it was very interesting especially the tour of Gibraltar itself which was done by a local company once we arrived in the city. Our guide Eric had grown up in Gibraltar and was very knowledgeable. The Main Street of Gibraltar is EXTREMELY touristy and crawling with cruise passengers. Because it is duty free, there is nothing but liquor, perfume and jewelry stores. If you need a fix of the UK, you will get it here. There’s even a Marks and Spencer. The drive to the top of the rock is great and has an audio guide with information. The guide on the coach bus, Alice was not very friendly and a bit rude.
Terrible. Terrible communication that had to be initiated by the guest. Canned responses on Viator directed us to call their office whose operators seem woefully unprepared to answer the simplest of questions. Between the phone conversation and WhatsApp messaging, we received not one but three potential pick up points. It is no wonder we never picked up. We went to the point indicated in writing (bus stop at the hard rock Marbella) and waited well beyond the appointed time. We did call again on international roaming where the operator indicated they would contact the guide and call us back. Suffice to say this did not happen and has yet to happen at the time of this writing. I want to mention this was not failure of language as a member of our party is Spanish fluent and each agent contacted also spoke English. This is incredibly unacceptable and untrustworthy.
Guild was pretty useless and did next to nothing during the trip. Impractical timing. People in coach were playing musical chairs and some were sent to the back of separated to elderly or young family members. She 1st did nothing when people complained to her. She then told everyone to sit where they were when I told her that I was going to make complaint to company.
The local tour guide/ driver was excellent and really looked after everyone.
I would recommend the tour but not the female guide
Too many stops picking up because they stopped at almost every hotel in Malaga so it wasted a lot of time. Then crossing the border was a nightmare with ridiculous long line and only 3 machines working. The tour of “the rock” was interesting and informative. The guide had to repeat his story 4 times for different languages so that could have been avoided by booking only 1 language per bus. Had some free time for shopping but again not very organized so had to rush to eat and shop too. Overall interesting to see but spent an entire day and quite a bit for the trip itself so probably wouldn’t do it again if I know all this.
The day was well organised. We chose the rock tour on top of the trip. We had just over an hour to explore the town ( wasn’t worth looking at to be honest) then onto a minibus for the rock tour. Driver was knowledgeable, funny and gave us lots of information. Cave tour was great and the monkeys were cute and funny. Long day but enjoyable and well worth the money.
It was a very informative tour. I would have liked the opportunity to see things more…our driver ( of the “van” not the large bus!)was driving so fast there was no time to take photos! The free time:shopping time was good but a little long…would have liked more time on the tour instead!
Read everything carefully. We read the sentence about our passbook numbers but missed the one about bringing the passports. Should have known really but to bring passports should be number one one list not buried at the end
Response from Host, Feb 2026
Dear Sam_E
We regret the inconveniece you indicate,
Please bear in mind tahat each customer should bring the documents needed to cross a border.
Best regards
Excellent bus driver to Gibraltar. Highly recommend the Rock of Gibraltar tour and St Michael’s Cave. Well organized.
Very dissapointed! Too many stops on the way from Malaga picking up passengers on the way. Took 3 hours. Total tour took 13 hours instead of 11. Three languages at a time. 6 hour for first possible time to eat/drink. No wc in bus. No details about schedule.
We needed to change our tour to another day due to a mixup in dates by our travel agency. We ended up canceling the tour well in advance of the 24 hour money back guarantee as we couldn’t get a reply from Viator or the tour operator. We booked a new tour for two days later and requested the refund which was promoted by Viator.
Viator and the tour provider have reused the refund as “the tour operator needs it to cover expenses “. WHAT A RIPOFF!!!
We will be posting this on trip advisor and other sites to help others avoid the frustration of dealing with this type of situation. Now we are paying for 2 tours for 4 adults each. This is gouging seniors at its best!
The tour chaperone did absolutely nothing, provided no information going or coming back from the trip. The only information of what we were seeing was from the separate tour operator that took us inside Gibraltar. Waste of 11 hours of our time.
On the minibus part of the trip, myself and my 3 friends (all 70 years old) were forced to sit in a “seat” which folded down in the aisle. The seat was appropriate for a child. It was so uncomfortable. We could not believe we were expected to sit there. Also, the bus had French recorded guiding so all we had was the driver’s commentary. My friend speaks enough French to know that we missed a lot. We were disappointed with how we were treated on such a beautiful tour!
If you leave from Malaga it’s a 3 hour bus ride each way which makes for a 12 hour day. Also our bus did not have a toilet on board and we were told the bus couldn’t make any stops except to pick up others on the tour.
Gibraltar is nice. Well worth the trip.
It was a long day as the bus trip took about 3 hours each way with picking up and dropping off customers along the way. Still it was a nice experience seeing Gibraltar , the caves, the apes and the town centre.
We were impressed by the driver who negotiated this huge bus on these narrow streets. The guide was friendly and helpful.
That it was along day but worth it crammed packed with interesting things to see and do.. although busy there was plenty of of time to explore Gibraltar town getting some duty free and good old English fish and chips. The caves we beautiful and the light show was stunning. And then of. Course were the monkeys. The stops are the rock were very short but the tour was well run the drivers and guides we all knowledgeable really enjoyed
The caves were amazing especially the light show. Gibraltar is amazing. The journey there was too long. I felt sorry for Victoria, our guide. It was not well organised. We lost sight of 2 travellers due to the Immigration side. I would recommend people to drive independently rather than take this tour.
Response from Host, Dec 2024
Dear Mona_M
Thank you for sharing this review,
I am glad to leran that you enjoyed the visit to Gibraltar, even though you were not satisfied with the tour organization.
Please bear in mind, as all agencies are informed, the tour offer several pick up locations for this reason the duration of the ride might vary.
Best regards,
The tour itself was great and our guides were helpful and knowledgeable; however, since we were the first one on and the last ones off the bus that made many, many stops for other people, a 1 1/2 hour drive to 3 hours each way made for a very long day. To top it off, a pickpocket stole my husband's phone before we even got on the bus.
Response from Host, Nov 2024
Dear Kathy_S
Thank you for sharing this review,
I regret to learn the incident you suffered at Gibraltar,
Regarding the durtaion of the trip, alla gencies are informed that the durtaion might vary as we offer several pick up location,
Best regards,
We enjoyed the caves, rock, monkeys and the coastal views. Would like to have done more contact with the rock like a short walk on it
Response from Host, Nov 2024
Dear Margaret_D
Thank you for sharing this review,
I am glad to learn that you enjoyed the Gibraltar tour,
Please bear in mind that there is a part of the Rock non accesible for visits as it is military ground.
Best regards,
Long bus journey to get there depending on your town pick up point. Not enough time in Gibraltar tour itself, everything was super rushed. 20 minutes at the caves and monkeys outside. 2 hours to ramble the streets for shopping. No need to change your currency from Euros. Lots of walking involved. No meal or drink included.
Response from Host, Nov 2024
Dear John_C,
Thank you for taking the time to share this review,
I regret to learn that the tour didn’t live up to your expectations.
Please notice that you can find all the information related to the excursion on our official selling spots and website, including a detailed description of the itinerary of the tour together with a list of what is included and excluded from it.
Best regards,
Took far to long to get to Gibraltar from Torromelinous 4 hours so only had 4 hours in Gib but st Michael’s cave was amazing
Response from Host, Nov 2024
Dear irene_E,
Thank you for taking the time to share this review,
I am glad to learn that you enjoy Sant Michael's cave.
Regarding your comments on the multiple stops on the way back, I must point out that it is specified to all agencies and official selling spots that the number of drop-off points may vary depending on the number of passengers. For this reason, the duration of the trip might also vary.
Best regards,
Overall, a good experience.
Our pick up was from the bus station Avenida de Andalucia - Rotonda in Malaga (many people, ourselves included, were waiting around the CaixaBank for some sort of a meet-up with the guide, it would be easier to just have the meeting point in said bus station directly).
Our guide, Javier, was very nice, tried his best to give us useful information and keep us as organized as possible. Our driver, JuanMa, did his best to get us to GIbraltar as fast as possible and safely, of course.
While it was disclaimed from the beginning that there will be multiple stops on the Costa del Sol, I did not expect THAT many, some within the same town, just a different hotel. Unfortunately, this makes the bus ride extremely long (depending on traffic as well) - the distance from Malaga to Gibraltar is 140 km and it took us more than 3h each way, leaving us only around 4h altogether in Gibraltar (we were lucky to cross the border pretty fast and we took the highway instead of the coastal road that would've taken even longer due to traffic).
In Gibraltar, I liked the organization, we were taken by a smaller bus (local tour company) with a local guide to see the main points of the city (panoramic tour from the bus), we stopped first at Europa point and then the Caves (each for 20 minutes). Unfortunately, since it was raining pretty hard, we did not stop at the apes' den, we only saw a couple of them from the mini bus on our way back to the bus station in Gibraltar (this tour took around 1h). We then had 3h free time in Gibraltar.
A bit tiring (meeting time in Malaga was 6:50h, left around 7h and we got back around 19h) due to the long bus ride, however it was a good experience overall.
Was very excited to be going to The Rock BUT an 11 hour return trip was unacceptable due to all the pickups from Malaga. The Caves were great but shopping was Dismal. Only cigarette, Alcohol and jellery shops. The rest were same old, same old souvenir shops. Bus was comfortable and guide very good. She could speak 9 languages.
Sadly very disappointing right from beginning guide appeared spoke very rude uninterested in customers, didn’t welcome guests don’t recall him giving out his name, prior to arrive in Gibraltar he then spoke as in fast forward which other guests shared they could not understand, then told we have free time soon as arrived with no information where to guests approached ask, he was then very annoyed agited stating I’ve already explained there onwards I felt there no point even trying to ask for advice.
We then reunited for second part, and was just direct, follow me, Dutch stand there, English I was then relieved he was then not touring us around, but felt he hadn’t organised this properly as constantly waiting around, none the less Francis was amazing guide very informative but too quick on bus, and only had 40 mins to get pics, at 3 different sites so again very rushed.
Response from Host, Nov 2024
Dear Sid200316,
Thank you for taking the time to share this review,
I regret to learn that the tour didn’t live up to your expectations due to our tour guide I will transfer your comments to the corresponding department to take this matter into account.
Best regards,
Guide was super rude and not personable at all. Took more than 3 hours to pick everyone up at different stops before actually getting on freeway to Gibraltar! Not well organised. Got a small mini bus to take us up to top which was good but very cramped! This was not well organised at all! The return trip had us in bus for another three hours to drop everyone off! Really poor day - spent most of it picking up and dropping off with a very rude guide!
Response from Host, Nov 2024
Dear AliMichael,
Thank you for taking the time to share this review,
I regret to learn that the tour didn’t live up to your expectations.
Kindly note that it is specified to all agencies and official selling spots that the number of drop-off points may vary depending on the number of passengers. For this reason, the duration of the trip might also vary.
Nonetheless, I will transfer your comments to our corresponding manager so he to see whether there is room for improvement on the tour.
Best regards,
Loved Gibraltar though the guide was hit and miss and felt he came across as abrupt. The coach provided by the tour operator was let’s say past its sell by date. On the way back from Gibraltar broke down 15km from Marbella. Would be grateful if you can reimburse me for part of my tour.
Response from Host, Dec 2024
Dear sanj1982
Thank you for sharing this review,
I am glad to learn that you enjoyed the Gibraltar tour, even though you were not entirely satisfied with our guide's performance,
Although our buses are regularly tested to ensure all components are working properly, unfortunately, this type of issue might appear during the day.
Sincerely,
The tour was only 1.5 hours and we spent most of the day on a bus or standing around waiting for one. I signed up for English and the guide spoke low and poorly focusing on the Germans. When I said we could not hear or understand him he didn’t speak loudly or more clearly. The tour description was totally misleading.
Response from Host, Dec 2024
Dear Barbara_K,
Thank you for taking the time to share this review,
I regret to learn that the tour didn’t live up to your expectations.
Regarding your comments on the multiple stops, I must point out that it is specified to all agencies and official selling spots that the number of drop-off points may vary depending on the number of passengers. For this reason, the duration of the trip might also vary.
I would like to inform you that the Gibraltar tour is operated only multilingual, we do not offer or publish this regular tour as an English-only option.
Best regards,
It was a great tour, Marta and Javier were excellent, I really enjoyed it
I recommend Viator, I did two excursions with them and they are very professional
It was a good day, and the guides great. The caves were fabulous. But it was longer than expected on the bus. It took us 4 hours from Malaga, and there was no toilet on the bus or stops. There was just a lot of pick ups and drop off's when coming from the starting point. Overall it was 13 hours for only about 4 hours in Gibralta.
Great guides safe driver saw more on the tour than we could have on our own. Highly organised and streamlined, we were kept safe at all times through clear instructions. Great day.
Everything was very good organised. But this trip is more for familys with children, because it is too short. But both guides were excellent.
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