Upper rooms ticket at Royal Alcazar

[BatshitIsTheExplanation]

Has anyone booked a ticket to the upper rooms at the Royal Alcazar in Seville? I know you need an additional ticket with a timed entry but can't understand from the website what time the general entry would be if you had an upper room entry at 2pm.

@BatshitIsTheExplanation we’ve tickets including the upper rooms for a couple of week’s time. It looks like you are asked to arrive to enter the Alcazar an hour before your upper rooms time slot. But you don’t need to be at the upper rooms themselves an hour before, just a few minutes from my understanding of the, not 100% clear , official website.

When are you due to go?

Not until the beginning of November. The website is really unclear!

I’ll post an update once we’ve been we’ll be there about a month before you.

Thank you, that would be great. Have a lovely trip!

Also, if you have other recommendations for things to see in Seville, I'd love to hear them. I'm traveling with my adult DD to celebrate her graduation.

@BatshitIsTheExplanation we did a tour of the upper rooms four years ago. I agree that timing was unclear. We arrived about 15 minutes before the slot, and the security staff explained the rules. It was very strict and formal. We had to put all our bags, phones, cameras etc into lockers, and then we lined up to go inside in a small group. We had to show our passports too.
Enjoy - it was wonderful.

@BatshitIsTheExplanation we’re staying in Triana so have a local flamenco show booked through the hotel. Beyond Alcazar and Cathedral we’ve nothing else booked yet. But will likely book Casa de Pilatos for the upstairs tour, and possibly a guided tour for Palacio de la Duenas, thought might just do a self- guided. Ditto Palacio Lebrija. Setas will be a turn up, plus any others. Plaza Espana, Murillo Gardens we’ll fit in as and when. Then general wandering round Triana, plus the main old town. The challenge seems to be fitting all these various attractions around Tapas Bars and Restaurants 😁. Plus it looking like sunny and 30 degrees whilst we are there, great for lounging by a pool, but when doing a lot of walking….Also a flamenco museum we saw online. Although we’re there for 5 nights I’m sure we won’t get round everything, and I’m not sure how relaxing it would be to try. Plus good excuse for another trip back to Seville.

@BatshitIsTheExplanation quick update for you on how it worked as we visited today.

we had 11:00 slot for the upper chambers so could enter the palace itself from 10:00. Arrived about fifteen minutes ahead and found a quite lengthy queue for the 10:00 entry, however staff were checking tickets and brought us to the front to start a new queue for those going in at 10:00 but with an upper rooms tour at 11:00.

they did make us wait until 10:00 on the dot, and don’t forget to bring ID as they do check it against your ticket - we’d forgotten all about this and me had left our passports in the hotel safe. However driving licences were fine.

once in there is a main courtyard with a quite grand, though slightly hidden away stairs in far right corner. Go to the top of the stairs around 10-15 mins before the tour starts.

Then the paranoia starts. 😄 security will check your ticket, and direct you to have all bags, but not phones, go through an airport type scanner. Even though you’ll have already done that when first entering the Alcazar.

All bags plus phones must then be left in a locker. You’ll need a one euro coin for those. Fairly large lockers, but two backpacks might require a locker each.

You then go through a walk through body scanner. If you try to sneak a phone in it will get picked up and, as someone in our tour found, you’ll get sent to put in a locker.

the tour groups are small - I think there were 12 of us in ours, and were fully sold out on the day we visited.

everyone is given an audio device pre-set to English.

You are then chaperoned round by two security guards and very bluntly told not to touch anything.

However the tour is very good, maybe goes at a slightly quicker pace because they are a number of bits were you could happily linger and gaze at the surrounds, however I guarantee that you will find at least one part truly jaw dropping.

Definitely recommended and I think you will be pleased that you booked it. The Alcazar itself has a lot to offer. We ended up cancelling a 1330 lunch reservation just to take it all fully in. So we probably left around 15:00.

Have a great visit.

Just to add La Giralda, if you also have that booked, were not interested in seeing ID if you had a full price ticket and no concession rate.