Sevilla 2024 - Alcázar

We toured the Alcázar of Sevilla yesterday - it's impressive! 

We popped out before seeing everything, so we headed out to a tapas place we remembered from last year - still as good!

After a relaxing snack, we went to another favorite (Al-Wadi) and got takeout for dinner 😋

Tram and bus back to the apartment, and a pleasant evening "home" (not counting the electrical outages 🙄)

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See the Sevilla 2024 Alcázar album for more photos.

We didn't buy our tickets in advance:

- we couldn't be sure that we could be there for the date and time (timed entrance)

- the tickets were non-refundable, and the rules for which to buy were not clear. Buying the wrong one could mean being turned away and re-buying. In one explanation, EU citizens got a different one, but it turned out you also had to be 65+

- there were plenty of tickets for each time slot (half hours), so we knew they wouldn't run out. Also, reports said there was virtually no line.

- we spent 45 minutes waiting in line just to buy tickets - there was just one agent, and each ticket had to have the name, verified by ID. We missed the first time slot *and* wasted our feet (even with a cane-chair to share). At the entrance, there was no line...

What we might have done was go, ask the entry guards about the right tickets, sit on a bench, and then buy our tickets via smartphone and data. I've seen so many people do something similar at other venues, but I'm still not used to thinking of it...