You board a coach in Barcelona city center and travel to PortAventura Park, where you'll spend the morning and early afternoon riding 40 attractions across six themed worlds, including Europe's highest roller coaster. In the late afternoon, you move to Ferrari Land to experience the continent's fastest vertical accelerator and a family racing circuit. The round-trip coach is included, as is entry to both parks. You return to Barcelona by evening on the scheduled departure.
You're standing in Barcelona city center with a free day and no rental car. A coach pulls up, air-conditioned and ready, and you're heading south toward PortAventura Park — the kind of place where you can spend six hours and still not ride everything. The driver knows the route; you don't have to think about parking or directions. It's the sort of morning that feels like someone else solved the logistics.
PortAventura spreads across six themed worlds: Mediterrània, Polynesia, SésamoAventura, China, México and Far West. There are 40 rides total, and the ones that stick with you are the ones that hold records — Dragon Khan, Furius Baco, Shambhala, which is Europe's highest roller coaster. If you're not chasing speed, there's plenty for younger kids, and the park runs up to 40 live performances daily in the Gran Teatro Imperial, so you can step off the rides and into acrobatics and music without leaving the grounds. The day trip from Barcelona means you don't have to choose between the two parks; you get both in one push.
Ferrari Land sits on 70,000 square meters of its own, and the centerpiece is the vertical accelerator — 112 meters tall, 0 to 180 kilometers per hour in five seconds. It's the tallest and fastest of its kind in Europe. There's also an authentic family racing circuit if you want something less extreme. The park opens from 5 p.m. onward during the 2026–2027 season, so you'll have time in PortAventura first, then move to Ferrari Land for the late afternoon and evening. The coach brings you back to Barcelona at the end, and the return time is fixed — the driver waits for no one, so punctuality matters.
This works if you want the big rides and the novelty of Ferrari Land without arranging entry, transport and timing yourself. The trade is that you're moving through two parks in one day rather than lingering, and the return coach leaves at a set hour, which is what makes the whole thing fit into a single trip from the city.
Operated by Julia Travel
Is this one for you?Pick this if you want both parks in a single day without arranging your own transport, tickets and timing — the fixed coach schedule is what makes it possible to hit PortAventura and Ferrari Land without a car or the morning spent on logistics.
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