GoCar - Madrid

The best way to discover a city!

In this guided tour, your car becomes your personal guide to Madrid. It will be an unforgettable touring experience. Unlike a regular tour, GoCar gives you total control over what to see and how long to visit each site. The cars have personality and clearly indicate the direction to travel, all while you have the stories that give life to the city.

Guided tours of Madrid in GoCar are the best way to experience the city. The GoCar can be your personal guide to the city. The cars are fun and easy to drive and guide you through the city and interesting spots.

Buy your tickets at ticketbar with city centre retreats and the tours includes one full tank of fuel (you can bring it back empty), third party insurance and helmets. 

1) Historic Madrid (duration 1 hour): Starting from the central shop, you will head out towards the Plaza de España, the Senate and pass by the marvelous Royal Palace. After seeing the Almudena Cathedral and the district of La Latina, you will turn back towards the centre of Madrid via the Calle Mayor, passing by the Market of San Miguel, the renown Puerta del Sol and the Plaza of Santa Ana.

2) Cosmopolitan Madrid (duration 2 hours): Discover Madrid’s modern symbolic quarter, the beautiful cosmopolitan district. Visit the world famous Prado Museum and enjoy cruising through the wide sweeping boulevards, and through the stunning squares like ‘Plaza Cibeles’.

3) Half day Tour (duration 4 hours): Combine all of the available routes for a grand tour of Madrid from the amazing Historic Tour to the stunning Cosmpolitan Tour, which will take you to the most well-known sights of the city.The Half Day tour allows you to take your time and take detours, stop for shopping, visit some of the attractions you see, and enjoy coffee & tapas in a secluded plaza.
 

Departure location:

C/Ferraz, 26, near del Templo de Debod (more details can be found on your ticket)

Metro: Plaza de España

Openingtimes:

1 May – 1 October 10.00h – 21.00h

1 November – 1 April 10.00h – 19.00h

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Kigo Short-Stay Management Services

Starting our short-stay company 2 years ago with business partner Eddy was always going to be a learning experience for us with no knowledge of working in that environment. We immediately found a need for some way to manage our bookings across the variety of channels. So, after speaking with Housetrip, reading some reviews and speaking with the Kigo team, we decided that they appeared to offer the best solution for us.

Having decided to go with Kigo 2 years ago we got started immediately, it was a learning experience working with the Kigo and we have found a lot of great advantages to doing so. For us as a small short-stay agent, it has not only allowed us to synchronize our calendars and manage our bookings but also set out suggestions for ways to work such as the checking in and cleaning scheduling, smoothed out our operations with automatic email notifications, provided payment tracks and wage paying reports, brought us in contact with other agents and a long list of other things all for great value. We pay 110euros per months for all of this AND the calendar sync function on all our properties. This allows our availability to be updated automatically on channels such as Housetrip and Booking.com. Over the 2 years it has become a lot easier to set these up and Kigo are working harder even still to improve on this.

We’ve also decided to use an additional function Kigo offer called channel manager. This will have Kigo build you a website like our one here http://citycentreretreat.com/ and enable you to connect with other agents marketing there properties on your own site. For us (and them to some extent I think) this is completely new and although a sub path to our main business plan it is one we enjoy working on and wish to continue developing.

Kigo are the only company that I know offering these services so they may be revolutionary in there business model. The staff at Kigo is very busy but always doing their best to schedule, arrange, look at and deliver services. In such a developing, fast moving, complete serviced environment they must feel like nothing is good enough sometimes. Having worked for 12 years on the development of back-office infrastructures for large coops such as IBM, KPMG and Liberty Global using standards with ITIL processes and PRINCE2 methodologies I do feel my expectations are unrealistically to high sometimes.  We are always bugging Kigo with idea's and questions so they must really think we are not satisfied with them. Nothing could be further from the truth however. Kigo is a great idea for managing you bookings, trying to connect with the channels and really great value for money. But don’t tell them that!

This review was published from here.