Valencia Tourist Card: what attractions are included?
Valencia: 24, 48 or 72-hour Valencia tourist card
What does the Valencia Tourist Card include for attractions?
The Valencia Tourist Card includes unlimited public transport (metro, bus, Valenbisi) and free entry to municipal museums and monuments (including La Lonja and the Serranos and Quart towers) and discounts on tours and activities — but no free entry to the major paid sites (Oceanogràfic, Hemisfèric, Science Museum, Bioparc, or the Cathedral). It is primarily a transport card with extras.
The Valencia Tourist Card is marketed as the all-in-one solution for visiting Valencia. The reality is more specific: it is a good transport card with useful discounts on some attractions, but it does not include free entry to any of the city’s major paid attractions. Understanding exactly what it covers before buying is essential — visitors who assume it includes free Oceanogràfic or Bioparc entry end up spending more than expected.
| Where | Valencia Tourist Info offices, airport, or online |
| Cost | €17–€30 for the 24/48/72-hour transport cards |
| Covers | unlimited transport, free municipal museums and monuments, discounts on tours |
| Does not cover | free entry to Oceanogràfic, Hemisfèric, Science Museum, Bioparc, Cathedral (see the official page for any discount) |
| Best for | transport-heavy visitors, not attraction-heavy ones |
What the tourist card costs
Available in three durations with transport, typically purchased online or at the tourist office (adult prices on the official shop):
- 24-hour card: €17
- 48-hour card: €24
- 72-hour card: €30
- 7-day card: €15, but without transport (museums and monuments only)
The official shop applies a 10% web discount at the time of writing.
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What is included: transport
The transport inclusion is the most straightforward and genuinely useful element. The card covers:
Unlimited metro: All lines (L1–L10), including the airport connection (line 3 and 5 to VLC airport). The airport-to-centre journey alone costs €2.80 per single trip.
Unlimited EMT buses: All city bus lines, including bus 95 to the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias.
Also covered: Metrobus (zone AB), tram and Cercanías trains, according to the official shop. Valenbisi is not confirmed as part of the card; check valenbisi.es for its own fares.
Not included in transport: Taxi, airport express coach, and the hop-on hop-off tourist bus.
What is included: attraction discounts
This is where many visitors are disappointed. The tourist card provides discounts, not free entry, to most attractions. Free entry applies to municipal museums and monuments; discounts apply to tours and activities. Check the official page for the current list:
City of Arts and Sciences and Bioparc: the official discount page lists these as filters but gives no confirmed percentage, so do not count on a specific saving. Check the official page and the ticket seller before you buy.
Discounts on tours and activities (10–15%): Albufera tourist bus, Palau de les Arts audioguided tour, Sorolla guided tour, Holy Grail tour, bike rental and bike tours, paella experience, cruise with lunch. San Nicolás and Los Santos Juanes churches: €1 off.
What is free with the card (monuments):
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Torres de Serranos and Torres de Quart
What is free with the card (museums, selected):
- Almoina Archaeological Museum
- Fallero Museum
- City Museum and Valencia History Museum
- Cervelló Palace Museum, Rice Museum, Natural Sciences Museum
- Benlliure, Blasco Ibáñez and Concha Piquer house museums
What the card does NOT cover at all:
- Valencia Cathedral and Miguelete tower
- Central Market (already free to enter)
- Guided tours not on the discount list
Is the Valencia Tourist Card worth buying?
The card makes financial sense in specific circumstances:
Yes, the card pays off if you:
- Are using public transport multiple times per day (metro + bus)
- Plan to travel from the airport by metro (single tickets cost €2.80 each way, €5.60 round trip)
- Will visit several of the free museums and monuments in 2–3 days
No, the card is poor value if you:
- Plan to stay mostly in the walkable old city and cycle most other distances
- Are buying separate City of Arts combo tickets (the combo is often better value than individual card discounts)
- Are visiting only the free attractions (Fine Arts Museum, Turia Gardens, Gulliver Park, street art)
- Are renting a car and using it for most transport
The honest maths for a typical 3-day visit:
- Metro from airport + back: €5.60 saved
- 6 metro/bus rides over 3 days (at €1.50 each): €9 saved
- La Lonja (€2) and other paid municipal museums, free with card: a few euros saved
- Total plausible savings: roughly €15–€25 on a €30 72-hour card
This is marginal. The card only breaks even for a transport-heavy visitor who also uses the free museums; it loses money for a visitor who walks and cycles.
The 7-day card
The 7-day card (€15) does not include transport: it covers museums and monuments only, so it suits longer stays built around the municipal museums. For transport over a week, compare with a SUMA 10 pass or the official transport options.
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Alternative: buy individual tickets online
For the City of Arts complex, the individual combo tickets (Oceanogràfic + Hemisfèric + Science Museum) often represent better value than the tourist card discount plus individual entries. Compare before buying.
See the full tourist card honest review for a detailed financial comparison across different itinerary types, and the honest tourist card guide for what operators won’t tell you.
Where to buy
- Online via the Valencia Tourist Office website (best price)
- Valencia Tourist Info offices and the pick-up points listed on the official shop
- Some hotels will advise on purchase but rarely stock the card directly
Combining with a hop-on hop-off bus
If you want guided bus access in addition to regular transport, the hop-on hop-off bus is sold separately. Some visitors buy both — the tourist card for metro/bus and the hop-on hop-off for a first-day orientation circuit.
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For a full breakdown of how to get around Valencia without the tourist card, and whether the metro card system is sufficient for most visitors, see the transport guide.
For how many days you need in Valencia — which affects whether the 48 or 72-hour card makes more sense — see the planning guide.
How to plan your days around the card
A card with a fixed clock rewards a plan that front-loads the things it covers. Because the duration runs from first use, think about the first day before you validate it: if you land in the afternoon and only head to your hotel, you may prefer to start the clock the next morning, once your sightseeing really begins. Our first weekend itinerary and the one-day itinerary both show how to cluster stops so that transport is used where it genuinely saves time.
A sensible pattern is to dedicate one day to the old town on foot, where the card does little for you, and another to the farther sights where metro and bus do the heavy lifting. The old town day can start at the Torres de Serranos, drift through El Carmen and finish at the Lonja de la Seda or the Central Market. The second day can head out to the City of Arts and Sciences and, if you like animals, on to the Bioparc.
Attractions where the discount is easy to use
Some stops are simple to add to a day because they sit close together, which makes it easier to use several discounts without extra travel. The towers, the Fallas museum and the archaeology museum all fall within the historic centre, so one relaxed morning can use more of the card than a scattered itinerary would. For a deeper look at the towers themselves, read the Serranos and Quart towers guide. If you are curious about the city’s layered past, the UNESCO heritage guide explains why the Lonja is on the list and what to look for inside.
Art lovers should remember that the Fine Arts Museum is already free for everyone, so it never needs a card, while the IVAM and the Sorolla trail are worth checking separately against your own budget. Check the current rules on the official pages shortly before you go, because discounts and opening arrangements can change between seasons.
Choosing between the card and a bundled ticket
If your trip is built around the big City of Arts attractions, a bundled ticket is worth pricing next to the card. The full-day combination covers the headline sights in one purchase, which keeps the arithmetic simple: you pay once and you know what the day costs. You can look at a full-day combined ticket for the City of Arts and Sciences and compare it with the discount-based route before deciding. For the aquarium specifically, the Oceanogràfic guide and its worth-it verdict help you decide how much time to give it, and the Hemisfèric guide and Science Museum guide do the same for the other two.
Rainy days, heat and the card
Weather changes how useful the card feels. On a wet day, unlimited metro and bus rides make it easy to hop between indoor sights without paying for each journey, and the rainy day ideas for families show what works indoors. In the hottest months you will want to move between air-conditioned stops, and short bus and metro rides are a comfortable way to do it. Checking the best time to visit will also tell you whether you are likely to lean on public transport or prefer to stroll in mild weather.
Using the card alongside other ways of getting around
The card does not stop you from mixing transport. Many visitors pair it with walking in the centre and an occasional bike ride along the old riverbed; see the Turia Gardens guide for a flat, traffic-free route and the Valenbisi guide for how the bike-share system works. For longer outings, remember that many day-trip destinations sit outside the card, so read the day trips by train guide before assuming a trip is covered. Arrivals are covered in the airport to city guide, which is useful if the airport metro leg is part of your calculation.
A short checklist before you buy
- Decide how many days you will actually spend using transport, not just how many nights you are staying.
- List the two or three attractions you truly want to see, and check whether each one is discounted, free, or not covered at all.
- Compare the card with a Mobilis card and, if relevant, with a bundled City of Arts ticket.
- Buy early enough to avoid a queue, and keep the card somewhere easy to reach for validation.
- Do not let the card push you into visiting places you would otherwise skip; a discount on something you did not want is not a saving.
If you are still unsure after this, the budget travel guide lays out where money tends to go in the city, and the free walking tours guide offers a no-card way to get oriented on your first morning.
Who actually saves money
The savings depend entirely on how you move around the city, not on how many attractions you tick off. A visitor based in Ciutat Vella / El Carmen who walks everywhere and only visits free sights (Turia Gardens, the Fine Arts Museum, street art) will struggle to recover the card’s cost. A visitor staying further out — near Russafa or the beach — who rides the metro to the old town and back each day, plus a City of Arts trip on line 3 or bus 95, recovers the cost quickly through transport alone. Families with children get less relative value from the discount side, since most of the big-ticket attractions kids want (Oceanogràfic, Bioparc, the Science Museum) are not free with the card — see the Valencia with kids guide for a fuller family-budget breakdown.
Comparing the tourist card to a single Mobilis pass
If transport is your only reason for buying, it’s worth comparing the tourist card against a plain Mobilis multi-trip card, which covers metro and bus at a lower price but without any attraction discounts. For a short stay with only 3–4 transport journeys planned and no interest in the discounted attractions, the Mobilis card is usually cheaper. The tourist card only pulls ahead once you’re combining heavy transport use with several of the discounted sights on the same trip.
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