PSA - tix for Sagrada Familia July opened up today

I discovered that, too! I tried to buy last night and got an error, but was able to complete the sale today. All set! We decided to go for a guided tour. I had just read Rick's post about his son Andy's book, and saw this passage (below). It made me glad I secured our early tickets while they were still available! I paid 24 Euros per ticket for a guided tour, as opposed to a $49 ticket for a guided tour through Trip Advisor to the Sagrada Familia. Also, in those TA reviews, someone noted that the official SA tour groups were let in before other groups were, so I decided to go to the source. There was a small discount for anyone under 30 or students.

From Andy Steves' book:
"Crowds, crowds, and more crowds: More tourists than ever are traveling to Europe. Mix in additional security at the main tourist sights, and you can count on long lines at the Colosseum in Rome or the Uffizi in Florence — that is if you can even get tickets. If there are sights or experiences important to you on your circuit that offer or require reservations, make them long in advance as the big operators often buy up most of the entry times as soon as they're posted online to turn around and sell at a 250% markup!"

Laurie

Well good grief. You would think the sites would disallow the third parties from doing what you mentioned. That is just ridiculous, almost like ticket scalping for a concert. I actually have more tolerance for the concert situation because concerts are a one time event and therefore I understand the mad supply/demand issue but for things like Sagrada Familia or the Colosseum that need a timed system every day, you would think that they would prohibit the same people buying all these tickets or have some kind of computer system in place to prevent automated purchases. I did notice when I went to buy my timeslot for the tower that 38 of the 50 slots were already gone and again this was on the first day of sales.