Cable Car | Port Station — Attraction in Barcelona

A pleasant experience. For 11€ per person you could travel the cable car ONE WAY from the port of Barcelona to halfway up the Montjuïc mountain. You can also opt for a return trip which is 15€, however I would recommend walking down the mountain as it would enable you to benefit even more from its beauty. This travels over the sea and enables you to see Barcelona from a birds eye view, which is magnificent! When we arrived, we queued for approximately 35 minutes while getting our tickets and waiting for the lift to go up to the cable car area. It is rather hot and there is no shade to protect yourself from, however there is a large fan which tries to cover the queuing area. Upon catching the lift, you can fit approximately 6 people in it to ascend to the tower. When you've arrived, there is vending machines and toilet facilities and of course another queue for you to catch the cable car. This took approximately 25 minutes for us and the cable car is supposed to take a maximum of 20 people. I think we had approximately 15 people in ours and even though you are a little closed in, you can turn around and see the other views. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is scared of heights or claustrophobic because it can be a little jittery and you are of course in an enclosed area for approximately 7-8 minutes over the sea. However, if you can deal with that for that length of time, it is...

The Barcelona Port Funicular, that archaic contraption linking the waterfront to Montjuïc, is a primitive remnant masquerading as modern transport. One expects at the very least a seamless connection in a city that prides itself on cosmopolitan refinement. What they do not tell you - and what becomes a most unwelcome discovery - is that if you arrive with a stroller, you are forced into a veritable trial: several flights of unforgiving stairs, child in one arm, stroller in the other. It is as though the infrastructure was designed in a time when families with young children were an afterthought.

The indignity compounds when one seeks redress. To request a refund after such a struggle is to invite condescension. The attendants - eyebrows raised, as if they were the ones put through the ordeal - project a silent reproach, an implication that your suffering is an inconvenience to them. This is not the mark of a world-class city, but of a provincial oversight.

In an era when cities compete for cultural prestige and effortless accessibility, this funicular remains a relic, ill-prepared for contemporary life, and entirely unworthy of Barcelona’s otherwise...

Took the V19 bus right to the Port Station (nice bus with air con and was pretty quick.... wait, this isn't a review of the buses in Barcelona....

... anyway, arrived at the cable car ticket office to no queues at all. Paid for a ticked and in 5 minutes we were off... floating across the port / harbour toward Montjuic.

I think probably the best view of Barcelona from a height.

There are cheaper ways to get from Port/Barceloneta to Montjuic / Paral-lel. But I doubt you'll find a cooler more memorable one (I'm now imagining jetskiing across the harbour...).

The journey across was pretty quick. I didn't time it but it felt like less than 10 minutes. I'm sure the Internet would tell you that anyway.

It was a sunny day, so the Miramar terrace bar/restaurant at the other side was welcomed and there is a nice breeze up at that height on the side of Montjuic.

Highly recommend to do once. Maybe use it as a route to Montjuic as part of your journey before getting the Teleferic cable car further up the hillside, rather than treating it as an event itself...that's what we did anyway and im really glad to have seen Barça from that...