Welcome to Running of the Bulls 2022
Pamplona Spain 🇪🇸
4 Nights
July 4-8
$5,200 per person
What to Expect
Every year there’s a special 9-day festival in Pamplona Spain named Sanfermines.
People come from around the world to celebrate and enjoy parties, parades, exhibitions like stone lifting and wood cutting, bull fighting, and of course the most popular event… the Running of the Bulls.
The most adventurous of us will take to the streets daily as 6 or more bulls weighing thousands of pounds hurdle towards us.
The smartest of our group will be sipping wine safely as they watch and mock from our rooms above the streets.
Then everyone will come together to enjoy the festivities, food, the unique culture of Pamplona Spain, and the company of amazing group whose going.
WARNING! Running of the Bulls has been a tradition of Pamplona since 1591. Due to COVID, it didn’t happen in 2020 or 2021.
That’s why this is predicted to be the most EPIC run of them all… and we’ll be there!
A Little Taste
ActivitiesÂ
- Opening ceremony, Hemingway described it as when “the Fiesta exploded”.  We overlook the party from a private balcony above the town square.
- 3 days of Running of the Bulls. Â Participate or watch safely from our balconies above the streets.
- San Fermin International Fireworks Competition
- Daily fine-dining and entertainment
IncludedÂ
- Transfer from airport to the hotel in high-class Mercedes V-class vehicle
- Full tasting menu welcome dinner at Patri by MartĂn Berasategui Tuesday evening
- Bilbao suite overlooking Tayko River Tuesday night
- Full-course breakfast every morning
- Daily lunches with local Spanish cuisine
- Exquisite dinners nightly
- Transfer to Pamplona Wednesday in high-class Mercedes V-class vehicle
- Alma Pamplona suite with private terrace Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights
- Balcony rental with private guide for San Fermines opening ceremony with local appetizers and drinks Wednesday
- Private guide, balcony rental, gourmet lunch Thursday
- Tapas dinner with drinks and access to San Fermin International Fireworks Competition Thursday night
- Private guide, balcony rental Friday
- Transfer to Bilbao airport in high-class Mercedes V-class vehicle
Not IncludedÂ
- Flight
- Optional activities, meals, drinks
- Incidentals
Check out Our Itinerary
NEW DESTINATION: BILBAO
Tuesday, 04 July 2022
From airport to hotel
Upon arrival at the airport, and after claiming our luggage, our English-speaking driver will greet us at the airport arrival hall at the desired time. Transfer from airport to the hotel in high-class private vehicle, 2 mercedes V-Class with English-speaking driver.
ACCOMMODATION
Tayko Bilbao Hotel 4 *
Erribera Kalea, 13, 48005 Bilbo, Bizkaia
+34 944 65 20 70
Duration of stay: 2 nights
Room type: Tayko River View (248 sq ft)
Services: Breakfast included
NEW DESTINATION: PAMPLONA
Wednesday, 06 July 2022
From Bilbao to Pamplona
Transfer: from Bilbao to Pamplona hotel in high-class private vehicle, 2 Mercedes V-Class, with English-speaking driver (2 hours approx.)
ACCOMMODATION
Alma Pamplona Hotel 5 *
Calle Beloso Bajo, 11, 31006 Pamplona, Navarra
+34 948 29 33 80
Duration of stay: 3 nights
Room type: Terrace Executive Suite (70 m2 / 753 sq ft)
Services: Breakfast included
FESTIVITY EXPERIENCE: Half-day experience
Wednesday, 06 July 2021
Pamplona (Province of Navarra)
When all begins
Everything has a beginning and the one from Pamplona’s San Fermines is accompanied by the traditional “chupinazo”, a boisterous firework which is launched skyward to signal the start of one of the world’s most renown festivities or, as Hewingway wrote, “At noon on Sunday, the 6th of July, the Fiesta exploded”. For this unique moment the townhall square is packed by rivers of people from all directions who gather to experience the event from a privileged vantage point. We, however, we’ll experience it from an even better spot: a house balcony within the very square. We’ll be escorted there by a local guide and, once inside the house, we’ll taste snacks which are traditional of the fiestas while waiting for the uproar of the firework to toast with Cava and commence these spectacular and unique festivities. Once the morning is over we’ll return to our hotel and enjoy a special brunch.
Services included: Balcony rental + Private local guide service + Local appetizer with drinks
Extra services included: Transfer from hotel to meeting point and return in high-class vehicle, 2 Mercedes V-Class, with English-speaking driver.
PRIVATE FESTIVITY EXPERIENCE: Half-day experience
Thursday, 07 July 2022
Pamplona (Province of Navarra)
Traditions of Pamplona
The long-awaited moment is here: the running of the bulls and the running in front of the bulls. We will experience this likewise special moment from a most special location, too, because there's no better view of the event than from a balconv located in the most important street of the whole circuit. From the balcony we will clearly overview the thrill in the race, although not without having previously discovered on the way in -thanks to our local guide- everything related with the event. After the event the very same guide will help us to slowly make sense of the race by showing the "running of the bulls" as aired on TV and analyzing the performance of the most daring runners.
After such an experience we will explore what's there to be seen in Pamplona aside from bulls, and helped by a local guide we'll tour the old-town, witness the San FermĂn procession and the parade of "Giants and Bigheads" and other traditions germane to the festivities, all while enjoying the enticing atmosphere of Pamplona. After such an intense morning the time for us to enjoy lunch on a local restaurant will arrive.
Services included: Private local host + Balcony rental + Luch at restaurant.
Extra services included: Transfer from hotel to meeting point and return in high-class vehicle, 2 Mercedes V-Class, with English-speaking driver.
FESTIVITY EXPERIENCE: Brief experience
Thursday, 07 July 2022
Pamplona (Province of Navarra)
Fireworks night
Our packed schedule for today will conclude with the “San Fermin International Fireworks Competition”, an event which manages to light up with colorful lights the night sky of the festive Sanfermines. The best pyrotechnists offer the most sophisticated firework effects, which form figures when explode. The compositions work at different heights and are minutely paced all throughout its typical half-and-hour duration.
As we have grown accustomed to we will enjoy the competition from the best possible location, this time a magical terrace from the Navarra’s “Congress and Concert Hall”. This cocktail-party we will also provide us with food and champagne as long as the spectacle lasts.
Included: Tapas dinner with drinks.
Extra services included: Transfer from hotel to meeting point and return in high-class vehicle, 2 Mercedes V- Class, with English-speaking driver.
PRIVATE FESTIVITY EXPERIENCE: Half-day experience
Friday, 08 July 2022
Pamplona (Province of Navarra)
The race from above
For our last day in the city we will revive one of the most incredible moments of the festivities by enjoying the second day of the “running of the bulls” in a different location than the previous day.
Again from a privileged vantage point and, again, accompanied by a local guide, who will take us to our balcony while telling and retelling the important details, lived and to- be-lived, which the race in front of the bulls contains.
Services included: Private local host + Balcony rental.
Extra services included: Transfer from hotel to meeting point and return in high-class vehicle, 2 Mercedes V- Class, with English-speaking driver.
OPTIONAL
PRIVATE WINE EXPERIENCE: Half-day experience
Friday, 08 July 2022
Pamplona (Province of Navarra)
OPTIONAL: Winemaker for a day
Our visit to the wonderland of Navarra would be incomplete if we did not enjoy the wonderwines that it offers, for which there is nothing better than visiting a winery widely regarded as the "best one for enotourism countrywide according to the Spanish Association of Wine Koutes. A lovely combination of architecture, nature, art and wine altogether.
After the guided visit to the exterior constructions, historical museum of wine and the exhibition room tor contemporary art the moment of truth comes. the moment for us to become wine experts, to test our knowledge and taste the grape's produce. We will start with a three-wine combination -one for each of the local grape varieties- and helped by a qualified enologist we will palate the coupage with the most advisable combinations in search of the "perfect blend". To top it all off we will do a blind- tasting of the ready-made wine along with others which are already bottled. An untorgettable occasion to create, choose and taste the purple nectar.
Services included: Private local host + Winery visit with wine activity with enologist.
Extra services included: Transfer from Hotel to Winery and return after experience in high-class vehicle, 2 Mercedes V- Class, with English-speaking driver.
DEPARTURE DAY FROM NAVARRA
Saturday, 09 July 2022
From hotel to airport
For this last day, (probably after the running of the bulls on this day) our English-speaking driver will greet and transfer us from the hotel in Pamplona to the Bilbao airport at the desired time.
Transfer from Pamplona hotel to the Bilbao airport in high- class private vehicle, 2 Mercedes V-Class, with English speaking driver.
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