La Tomatina was fun and great. The company was horrible at best. The buses left late to get there. Once there our bus, BCN 3, the guide, was always blaming someone else for everything that went wrong. He had no idea where we were supposed to be at for the fight, no idea where our lockers were. We ended up putting our things in yard and another tour guide watched it. We were told there showers available for us afterwards, no. The showers turned out to be a multiple three inch hoses hooked up to water tanks. Then afterwards we were supposed to leave at two, well at three thirty we finally got on the bus. Major confusion between the tour company and local p.d. as to where we were could get on the bus at. There was no shade, very little water, our tour guide once again did nothing for us, he just complained and threw the company under the bus. Avoid them they are not organized.

Tomatina was amazing. However, I STRONGLY encourage you to buy the Tomatina ticket as a separate ticket ahead of time and find another way to get there, without using Spaintastic. Their entire trip was a mess, from start to finish. I was on the Madrid to Bunol tour with Spaintastic. We were supposed to leave Madrid at 4:30am for an 11am event. Should have been NO problem being on time. However, the bus arrived late. When it arrived, it only fit half of the people who had confirmed seat. They had to call for a backup bus. Overall, the bus left an hour late. There was no bathroom on the bus, for what ended up being a 4-hour one-way trip. When we finally arrived at Bunol around 10am, with only an hour left to spare, the bus drove around in circles not being able to get through to drop us off. Instead of just letting us get off, it did this until about 10:45, at which point it finally dropped us off. We had about 15 minutes to collect ourselves, check our bags at the coat check, etc. To top everything off, when we finally got to the entrance to La Tomatina, we didn't even have the entrance bracelet to the event! Because we were so late, La Tomatina was literally starting. The gate guard kept trying to send us away because we didn't have the bracelet. I finally talked him into letting us in, showing him that we had the Spaintastic T-Shirt and shower bracelet, just not the actual Tomatina bracelet. If nothing else, they should have given us the bracelet on the bus. There was no reason not to. Do NOT use Spaintastic for this event! Complete chaos.

Unfortunately this company continues many of the negative stereotypes the world has of Spain. Very poor organization, do NOT use Spaintastic. The buses left over an hour late for la tomatina, they didn't have enough buses for a known quantity of people, the did not pass out entrance bracelets to some people, they couldn't even drive the buses to their sites due to unexpected closed roads, and the departure was a free for all. Clearly very little to no prior organization or planning is accomplished by this company, don't use them, they are a joke.