Please note, this is a sample schedule, so actual dates and times may vary within your stay.
July 5th
- Arrive in Pamplona with a private transfer from the airport or train station to Gran Hotel La Perla. The hotel’s concierge will greet you in the lobby, and our team will personally deliver your Premium Apparel Package and physical Bullfight Tickets
- Stroll through the city during the last calm moments before Fiesta
July 6th
- Breakfast in your hotel
- At 10:15am we escort you to your Opening Ceremonies Balcony (just a 25 min walk away) where you’ll be on Plaza Castillo with a view of the festivities. Enjoy Navarran food and wine, while you watch from the safety of a balcony as three hours of mosh-pit chaos unfolds below. Around 1pm it is safe to get back on the streets and dive into fiesta yourself.
- Mid-afternoon, you’re invited to join a walking tour of the bull run route with expert runner Dennis Clancey and his team. This tour will make you a better runner and spectator, since you’ll learn what to expect.
- At 8:00pm we’ll meet you at the Baluarte Performing Arts Center for a fantastic evening hosted by our Founder, Mark Hellmann Regouby. We’ll enjoy a Cuadrilla-style meal together including flamenco dancing and music. Then, we get an invitation to join the patrons of the arts center for a private rooftop party with a front-row view of Pamplona’s famous International Fireworks Competition. The fireworks are over by 11:30pm, so you can stay and dance the night away with the locals, or make your way out to rejoin the party on the street.
July 7th
- Get ready to join the centuries-old tradition of watching the morning bull run from a balcony along the route (the only way to get a view, actually). At 6:30am, we escort you to the door of your balcony, where our guide waits with you until the owner opens the door at 7:00am. You have to be off the street by 7am because only runners are allowed on the street from 7 to 8am. The bulls run at 8:00am and our host invites us to watch instant replays on the TV. We normally return to the street around 8:15am
- Breakfast in your hotel after the bull run
- Explore the sights and sounds of Fiesta at your leisure.
- Add on our optional Torero Training & Bull Ranch Tour to get out into the countryside and learn how to manage a cape and sidestep a young bull. (Or sit on the sidelines and enjoy tapas & wine as you watch your friends give it a go.)
- Before 6:00pm, take the short 25-minute walk from the hotel to the Plaza de Toros to take your seat for the evening bullfights in our private season ticket seats in the lower deck Tendido section.
- Around 8:30pm as you leave the bullfights, you can join the fiesta in the streets or dine at one of Pamplona’s top restaurants with our San Fermin Restaurant Reservations.
July 8th
- This is an ideal morning to add an extra bull run balcony or — for the brave few — to run with the bulls.
- Breakfast in your hotel
- Depart Pamplona with a private transfer from Gran Hotel La Perla to the Pamplona Airport or Train Station.
