Title: Misleading website mimicking official Alhambra ticket site – Refund refused within legal cooling-off period
I purchased Alhambra tickets for €79.98 on ticket.mytoptour.es (operated by MNPQ Gestores Turísticos, S.L.), believing I was on the official Patronato de la Alhambra website due to the site’s presentation and the ads through which I arrived. Within 10 minutes of payment I discovered this was a private reseller and that the official ticket price is a small fraction of what I paid — the rest being undisclosed fees.
I exercised my legal right of withdrawal within the 14-day cooling-off period mandated by Spanish consumer law (Articles 102–108 of Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007), in writing, also citing vitiated consent (Articles 1265–1269 Civil Code) and breach of the Unfair Competition Act (Articles 5, 7 and 20 of Law 3/1991). The visit date was 06/06/2026 — no service had been rendered.
Company response: refund refused.
This is not isolated. Spain’s main consumer organisation (OCU) maintains a public complaints registry against this same company for identical conduct — mimicking the official Alhambra website, undisclosed surcharges, refund refusals within the legal withdrawal period — with cases going back to 2022. On Trustpilot, 92% of reviews of their sister site are 1-star.
initiated: (1) credit card chargeback, (2) official consumer complaint with the Andalusian Consumer Arbitration Board, (3) complaint to AESAN and CNMC (Spanish consumer and competition authorities), (4) public complaint via OCU.
Advice to Alhambra visitors: buy ONLY from tickets.alhambra-patronato.es, the official Patronato website. Everything else is a reseller with markup.
