juntosSpanish Travel Survival: hotels, buses, problems and money — road-ready Spanish
Four lessons of practical travel language, then AI scenarios — hotel, taxi, directions, bank, emergency — where every sentence is scored and corrected.
Travel Spanish is a specific skill: a small vocabulary used under time pressure, with a stranger, usually while something else is going on. You need to check in (tengo una reservación a nombre de…), ask about the room and the wifi, buy a ticket and understand the platform, tell a taxi driver where you are going and agree a fare, explain a problem (no funciona, perdí, me robaron), change money and — at a market — bargain without offending anyone. Most of it uses the polite usted forms, and a lot of it is questions.
Learners who have studied grammar for months still freeze here, because the hard part is not the grammar but the listening: prices and times come fast, regional vocabulary varies (boleto, pasaje, tiquete; camión, micro, colectivo), and a real conversation does not wait while you conjugate. The other difficulty is knowing the conventional phrases — ¿a cómo está? at a market, ¿me lo deja en…? for a lower price, a nombre de for a booking — which sound odd if you translate them from English.
The four lessons below give you the phrases and the patterns. Then the AI tutor puts you in the situations themselves: the hotel desk, the taxi, asking for directions, the bank and the lost-passport emergency, at easy, medium or hard difficulty. Every message is scored 0–100 with the correction shown, and the AI Call voice mode makes you handle the exchange by ear, which is how you will meet it on the road. Errors that repeat go into your Error Bank and come back with spaced repetition.
What's in this course
- Checking in — Hotels & hostels without hand gestures
- Buses, taxis & tickets — Move around like you've done it before
- Problems & help — perdí, no funciona, me duele — fix-it Spanish
- Money & bargaining — Cash, change, and friendly haggling
Each lesson below is the same material used inside the Juntos app, with two of its exercises to try. In the app every lesson has the full exercise set, and the AI tutor grades your conversation practice against what you have learned.
Lesson 1: Checking in
Hotels & hostels without hand gestures
At the front desk 🏨
- Tengo una reservación a nombre de Palmer. — I have a booking under Palmer.
- ¿Tiene una habitación disponible para dos noches? — Any room available for two nights?
- ¿Está incluido el desayuno? — Is breakfast included?
- ¿Cuál es la clave del wifi? — What's the wifi password?
- ¿A qué hora es el check-out? · ¿Me puede guardar la mochila? — Can you store my backpack?
Try it
Tengo una reservación ___ nombre de Palmer.
- en
- a
- por
Show answer
a — a nombre de = under the name of.
¿Está ___ (incluir) el desayuno?
Is breakfast included?
Show answer
incluido — estar + participle: está incluido.
Lesson 2: Buses, taxis & tickets
Move around like you've done it before
Getting anywhere 🚌
- ¿De dónde sale el bus para León? — Where does the bus to León leave from?
- ¿A qué hora sale? ¿A qué hora llega? — When does it leave / arrive?
- Un boleto de ida / de ida y vuelta. — one-way / return ticket.
- ¿Cuánto cobra hasta el centro? — (taxi) how much to downtown?
- Aquí está bien, gracias. — here's fine (to get out).
- ¿Me deja en la esquina? — can you drop me at the corner?
Try it
¿De dónde ___ el bus para la frontera?
Where does the bus to the border leave from?
- sale
- sal
- salga
Show answer
sale — salir → sale.
Un boleto ___ ida y vuelta, por favor.
- por
- de
- para
Show answer
de — de ida y vuelta = round trip.
Lesson 3: Problems & help
perdí, no funciona, me duele — fix-it Spanish
When things go sideways 🆘
- Perdí mi pasaporte / celular. — I lost… · Me robaron la cartera. — my wallet was stolen.
- No funciona el aire / la ducha. — the AC / shower doesn't work.
- Me duele el estómago. — my stomach hurts. ¿Tiene algo para la gripe? — anything for a cold/flu?
- ¿Me puede ayudar? — can you help me? · Necesito un médico.
- Más despacio, por favor. / ¿Puede repetir? — your best emergency phrases of all.
Try it
___ (perder, yo) mi celular en el bus.
I lost my phone on the bus.
Show answer
Perdí — perder → perdí (preterite).
La ducha no ___ en mi habitación.
The shower doesn't work in my room.
- trabaja
- funciona
- hace
Show answer
funciona — Machines funcionan; people trabajan.
Lesson 4: Money & bargaining
Cash, change, and friendly haggling
Market economics 💵
- ¿Cuánto cuesta? / ¿A cómo está? — how much? (market style)
- ¿Acepta tarjeta? — do you take card? · Solo efectivo. — cash only.
- ¿Tiene cambio de veinte? — change for a 20?
- Haggling: ¿Me hace un descuento? · ¿Y si llevo dos? (what if I take two?) · Está un poco caro…
- Me lo llevo. — I'll take it. · Quédese con el cambio. — keep the change.
Try it
¿___ tarjeta o solo efectivo?
Do you take card or cash only?
- Acepta
- Acepta a
- Toma para
Show answer
Acepta — ¿Acepta tarjeta? — the checkout classic.
¿Tiene ___ de cincuenta?
Do you have change for a fifty?
Show answer
cambio — cambio = change.
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