Panama Canal Tour: Personalized Half-Day City Exploration with Private Guide
4.5
73 Ratings
Panama City
Experience the ultimate Panama Canal Tour with a personalized half-day city exploration. Enjoy exclusivity, route flexibility, privacy, and safety with a private guide. Book a unique, informative, and authentic local insight now!
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Panama Canal - The must see Miraflores Visiting Center you will see the amazing process of ships being raised (when coming from Pacific) and being lowered (when coming from Atlantic). A 45 minuted 3D documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman will take you back to the beginning of the Canal´s construction to the unique amazing wonder it has become today.
- Amador Causeway (Calzada de Amador) - A group of 3 Islands connected artificially in the entrance to the Canal on the Pacific side built originally to defend the entrance and at the same time to serve as a wave breaker. Now it´s a a tourist attraction and very visited place to see the ships awaiting to enter the Canal and to get a magnificent view of the city.
- San Felipe - In this area considered a UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Site you will be delighted by the looks of the restored buildings. We will walk, enjoy and learn in this area that goes back from 1673.
What's Included
- Private transportation
- Guided Tour
- A stop at an extra Point of interest at no additional cost
- Hotel Pick up and Drop-off
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Bottled water
What's Not Included
- Lunch
- Entry/Admission - Miraflores Visitor Center ($17.22 Entry Fee)
- Contact us to inquire pickup at airports or hotels outside city as it may incur extra fee of $30
Additional Information
In this tour you get exclusivity since the guide will be only for you. Route flexibility, see a spot you like for a special picture? We can stop! Privacy, only friends and/or family members inside the car. Safety, the guide will always be with you. Why us? As a small, family owned tour business, we will povide our best since we want your satisfaction. You give us the opportunity and get ready for a unique experience to actually learn from the places we will visit, have a local insight. As a plus we are not looking for commissions so will provide you with accurate and honest information on where to buy and eat. Minimum 2 passengers as it is a private tour.
Location
Panama Canal
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.5
(73 Ratings)
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Donna_g
Apr 15, 2024
Everything was perfectly timed - Just a great experience always wanted to see it and with a guide that knows what todo and when to be there you get the best of it. The city tour took me to places I would never have thought Togo see or do so very glade this is part of this tour
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O4938ylab
Apr 2, 2024
Amazing - Our group was over 100 persons and Rick and his team were so professional with amazing personalities and very knowledgeable !! Our transportation was nice and very accommodating! I would recommend this tour to anyone!!
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Perryhiltz
Mar 25, 2024
Great Personalized Tour - Our guide Alfredo met us promptly on time at our hotel. He was a fantastic host during our tour. He was very knowledgeable having been a lifelong resident of Panama City. We saw the new city, the old city and we were able to visit some very sentimental locations. My wife’s father was stationed in Panama during World War II and we have photos of him during this timeframe. Alfredo was able to bring us to these locations which was an emotional moment for my wife. We also loved our visit to the Panama Canal.
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Beth_s
Mar 1, 2024
We qeee so lucky to get Alfredo!!!! - Alfredo was the best tour guide excellent English and really knows the ins and out of getting around Panama from one coast to the other I would highly recommend this tour and be sure you get Alfredo!!!
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Petrinat2016
Feb 29, 2024
Fantastic trip to the Panama Canal & Monkey Island - We had a fabulous time with Ricardo doing this trip in November 23. He met us at our hotel in the morning & we went to the Panama Canal where we joined another man with the boat. Life jackets were supplied. We had a wonderful boat trip seeing the Panama Canal & Monkey Island. Ricardo picked up some fruit for the monkeys who came onto the boat to eat it so we got nice photos. (Apparently morning trips are best as the monkeys aren't so hungry later.)We also heard & saw screeching monkeys in the trees. It was really enjoyable seeing the monkeys as well as seeing the huge container ships going through the canal. Ricardo was very friendly & informative. We also went to the Gambia Rainforest reserve & had a drink & cakes (we paid separately for this) which was a beautiful hotel with fantastic views. over the Chagres river. All in all a lovely trip. Thank you Ricardo.
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Steve_j
Mar 2, 2024
Alfredo was the best... - Alfredo was the best guide. Very knowledgeable and informative. Spoke very good English. He made the day better. I would definitely travel with him again.
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Rebekkah_k
Apr 4, 2024
Stash was a knowledgeable... - Stash was a knowledgeable guide. Unfortunately his recommendation to start the tour at 1pm put us into rush hour traffic which caused us to miss 1/2 of what we wanted to see. We spent about 1.5 hours at the canal and the rest in the car.
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Cathy_h
Mar 14, 2024
75% meh, 25% yeah! - Enjoyed the stop at the Queens house and the stop at the souvenir store. The highlight was the Miraflors visitor center and the IMAX movie on the Panama Canal.
The drawback to this particular tour was the fact that the vehicle was too small for four adults to comfortably enjoy the sightseeing. It was a smaller sized suv with three of us cramped together in the back seat. The tour guide was nice enough but could have done a bit more narration/history during the ride without us prompting with questions. He was great at always being with us during the stops, we never had to hunt him down which was a huge plus.
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Verena
Feb 27, 2024
Rather disappointing - The lady was poorly informed. She drove right into the traffic jam caused by Ironman. The tour through the Casco Viejo was poor, we missed a lot of things like Plaza Bolivar, etc. We have been traveling through Latin America for four months and this was the most unprofessional tour of all.
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Sarah_p
Apr 7, 2024
Didn’t get to see the canal, which was the only reason we went to Panamá - The tour operator didn’t show up. For some reason I only got a 50% refund which isn’t acceptable. I did not cancel this tour, the operator didn’t show up. Why should I be out of pocket for something that went wrong ( not on my part). I had received confirmation the day before that we would be collected on the Sunday at 1 from the hotel, but no one showed up. Very poor
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