Puerto Quetzal Excursion: Explore Colonial Antigua City's Best Highlights

Discover the captivating charm and rich history of Antigua, Guatemala on a Puerto Quetzal excursion. Explore the best-preserved colonial city in Latin America and immerse yourself in its vibrant culture and artisan traditions.

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Puerto Quetzal - Depart from Puerto Quetzal
  • Restaurante Pez Vela - Your Antiguan experience begins as your expert tour guide picks you up from port for a scenic, 90-minute air-conditioned ride through forests, past volcanoes and stunning examples of Spanish Baroque influenced architecture
  • Arco de Santa Catalina - Built in the 17th…
What's Included
  • Professional guide
  • 1 natural beverage
  • Lunch
  • Driver/guide
  • Port pickup and drop-off
What's Not Included
  • Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
  • other Drinks
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Depart from Puerto Quetzal and enjoy the amazing Antigua Guatemala. This city is outstanding and the best-preserved colonial city in Latin America. Tourists visit Antigua, Guatemala every year from around the world to enjoy its natural beauty and historical monuments. The Spanish Colonial style permeates every part of the town: its houses, churches,…

Location
Puerto Quetzal
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Maria_r
Feb 1, 2025
Antigua - Very well done. Our guide Juan Pablo was very informative, answered all questions and we learned a lot about the history of Guatemala. It was a very enjoyable outing.
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Stvcab
May 1, 2023
Awesome Eruptions with City Tour!! - This was a very good tour. Juan Pablo was a very informative and entertaining guide. Bus was very comfortable with AC. Tour is a bit rushed, due to group of 20 needing to be “herded” like lost cats. Lunch stop was incredible all food provided was delicious, especially the hand made tortillas. Ride to Antigua is really 80-90min long, but travel scenery was good (Volcanos, with one erupting!!)
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Patrick_m
Feb 15, 2025
Back in time to Antigua's history - A bit of a drive over sometimes bumpy roads as construction is ongoing; guide John Paul was very informative sharing on way to Antigua. Antigua has interesting history; saw center of town, churches and the famous Arch of Antigua. Great lunch!
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Michael_k
Feb 13, 2025
Good value to see a beautiful city - Great trip of the ancient city. The tour guide was very nice as well as the driver to show us around. However, the historical information from the tour guide can be improved to explain the visit to the museum and the catheral.
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Suzanne_e
May 2, 2024
A walk back in history - The opportunity to go into Antigua certainly an historical city was our motivation. The activity taking place to bring back to life some of the 16th century buildings was a feature,...great
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Ronald_e
May 1, 2023
Nice tour, but I would... - Nice tour, but I would have liked to visit the churches we saw. Really no free time to wander and the tour could have been a little longer to accommodate this.
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Mike
Jan 15, 2025
Not worth it. - 5 hr round trip drive time too much for average end result. Just marginal highlights once in town. TOUR needs o rescructured
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Galinak894
Feb 2, 2024
Panoramic Antigua tour from the cruise - On December 13, 2023 our cruise Celebrity Eclipse arrived to Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala. My wife and I purchased Panoramic Antigua tour. Cruise ship arrived to the port at 9:30 am and at 10:30 am we came down to the busses. To our surprise we found three buses numbered 34 and all passengers had stickers numbered 34 as well. It immediately created confusion and I tried to figure out how they going to navigate the crowd of about 120 people when we eventually will reach the Antiqua - Capital of Guatemala. On the about two hour very busy road to Antiqua we observed frequent eruptions from two active volcanoes and passed village abandoned due to the devastation of prior big eruption. Otherwise, all you will see is a good display of many varieties agricultural products growing in this area. Our guide did his best to keep us interested by taking mostly about agricultural exports and the economy of the country. On the first stop we were unloaded to the small entry of the jade museum. It would be a good informative stop, but not with about four buses with 40 passengers each and the most tourists running to the restrooms at same time. Do not do it. Wait about 10-15 minutes and lines will dissipate. Since we had about 35 to 40 min overall for the visit minus the restroom stop and about 15 min jade lecture, not much time is left to explore the museum/store and run back to find your group with all three groups tagged with same number 34. Eventually we were directed to small busses with about 15 people capacity. Here we come. Tourists from larger busses should settle in small busses with their travelers from the big bus, but it all get mixed up between same group with #34 tags. Very comical and at sad view at same time when many elderly and some overweight people tried to squeeze in and out of the small busses seating and tried to locate the proper bus. Small busses transported us to the center of Antiqua for about 40 min sightseeing. Same variety of souvenirs were sold on the plaza, but I was looking for a shot glasses as I collecting over the many years of travel. Apparently, there is a very large selection of souvenirs selling mall with narrow entrance not really visible from outside. Guides were not providing this information so most tourists were purchasing souvenirs from the street sellers. So, to finalize - this is not the trip to consider for people with limited ability. Good Travels
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Marsha_f
Mar 25, 2024
Guide totally unprepared! - Bus ride there was terrible. Bus had no shocks! Once we arrived, our guide had no plan. It was Palm Sunday and there was lots to see but our group missed it all. Getting back to the boat early was the highlight!
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Beth_s
May 3, 2023
Don’t book - Bad operator. Left half hour early stranding 7 people at terminal without a tour. Tour was supposed to leave at 7:30 according to our ticket. We got there at 7:15 and were told they left at 7:00.
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