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Puntarenas Sightseeing Tour: Small Group Journey Through Local Highlights
4.4
49 Ratings
Puntarenas
Pick up at cruise port terminal and/or hotels in the Puntarenas area. We offer small group tours led by dedicated and knowledgeable guides. This tour covers the area’s highlights with minimal driving time, providing you with a wealth of information about the country.
Pick up at cruise port terminal and/or hotels in the Puntarenas area. We offer small group tours led by dedicated and knowledgeable guides. This tour covers the area’s highlights with minimal driving time, providing you with a wealth of information about the country.
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Catedral de Puntarenas - City tour in Puntarenas, 30 minutes drive around and couple of quick stops for photos, jump off the tour van on each stop is optional.
- Tarcoles Bridge - farmers markets visit, stop to spot crocodiles from road and bridge and something some nice birds as well.
- Carara National Park - No hiking but drive around and…
- Catedral de Puntarenas - City tour in Puntarenas, 30 minutes drive around and couple of quick stops for photos, jump off the tour van on each stop is optional.
- Tarcoles Bridge - farmers markets visit, stop to spot crocodiles from road and bridge and something some nice birds as well.
- Carara National Park - No hiking but drive around and through the rain forest with quick stop to jump of of the tour van for photos of the lush forest, amazing ocean view above the tree tops from up the hills at a lovely terraza with facilities and animals seeing.
What's Included
- Climate-controlled vehicle for your comfort
- Climate-controlled vehicle for your comfort
Location
Catedral de Puntarenas
Calle 7 y Ave. Central
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.4
(49 Ratings)
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Deb_v
Jan 12, 2025
Driver and guide made it... - Driver and guide made it a fun day. Monkeys, crocodile, birds all great. Views fabulous, really enjoyed it.
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David_m
Jan 1, 2025
Costa Rican culture; up close - Really enjoyed this tour, especially the Monkey Farm and being able to have the monkeys safely crawl on us and take food; safe and fun! We saw wildlife planned and not; alligators, parrots and iguanas. While they were commercial stops, the fruit stand had the best fresh fruit and cold fresh coconut water and the souvenir store was interesting, very complete, fair prices, and juices and liquors to taste and purchase. Small group and a great guide made for a fun tour!
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Lightpacker308286
Dec 14, 2024
Enjoying viewing local kids dance and browsing wood carving exhibitions. - It is a beautiful December Saturday morning, we joined a “Scenic Costa Rica” shore excursion of our Cruise Lines. Caldera Puerto is the main freight port in the Pacific side of Costa Rica.
Our bus took us through a sightseeing drive to Esparza, a town that is one of the most picturesque in Costa Rica's Central Pacific region.
Upon arrival of Esparza schools (elementary school in daytime and High school in night) a handful of kids dancers in colorful dresses greeting us. Our last stop was at “El Jardin”that’s a local souvenir and had an opportunity to browse around the shop, sample their delicious fruits or taste a Costa Rican cup of coffee.
On the way to the port, the Right Front tire of our Bus was flattened with a loud explosion sound. Luckily our driver managed to move our Bus to roadside safely. About one half hour later, another Bus took us to cruise ship safely.
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Linda_t
Nov 25, 2024
Exactly what I wanted and more. - We had a wonderful small group van excursion with Gustavo. He was an excellent driver and took us to all the highlights that a big tour bus wouldn't have been able to go. We saw monkeys and scarlet macaw up close and a couple sleepy crocodile. Stopped at two very clean shopping/ refreshment places. The church was a nice historic spot in an old part of town.
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Chatcoletc
Nov 16, 2024
Highly recommend this tour. - Very well organized tour. Air conditioned coach was very comfortable. The sight seeing stops were very interesting. Compliments to our guide “Hazel”. She was very informative, friendly, and a wonderful guide.
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Dlszabo
Oct 14, 2024
Fantastic must do tour - Our guide Ronny was fantastic. Friendly and very knowledgeable about Costa Rica and everything that we were to see. Great places to stop at during the tour
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Robert_o
Oct 7, 2024
Great tour! - Great tour & great guides! They were accommodating and made sure we were safe & saw all the sights that were advertised.
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N569bmsteveg
Oct 5, 2024
Best trip ever! - Had a great tour Guide Enrico and our driver Kiki they both were the best……. they gave us very special attention at each stop, helps me with getting in and out of the van (a newer Mercedes Step-van). We saw a lot, great shopping stop, took us to a great lunch stop, that I’m sure that only the locals knew about, they made a special stop for me to acquire a special gift that I was looking for then took us to a supermarket to buy adult beverages and water to take back to the cruise ship. Couldn’t have asked for a better day, thank you Enrico and Kiki. !
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Srlandmesser
Oct 1, 2024
Better than expected! - We had the best english speaking your guide today named Ronnie, who went out of his way to make sure you were enjoying yourself and satisfied. The tour company should consider Ronnie very valuable as he recovered a mistake the operator made. Our driver Ricardo was also very good and safe. i would recommend the sightseeing tour but make sure you reconfirm with the tour operator the night before
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Linda_k
Jan 12, 2025
Puntarenas city tour - Very interesting talks and places. Only problem was we got back too late for lunch as it went on longer than scheduled
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