Puerto Plata Tour: History, Cable Car, and Chocolate

Discover the rich history and natural beauty of Puerto Plata City with a knowledgeable local guide. Visit San Felipe Fort, ride the Caribbean’s only cable car to Isabela Mountain, and indulge in delicious chocolate at Del Oro Chocolate Factory. Explore the charming Pink Street and create unforgettable memories on this engaging tour.

Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

Del Oro Chocolate Factory - Here we will see how chocolate is made from the cacao tree all the way to the final product of delicious sweet chocolate. Guests also get to taste all the different forms of chocolate, the fruit, the dried seed, the butter, and finally the different kinds of chocolate.

What's Included
  • Private transportation
  • Carbonated beverages
  • Bottled water
  • On-board WiFi
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Alcoholic Beverages
What's Not Included
  • Admission Pass to Mount Isabel de Torres is $10 USD per person.
  • Lunch is not included, but we will visit a typical restaurant where you can eat for a good price.
Additional Information

As a local expert with over 15 years of experience in guided tours and private chauffeuring, my company and I will share with you all the wonderful history and beauty of the city of Puerto Plata. In this tour, our guest wil experience San Felipe Fort that is nearly 450 years old, a cable car ride to the top of Isabela Mountain (depending of tourist…

Location
Sosúa
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Carriekiser
Aug 28, 2024
Puerto Plata tour - Amazing experience and guides. Our driver and guide were very personable, accommodating and great attention to us and our needs. Umbrella street and the baby money was by far the best experience for us to visit. Only downfall was that the bus did not exactly accommodate 8 plus size people and a wheelchair as indicating it would even after several times asking. Although we were stuffed in like sausages, it was definitely a memorable experience for everyone with a lot of laughter.
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Laverboo
Aug 20, 2024
Great Tour - The tour was amazing, we saw a bit of everything and took some beautiful pictures. Our guide Anthony was awesome: very knowledgeable and so patient with us. An overall great experience!
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Michelle
Aug 19, 2024
Private tour of Puerta Plata🏝 - Guide Felipe and driver Anthony (name?) were prompt, knowledgeable, and professional. We got to see all the places listed on the tour and even enjoyed an hour on a beautiful beach per our request. It was quite hot that day, and they made sure to provide water for us. Felipe took photos of us the whole tour. We learned alot about DR. We especially enjoyed Ambar Museum, buying beautiful pieces of jewelry. We highly recommend this private tour! You will be glad you booked!!
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Tonya_b
Jul 11, 2024
Vacation - I have had a great time with Anthony. I would recommend this tour. He was so pleasure person and nice. Brought us around the ciry
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Rose_p
Jun 10, 2024
Great experience - Neo was great. Very friendly, spoke good English. We enjoyed our first time in Puerto Plata. I would recommend this tour.
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Retronay13
May 26, 2024
GREAT COMPANY! - Our tour guide Tony was great with getting us around town safely and timely. We decided to cut some of the tour time out of our day like the rum factory, we aren't rum drinkers and had our 13 and 9 year old who were bored within the first 5 minutes so we texted Tony to let him know we were coming back to the van. In the future I'd contact them to create my own itinerary We didn't care for the coffee and chocolate place, it was just a few plastic chairs and a short speech on how they source it followed by an area for you to buy things. We didn't get to do the cable car to the mountain with the statue or to see the big homes like the tour itinerary said so we were a little sad by that. We loved the food at the restaurant he took us to it was so good. Overall we enjoyed the tour, just sad we didn't get to do the entire itinerary even though we cut time out from a few of the other places.
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N5447wdjonathanb
May 8, 2024
Great cultural tour - Santiago was an amazing tour guide, very insightful, had a great experience. Highly recommended, will book with "Michel Transfer and Tour" again.
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Jessicasl6379fs
Apr 22, 2024
BOOK THIS COMPANY!! YOU WONT REGRET IT!! - This tour was AMAZING! From start to finish I have nothing but great things to say about this company. Michael did an excellent job on communicating with me from the moment I booked this tour. Once we arrived in Puerto Plata I was able to reach him with ease and locate our tour guide Anthony (Tony) and he was outstanding. He took us on the best tour, explained so much about the beautiful Island and made our experience so fun. He made us laugh, gave us historical information on landmarks, and took the BEST photos of us. I will absolutely recommend them to EVERYONE who visits here and I will definitely tour with them again the next time we return to DR.
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Y7670cbkarens
Aug 5, 2024
Puerto Plata with locals.. less history. - Neo and Philippe couldn’t have been nicer! Their instructions on how to meet them and get started were perfect. They had cold water and coke available (it was hot!) for us. Neo was primarily the driver and Philippe was the guide who got out of the van with us. Philippe’s English was good but he also spoke so fast sometimes we had to ask him to repeat at lot (he didn’t mind at all!) Philippe took a ton of pictures for us which was nice. We got a little bit of history and culture but it wasn’t a history-filled learning experience. It was more of a nice drive around puerto plata with some locals. If you want a history lesson you may want to request someone specifically who is a history person. Would still recommend them if you’re interested in seeing puerto plata with locals.
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Tina_s
Jun 19, 2024
Advertising scam - I was excited about this tour given all the excellent reviews. I gave this 3 stars because our driver Neo was very kind. However, I would not recommend this tour. First, most of the stops were marketing ploys with the venders only adversing their products. They would show a few pictures of “coffee making process” and then go on to advertise their coffee or chocolate products. Something similar with the amber museum experience. The guide would follow me around the shop as I was looking at jewelry, then made a visibly disappointed goodbye when we did not buy anything. Friendly at first, then rude when she realized we would not be buying their products. The cable car was closed for renovations, which was fine, but we were promised a more scenic route and beach stop. The scenic route was the same way to the stops, and the beach we stopped at was very smelly and subpar compared to the beaches in Cabarete. We were not taken to anywhere with breath taking panoramic views as promised in the description. Lastly, we opted not to go to the restaurant that when we looked up, seemed to have subpar food and seemed to have agreements with the taxi. The driver continued to push despite us saying no several times, even offering a stop at McDonalds, which I hope was not directed at our because we were Americans. I would not recommend this tour as it was just an advertisement for products. It is nice if you’d like to get out of Cabarete to see Puerto Plata, but it was not worth the $160 and I felt idiotic for believing these excellent reviews which were probably written by the company themselves.
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