Puntarenas Highlights Shore Excursion

Highlights

Leistungen

Ablauf

1. Upon disembarking, walk or take the available shuttle to the landside entrance gate, where you’ll see our staff holding a clearly visible sign with the GioTours logo and your name. Please have your booking confirmation ready for quick check-in.

   15 Min.

2. We will take you on an exciting Boat Tour through the Tárcoles River, a place filled with aquatic wildlife!

   1 Std.

Stornierung

Kostenlose Stornierung bis 24 Stunden vor Beginn, mit voller Rückerstattung.

Bewertungen

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• 5Great tour to see Costa Rica.

  Had a great time. Juan was excellent , funny,and knowledgeable. Highly recommended.

  renynoldgOktober 2026über Tripadvisor

• 5Rainy and Short Day, but excellent tour

  Juan was fantastic. The cruise ship was late to port and they were very accommodating to the change. Jeff was also great at assisting and driving. We were thrilled with this tour.

  phillipcF4400GWOktober 2026über Tripadvisor

• 5Great tour under challenging circumstances!

  Almost everything that could go wrong did, but Juan & Antonio still made it a fun and worthwhile tour. They went above and beyond to give us the most they could. We had a hurricane delay that put us in port over 8 hours later than scheduled...5+ hours later than the tour was supposed to start. Then a major vehicle accident on the primary highway set us back another couple hours. However, we did get a rare nighttime boat tour of the Tarcoles River after dark to see American crocodiles. It was amazing. Then they did a short city tour of Puntarenas just so we could see more of Costa Rica. A 6 hour tour was cut to about 1.5 hours but we got quality during that time. Juan was engaging, funny, and informative. Antonio was friendly and a great, safe driver. We would book with this company again.

  B7114HDdeboraheSeptember 2026über Tripadvisor

• 5Gio tours

  Juan is an excellent guide! Very knowledgeable and accommodating. I highly recommend this company

  lsryvrSeptember 2026über Tripadvisor

• 5Amazing snapshot of Puntarenas

  This is our second Costa Rica tour using GioTours, first time in Limon (Atlantic coast) back in 2019 and now on in Puntarenas on the Pacific coast. Juan was our tour guide and Antonio our driver. Such talent from both in spotting wildlife from the bus that most of us would never even see. Juan's enthusiasm and passion for his country just bleeds in his conversations. He has so much character for the job! Our group size was 10 people. We stopped at a small fruit stand to sample a variety of native fruits. Tasty! En route to the Tarcoles River, Antonio pulled the bus off the road as he spotted a pair of macaws in a tree. Very pleasant surprise! Off to the Tarcoles River to hop on a Crocodile Man boat where Juan continued to serve as our tour guide and pointed out several different forms of wildlife including a variety of birds (both small - think swallows, and large - think vultures), crabs, monkeys and of course, named crocodiles (Lady Gaga, J.Lo, Torpedo, etc.), which we viewed from just a few yards away. Antonio then drove us to El Jardin where we enjoyed a traditional Costa Rican lunch and had some free time to shop, see a short presentation on making chocolate, stroll through a butterfly garden and taste Costa Rican coffee. Then back to the port in plenty of time before ship departure. Overall a great day! I wouldn't hesitate to book again with GioTours - we did.

  257DavidC257Mai 2026über Tripadvisor

• 5A great eco tour shore excursion from Puntarenas

  We had driven across the Tarcoles River four years ago en route to Los Suenos but didn’t stop to enjoy the wildlife. This time we took a cruise that stopped in Puntarenas, so we decided to tour the Tarcoles River with Gio. In total, there were 10 folks who had signed up from our ship, but two didn’t show. The comfortable mini-bus had plenty of room for us to spread out. First and foremost, our guide Juan and driver Antonio were fantastic. Juan kept us informed and entertained while Antonio kept a sharp lookout for macaws and other wildlife en route to the river. The first stop at the fruit stand was a very nice touch. The mangos, papayas, pineapple, and apples were sweet and refreshing. We also tasted a Costa Rican fruit from palm trees that is boiled and mushed up. The flavor and texture was like a cross between a potato and chestnut. Although scheduled for an hour, the river boat captain took us around for 90 minutes. We saw perhaps a half dozen crocodiles, a lot of different kinds of birds, and even some monkeys. Lunch provided a good selection of typical Costa Rican food. We spent a little time to learn about the chocolate production process and taste some samples. There was also a butterfly garden and souvenir shop on site.

  castriker888April 2026über Tripadvisor

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How it compares in Puntarenas

• Its from-price is 34% below the median of the 42 tagesausflüge we list in Puntarenas.
• Its length is typical for the group.
• By number of reviews it ranks 2 of 42.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Puntarenas

Puntarenas is a Pacific port on a narrow sandspit in the Gulf of Nicoya, with a seaside promenade, a cruise dock and ferries to the Nicoya Peninsula.

Puntarenas stretches along a sandspit about five kilometres long that pokes into the Gulf of Nicoya, with the sea on one side and an estuary on the other. In the 19th century it was Costa Rica's main Pacific port, when coffee from the Central Valley was carted down to be shipped abroad. Today a long seafront promenade, the Paseo de los Turistas, runs along the beach, and cruise ships call at the dock.

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