Free cancellation
Santos Private Shore Excursion: Sao Paulo Full Day City Experience
- 6–8 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 3 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Make the most of your stop in Santos and disembark your cruise ship for an exciting full day private tour excursion to Sao Paulo. This is a great choice for those who are looking for an ecological tour, a mix between nature and the history of Sao Paulo city. If you are looking for history and nature, you will be impressed by this tour. You be delighted by the panoramic sightseeing.
Inclusions
What's included
- Hop-on hop-off tour
- Local guide
- Transport by air-conditioned car or minivan with free wifi service
- Private tour
- Bottled water
- Port pickup and drop-off
What's not
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
- Tickets
Itinerary
Your guide will pick you up from the port of Santos and drive you to downtown São Paulo (about 1 hour) for a brief historical walking tour.
See where the city was founded in 1554 at the Pátio do Colégio, a historical Jesuit mission church and school.
Stop at the famous Catedral da Sé (Cathedral of Sé), a neo-gothic building from the 20th century, which holds up to 8,000 people.
Afterward, continue your scenic tour of São Paulo by a private vehicle passing by the Monastery of Sao Bento, a historical sight belonging to the Benedictines, who have sung Gregorian chants at masses there since the 16th century.
Ibirapuera Park: São Paulo´s central park, including a peaceful garden landscape designed by Roberto Burle Marx.
Admire the Tea Bridge.
You will drive through several interesting areas including: Liberdade: The Japanese district of São Paulo, where Japanese immigrants settled at the beginning of the 20th century.
Paulista Avenue: A financial district created at the end of the 19th century, home to wealthy coffee farmers.
The 30-story Martinelli building – São Paulo’s first skyscraper.
The Municipal market: A vibrant building, inaugurated in São Paulo in 1932. Besides coming in contact with the Brazil great gastronomical variety. You will be able to try the famous pastel de bacalhau (a fried pastry with salt-cod filling) or a sandwich with more than 400 grams of mortadela (meals not included in price).
Vila Madalena neighborhood and Sunset Square – a bohemian area full of artist studios and home to the best murals in town. At Sunset Square, enjoy great views of the city.
Your local guide will be keen to make the tour as personal as possible. He will assist you with his expertise and recall interesting anecdotes for you before bringing you back to your cruise ship.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Ratings come from 4 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is offered, or you can meet at the starting point.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Bitan Daily Tours
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Important Note on Languages: Our tours are guaranteed only in English and Portuguese. While our team speaks other languages, we cannot take language requests in advance. Guide assignments are done on the day of the tour, so any other languages are strictly subject to random availability on that morning.
- Due to availability, please be aware that vehicles used in the excursions may be different from description and vary at the management's discretion.
- Cash is usually the only way to pay for small entrance fees at tourist sights, at smaller restaurants and small shops. You can exchange your money with our local guide safely.
- Visit Brazil safely with our local guide.
- Comfortable walking shoes are recommended
How it compares in Santos
- Its from-price is 69% above the median of the 8 city tours we list in Santos.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 4 of 8.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Santos
Santos is the busy port city of São Paulo state, with a long beachfront garden, old trams, a coffee museum and the football club where Pelé played.
Santos lies on São Vicente island, where the Serra do Mar mountains drop to the Atlantic. Its port, the largest in Latin America, has shipped coffee since the nineteenth century, and the old Coffee Exchange now houses the Museu do Café, with a stained-glass hall and a trading floor. Pelé spent most of his career with Santos FC, and a museum in a restored nineteenth-century mansion tells his story.
Top-ranked sights in Santos: Santos Coffee Museum (Museu do Café).
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