Half Day Mud Volcano from Cartagena

Name: Half Day Mud Volcano from Cartagena
Brand: cartagena caribbean tours
SKU: 63222P13
Price: 40.00 USD
Rating: 4.0 (18 reviews)

Cartagena, Colombia

5 to 6 hours
Pickup offered
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

The mud baths at Volcan de Lodo El Totumo are a popular day trip from Cartagena, known for their rejuvenating properties. Booking a tour makes it easy to visit the baths without planning your time, researching costs, or figuring out transportation for the 45-minute drive. Plus, this tour includes a stop at the Caribbean beach Manzanillo del Mar and a typical Colombian-style lunch for a relaxing tour at great value.

Volcan de Lodo El Totumo day trip from Colombia
Entrance ticket is already paid for—no unexpected expenses
Tour also stops at Manzanillo del Mar for a fresh seafood lunch
Door-to-door transportation from your hotel solves transport logistics

What's Included

hotel pick up
typical lunch
bilingual guide
Sea bath in Manzanillo
Lunch

personal expenses

Meeting and Pickup

You can head directly to the meeting point, or request pickup

Meeting point

Monumento Torre del Reloj
Boca del Puente, El Centro, Cartagena de Indias, Provincia de Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia
in the middle arc of the clock tower

Pickup points

Select a pickup point

Start time

08:30 AM

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Volcan de Lodo El Totumo

2 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Service animals allowed

Infants must sit on laps
Most travelers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers

Operated by cartagena caribbean tours

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.

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Featured review

Brian_C

Everything was as expected. Hotel pickup was at the communicated time. Good value. Guide was friendly & helpful. Had a great time. On the 2nd leg of the trip, beach was nice & quiet with no vendors!

Reviews

4.0

18 reviews

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Save time and money; they will touch you inappropriately

Emma_H, Apr 2024

I hate writing bad reviews, but this experience was terrible and not worth the time and money. To start, this was not a half day tour it was all day. It started at 8 and ended at 430. There was also no hotel pick up or drop off as stated. For around 4 hours, we went to this almost abandoned resort to sit at the pool. I do not know why we did this as it was not stated when I booked it. Then we finally went to the mud. The guide told us people may offer us a massage for 5000 pesos. I didnt want one and said no numerous times to the people in the volcano. Two guys still gave me a massage numerous times after saying “no gracias” and they still did it anyway. I felt extremely taken advantage of as a solo traveling girl knowing little spanish. The guide did not come with us up to the volcano and no one else spoke english so there was no escaping as it was extremely hard to move in the mud. Then after, we washed off in the lake and a lady told me to get naked. I was no comfortable with it, but she still touched me everywhere. I can honestly say this was a terrible experience and i would not recommend to anyone, especially women traveling alone.

Great Value, unique experience

Brian_C, Apr 2024

Everything was as expected. Hotel pickup was at the communicated time. Good value. Guide was friendly & helpful. Had a great time. On the 2nd leg of the trip, beach was nice & quiet with no vendors!

Great tour

Jackie_A, Feb 2024

The tour guide was excellent We hung out at the beach club For couple of hours and they served us breakfast/lunch and non alcoholic drinks. We headed to the volcano around 1 o lock and there were no lines Overall good day, would definitely recommend this tour

Go with a different company, they will make mistakes that cost you

Ryan_S, Dec 2023

The mud volcano was very cool but I'd do this experience with a different company. We wondered why they didn't have completely good reviews and we should have gone with our gut. We submitted our phone number correctly but they wrote it down wrong and therefore didn't come to pick us up because they "tried to contact us" and we didn't answer. No, you copied our phone number incorrectly and then didn't try ANYTHING to remedy it (they could have checked the form, called our hotel, ran up to our hotel that we were sitting outside of the entire time waiting for them). We then had to pay for an Uber to find them and they refused to refund us that cost even though it was their fault. We do NOT recommend this company and frankly, Viator did not fight for us at all on our behalf. Also the beach experience was cool but way too long.

Half day was the perfect amount of time!

Gabby_G, Sep 2023

Our guide Yulianna was very fun, easy to talk to, and on time. We spent a good amount of time at the volcano. It wasn’t rushed at all which I loved, and there was no line to get in. I also especially loved the food we ate at for lunch. Highly recommend this half day trip!

Unnecessarily long day of driving to ridiculous places

Charlotte_B, May 2023

The two stops at the "museum" (two rooms) in a deserted town. And the "pink" lake (not pink at all, but they told us this once we were on our way) should be totally eliminated. Just go straight to the mud baths. We were "dropped" off at the restaurant for lunch. No one from the tour company accompanied us in. No one at the restaurant spoke English. Thank goodness, a kind restaurant patron spoke Spanish and English. They came to our rescue and communicated with the restaurant Staff to get us drinks and a meal. The tour company came back after we were done and sitting around chatting and picked us up to take us back to our hotel. Overall, I would say, not at all worth the money.

Response from Host, Sep 2023

Thank you for leaving your comment. We work very hard to make every customer experience an enjoyable one and we are truly sorry that we were unable to meet your expectations on this occasion.

Nice trip to mud volcano

Marko_B, Apr 2023

Nice trip to mud volcano. A bit funny but overall fun activity. Especially to see the locals organized and involved in different activities from providing you with lockers, photo shooting with your camera/phone to kind of a massage in mud pool and the scrubbing you in the nearby lagoon. They collect all the tips together in One plastic bag so you don’t have to worry about tipping everyone individually. On the way we stopped in a small village with a museum related to exploiting salt from the sea. Also being able to see kind of pink color of the sea. All in all, a fun activity.

Response from Host, Sep 2023

Thanks you so much for your review! We appreciate your feedback and are glad you are satisfied with our service.

What a time 👌🏾

Arthur_J, Oct 2021

Very fun experience!!! Make sure you bring a towel and an extra set of clothes. The bus is a little small, so big guys beware ..

Do it!! Don't overthink it

Teyana_J, Sep 2021

The day we went, the taxi drivers went on strike. We were just about to cancel when the managers came to our hotel to pick us up and take us to the bus themselves. That alone showed us that they value their clients' time. The experience was AMAZING. The people there were extremely helpful. One guy even gave me his shoes because he heard me say my feet were hot. At the end, everyone is a bit pushy when it comes to getting tips. But overall, the experience was definitley worth it. My suggestion, dont go off of people's opinions. Try it for yourself. We were close to changing our minds after reading a blog online but very happy we went. P.s, they have lockers with keys if you are wondering where to put your things. And you CAN trust the person you give your phone to. The pictures they took of us were pretty decent. My husband and I would definitely do this again.

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Raul_G, Sep 2021

It was an amazing experience out of this world. You emerge in the mud and feel your body being renewed minute by minute. Totally recommend it.

Leuk maar commercieel

Ruben_H, Aug 2023

Leuk om te doen. We hadden het absoluut niet willen missen maar wel erg commercieel. Je komt aan, kleed je om, gaaf 5 minuten de vulkaan in waar je vluchtig wordt gemasseerd en er foto’s van je worden gemaakt en vervolgens loop je de trap af en word je gewassen in het nabijgelegen meertje. Iedereen wil vervolgens geld van je; zowel de fotograaf, als de masseur, als degene die je wast. Dus leuk om te doen en een unieke ervaring maar houdt rekening met het feit dat het behoorlijk commercieel is.

Response from Host, Sep 2023

Vielen Dank für Ihren Kommentar. Wir arbeiten sehr hart daran, jedem Kunden ein angenehmes Erlebnis zu bieten, und es tut uns wirklich leid, dass wir Ihre Erwartungen dieses Mal nicht erfüllen konnten.

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Relax586780, Jun 2019

Muy bueno pero no me gusta el hostigamiento..deben ser más organizados a la hora de cobrar. Lo recomiendo. Gracias.