Regular city cruise tour

Name: Regular city cruise tour
Brand: Turismo Viento del Sur
SKU: 225783P9
Price: 65.00 USD
Rating: 4.0 (15 reviews)

Punta Arenas, Chile

3 hours
Pickup offered
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

What's Included

WiFi on board
Air-conditioned vehicle
Bottled water

Tips

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup points

Select a pickup point

Pickup details

The guide will wait for you in the passenger lounge with a sign with your name.

What To Expect

Mirador Cerro De La Cruz

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Secreto de la Patagonia

40 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Parque Maria Behety

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Monumento A Tripulantes Galeta Ancud

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Nao Victoria Museo

1 hour • Admission Ticket Not Included

Monumento Al Ovejero

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Plaza Munoz Gamero

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible

Infant seats available
Most travelers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 30 travelers

Operated by Turismo Viento del Sur

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.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Reviews

4.0

15 reviews

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Appreciate the city’s highlights

Vienalyn_T, Mar 2024

The whole process from pick-up to end of tour at cruise terminal was a smooth process and was communicated clearly. Nicolai is a great tour guide with so much knowledge. The Noa Victoria museum (3 replicas) was a highlight. Include the cost of the museum in the tour price.

Response from Host, Mar 2024

Thank you for share your experience with us ! Best VDSTours

Small city with not much to see.

loisdomanico, Mar 2024

The only site that might be of interest for people is to see the replica ship of Charles Darwin, but there was an additional $7 charge to enter the "museum" which was outdoors and it was very cold and extremely windy. Other than that, there were a few statues to see and another "highlight" was to see some Chilan flamingos in a pond.

Response from Host, Mar 2024

Indeed it is a small city but for us it worth it, Punta Arenas has a very particular beauty in the old buildings and streets. I'm sorry if it wasn't enough interesting for you.

Great Tour

Gary_S, Mar 2024

Great tour. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and allowed extra time to enjoy some stops. I highly recommend this tour.

Response from Host, Mar 2024

Thank you very much for your good comments Best VDSTours

A good city tour

Mowen_L, Mar 2024

Our guide Cathy was knowledgeable and friendly. She covered a variety of the points of interests in the city. The place she recommended for king crabs at the end of the tour was a highlight of our trip.

Response from Host, Mar 2024

Thank you so much for your comments Best VDSTours

Not a great experience. Needs improvement, a better guide, and dedicated transportation!

Lee_T, Feb 2024

I'm very sorry to report that Regular City Cruise tour of Punta Arenas proved to be rather disappointing. We experienced poor weather, which didn’t help, but it turned out to be a shared tour in English & Spanish, but with the guide only having limited English. Furthermore, she provided very little in way of a commentary or information on places we visited, and those places really had nothing to recommedn them. At one point, at the Martime Museum, our transport was sent off for another job, leaving us stranded and standing in the rain until it returned. The so-called ‘Wildlife Reserve’ was little more than a concrete water catchment area with a few sad bedraggled ducks and no evidence that it was visited by or home to the promised flamingoes. Overall, it was not a great experience, proved to be very poor VFM, and was not enjoyed by anyone in the group I formed part of.

Response from Host, Feb 2024

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. We will improve the tour and hire better tour guides. This helps us a lot to know what we need to change. Best Vdstours

Good choice for Punta Arenas

William_J, Feb 2024

Guide spoke excellent English. Tour covered a lot of Punta Arenas. Visit to outdoor museum with life size replicas of Magellan's ship Victoria, Darwin's Beagle, and a couple more. Saw several monuments in town and on the beach and finished with a visit to the plaza de armas. Brief (15") visit to candy store (where I'm sure guide got a cut) was vastly better than most such stops on other tours. The shop was small, charming, and worth the 15".

Response from Host, Feb 2024

Hello William! Thank you for the good comments Best VDSTours

Tour operator left before we disembarked--we got no tour.

MariaMercedes_O, Jan 2024

Ship disembarkation began at 7am, but we were supposed to meet the tour operator at an office several blocks away at 7:30am. I use a walking stick and there was no one waiting for us at the port. By the time we arrived at the tour operator's office, everyone had left. We ended up with no tour.

Response from Host, Jan 2024

Hi Maria. Tour guide was waiting for you in disembarking room from 09.30 am to 10.30am Tour should start at 10.00 am and we had 12 passengers inside the van waiting from 09.30 am. If the tender system was delayed and you couldn't arrive on time for the tour you need to speak with cruise administration because you loose the tour because of them no because of us. We wait more than enough for all of our passengers but we also need to respect the other ones who arrive on time. We are very sorry Best

Just walk around don’t buy this tour.

Barbara_T, Dec 2023

Communication was good, van and your guide were good. The tour was not as advertised. More than 12 people which was a money grab because the 4 seats in the back of the van are not useable - smaller in width than other seats meaning you are sitting on seatbelt hardware. We completely skipped the chocolate stop and an approx 3 hour tour was 2 exactly. It’s a cheap(er) than others but you can do some research walk around, taxi to a few places for less. Cannot recommend.

Response from Host, Dec 2023

Hello Barbara. We are very sorry you didn't like the tour. we will work on it ! Best VDSTours

This is a must tour, especially if you are cruising down to Antarctica

Susanjselby, Mar 2023

We book this tour as it spent more time at the outdoor maritime museum. The whole tour gave us a flavour of Punta Arenas. Our guide had proposed a visit to the cemetery and so wish we had taken up her offer! But that’s our fault! Really enjoyed learning about the importance of Punta Arenas in the exploration of Antarctica and the museum, with it’s full size replicas of Magellans ship, the Beagle and Shackleton lifeboat (among others) was fascinating and added a lot to our cruise experience as well

Response from Host, Mar 2023

Thank you Susan for your good comments Best

Magnificent Magellen

SoonJin_T, Feb 2023

Learning the fascinating history of the explorers and their exploits was an eye opener. How did they survive in those peanut sized ships? The guide was most enthusiastic and knowledgeable.

Response from Host, Mar 2023

Thank you for the good comments And we are very happy you enjoyed and learned more about our region Best VDSTours

Excellent guide, but other concerns detracted

Sheldon_S, Feb 2023

This tour got off to a bad start when there was no one waiting for us when we got off the ship, and messages and phone calls to to operator went unanswered. Finally, some 15-20 minutes after the appointed time, the guide showed up, and suggested that we should have been waiting in the parking lot, although nothing had been given beforehand, and that they were late because of other hotel pickups. Surely this all could have been communicated beforehand so we weren't waiting in the port waiting room thinking we'd been stiffed. The guide was interesting, had lots of information to convey, and had excellent English - he is the only reason I gave this tour 3 stars instead of one. The tour stops were reasonable. However, the only restroom was available at the first stop, and then none for the rest of the tour, when we were left at the town square to walk back to the port - another problem in the organization of the tour.

Response from Host, Feb 2023

We are very sorry for the waiting time in pier. Yes that day we had some problems with pick up from other passengers but its something we can't know in advance... Our sincere apologies. We will give your congrats to our tour guide :) Have a nice day Best VDStours