The Cruise Excursion offers comfortable airconditioned transport while you visit all the major tourist attractions in Cartagena. Your professional tour guide will help you put what you see into a greater historical and cultural context.
About the activity
Experience
Highlights
- La Popa Monastery
- San Felipe de Barajas Fort
- Manga Neighborhood
- Getsemani Neighborhood
- Bocagrande Bay
- San Diego Neighborhood
- Old Historic Center
- City Wall
- Churches in the old city
- Slave, Colonial, Military, and Independency History
- Colombia & Caribbean Facts
- Taylor-made Cartagena City Tour
Full description
The Cruise Excursion is a very comprehensive tour that makes sure you get to experience all the major and most important tourist attractions in Cartagena.
The tour takes you to different parts of the city in comfortable airconditioned transportation. Along the way, your guide will point out things of interest, as well as putting all your new impressions into context.
Visit the Popa Monastery with the amazing view over the whole city, before entering the famous fortress San Felipe de Barajas.
You will also get to see the old historic center, city walls, San Diego, Getsemani and Bocagrande neighborhoods.
Includes
- Professional licensed guide
- Skip-the-line access
Covid-19 precautions
Safety measures in place
All areas that customers touch are frequently cleaned
Traveler requirements
You are required to bring and wear a mask
Prepare for the activity
The details below may change if you update your current selection:
Meeting point
Hotel
Start time of the tour
9:00 a.m. *
Length of the tour
4 hours (approximately)
Return Details
return to the original departure point
Notes
La Popa is currently open to the public.
This is perfect for cruise ship passengers.
Later departures are also available, depending on the time of year and current availability. If you are interested in booking this tour for a later time, simply contact us once your booking is confirmed, and we will do everything possible to accommodate you.
We own all types of transportation contact us if you have a group coming to town.
TomC –
Benny and his driver took us on a wonderful tour of the city. We stopped at all the main attractions, and Benny was willing to let us take as much time as we wanted. He made sure to get us back to the cruise ship in plenty of time. His vehicle was clean and air conditioned. Great tour
WolfgangH –
Martín Rosales made this short (cruise) stay in Cartagena a wonderful and interesting experience. He took us to as many places we could possibly go to in our short available time, was knowledgable, informative, friendly and made us feel welcome and appreciated. We had lots of fun with locals – speaking Spanish helps of course – and wish to return asap to see more of this fascinating city. Will always contact Martín Rosales as he really made this day a special one!
Ptroskos –
I booked this tour several months before our Panama Cruise. Our group of four were in port for just a day and wanted to get a feel for the local culture and history…we were not disappointed! A young woman met us at the designated spot and time, then escorted us to the parking area where Martin and a driver met us. What a great sweep of the city we saw with Martin both in the van and on foot. Thank you for a memorable day!
stevea –
“My wife and I spent a day in Cartagena during a cruise. Since we were going to be there only for the day, I did research on T/A to find a tour guide that would take us around the city. While many had very good reviews and I am sure they go a good job, the consistently excellent reviews that Martin received convinced me to contact him and schedule his 5+ hour private tour. It proved to be money well spent and less than half of what I would have had to pay to take a ship-sponsored excursion with a bus load of people.
Martin picked us up at the pier in an air-conditioned car (it is very hot in Cartagena!). He has an assistant who drives the car while Martin displays his vast knowledge of Cartagena, its history, people, neighborhoods, economy, etc.. The pride that he has in his city and country shows through easily and he was extremely interesting to listen to and exchange conversation with. His English is outstanding! We toured all of the main attractions and neighborhoods of Cartagena, and the benefit of having an assistant drive the car is that the we and Martin were dropped off at the front door of each attraction and at the end of that segment, our driver and nicely cooled car were waiting for us at the end and ready to take us to our next stop.
My wife and I travel quite extensively and love going to new destinations. If we could find someone as competent and as interesting as Martin at each locale, I would be extremely happy. He made us want to return to the beautiful city of Cartagena again for a longer visit.”
Therese10 –
We used this tour when our cruise visited Cartagena on 1/1/17. We had a large group of 50 – 60 persons and they handled it splendidly. Two persons in our group had to fly out that day and they waited for us while we were delayed by customs and port officials.They customized three different itineraries for our group and accommodated all of our requests (including two rides to the airport that day). They always responded our emails with many questions prior to the tour in a very timely manner. We highly recommend this tour.