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.
Ole D –
Excellent tour with much consideration for elderly such as walking to top of fort. He kept a pace to see as much as we could in the time the cruise ship allowed, yet provided needed breaks at some plazas.
marija –
I booked this tour through Martin Rosales and I must say I received prompt replies to all correspondence. We were a total of 17 people from a cruise ship and wanted to book a private tour independently. We were not disappointed, David was our tour guide and William our driver.…
Ron H –
Not satisfied with the mega bus tours we usually get from choosing a cruise excursion, we found Martin Rosales via Trip Advisor. First clue that he would be great was his quick response to my email request for information. He is very communicative. We were a group of 6 adults off a cruise ship. 5 of the 6 had never been to Cartagena before. Martin was there at the docks to meet us with a nice air-conditioned van. Extremely informative of the city, its history, it many sights,….we saw it all, yet at a pace of our choosing. You want to see this city on a limited schedule, Martin is your tour guide.
Craig B –
We (two couples, age 60) booked Martin for a tour in mid-December 2018 as we were in Cartagena off a cruise ship. Everything met or exceeded expectations. The tour was timely, the transport comfortable and the narrative detailed and interesting. Martin was a good communicator before arrival. Other friends have already booked Martin on our recommendation. Don’t hesitate to customize the tour to your needs and interests.
lieninh –
“When our cruise ship stopped at Cartagena (Colombia). We would like to see more of Cartagena since each optional excursion organized by the cruise ship could only visit a subset of Cartagena icons. Hence we decided to contact Cartagena Tour Guides after intensive internet research.
It was a prompt and professional response from Martin from the first email till the final shore excursion booking confirmation.
The instruction how to meet him was very clear and accurate. We left the ship after it docked, walked less than 10 minutes from the ship exit to meet Cartagena Tour Guides representative who held a sign with our names. Then we walked another 5 minutes with the representative to meet Martin.
We had wonderful time, car is very nice and with air conditioning. We felt secured for the entire excursion. Martin explained the history of each icons in very details. We enjoyed the explanation tremendously.
We visited Manga Island, Las Bóvedas, The cathedral of Cartagena, Plaza de la proclamación and Plaza de Bolívar, La Popa Monastery and San Felipe Fortress,
Walking Tour Inside the walled City.
Note that La Popa Monastery could only be visited by small car since the entrance and road were narrow.
The main thing is that you can trust Cartagena Tour Guides to look after you and make sure you have a good time, seeing as many Cartagena icons as we like, specially the stopover was less than 8 hours.
We are glad that we booked with Cartagena Tour Guides.
Thank you, Martin”