Cruise Shore Excursion Peninsula Valdes - Pto Madryn - Patagonia - Argentina
Description
Only as a reference, we provide tours and tourist services, at the Puerto Madryn area, Peninsula Valdes and Punta Tombo with Trelew valley; we focus all our efforts on providing outstanding experiences in contact with wildlife. Besides our office in downtown Puerto Madryn, we also have desks at both of the city’s piers, and we have been providing shore excursions to cruise passengers for the last 14 seasons. All our tours start and finish at the pier. These rates includes vehicle up to 18 seats, with A/C, English speaking tour guide and box lunch (ham and cheese sandwich, granola bar, 1 Argentinean alfajor and 1 bottle of water) also you can choose between a vegetarian, or gluten free meals. We don’t use coach buses for tours. If the ship doesn’t dock, we don’t charge anything, and if you prepaid for the whole tour or any kind of deposit, we will refund the 100% If you don’t show up at the pier up to 45 minutes after the ship docks (NO SHOW) we will charge 100% of the rate
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Itinerary
Península Valdes Protected Natural Area This Protected Natural Area, declared “Mankind’s Natural Heritage”, has one of the most fascinating ecosystem in the entire world, Whales, Orcas, Sea Lions, Elephants Seals, Magellan Penguins, Maras, Guanacos, and Choiques live all in the same habitat. About 35 miles away from Puerto Madryn, we arrive to El Desempeño, main access to Peninsula Valdes, the first stop will be the interpretation center and from there we will head to Caleta Valdes, 59 miles away, and there you’ll enjoy the magnificent Elephant Seals and Penguins. and occasionally Orcas. And from there we return to Puerto Madryn, where we will finish our visit to this incredible Protected Natural Area to board the ship on time Length: 6 hours Includes: Vehicule with A/C, English Speaking Tour Guide and Box Lunch
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Please try to disembark as soon as the ship docks, so we can start the tour as early as possible, and you will have more time to enjoy the trip and return to the ship on time. This point it’s very important, because it’s a shared tour, and the other passengers will be waiting at the pier. NOTE: the 07:00 am or 07:30 am pick up time at Viator, it’s by system default, but we set each tour depending on each cruise ship arrival time. At Puerto Madryn all cruise ships arrives to Piedrabuena Pier We will be waiting for you, at the end of the pier, at the main gate, holding a blue balloon, so you can find us pretty easy. I´ll be waiting for you and I will introduce our tour guide to you. After the ship’s crew will let the people disembark, we will wait for no more than 45 minutes to start the tour
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Specialized infant seats are available
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(115)
A great day with Clara in Patagonia. We had a great day from our cruise ship to the north shore. We saw llamas, sheep, cows, horses, armadillos, Elephant seals and Sea lions an if course lots of birds. But the best was to catch the ORCAS at play. They hadn’t been see in 10 days. We saw a few of them. The only disappointment was that the picture made us think we would see penguins but we didn’t and they weren’t expecting us to as we would have had to go to a different area. All in all a great day though.
Great way to see Valdez Peninsula
Beautiful location where we saw as lions.
Lot of sea lions on the beach, but missed the elephants seals in February ！ Still a very enjoyable experience!
It was fascinating to see clusters of sea lions sun bathing at the beach. We were lucky to sight an orca evaluating his environment too 🐋
Clara was very knowledgeable and with all the information she gave us made a long drive to punta north to see the sea lions go by very quickly. And Eddie drove us and at the same time had a good eye to spot wildlife; lamas, all kind of birds even small owls well camouflaged. The total tour was 6,5 hours, the drive was about 325km in total and halfway we got a good lunchbox. Highlight were the Sea Lions.The only thing we missed where the Orcas, but even guide Clara had seen then twice 😀 I do recommend this tour. We had one hour spare before the all aboard time. We were traveling in a small group of 12.
Clara the guide and Eddie the driver were exceptional. We learned much about the region and saw many animals. We are very happy with the way our limited time here was spent.
We saw lots of birds. Armadillo, Sea Lions, Elephant Seals. Clara the guide was excellent as was Eddie the driver. They were very patient and Clara had excellent English.
The guide, Sol, and driver, Diego were 5*. The challenge with this tour is the bang for the buck was very low. Of the 6.5 hour excursion, over 5 hours of it was driving. We saw a small colony of penguins and then a group of maybe a dozen elephant seals. Then drive back. So if you’ve never seen either, then perhaps it would be worth it. But for me, I probably would have had a better time in town.
Dear Traveler, we are sorry you fill that way about our Peninsula Valdes Cruise Shore Excursion. we can offer a much longer experience at peninsula Valdes, but we do have to things to consider, first our distances are very long, as you can check in our tour description it's 120 miles each way, and also the cruise ship length stay it's not enough to provide a much better experience. we hope you can understand this issues. kind regards Sentir Patagonia Travel
Our tour guide Sol was excellent and very informative. However it was a long 2 1/2 hour drive with little scenery. The penguins were cute but a small colony and the seals were far away. A lot of time to not see much
Dear Traveler, we are sorry you fill that way about our Peninsula Valdes Cruise Shore Excursion. we can offer a much longer experience at peninsula Valdes, but we do have to things to consider, first our distances are very long, as you can check in our tour description it's 120 miles each way, and also the cruise ship length stay it's not enough to provide a much better experience. and the consideration about this tour, it's a wildlife area, sometimes we do have a lot of penguins and elephants seals are closer, and there is nothing we can do about it. again I'm so sorry you fill disappointed about this experience. kind regards Sentir Patagonia Travel
