Full Day Excursion to Petrópolis from Rio de Janeiro

This was a great tour! The communication from the operators was good and our guide, Plinio, was excellent. Something to note is that the Crystal Palace is more like a large greenhouse, not an actual palace where people lived. This trip does not include a guided tour of the Imperial Palace, which I would have liked. However, I enjoyed the free time that let me visit a ceramics museum. Plinio was very helpful and impressive with his mastery of English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Most of the stops were good, some were not for me personally. Guide was very good. Lunch was delicious.

Today I did a full-day tour in Petrópolis and I will tell my experience. The pick-up was perfect, at the time, the new and well-hygienized van but the highlight was the sympathy, education and knowledge of the tour guide (Cleiton) that made a long trip less boring, telling us about the whole history of the city and the imperial family. Arriving in the city we encountered the spectacle of beautiful landscapes and spectacular houses, the tourist spots visited are a prime work, it is a formidable legacy left by the Portuguese family. Not leaving behind, the food and service of the restaurant Grill Copacabana in Petrópolis are wonderful, has food options for all tastes: barbecue, salads, Japanese, etc. Note 10, I recommend for those who like historic tour. Carefully, Alex Maciel.

Today I did a full-day tour in Petrópolis and I will tell my experience, the pick-up was perfect at the appointed time the new and well-hygienized van but the highlight and the sympathy and the education and knowledge of the tour guide ( Cleiton ) makes a long trip less boring telling us about the whole history of the city and the imperial family, and coming to the city we encountered the spectacle of beautiful landscapes and spectacular houses and the sights visited are a prime is a formidable legacy left by the Portuguese family and not leaving behind the food and service of the restaurant Copacabana in Petrópolis are wonderful has food options for all taste Churrasco Japanese Saladas etc. Note 10 and recommend for those who like historic tour. Carefully Alex Maciel.

Petropolis is a lovely city and the trip from Rio is quite enjoyable. The lush forests and mountains make the journey very pleasant. There is much to see and do in Petropolis. The city itself is quite picturesque with lagoons, mountains and well maintained gardens. The lunch was amazing. However, the guide could not speak English, making communication rather challenging. The tour organizers should make sure that the guide can speak the language needed for the tour participants.

The experience was far below what we expected. Two extremely inconvenient points: my girlfriend and I were invited to get up from the armchairs by a couple of brothers after returning from the first stop. There were no marked places and they thought they were, I explained the situation to the guide who used an unhappy speech and even suggested that we rise from places that were not marked. The second point was lunch time, almost at 15:00, so there was very little food, it was still necessary to bake last minute meat that took a long time.

She fulfilled what was agreed, the guide was very good, the only thing to criticize was a lot of back and forth at the beginning to get started

Very attentive and prepared team, from the footprint at the meeting point to the return, with the historical information and the spirit, seeking to make the best use of the group time.

The worst day trip I've ever taken. Pick-up took an hour and a half, and I wasn't even the first person on the bus. We spent a full half an hour at a roadside rest stop that was meant to be a bathroom break, then an hour at a shopping mall. We drove past Quitandinha Palace at a distance and didn't even stop for photos. We waited for an hour to spend 15 minutes inside the Imperial Museum. The Cathedral was an after-thought - we drove past it at a distance several times during the day, but didn't stop until after dark, at which time there was a wedding happening so we couldn't actually go in and see the Cathedral. Because we spent over an hour at a random mall, Crystal Palace was already closed by the time we arrived, so we couldn't go in and see that either. We drove past the Brewery, but stopping wasn't even mentioned as an option Absolute disaster of a tour, and I do not recommend it. 13 hours of wasted time and doing nothing. I'll be asking for my money back.

This was worst organized tour I have ever been on and I have been on many organized group tours. Started off with having to take 2 and 1/2 hours to even leave Rio as we repeatedly went down the same streets picking up people. By the time we got to Petropolis, we ate and zipped through two of the destinations. The three other destinations were all closed and the bus just drove by them, including the Brewery and the Crystal Palace. We then proceeded to return to Rio, continuing to the asinine drop-off method of repeating the same streets over and over trying to drop people off. Our group eventually just got off nowhere near our final destination and chose to Uber back to where we actually did get picked up. The whole tour was supposed to be 8 to 10 hours and it was 14 hours by the time we got back. We missed dinner reservations we had already looked for that evening and missed out on the things that we actually wanted to see in Petropolis. Do not book this tour.