Manuel Antonio Park Tour and its Amazing Wildlife and Beaches
Description
This knowledgeable and entertaining 100% local tour operator is always looking to provide the best experiences and filling all the needs our clients deserve Come and explore Manuel Antonio NP with the experts, we are certified and local guides ready for a lifetime experience during your visit, don't miss the chance we are happy to take you and enjoy our office! Meet our guides at our meeting place which is 2 min walking distance from the Park entrance, instructions for the meeting and recommendations for the tour will be sent prior the tour date. Pura vida, The MANT team
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Itinerary
After we encounter at our meeting place, your local certified guide by the ICT (Costa Rica Tourism Board) will briefly introduce her/himself and will let you know about the rules during the activity. We will walk at least through 4 different trails inside the Park spotting a great variety of wildlife species, this place is well known as the home for monkeys, sloths, lizards, amphibians, snakes, birds and insects, besides, we will have the opportunity to take wonderful pictures through our HD spotting scopes for a great lifetime memories during your visit. If you book for a morning tour there will be extra time to enjoy the beach after the tour, the afternoon ocassionally won't give us enough time to enjoy the beach due the Park close at 3:00pm Afternoon tours are less crowded compared with the morning tours, if you want to enjoy the beach in the afternoon tour your guide will have a "plan B" for the best enjoyment of your experience!
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- DON'T IGNORE the INFORMATION BELOW
- BEFORE booking please notice that:
- 1- Park is closed every Tuesday, open from Wednesday until Monday from 7am until 4pm
- 2- SINAC park tickets are NOT included with the tour tickets, you must purchase your entry tickets separately BEFORE the tour meeting
- 3- Instructions how to purchase the SINAC park tickets will be sent after you confirm your tour, PLEASE be AWARE of your email notifications for further information regarding recommendations and more
- 4- Private parking is available next to our office $10 USD additional, unfortunately the MANP doesn't have facilities as parking lot
- 5- Prebooked tickets MIGHT be available in resale for last minute bookings, BEFORE confirming your booking PLEASE message us in order to confirm that we still have tickets available
- 6- If you're trying to book LAST MINUTE your tour, please make sure there are tickets available for the day you're planning to visit the park, if you don't know how to confirm availability CONTACT US before confirming booking, the park entry tickets are selling out even 8 days in advance
- 7- If you're arriving to the meeting place by public transportation please let us know in order to send the respective instructions
- 8-Thank you for your cooperation, don't hesitate to contact us if you have any additional questions
Reviews(1,154)
Felix is one of the best guides we have had in Costa Rica, he is dynamic, sees everything, and takes photos with your smartphone using his telescope, it is incredible
Andrew was amazing. He located so many things in the park that we would have missed. He was funny and took the time to explain everything. Would highly recommend taking a tour with Andrew! The pictures he shared of the things we saw were fantastic!
The team gave us really clear instructions before arriving - particularly with what to bring/what not to bring which was important as the park is very strict with what they let in. The team organised the tickets before which made it a seamless, hassle-free day for us. The guide, Mop, had a great sense of humour and an incredible eye for spotting animals within the park - he has been doing this for 25+ years! He definitely had the biggest scope and was kind enough to take all the photos/videos using his camera and air-dropped them to us at the end of the tour which finished on the beach. It was a slightly larger than initially expected group for us, but this way due to sickness, so took some time getting through everyone seeing the animals through the scope, but all the groups were lovely so wasn't a big problem for us.
We booked the tour directly on their site; we were provided with the necessary information, such as the meeting point and the guide's name, well in advance. Our guide Saul was great, very experienced and professional. He even spotted a toucan in front of the entrance! Awesome. The tour lasted 2 hours… however, I would recommend booking the 7-hour tour instead, since a lot of people arrive starting at 7:30 AM and then it's just group after group. The beach is obviously great, but after 10 AM it's more than crowded since it is quite narrow. The early bird catches the worm! The tour has a very good price-performance ratio.
Mop was a consummate professional... great with kids, engaging with the whole group, and could spot a dragonfly on the underside of a leaf at 100 yards! We saw sloths, three different kinds of monkeys, and the most venomous snake in Costa Rica. Mop was a wealth of knowledge about everything we spotted, and knew the history of the park and the flora and fauna. He even gave us a dinner reservation, which was the perfect end to the day!
Mop was a really great guide, and is funny and fluent in English, which is great. He spotted so many things for us, including all 3 types of monkeys, sloths, a ferdelance, and so many things that the normal human couldn’t see. His 26 years of work paid off by seeing so many small things that we just skipped over. It was amazing how he would quickly spot things and quickly setup the telescope so efficiently. We really lucked out with getting Mop, he’s the best!
This is a team of professionals. We were very pleased with the diversity of animals that we saw in the park. I still don't understand how the guide was able to spot some of the animals that he did.
¡Una experiencia bella e impresionate! Our guide, Felix, was awesome! He was very friendly, extremely knowledgeable, and had an amazing eye for spotting the animals and insects through Manuel Antonio Park. He answered every question we had about the wildlife we saw in great detail and took keepsake snapshots of the animals on our tour with our cellphones. We saw snakes, lizards, grasshoppers, sloths, a coati, an agouti, howler monkeys, bats, crabs, among other creatures. At the end of the tour, Felix told us the best place to sit on the gorgeous beach and also shared with us another 45 minute trail we could walk through on our own to see breathtaking views of the beach. Me and my girls decided to hike it and we were met by a troop of Capuchin Monkeys. This tour is true unbelievable-not to be missed.
Great tour with Nicole. Would it be possible to have a copy of the photos she took during our tour? It was on July 26th 2026
Saul made this experience incredible. We had VERY clear directions on where to meet (which was such a comfort and helped us avoid scams). This whole tour (including the SPECTACULAR beach) exceeded expectations. The telescope Saul used was incredible and, more than that, he was able to capture pictures of the telescope view on our phones. Including seeing two sloths, which was a dream come true. HIGHLY recommend.
