Buenos Aires
Optional Private Excursions
Avoid the crowds and hustle and bustle associated with a group activity. For a memorable trip ashore, we invite you to consider a private shore excursion. Enjoy the undivided attention of your own driver/guide and the flexibility of experiencing the aspects of the local culture that most interest you. Below are just some samples of the private shore excursions we can arrange for you. Let us personalize your experience!
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Buenos Aires - Full Day Sightseeing Tour - 7 hours
Meet your local guide at local pier and start with your visit.
Explore some of the most recognizable landmarks in Buenos Aires. Find out about the history and culture of this city, as you take in some of the most significant spots.
Start at the most important square in the country: Plaza de Mayo. The country was founded here in 1580, and today the most important governmental buildings are located here including Casa Rosada (Government House), Cabildo (City Hall) and Catedral Metropolitana (Metropolitan Cathedral). Government Palace opens to visitors if you're keen on taking a look inside.
Continue to the cobblestoned streets of San Telmo neighborhood, where the original porteños (Buenos Aires residents) settled in the early days. The next stop-off is picturesque La Boca, home to Caminito, perhaps the city's most photographed area thanks to its corrugated iron and brightly-colored houses. This block houses one of the few outdoor museums in the world, where artists exhibit works related to the influence of mainly Italian citizens who arrived at this port at the end of the 19th century. Also stop by at the famous Bombonera stadium, home to legendary football soccer giants Boca Juniors, whose colors of blue and yellow adorn most of the houses and stores in this barrio.
Drive towards Palermo, passing through Puerto Madero, a regenerated area where redbrick warehouses have been transformed into trendy restaurants and bars. Once in the northern area of the city, drive past Palermo Chico with its impressive townhouses, tree-lined boulevards and parks. Palermo Soho, meanwhile, combines the flavor of an old, working-class neighbourhood with contemporary nods including ethnic restaurants, design stores and bars. The bohemian atmosphere makes it popular with Argentines as well as foreign visitors, and restaurants cater to all palates. Continue to Recoleta, one of the most elegant and sophisticated districts, and visit Nuestra Señora del Pilar Church and Recoleta Cemetery, known for its rich architecture and famous personalities whose mortal remains it treasures.
After the sightseeing you will be transferred back to the pier.
Tour highlights:
- May square
- Old quarters at San Telmo neighborhood
- Caminito street at La Boca
- Palermo neighborhood and parks
- Recoleta Cemetery
Inclusions
- Transfers to/from the pier
- English speaking guide
- Private vehicle
Exclusions
- Gratuities for guide and driver
- Lunch
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Buenos Aires sightseeing south with Colon Theatre
Meet your local guide at local pier and start with your visit.
Explore the highlights of magnificent Buenos Aires in a four-hour guided sightseeing tour. This excursion kicks off in one of the city's most significant spots: Plaza de Mayo square, the political heart of the city laid out by Don Juan de Garay in 1580 during the second founding of Buenos Aires. Continue to San Telmo neighborhood, with its cobblestoned streets, where the original porteños (Buenos Aires residents) settled in the early days. After a short drive south, stop off at picturesque La Boca, the colorful working-class port neighborhood, and walk along Caminito Street, where local artists display their artwork to the tune of tango performed on the street. Pass through Puerto Madero and see this regenerated area where redbrick warehouses have been transformed into trendy restaurants and bars before finishing the tour in Recoleta and its renowned cemetery to glimpse stunning mausoleums, the final resting place for many of Argentina's key
Tour highlights:
- May square
- Old quarters at San Telmo neighborhood
- Caminito street at La Boca
- Colon Theatre (shared visit)
Inclusions
- Transfers to/from the pier
- English speaking guide
- Private vehicle
Exclusions
- Gratuities for guide and driver
- Lunch
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Buenos Aires Sightseeing Tour North - half day
Meet your local guide at local pier and start with your visit.
Familiarize yourself with some of the most recognizable landmarks in the northern area of Buenos Aires. Stop off in Palermo, a district with several faces such as classic Palermo Chico and contemporary Palermo Hollywood. Head towards Palermo Chico with its impressive townhouses, tree-lined boulevards and parks, then continue to Bosques de Palermo woods for the Japanese Garden and Rose Garden and their wonderful sculptures and lakes as well as the race track and polo grounds. Palermo Soho, meanwhile, fuses the flavor of a working-class neighborhood with contemporary twists such as ethnic restaurants, design stores and bars. Its bohemian atmosphere makes it popular with Argentines as well as foreign visitors. Gastronomy options appeal to all palates. Finally, visit Recoleta neighborhood, home to many a mansion, which takes you back to Argentina's grander days. The tour ends at Recoleta Cemetery, renowned for its rich architecture and sculptures that makes it more of an open-air museum than a place of rest.
After tour you will be transferred back to the pier.
Tour highlights:
- Palermo trendy area
- Japanese and Rose garden in Palermo
- Recoleta cemetery
Inclusions
- Transfers to/from the pier
- English speaking guide
- Private vehicle
Exclusions
- Gratuities for guide and driver
- Lunch
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03/05/2024 |
03/05/2024 |
Montevideo
Optional Private Excursions
Avoid the crowds and hustle and bustle associated with a group activity. For a memorable trip ashore, we invite you to consider a private shore excursion. Enjoy the undivided attention of your own driver/guide and the flexibility of experiencing the aspects of the local culture that most interest you. Below are just some samples of the private shore excursions we can arrange for you. Let us personalize your experience!
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Montevideo - Highlights Tour - 4 hours
Join in a comprehensive overview of Montevideo's neighborhoods, monuments, parks and gardens. Highlights include Solis Theatre, and Independence Square, View the Government House and the Congress Building ( Legislative Palace ) constructed between 1908 and 1925, considered one of the most beautiful parliament buildings in the world given its marble ornamented structure, works of art and lavish interior (inside visit not included). Drive through the Prado neighborhood, one of the oldest parks in the city host to the famous sculpture La Diligencia, Monument to the last Charrua Indians, and the Rose Garden. Drive through the Battle and Ordonez Park, passing by the Obelisk, La Carreta (Covered Wagon) monument and the Football Stadium. A brief stop will be made at Plaza de la Armada at the monument dedicated to the Fallen Navy Soldiers for an impressive photo opportunity of the city coastline. The return drive to the port will be along the coast and its various beaches.
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03/06/2024 |
03/06/2024 |
Punta del Este
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03/07/2024 |
03/07/2024 |
At Sea
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03/08/2024 |
03/08/2024 |
Itajai
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03/09/2024 |
03/09/2024 |
Sao Francisco do Sul
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03/10/2024 |
03/10/2024 |
Santos (São Paulo)
Optional Private Excursions
Avoid the crowds and hustle and bustle associated with a group activity. For a memorable trip ashore, we invite you to consider a private shore excursion. Enjoy the undivided attention of your own driver/guide and the flexibility of experiencing the aspects of the local culture that most interest you. Below are just some samples of the private shore excursions we can arrange for you. Let us personalize your experience!
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Wonders of Santos with Lunch - 6 hours
Highlights:
- Explore Santos by foot and funicular on this unique journey to the city's cultural landmarks.
- Begin your adventure at the Coffee Stock Exchange, home to the Coffee Museum.
- Explore the museum's exhibitions on foot, discovering how the production of coffee has influenced local ways of life and customs. Continue on to downtown Santos. Admire the city's beach and coastline, before lunch at local restaurant.
- After board the funicular railway to the summit of Monte Serrat. Rising 515 feet above the city, the summit boasts breathtaking views. Enjoy free time to enter the former casino, which is now an observatory featuring a photographic exhibit of old Santos.
- Climb the stairs to the rooftop to take in incredible views of the city below, or visit the shrine to Santos's patron saint, Our Lady of Monte Serrat, which dates back to 1609.
Tour Duration: 6 hours
Tour can operate: (morning or afternoon, etc) Morning
Wheelchair Accessible: (Yes or No) No
Physical Activity Level: (Light, Moderate, Heavy) Heavy
Inclusions: (include any info regarding transportation to/from the Cruise ship in this section)
- Lunch
- Entrance tickets
- Pick up and drop off at port
- Tour with driver and English-speaking guide
Not Included:
- Tips, beverages, personal expenses
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Wonders of São Paulo with Lunch - 8 hours
Highlights:
- Journey to Sao Paulo, one of the world’s largest cities to view some of the unique architecture and local neighborhoods.
- Depart Santos and drive along the winding rainforest mountain roads outside Sao Paulo.
- Arriving in the city, you’ll pass drive through the Liberdade District, pause for photos at and pass the Se Cathedral.
- Disembark the coach for a short walk in the city center passing Patio do Colegio – the site of the original Jesuit mission was erected in 1554.
- Stop for lunch to taste the Brazilian flavor.
- After lunch, continue your sightseeing by motorcoach. Stop for photos at Monumento as Bandeiras and pass the colorful Vila Madalena neighborhood and Ibirapuera Park. Our final stop is at MAC for a panoramic view of the city from their terrace.
Tour Duration: 8 hours
Tour can operate: (morning or afternoon, etc) Morning
Wheelchair Accessible: (Yes or No) No
Physical Activity Level: (Light, Moderate, Heavy) Moderate
Inclusions: (include any info regarding transportation to/from the Cruise ship in this section)
- Lunch
- Pick up and drop off at port
- Tour with driver and English-speaking guide
Not Included:
- Tips, beverages, personal expenses
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03/11/2024 |
03/11/2024 |
Parati
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03/12/2024 |
03/12/2024 |
Ilha Grande
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03/13/2024 |
03/13/2024 |
Buzios
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03/14/2024 |
03/14/2024 |
Rio de Janeiro
Optional Private Excursions
Avoid the crowds and hustle and bustle associated with a group activity. For a memorable trip ashore, we invite you to consider a private shore excursion. Enjoy the undivided attention of your own driver/guide and the flexibility of experiencing the aspects of the local culture that most interest you. Below are just some samples of the private shore excursions we can arrange for you. Let us personalize your experience!
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Carnival Experience at Samba City - 4 hours
Highlights:
- Visit the backstage of the samba schools at Cidade do Samba, home to some of the most renowned samba dancers in the world. Cidade do Samba offers the 14 best samba schools in Rio space to build their floats and prepare their music and samba performance for the carnival. with its exhibition of costumes and floats from old carnivals.
- Watch the dancers perform the complex samba steps and learn some new dance moves.
- Hear the samba beat and watch some of the best samba dancers in Rio performing the intricate dance steps and learn some steps of this essential Brazilian dance, while having a refreshing drink.
Tour Duration: 4 hours
Tour can operate: Morning or afternoon
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Physical Activity Level: Moderate
Inclusions:
- Pick up and drop off at port
- Tour with driver and English-speaking guide
Not Included:
- Lunch, tips, beverages, personal expenses
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Secrets of Old Rio with Lunch - 6 hours
Highlights:
- Travel in time with this enriching walking tour!
- Enjoy a walking tour through the historic center of Rio with our private guide for a unique view of the city's history.
- Start the walk passing by the Olympic boulevard, a revitalized area of ??the city and one of the main legacies of the 2016 Olympic games. Here we will observe countless world famous graffiti. A real open-air museum!
- Pass by some central sites of Rio's culture and history, such as the São Bento Monastery, the Candelária Church, the Cultural Center - located in the restored Banco do Brasil, Casa França-Brasil, Praça XV and Paço imperial.
- Visit the Metropolitan cathedral, crossing carioca square and the visit candelária square, where we will receive our ticket for the new public transport VLT Tram back to the port area.
- Lunch in Santa Teresa, a unique neighborhood of Rio de JANEIRO.
Tour Duration: 6 hours
Tour can operate: Morning
Wheelchair Accessible: No
Physical Activity Level: Heavy
Inclusions:
- Lunch
- Pick up and drop off at port
- Tour with driver and English-speaking guide
Not Included:
- Tips, beverages, personal expenses
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Sugar Loaf Sunset with Caipirinha Toast - 4 hours
Highlights:
- Ascend to the top of Sugar Loaf mountain on an amusing cable car ride and admire the breathtaking views.
- The climb is divided into two stages. After the first, arrive at Morro da Urca with its panoramic gardens and terraces; after the second, enjoy a spectacular view of the city, its beaches, Guanabara Bay and the Corcovado on the horizon.
- Toast the sunset with a lemon caipirinha.
Tour Duration: 4 hours
Tour can operate: Afternoon
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Physical Activity Level: Light
Inclusions:
- Pick up and drop off at port
- Tour with driver and English-speaking guide
- 1 caipirinha drink per person
Not Included:
- Lunch, Tips, beverages, personal expenses
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03/15/2024 |
03/15/2024 |
At Sea
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03/16/2024 |
03/16/2024 |
Salvador de Bahia
Optional Private Excursions
Avoid the crowds and hustle and bustle associated with a group activity. For a memorable trip ashore, we invite you to consider a private shore excursion. Enjoy the undivided attention of your own driver/guide and the flexibility of experiencing the aspects of the local culture that most interest you. Below are just some samples of the private shore excursions we can arrange for you. Let us personalize your experience!
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Folklore Show with Dinner - 6 hours
Highlights:
- An immersion in the African heritage with an exhilarating performance by the Bahia Folklore Company (Balé Folclórico da Bahia), one of the most respected folklore dance troupes in the world.
- The Balé Folclórico da Bahia Company performs in the intimate Miguel Santana Theatre in the Pelourinho district in a seamless presentation of the multiple African traditions that underpin Bahian culture.
- You will see the sacred dances of the Candomblé; puxada de rede, a song by fishermen in honor of Yemanjá, the goddess of the sea; maculelê, an acrobatic stick and sword dance with its origins in the cane fields; the exhilarating capoeira martial art/dance, and the grand finale of samba de roda, a spinning, swirling version of this exuberant national dance.
- Enjoy an amazing dinner at Uaua, a charming restaurant in Peourinho district, before returning to pier.
Tour Duration: 6 hours
Tour can operate: Night
Wheelchair Accessible: No
Physical Activity Level: Moderate
Inclusions:
- Dinner
- Pick up and drop off at port
- Tour with driver and English-speaking guide
Not Included:
- Tips, beverages, personal expenses
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Essential Salvador with Lunch - 6 hours
Highlights:
- Discover the essential sights of Salvador on a half day tour tracing the development of the city from its simple beginnings to what is now the third largest city in Brazil. The tour focusses on historical and geographical aspects of the city and serves as a fine orientation for those wishing to further explore the city.
- Visit Barra district and see the immense bay, site of important historical landmarks in Brazil’s early colonial period, now also residential waterfront neighborhood.
- Proceed via elegant tree-lined avenues and bustling city streets to the Pelourinho, a Unesco Heritage site and the largest complex of colonial architecture in the South America. Leave the vehicle at the Municipal Square, by the towering Lacerda Elevator, allowing for great views of the bay stretching out to the lower city, and stroll through the narrow, bustling streets lined with buildings in pastel shades of an age gone by, soaking in the sights and sounds of this vibrant city. Visit the church of São Francisco with its exuberant gold-leafed Baroque interior and the Pelourinho square, the heart of the old town.
- Lunch at Cuco Bistrô, a charming place that has on its proposal to highlight the best of Northeastern Brazillian culture through its art and gastronomy, with a slight influence of Mediterranean cuisine, seafood, grilled meats on the grill, homemade pasta, drinks and special juices with made up an unusual fusion of flavours that make Cuco Bistrô a different space in the Historic Centre of Salvador.
Tour Duration: 6 hours
Tour can operate: Morning
Wheelchair Accessible: No
Physical Activity Level: Moderate
Inclusions:
- Lunch
- Pick up and drop off at port
- Tour with driver and English-speaking guide
Not Included:
- Tips, beverages, personal expenses
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03/17/2024 |
03/17/2024 |
Maceio
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03/18/2024 |
03/18/2024 |
Recife
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03/19/2024 |
03/19/2024 |
At Sea
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03/20/2024 |
03/21/2024 |
Macapa (Amazon River)
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03/22/2024 |
03/22/2024 |
Alter Do Chão (Amazon River)
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03/23/2024 |
03/23/2024 |
Boca Da Valeria (Amazon River)
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03/24/2024 |
03/24/2024 |
Manaus (Amazon River)
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03/25/2024 |
03/26/2024 |
Parintins (Amazon River)
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03/27/2024 |
03/27/2024 |
Santarem
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03/28/2024 |
03/28/2024 |
Macapa (Amazon River)
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03/29/2024 |
03/29/2024 |
At Sea
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03/30/2024 |
03/31/2024 |
Bridgetown (Barbados)
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04/01/2024 |
04/01/2024 |
St. John's, Antigua
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04/02/2024 |
04/02/2024 |
At Sea
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04/03/2024 |
04/04/2024 |
Miami
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04/05/2024 |
04/05/2024 |