Small Group Pre-Post Cruise Viña del Mar Valparaiso and Casablanca Winery tour

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Duration:7 hours to 8 hours (approx.)
Location: San Antonio, Chile

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If you are going to use Valparaiso or San Antonio port for your cruise this is the Best way of enjoy the city of Viña del Mar and Valparaiso and enjoy the casablanca Valley doing a winery tour including wine tastings. From your hotel or accomodation enjoy a panoramic city tour inside Valparaiso which is declared World Heritage by Unesco with a lot of character and important historical aspects as well as being one of the principal cities for the economic activity of Chile. later visit Viña del Mar the best place to live in Chile. It's a beautiful city with streets full of flowers, and beaches are like no others. You will also visit the Casablanca Valley with wine tour with wines from this region having been voted the best in the world Later a drop off at 15:00 pm or the time that you request. This tour also has the option of do the pick up in one of this port visiting the vineyard and doing city tour later. Just write us your special requirements and we make the arrangements for you.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

✓ Small-group tour (max 8 people per group)
✓ San Antonio Drop off just included on services started from Santiago
✓ Professional guide
✓ Viña del Mar Drop off just included on services started from Santiago
✓ Wine tasting
✓ Valparaiso Drop off just included on services started from Santiago
✓ Local taxes
✓ Transport by air-conditioned minivan
✓ Hotel/port pickup and drop-off
✓ Alcoholic Beverages

✗ Food and drinks, unless specified
✗ Gratuities
✗ Round Trip Service from San antonio, Valparaiso or Viña del Mar

WHAT TO EXPECT

1. La Sebastiana
This four-story home, offering 360 degree views of the city, is highlighted by "the jar of smoke," a round, post-modern fireplace designed by Neruda himself.
2. Playa Ancha Hill
A beautiful lookout spot for aerial sightseeing.
3. Turri Clock Tower
The wedge-shaped Turri Tower is one of the oldest clocks in the city.
4. Plaza Sotomayor
Bordering the famous port in the center of Valparaiso, this popular plaza contains the country's naval headquarters.
5. Parliament Building
The impressive square-arched government building was moved from Santiago to protect it from socialist bombings in the 1970's.
6. Paseo Gervasoni
Many vintage chilean buildings line this hilly street, a popular site for a walking tour.
7.
This turn-of-the-century palace pays homage to the city's 16th century roots and currently houses the Fine Arts Museum.
8. Navy Building
This impressive "fortress" is one of Valparaiso's most architecturally awe-inspiring military buildings.
9. Cerro Concepcion
The amazing eastern views provided by this magnificent hilltop are some of the best in the country.
10. Monumento a Los Heroes
The War of the Pacific in the 1880's was a major punctuation point in the history of Chile. The Chilean armed forces, anchored by the Navy, eventually triumphed over Bolivia and Peru. Chile seized land in the north with valuable mineral resources (saltpeter and copper), trashed Lima, and pushed Bolivia back from the seacoast into land locked status. Anyone wondering about whether these successes are important and well-remembered should spend some time looking up this quite impressive monument to the victory and its leaders. The monument also serves as a focal point of Sotomayor Square and can be seen from many of the surrounding hills.
11. Wulff Castle
This National Monument is a nineteenth century castle that currently serves as a cultural center.
12. Avenida Peru
One of the main drags that hugs the ocean with breathtaking views.
13. Vina del Mar Casino
The first and largest casino in Chile offers games and entertainment for all ages.
14. Playa Renaca
Renaca is reached from Vina del Mar in the south by a coastal road. To the rear of the main town and ocean front the town rises quickly with many steep roads. Shops bars and restaurants aplenty. The beach sandy and clean with a nice promenade.
15. Paseo 21 de Mayo
Great place for taking a amazing photo of your visit to Valparaiso. You get to see the whole city and the complete bay (including Viña and Reñaca). There are restaurants nearby and it's surrounded by beautiful and off-the-beaten-path streets of the Playa Ancha hill.
16. Palacio Presidencial
This is the "president's summer house", you can appreciate that while walking in the "Peru Avenue". It's a nice place, It is on the top of Castle Hill. "Castillo Cerro".
17. Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaiso
The buildings, street art and history all blend together to create an terrific experience. Wonder the streets, list local merchants, take the vehicular trams up and down steep hill sides. Walk streets with vista's of the sea.
18. Los Canones Beach
Vina del Mar boasts that it is Chile's most luxurious beach resort town, attracting visitors from all over the world. Even though it was off season.
19. El Arco Britanico
The Arco Británico is a monument on Avenida Brasil. It was donated to the city in 1910 by the British community to mark the centenary of the Independence of Chile. The monument, covered in Italian marble, is surmounted by a British Victorian lion and is decorated with the images of four Britons who participated in the Chilean War of Independence.
20. Plaza de los Poetas
Nice square commemorating the important literary history of the city. Very nice architecture around and some lovely gardens. Nice stop-over point on the way to Pablo Neruda's house. Shake hands with a statue. Put your arm around another.
21. Paseo Yugoeslavo Ex Paseo Americano
This place is unique in many ways. The buildings are very european and the views are splendind. There are many stores and restaurants, aswell as lovely picture stops and lovely artcrafts sold all over the place.
22. Corporacion Museo de Arqueologia e Historia Francisco Fonck
The Museum of Archeology and History Francisco Fonck, founded in 1937, is a varied and complete museum that shows objects of the original peoples of Chile: highlighting its large collection of the Rapanui culture, the Atacameños, Diaguitas, Mapuches, inhabitants of the area central and extreme austral, in addition to a wide collection of Peruvian pre-Columbian vessels. In the area of Natural Sciences there is a complete sample of arthropods and animals from different areas of the country.
23. Moai
This statue was brought in from Easter Island. It is extremely interesting. It is fun to take pictures standing by this statue. It makes you wonder about its original creators. It also entices people to want to visit Easter Island.
24. Mirador Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda's house is one of the talked about destinations at Valparaiso. Its a small house on top of Cerro Bellavista.. It houses a museum showing glimpses of Pablo Neruda's life & offers a vantage point to look out over the city. There are shops outside the house that one can pick up pretty magnets from, & a quaint plaza closeby which has steps with beautiful mosaic.
25. Muelle Prat
Enjoy the views from the boat and the culture within the port with local merchants and a big plaza to add to your experience of Valparaiso.
26. Cerro Alegre
It's the historical part of Valparaiso located on the hills. The place is an UNESCO World Heritage because of its house's architecture. You can enjoy also the view of Valparaiso's seaside and many restaurants and shops.
27. Muelle Vergara
The Muelle Vergara is a great spot to catch some nice photos of the coastline on both sides. It is also a very popular fishing spot with the locals.
28. Flower Clock (Reloj de Flores)
Every visitor to the area should visit this iconic spot. Even on a not so sunny day its very picturesque.
29. Ascensor Artilleria
Artilleria appears to be the Valparaiso ascensor with the most reviews. It also probably has the best views from the top and the stroll back down is very nice too.
30. Ascensor El Peral
One of the many elevator lines that take folks up and down the hills. Very practical in this very vertical city.
31. Ascensor Concepcion
This is the oldest funicular in Valparaíso. The view is wonderful, even if you can see daylight through the floorboards. It is a real local experience!
32. Paseo Atkinson
Paseo atkinson, use to be a living place in the past years, now is full of tourist that enjoy a nice view, from there you can see the bay, the hills and the plan of the city. Paseo atkinson is now a free access viewpoint located in Valparaíso, in the Concepción hill.
33.
Piano Staircase.
34. Paseo Dimalow
A nice walk, different from the others in the sense that it does not have the same view, but it is surrounded by interesting buildings and commercial premises that have been preserved over time.
35. Ascensor Reina Victoria
The Queen Victoria funicular, built by the British in the late 1800’s, is an efficient and pleasant ride up the mountain in an eight-person box.
36.
+++ If the service starts from San Antonio or Valparaiso +++ (Tourists are welcome at the Visitors’ Center to begin the tour of the vineyards, where they will learn about the viticultural management conducted during the year while enjoying the spectacular views of the Casablanca valley. Then they will be ushered into the winery of modern architectural lines for a visit of the imposing tank room and the barrel room. The tour ends with a technical tasting of wines.)
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+++ If the service starts from Santiago +++ The tour begins with a walk through our gardens where visitors can interact with the animals that contribute to the biodiversity that sustains our land. They then visit the vineyard, where they will learn about soil types, the varieties planted, and the climate conditions of the Casablanca Valley. The tour finishes in the winery’s cellar, where we store the biodynamic preparations we use to nourish and protect the vines. The tour ends with a tasting of our organic wines: Adobe | Novas | Signos de Origen | Coyam (variety according to availability)
38. San Antonio
Departure from San Antonio city

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Posted By : j0_0paul0dar
Incredible visits. Very interesting places. But the best of the whole experience was traveling with guide Isabel. Very polite, kind, and with great knowledge of her work. It deserves a 10. It was great traveling with her. Represents the company very well.
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Posted On : 2024-01-14 20:12:05

Posted By : fernandonM1802WS
Passing by to thank you for the incredible experience that this family trip was with our guide in Chile, Mr. NANO. Excellent person with incredible knowledge! It made our day more special. Thanks
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Posted On : 2023-12-30 15:22:16

Posted By : marialuisam444
We took the tour to Vina del Mar and Valparaíso!! Beautiful tour, very worth it. Our guide was the best we had here in Chile! Guide Nano, very friendly, responsible and explains in detail about the places we visited. Thank you very much Nano!!
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Posted On : 2023-10-15 15:55:46

Posted By : Randall R
Our tour was cancelled and changed to just a taxi drive from Santiago to Valparaiso. We were told we would receive a refund down to the taxi cost. We only received a $117 dollar refund off of a total tour cost of $580. There is no way a taxi would have cost $463. We asked people on our cruise and they said at most $200. I was taken advantage of by this company and to some extent Trip Advisor.
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Posted On : 2023-04-01 16:42:57

Posted By : Lana_T
The tour was completely different that what was booked. Our group was suppose to be max of 8 people and we were to visit Valparaiso Vina del Mar and Casablanca Winery before being dropped off at our hotel i. Santiago.....instead we travelled with 28 people did not see either Valparaiso or Vina del Mar. we did visit an alternate winery which was the only positive part of the tour. I would not recommend this tour to anyone
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Posted On : 2023-03-21 18:18:48

Posted By : Kristina_S
Listen to the reviews! Did not receive this tour - put on a bus with over 30 people for a city tour of Santiago. Gave 2 stars because we did go to a winery and the guide Gonzalo, but he said it was MTO’s fault. BEWARE - MTO doesn’t offer the Valparaiso/Vina del Mar tour.
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Posted On : 2023-03-20 18:14:35

Posted By : Reed F
Giovanni is a wonderful guide and an excellent addition to any visit to the coast of Chile. He was good natured, knowledgeable, and extremely flexible. We took an off-the-cuff boat tour of the bay, saw amazing graffiti, walked on the beach, and had Giovanni pick us up in Santiago and then drop us off at a bar around the corner from our cooking class for maximum convenience. A++, would tour again!
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Posted On : 2023-02-23 14:23:36

Posted By : Jennifer B
Anyone traveling to Santiago do NOT use MTO Tours!! They falsely advertise themselves. They can be found through Tripadvisor and Viator as well as they have a Facebook page. We thought we did our research before booking the Small Group Pre-Post Cruise Vina del Mar, Valparaiso and Casablanca Wine Tour with 8 or less people, in which they had good reviews at the time of booking but it was the WORST tour we have ever been on!!!

They sent us a confirmation email, like every other tour we have booked. However, they had no directions such as time, meeting place, who to look for, etc.

So both my mom & I reached out to them for clarification through email and WhatsApp.We only got a response through Whatsapp, that they would contact us first thing in the morning. When we hadn’t heard from them by 8am we reached out to them again through Whatsapp. The response we got was “Driver is in port, No More Calls”.

We waited an hour with several other people who booked different excursions with MTO at the Port of San Antonio before one person wandered a few blocks away and found the tour bus. If anyone has gone through the port of San Antonio, the neighborhood surrounding it is pretty sketchy for foreigners. Finally, the guide followed her back to the port with a sign that had several parties listed on it that totalled 32 individuals. They had combined several small groups into one large tour group and gave us an option of going with them or staying at the port, with no refund or other alternatives being offered. Because of having 32 people on the tour, our luggage had to follow us in a separate vehicle.

We waited over an hour on the bus before they started the “tour”. Our guide immediately blamed us for starting late, which was not even remotely the case. It was clearly MTO’s fault because of very poor communication prior to the start of the tour. He said because some of our group was late that they would have to skip part of the tour.

Once we started the tour, our guide off-handedly explained that they are not set up for tours like this, that they typically only provide transportation for people to the cruise ports, hotels & airport. This tour was something new whey started a couple of weeks prior and it had not been going well, but to please leave a good review so the company can keep trying to make it better.

They were really vague about what locations we were stopping by or what we would be doing along the way. By the time we got to the first stop, which was a view from the top of the hill in Valparaiso, most of us had been on the bus for over 4 hours. At this point several people started to inquire about bathrooms. The guide told us there were no restrooms in the area set up to accommodate 32 of us and there was nothing he could do. After push back from pretty much everyone, he was able to locate a restroom for us.

From there we stopped at Vina Del Mar to see the garden clock for 10 minutes, then we were bused to lunch where they gave us 2 hours. This seemed like too much time considering what the tour was really offering, but in hindsight, we were glad we had a chance to eat. Shortly after we left the lunch spot, the guide told us the van carrying our luggage had broken down. He made it sound like another van would be right there to pick up our luggage and catch up with us at the next stop.

By the time we got to the winery in Casablanca (which is what our party had signed up for) we were only given 30 minutes for a tour & tasting, which is clearly not enough time. Two of our party paid for a tasting they were unable to do because our guide rushed us back on the bus.

We were then told the plan was to tour Santiago, drop off the parties who had hotels, then go to the airport to drop off the passengers flying out that evening. That’s when we discovered that our luggage was far from us. The guide kept saying it was only 45 minutes out and that he was in contact with the driver, but then the story changed. He didn’t know who the driver was and only had information about him through his manager. He said we just needed to move on and our luggage would arrive at our hotels later (not sure how that would be the case as none of our luggage was marked for which hotel). One of the parties said they were going to be far too late to the airport if they stayed on for the tour and asked that they be dropped off at the airport first. The guide said they would, but that would mean the rest of us would not be able to have the tour of Santiago. Everyone on the bus agreed to this plan, no problem. But then the guide said they would leave them at the airport and the luggage would have to catch up to them later. Because they would have to wait for their luggage, they could not go through security and would have to wait.

At this point no one on the bus had any trust in the guide and no one was getting calls or messages through to the MTO manager, they were just being hung up on. By the time we got to the airport, we collectively refused to leave the bus or airport without our luggage, but our guide said it was not his problem and he and the driver needed to get home for dinner with their families. Absolutely UNACCEPTABLE! The guide played a message from his manager, supposedly, who was just saying to trust them and they would get us our luggage. Trust wasn’t going to happen after a whole day of lies from them and lack of compassion or respect for any of us! A couple of us had trackers in our luggage and were able to get a better ETA of our bags and they were nearly 2 hours out! And this after we had been led on with 45 minute promises for several hours!

The guide continued to be a complete jerk and told us we have to move on, that they needed to start their weekend. If we wanted to wait for our luggage we could stay at the airport or if we refused to get off the bus then we could spend the night on the bus.

One of the ladies in another party went into the airport and came back with security. While they weren’t able to do anything directly, their presence stopped the guide from arguing with us about waiting for the luggage or getting us to our hotels once it showed up. After 3 hours of sitting at the airport on the bus, our luggage finally arrived. It was the only way all of us would have gotten our luggage back.

We were finally able to check into our hotel around 11:30 PM, after being on the bus from 9am - 14½ hours for a tour that was supposed to be a small group and last only 7-8 hours! There were a few others still on the bus needing to be dropped off at their hotel after we were dropped off. We later learned that the driver & guide started drinking beers and didn’t get the last person to their hotel, which was only a couple blocks from ours, until 12:30 AM.

This company shouldn’t be in business nor should this guide be allowed to give tours.
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Posted On : 2023-02-23 09:20:42

Posted By : Luanne_S
Not quite fair for me to rate this. Our ship arrived in port ridiculously late, so we actually only got a narrated drive to Santiago and an abbreviated tour of Santiago, but it was still worth it for the cost. Would have loved the whole tour, but it wasn’t their fault and our guide did his best with what time he had. They even dropped us off at our hotel. Only complaint was that they didn’t park with the other tour buses and it took forever to find them. Plus we had to drag ou luggage a fair distance to the bus. Even so, the guide did an awesome job.
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Posted On : 2023-02-20 18:04:47

Posted By : Michael_S
We did not get what we paid for. Absolutely disgusting! We were promised a small group (Max 8) tour to Valparaiso, Vina Del Mar and Casablanca Winery. There were 24 of us on the bus and after waiting for the guide to gather all the passengers we had waited for 2 1/2 - 3 hours on the bus. then of course the bus ran out of time to do any touring. But, we did have time for the driver and guide to stop at a service centre to have a meal for about 1 hour! MTO Tours was the company hired by Viator to do the tour. Have tried numerous times to contact Viator for a refund without sucess. DO NOT BOOK WITH EITHER OF THESE COMPANIES!!!!!
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Posted On : 2023-01-24 01:38:18