Colonia Express: Uruguay Day Tour by Ferry

Embark on an unforgettable day tour in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay with Colonia Express. Explore another country and enjoy a scenic river tour. Book now!

Duration: 10 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Colonia del Sacramento - Day Tour Unforgettable
    Includes:
    -Round trip tickets. Leaving at 08:30 or 10:30 am, with the way back at 18:00hs
  • Monday to Sunday.
    -Walking tour (English and Spanish)
    Colonia del Sacramento
    Walk through the historic quarter of Colonia del Sacramento.
    It is the first site of Uruguay declared World Heritage by UNESCO in…
What's Included
  • All fees and/or taxes
  • On-board restrooms
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
Additional Information

Colonia Express is a ferry company that connects Argentina and Uruguay within an hour.

Our Colonia del Sacramento day tour will give you the opportunity to visit another country, Uruguay, and enjoy a lovely river tour at the same time.

It will only take you a few hours journey to enjoy a lifetime experience.

Please join us. Choose any of our day tour plans and come on board!

Location
Av. Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane 155
Avenida Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane
Board your ferry at the Colonia Express Terminal. The activity provider will send you the reservation number via email after booking. This tour involves an international border crossing and customs, so make sure to arrive at the Ferry Station 1 hour and 30 minutes before the departure time.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Stevana2015
Jan 18, 2025
Excellent day trip to Colonia del Sacramento - The guide was very knowledgeable about local history and culture, and was graceful working with both languages in the group—English and Portuguese. She gave some great recommendations for Uruguayan music. Lunch at ¡Que Tupé! was excellent—delicious ravioli! I stumbled onto the origami museum and loved it!
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Relax29327437235
Nov 30, 2024
A perfect one-day tour of Colonia Town, Uruguay - Very satisfied with a nostalgic experience tour of the Uruguayan town of Cologlia Start with an English-language guided tour of the venues where the historical artefact activation application after the once bullring can host various events. After lunch the guide revisits the ancient town again in Chinese. It tells the story of the century-old battle between Portugal and Spain, which ended in the settlement of the maritime hegemon, Britain. The tension between them. thereby creating a nation, Uruguay. There's also the beautiful town of Colomudia.
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Roving776863
Aug 7, 2024
It's worth it! - Nice walk, a very quiet Monday. Everything according to plan, good guided and the place is beautiful. The people are very friendly. It was worth 10/10.
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580aixag
Jul 31, 2024
Experience March 2024 - Good service, timely and very complete information, I wrote by networks to help me with some questions and respond in the moment. Before you travel, you are sent by mail the directions before the trip. Always attentive, I recommend them.
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Lucy_s
Feb 18, 2025
Great area to visit but not a typical tour - Like others have said, it’s a bit misleading. The tour part is a 1 hour overview of the area and you have the rest of the day on your own. That was fine for us but if you are alone and you have trouble walking on uneven streets , we forewarned. The Colonia de Sacramento area was nice either with many eating options. The boat trip you are on your own but follow directions and you will be fine. I was very impressed with both the Argentina and Uruguay passport control bring two desks next to each other. This made it very easy. The boats were on time. Be sure to check in 1.5 hours early as instructed.
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Roy_d
Feb 13, 2025
Uruguay day trip from Argentina . - Can be done without a guide . It's easy to do guide does not add much value take the boat and do it.
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Tourist64621636834
Jan 8, 2025
Lovely Town/Disappointing Departure Processes. - Colonia is a quiet beautiful town but you will spend more time on this day tour at both ferry terminals than you will in town. Lourdes was a wonderful tour guide full of information and gave us the best advice to be back at the ferry terminal in Colonia 1.5 hours prior to departure. Good thing as the lines were wrapped around the inside of the building and no one provided any information as to what line was for what/who. Eventually after standing in line we got in the foreigner line which took forever especially when the 7 or so immigration officials cleared all of the Argentinian and Uruguayan passengers first who then boarded the boat. There were only 4 officials processing the foreigners with the other 7 officials who had done the residents not helping at all. Disappointing and the ferry company should invest in some signage so folks can figure things out.
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Debra
Nov 19, 2024
Great Little Place, but more specific instructions were needed - Colonia is a beautiful little town and well worth the visit. The ferry is fantastic. Our guide was knowledgeable. This is a very brief tour designed that give an overview of the history of the town. Directions as to what to do, where to meet the guide, how to get tickets, etc., were not at all clear. Communication was in Spanish, but we booked an English speaking tour. None of the instructions below were given. So we had to find out by trial and error. If you choose this tour, take your Trip Advisor confirmation with bar code and go to the Colonia Express ferry terminal. Go to the check in window to get your ferry ticket. Keep that ticket. You will be turning it in when you return to the ferry building in Colonia after your tour and they will give you your return ticket. It is important to arrive about 90 minutes early as the lines become very long. Once you have your ticket, get your n the Embarque line to go through customs. When you go through customs to check out of Argentina, afterward you need to go to the Uruguay window to get stamped and check in to Uruguay, which all happens in the same area in the Buenos Aires ferry building. If you don’t speak Spanish, you may miss the instruction to go to the Uruguay window. Your guide will meet you at the ferry building in Colonia. You need to go to the Colonia Express tour desk toward the front of the ferry building in Colonia to let them know you have arrived. Then the guide will meet up with the group at a designated spot. I would suggest having the guide go outside after the group gathers to start talking instead of talking in the building. It was virtually impossible to hear her because of the noise and echo in the lobby of the building. Once outside, we could hear very well, but we’d missed instructions and information that was communicated indoors. Wear comfortable shoes since there is a fair amount of walking on uneven surfaces. It is well worth it though! We loved stopping at the little outdoor cafe near the church and having lunch.
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Costached803
Dec 18, 2024
0 - At customs very rude person who confiscated our tickets for no reason. We have been affected by his lack of professionalism. What a shame!!
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815eveliinaa
Feb 3, 2025
An unforgettably bad day & full scam - -I honestly don’t know what I paid for in here: There was absolutely NO ONE at the ferry terminal in the morning, so you basically pay a big fee just to get the the ferry ticket. And that is all that is included to this ‘unforgettable day tour’ -in the description it said that there would be a walking tour included? There was absolutely no walk tour. I tried to text the operator twice to ask about that… This is a complete scam from TripAdvisor to even allow them to sell this tour. When there was no answer (in the 6 hours that we spent there and tried to get any contact???) we eventually took the earlier ferry back and paid for it on our own for 90 USD. So make yourself a favorit and don’t use this.
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