San Jose VIP City Tour: Cultural Evening Experience

Experience the best of San Jose on this 5-hour evening bus tour. Enjoy a VIP city tour with guided walks to historic landmarks, dinner with local cuisine, and an authentic cultural experience.

Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Teatro Nacional Costa Rica - Lobby of Theater
  • Museo de Arte Costarricense - Gold Room at Museum, art gallery
  • Central Market (Mercado Central) - shopping and walking tour
  • Plaza de la Libertad Electoral - National Monument
  • VIP City Bus - Beautiful City tour, monuments, churches, parks, market
What's Included
  • Round trip transportation to your hotel
  • Local guide
  • All taxes, fees, and handling charges included
  • Professional art historian guide
  • Dinner included
  • Live commentary on board
What's Not Included
  • DVD (available to purchase)
  • beers
Additional Information

The evening excursion, lasting 5 hours, will commence with your hotel pickup. Our custom tour offers a panoramic perspective of San Jose, enriched with opulent amenities, exclusive VIP service, a bilingual guide, a dinner featuring regional dishes, assorted drinks, traditional costumes, and a genuine cultural immersion with folklore tunes. The VIP City…

Location
Teatro Nacional Costa Rica
Second Ave. and Fifth St.,
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Kristina_l
Jul 26, 2025
Educational Tour - This tour was very educational. Hector made sure to give us everything we needed to be able to enjoy ourselves. I however booked this tour on the same day I flew in so I was super tired so it seemed a bit lengthy for me & my crew. Dinner was okay I definitely recommend wearing sneakers as you will be walking around .
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Bethzaidav2025
Jul 15, 2025
San Jose bus tour - The San Jose bus tour was a good experience. The tour guide was great. They take you to different major point of San Jose city.
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Allymab
Jun 28, 2025
VIP experience - Very friendly and informative. The lunch was wonderful. I would recommend not to wear anything too flashy. You will be in the city. But other than that two thumbs up
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Kathryng
Feb 10, 2025
Lovely lively city - This was a nice overview of the city and to show what a lively interesting place it is. The brief visits inside each place helped me plan the rest of our visits to return to
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Kathy_p
Jan 30, 2025
Great tour for the price. - David, the guide was excellent. Art museum was wonderful, particularly the garden. Good restaurant for local food
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Yatika_k
Jan 25, 2025
San Jose city bus tour with dinner - Good overview if you are short on time and have a Birds Eye view of San Jose in few hrs. Nice to sit on the upper deck of the double decker bus
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Carloscn9866mz
Aug 12, 2025
Tour in the historic areas of San Jose - Very good experience, the bus tour through the city of San Jose is very interesting to visit the historical areas and walking tour in central market and theater.
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Rlhackney
Apr 11, 2025
Mayte’s Day - Mayte’s day San Jose we booked the tour because Mayte is from Panama. She said Hector did great job as your guide. He exceeded expectations.
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Dominique_l
Apr 22, 2025
A nice way to see the main sights in the city. - It was interesting. Our guide was knowledgeable. The pick up from the hotel was good. I felt it was a shame that he didn't point out with more details the national museum (we had visited it that morning by ourselves) It is an impressive building with fantastic information regarding the history of Costa Rica. All you will visit are free sites, which is fine. The market visit was fast, we were taken to an area which clearly has a deal with the tour operator but it wasn't outrageously expensive. The dinner was sort of ready when we got there which is worrying as it contains rice, we all know that to be safe, rice needs to be pipping hot. It felt like the restaurant wanted us to leave as quickly as possible. The dessert arrived when we were half way through our main. The guitar playing on the bus is cute but slightly gimmicky and of course, the player after a few songs leaves and expects a tip. If you suffer from hearing loss and you sit at the back of the bus, with the noise of the traffic, you probably will not hear much. At £55 ahead, it is not cheap but if you have little time in San Jose, it might be a way to have a quick overview of the capital.
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Santosha_s
Aug 22, 2025
Waste of money - The tour guide was not accommodating to English speakers, I always had to remind him there were English speaking clients in the group, the dinner at the end of the tour was horrible and most of the planned stops where closed or not accessible.
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From $78
up to 15 guests
2 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).