Top Panama 4WD Tours - page 3

San Blas Islands Tour Review TLDR - Amazing! Would do it again! Private is the way to go, can choose when to move on to the next island. Weekends there are more people. Not for the easily motion/seasick to get to the islands. The facilities were fine. The people were friendly and welcoming. It is a really long day but worth it. We started at 5:00 am. The ride from Panama City is 2.5 hours and the road can be curvy. You will have the best time on this trip if you read the entire description! They tell you everything you need to know. If you are looking for a five star resort, this is not the trip for you. If you are looking for a beautiful environment with breathtaking views and lovely people along with modest facilities and a bumpy boat ride to get there, you will love it! Be sure to support the Guna/Kuna women by purchasing molas. The only thing we would do differently is try going during the week. There were more people on the weekend. We just moved to a different island and got a prime spot before others arrived. The beauty of a private tour. Otherwise, I cannot recommend it enough.

We had a wonderful experience visiting monkey island. It was a 90 minute boat tour highlighting various vegetation, monkeys that actually came on the boat and we saw alligators and turtles. The guide Jenny was funny and very knowledgeable. Juliet was calling the monkeys with howls and was amazing too.

The chairs are not very comfortable to sit up on deck and watch the canal. They did have indoor seating at tables, so you didn't have to stay outside the whole time. They served breakfast and lunch but there was not a lot of options. Lunch was a green salad and pasta salad. Then they had a snack late in the day of a mini ham sandwich on a bun, granola bar and banana. When you get off the boat there are no bathrooms on the bus on the ride back to the Pacific side. They had bottles of water and potato chips available for purchase.

When I booked this, I thought it was a group tour, but to my surprise it was just the two of us. Our guide, Juan picked us up at our hotel and took us to the zip line. He was very cordial and friendly gave us some history along the way. He did the zip line with us and returned us back to our next hotel stay I highly recommend this tour. The Zipline staff where friendly and helpful.

Very informative. Aurora was on time and we were ready to go. We were so glad she was doing the driving, the roads go every which way! She gave us so much history and was very interesting. We stopped and saw a sloth. Her knowledge of the Panama Canal was great.

We had a fab tour with Oscar who really looked after us during challenging weather and traffic conditions. Oscar was a mine of information and got our English sense of humour! Unfortunately two funerals and lots of police on our church tours but everything else was spot on. Interesting time at the Miraflores Locks. Oscar made the day!!

Great time ! Beautiful sites and friendly staff everywhere! Only thing I will say , if you have back problems, I would not recommend this excursion. The ride to the islands , it’s about a 44 min ride one way. The waves can be very choppy with the wind. So it will cause a lot of speed bump feels on the boat . So you will be bouncing up and down and landing on the hard wood bench over and over again.

Great day out to Anton Valley today with our personal tour guide Alex. Alex was very informative and friendly and took us to all the tourist attractions of this beautiful place. We explored the waterfalls, the zoo, the craft markets, stopped off for lunch at a traditional Panamanian lunch restaurant, visited a butterfly farm, we went to a thermal baths and on the way home stopped off at the fruit and veg markets. 5* to Alex - great day , thank you!