San Jose Caves Guided Tour from Valencia with Local Guide
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Valencia, Spain
- 4 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Visit the Caves of San José the convenient way, with this half-day trip from Valencia. You will discover the origins of the caves, witness their evolution throughout the years, and behold the breathtaking views of the Sierra de Espadán Natural Park. An amazing underground labyrinth where the magic of nature comes to life. Stalactites and stalagmites intertwine in a stone dance, while vast rooms reveal the grandeur hidden beneath our feet.
- Save time with an included Caves of San José entry ticket
- Learn all about the Caves of San José from your guide
- Cruise along the atmospheric underground river by boat
What's Included
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- San Jose Caves Admission Ticket
- Professional guide (English, Spanish, Italian or Polish)
- Food & Drinks
Meeting and Pickup
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Get picked up from Valencia and head off in an air-conditioned vehicle to the Caves of San Jose. After a scenic drive, you’ll arrive at the caves, with admission included to help you sidestep the long entrance lines and get in quickly.
Once inside, find out about the origins of the cave and discover an underground labyrinth with stalactites and stalagmites aplenty, and a guide to lead the way so you don’t get lost.
The highlight of the trip is an underground riverboat ride inside the caves. You can then finish the trip with a seamless return transfer to the start point in Valencia.
Once inside, find out about the origins of the cave and discover an underground labyrinth with stalactites and stalagmites aplenty, and a guide to lead the way so you don’t get lost.
The highlight of the trip is an underground riverboat ride inside the caves. You can then finish the trip with a seamless return transfer to the start point in Valencia.
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Coves De Sant Josep
50 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- Write in the special requirements the place you choose for the meeting point when making the reservation. Entering a meeting point is required. The company is not responsible for the non-collection in case of not having the information from the client.
- If your booking is a last minute one (made it from 07:30 p.m.-07:30 a.m.) your meeting point will be TORRES DE SERRANOS
- The schedule is approximated, we will send a WhatsApp message with all the collection details one day before. Please write a correct phone number (if the phone number is invalid, we are not responsible of missing information) in case you don't have Whatsapp the activity provider will send an email through Viator.
- If you do not leave the information of your favorite pick-up point, we will automatically assign you: Torres de Serranos.
- Being late is not our responsability.
- The duration of the activity (from the collection until we return from the caves) is 4h.
- We will not bathe in the river in this activity.
- Inside the caves there is a constant annual temperature of 20ºC.
- You will have 30 minutes of free time to use bathrooms, bars and shops or just for relaxing at the area.
- You can take your own food/drinks. But is not allowed to eat inside the bus.
- You have included the transportation to go and return (same pick up point)
- If you check out from your hotel, you can take your luggage with you. You must notify us to guarantee space.
- You will be accompanied by an official guide (from Valencia&Go) who will tell you the essential you need to know about Valencia, as well as all the secrets that are hidden inside the Cuevas de San José, its incredible history and curiosities in detail (in your chosen language). However, the boat trip through the caves is operated by local boatmen and may be conducted entirely in Spanish. If you have any questions, you can always ask the official Valencia & Go guide, he will be willing to answer them when you leave the caves.
- For your safety: you can take photos only in designated areas. To protect the cave fauna, flash photography is not allowed.
- For this regular tour, pickup at Trasmed-Grimaldi, Moll de Ponent, Poblados Marítimos, 46024 Puerto de Valencia is not available, as this meeting point is exclusive to a different product.
- Not recommended for unpuctual people.
- Not recommended for people with claustrophobia or mold allergies.
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 40 travelers
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Easy pickup from the cruise port. Type Transmed into Google Maps instead of using the recommended pin because the meeting point is just outside the cruise port building while Google Maps was saying it was 24 -40 min walk! Our guide Benito was friendly, helpful and provided information to us about Valencia going there and back. He even brought us around the city centre pointing out notable items. The caves itself was really interesting. Note that the actual tour in the caves is only done in Spanish. Wish I understood what the guide inside said. Other than that, I enjoyed the tour.
Caves were a great experience and the tour overall was well organised. Transport to and from the caves was on time and there was little waiting around.
The caves are definitely worth a visit considering how close it is to Valencia. The logistics were super smooth.
Great experience. Alessandro, great tour guide and so sweet and nice. He also recommended the best Italian restaurant.
Short bus ride to caves and bus guide gave a lot of historical information on the way (funny). Caves via boat....super cool. Couldn't do this back home.
It was absolutely amazing, the local guide Alessandro (Alex) was an amazing guide who is very fun to talk to and incredibly useful throughout the entire tour. The attraction itself feels magical
So easy not to have to think about where you are going. Caves was a nice experience. Joaquin was the perfect guide.
The actual experience is about 45 minutes but it’s definitely worth it. It’s one of the more surprising places I’ve seen. Each boat has 10-14 people. If you’d rather have a more personal experience and kayak that’s also a possibility at the location with a different type of excursion.
The caves were absolutely beautiful, however our tour guide arrived after the bus and was very difficult to understand. The bus was in very poor condition; the PA system was hardly working , the ceiling fabric was falling down and the air conditioning was leaking (poring water on another guest resulting in his returning with another tour. The return trip was horrible. The ac was not working and the sun was unbearable. I was ill from the heat on the bus and changed the remainder of my day as a result. I highly suggest the caves; I would however schedule with a different tour.
Response from Host, Aug 2026
We are very sorry for the inconvenience you experienced and appreciate you sharing your feedback. The issues you described with the bus do not meet the quality standards we require from our transportation providers, and we have reported the situation on the same day.
We are glad you enjoyed the Caves of San José and sincerely regret that the transportation issues negatively affected the rest of your experience.
The caves were amazing .
The bus ride was hot and uncomfortable.
The guide was great fun. I think his name was as Joacim
The pick up location was not the same as the drop off location. The pick up buses air conditioners were leaking on the front left of the passengers. In the way back, still leaking without cooling. Miserable in the already 90+ degree heat. The tour guide was hard to understand and the cave guides weren't unstandable at all.
It is a fun trip if a little expensive for what it is.
The guide on the bus was interesting and had a good knowledge of the area as well travelled to the caves.
Once in the caves the boatman spoke no English on the way out. Luckily we had an English guide on the way back otherwise we would have had no information about the cave.
It’s an hour each way on the coach and about 50 mins in the caves.
Unique experience boating underground! It was a lovely cool 20 degrees so it was a nice break from the heat. Tour in the caves was only an hour long. Our guide was very very informative!
Quick tour, worth the four hours if your in valencia, was a good afternoon, lots of bad reviews about ac on the bus, our bus was comfortable and the ac worked well, we all had two seats to ourselves, tour guide was helpful and spoke english well, thanks
I love underground caves, especially ones that have under rivers so when I was recommended this activity by a friend, I literally jumped at it & quickly booked myself on to it when I was still at the UK airport! Glad I did. The 1st part which was the bus ride to the caves & Tour guide giving info on historic landmarks we passed was ok. I took a few pictures & listened to the guide but admittedly after a while I started to zone out & fall asleep. I wasn't the only one too lol
The caves themselves were good - heads up you'll spend quite a bit off time ducking your head as some of those cave ceilings are crazy low ( thankfully Tour guide had warned us in advance about this but even then it still surprises you!)
Was guided by a third party site to book this outing and the date got changed unknown to us.. Got a call asking where we were and I explained we were not in Valencia. I explained the mix up and said it wasn’t my fault but we lost our money and they wouldn’t swap the date.. Very poor customer relations 🤬
Response from Host, Aug 2026
We are sorry about the situation, but we would like to clarify that Valencia & Go does not change booking dates without the customer’s request. The date can only be selected or modified by the customer or through the platform where the booking was made.
We must also respect the established cancellation and modification policies for all bookings. Unfortunately, we cannot take responsibility for an error or change made outside our management.
Very nice, some extra tour guide info on the bus around Valencia and showing us the traditional farm houses as well as some nearby cities as we drove to the caves. Guide was friendly and helpful and the cave tour was very unique!
The overall experience was fine, nothing amazing but overall enjoyable. It is not really a guided tour, it is a charter bus that you meet and it takes you to the caves, which you have a timed ticket to wait for and then you enter the cave boats without your "guide" on your own (which is completely fine as the guide is just there to coordinate logistics). Bus ride was decently comfortable, not great AC but ok for the hour each way. The caves were cool, but IMO underwhelming given the overall time and cost of the excursion.
Travelled to the caves by air conditioned coach and the caves themselves are a really nice excursion away from the heat. Travelling through them by boat was memorable and something a bit different.
Buses were comfortable with AC. Tour guide on bus spoke fluent english and did a great job explaining all the sights on the way. Caves were amazing and the river guide was friendly and polite.
Great guide who stay connected and friendly. Bus AC did not work but took care of it by having another bus ready for us.
It was less a guided tour and more just a means for transport to and from the caves from Valencia. Our “guide” was just someone coordinating the bus, as the actual caves have guides for each boat. The bus was not well air conditioned which was a little miserable (but not unbearable), but we were there during the height of a heat wave. The bus seemed older and it sounded like it was working in overdrive to help cool us off.
Unfortunately, our cave guide did not speak much English, so we didn’t learn much about the caves with the exception of how old they are and how deep and long areas were. You are not allowed to take photos throughout the cave tour except at the very end on the last part on the way back. There’s a part where you get off the boat and walk through the cave passageways before circling back to the boat before you head back. It was a very fast tour…we spent more time on transportation than in the caves. It was still a neat experience and something to do outside the city, but I’d temper expectations a bit.
Very interesting caves and nice tour guide, but the pick up location needs to be better defined and the pickup more visible! We almost missed the bus because we didn't know where exactly it would stop it was badly marked. Also, the speakers on the bus were bad and we couldn't understand most of what the tour guide said on it.
Buses utilized were comfortable. Our tour guide Manual was amazing explaining the history and suggestions must to go places was amazing. Professional and courteous. Caves were mesmerizing and our tour guide inside the cave was impressive
Quite a long journey out to the location but the Caves were beautiful. Our tour guide was very welcoming and knowledgeable. I enjoyed the half day tour and would recommend it to others.
The cave was cool, but the bus ride there was absolutely not. It was a ride to hell almost. The so called "ACed bus" barely had any AC, and you just sit there in your own pool of sweat for 45mins - 1 hour each way. Would absolutely not recommend doing this in the hot summer days, unless they can guarantee you a functional AC bus.
Response from Host, Jul 2026
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback, Jacky. We're pleased you enjoyed the San José Caves, but we're sorry the journey affected your overall experience. We completely understand that, during the exceptional heatwave, the temperature inside the vehicle may not have felt as comfortable as you expected. After your comments, we spoke with both the guide and the driver, who confirmed that the air conditioning was functioning throughout the trip. We appreciate your feedback and are always looking for ways to improve our guests' experience.
The caves are really neat, and are a great escape from the heat and the city. However the bus ride there and back completely ruined the experience for us. The bus was advertised as having AC, but it was either broken or not turned on at all.
We were sweltering. Sweating buckets in the leather seats for the hour long bus ride with no airflow.
The caves tour was too short to justify the ride on the bus from hell. Had it been properly air-conditioned, we might have been able to nap and enjoy our time in the caves more, but instead we all suffered and simply tried to make it through the grueling ride.
Response from Host, Jul 2026
Thank you for your feedback, Catherine. We're glad you enjoyed the San José Caves, though we're sorry the journey felt uncomfortable. After receiving your comments, we checked with both the guide and the driver, who confirmed that the air conditioning was operating throughout the tour. We understand that during the exceptional heatwave, the temperature inside the vehicle may not have felt as cool as expected. We appreciate you taking the time to share your experience and your perspective.
The tour itself was wonderful seeing the caves, our guide Jorge was awesome, I didnt give 5 stars because the day was very hot and the ac on the bus seemed to not fully work it was an extremely uncomfortable ride to and from the caves. I would most definitely do the tour again as long as we are given a different bus for transport.
Response from Host, Jul 2026
Thank you very much for your feedback!
We’re delighted to hear that you enjoyed the visit to the Cuevas de San José and that Jorge made the experience so positive for you. We’ll be sure to pass your kind words on to him.
We’re very sorry to hear about the discomfort during the transfer. On especially hot days, the air conditioning on some vehicles can be more challenging to maintain at full performance, but we understand how important a comfortable journey is. Your comment has been noted so we can review and improve the transport experience.
We truly appreciate your honesty, and we’re glad to know you would still consider doing the tour again. We hope to welcome you back soon under even better conditions!
Wonderful way to beat the intense heat! A little under an hour drive north of Valencia. Very well organized. The boat guide did not speak English but was not a big deal. Great for kids and adults alike.
Response from Host, Jul 2026
Thank you very much for your review! We’re glad to hear you enjoyed your visit to the Cuevas de San José and that it was a refreshing way to escape the summer heat.
We hope to welcome you again on another excursion soon!
Really beautiful, recommended! The blues of the water are gorgeous and the stalagtites are impressive. A tip, sturdy sandals are fine (no sneakers needed).
Response from Host, Jul 2026
Thank you for your lovely review, Patricia! We hope to welcome you on another adventure from Valencia soon!
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