Jaco Highlights Tour: Discover Jaco Beach, River Cruise, and Authentic Local Cuisine

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Carara

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A unique experience from Jaco beach including all the highlights or hidden sights of the area enjoyable from driving and additionally the river cruise and an authentic local food experience at our beach front restaurant.

Duration: 8 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Carara - Enjoy a tour through the Carara rainforest with stops to observe wildlife such as monkeys and macaws. The drive ascends through the forest to a charming terrace offering a stunning ocean view from the treetops. Please note, this tour does not include hiking inside Carara National Park.
Tarcoles - Embark on a river cruise for…

What's Included

Bottled water
On-board WiFi
Boat fees and photo equipment
Lunch
In-vehicle air conditioning

Location

Carara

Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings

4.6

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David_b

Feb 20, 2026

Jaco Tour - The guides are very knowledgeable and take the time to give insights to what they are showing. Bini was great!

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Sahasra_y

Jan 9, 2026

Highly recommend this... - Highly recommend this tour. Our tour guide, Vini was so helpful and knowledgeable. He really tailored the experience for us. We really wanted to see monkeys, macaws, and toucans so he took us to spots he knew and went out of his way to find them for us during our journey to the various spots. The lunch spot was also amazing and a few macaws flew by to a nearby tree so we got lots of good pictures. Overall 10/10 experience and was the best tour we did in Costa Rica!

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Tracy_p

Jul 24, 2025

Feeding the monkeys - I traveled with 12 people, so I ended up with a private tour for my family. We had a wonderful day! We saw sloths, macaws, crocodiles, but our favorite was feeding the monkeys. Hazel, our tour guide, went out of her way to make sure that we had that experience. It made the whole day for my family. We stopped at a beautiful beach, went on a crocodile boat tour, which was wonderful. The boat guides were very knowledgeable. We went to a local fruit stand and we ate in a beautiful location overlooking the jungle. Our driver was so nice, he did not speak English very well, but he was so helpful, assisted us on and off the bus at each stop and paid special attention when getting my elderly parents of the bus. The whole day was a success.

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Kenneth_r

Jan 29, 2024

Great wildlife picture... - Great wildlife picture opportunities! Pace of the trip was excellent. Narration by Albert was superb.

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Randy_t

Sep 2, 2023

Greatest Tour of All! - Where do I start? This tour had everything. Allan was our driver and tour guide. He did an amazing job explaining everything. You can tell he definitely knew the area. We saw the white faced monkeys, crocodiles, and all kinds of exotic birds. We even got an opportunity to spend a little time at the beach. Lunch was good too, and we had so many options to choose from. This tour was the last one that we did before leaving the island, and was DEFINITELY the BEST tour overall!

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Charneesa_c

Aug 30, 2023

Great Experience!? - My sister and I both enjoyed this experience. We were picked up at 07:30 and drove for about 30 minutes and saw, feed, and enjoyed the beauty of small monkeys. We were then were taken to a location that was approximately 30 minutes away and took a boat ride to see crocodiles. After this we ate lunch and we’re given the chance to buy souvenirs at a local shop. Our tour ended with a trip to Jaco beach. Our tour guide Allam was awesome!!!

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Brenda_t

Dec 25, 2024

ATV Ride …. - We enjoyed the waterfall and lunch. Thought we would travel more through forest and rest on mountain cliffs with a view…Would have been nice to get pictures immediately!

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Seaside59403812158

Nov 24, 2024

Jaco - Costa Rica - I had a great trip to Jaco - it rained every day that I was there but I still got to see the monkeys and butterflies. I also went to a chocolate class. I don't think I will go back but that's just because there are so many other places I want to go. I would recommend going but not during the rainy season.

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Altovise_a

Nov 30, 2024

Better with full experience I’m sure - Let me first say the tour guide was excellent however we did not get the full tour that was promised. There was some type of miscommunication that led to us not receiving the full experience. We completely skipped the crocodile 🐊 part of this excursion with no full explanation. I appreciate the parts that we did do but I would like to have gotten my full experience. Again, the guide was GREAT. Ronnie was very knowledgeable.

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Robert_c

Feb 13, 2026

No show no go - First the cancelled pur booking but acheduled us for another day. On the day of our new booking no one showed up. When i called them they said they had no record of our rescheduled booking despite the fact i had the ticket on my phone. Nest thing we knew we had a full refund show up in our email.

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From $96

up to 15 guests

1 - Adult