Puerto Limon Excursion: Tortuguero Canals, Playa Bonita and City Highlights

Discover the highlights of Puerto Limon on this 4-hour excursion. Experience a boat ride in the Tortuguero canals, relax on Playa Bonita’s beach, visit a banana plantation, taste local fruit, and explore the city. Don’t miss this chance to make the most of your time at port!

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Puerto Limon - Enjoy a brief city tour around Limon’s town, where your guide will share some of the culture and history of this port. You will also visit a viewpoint, a great opportunity to take a panoramic picture of the town and the ship docks.
  • Frutería El Almendro - Learn more about tropical plants and their fruits. See the actual plants…
What's Included
  • Tortuguero Canals boat ride (admission included)
  • Professional guide
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Free fruit tasting
  • Port pickup and drop-off
  • Bottled water per person
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Experience a relaxing tour in Puerto Limon around the city and take in the scenic view of the town. During your tour, you’ll go on a Tortuguero canal boat ride, enjoy Playa Bonita’s beach, stop beside a banana plantation, and taste local fruit at the Fruit Stand and visit the supermarket. This small-group excursion takes approximately 4 hours, during…

Location
In front of Puerto Limon cruise port
Meet us outside the port in Puerto Limon, around 150 to 350 meters (160 to 380 yards) from the ship towards the Vargas Park. Please walk from the ship through the crosswalk and souvenir tents until you see the public street after the exit gates. Your guide will be holding the logo RELAX DAY TOURS.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Harold_f
Feb 27, 2026
Incredible tour at a fair price - This excursion was incredible. Staff was timely, friendly, professional and knowledgeable. Excellent trip ands well worth the money. So much cheaper than the cruise ship plus there were only 11 if in a new Toyota 18 seat van. Air conditioner worked well. And it was very clean. Our guide did anything in his power to show us a great time. The such a nice day. Thank you and next time in Costa Rica we will for sure travel with your company again. Can’t recommend high enough
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Terre_z
Feb 27, 2026
Fun with Larry (and I’m 62!) - Larry is informative, engaging & FUN! We saw lots of animals, tasted lots of fruits & coffee and 4 different types of bananas!
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Nancyjayne
Feb 18, 2026
Great tour in Puerto Limon - We did the Tortugero Canals, Playa Bonitaand Puerto Limon tour and thoroughly enjoyed it. Larry was our tour guide and he was personable and knowledgeable. The meeting place was clearly identified and our guide was waiting for us. The bus was comfortable and air conditioned. Water was avaialbe for us if needed. We visited the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church which was beautiful. Larry provided us with the history of the church. Hightlights along our drive were pointed out and serveral stops were made to observe wildlife. We saw many sloths, howler monkeys, iguanas and birds. We enjoyed the fruit stand and tasting fresh bananas off the vine at the banana plantation. Alex our bus driver was efficient and friendly. Always helping passengers on and off the bus if they needed assistance. The tour was reasonably priced and well worth the money. I would highly recommend this tour. Also pretour all of my questions were answered in a very timely manner.
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Dwdenco
Feb 17, 2026
No Need to Look Any Further - We had such a great time on this tour with Larry and our driver Dennis. Larry made the day! He is a wealth of knowledge and loves to share with you. Great experience at fruit stand and banana plantation. Boat trip was fun and saw lots of critters. Beach was beautiful! This tour was worth every penny.
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Dietmar_l
Feb 10, 2026
Highly recommended and always back. - The tour was beautiful and always recommended. Especially our travel companion Susanne was very good and our bus driver called in German the cat was very interested in showing us many animals in the wild. He spared no effort. Simply recommended 👍
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Kerry_b
Feb 6, 2026
A great way to experience Limon - We had a marvelous day on our excursion. We had a little bit of trouble finding the pickup spot, but once we found it our day was great. Our tour guide took us through town with loads of commentary and stop at the local church. We had enough time at the fruit stand to enjoy the local food. Bring cash for shopping! They don't take credit cards. Our driver made plenty of stops to check out the sloths, birds, and other animals. The trip down the river was also good. Our last stop was at a local beach and restaurant for lunch. They took credit cards. The food was awesome. This is a definite winner of an excursion.
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Kim_s
Feb 6, 2026
Highly recommend - We loved this tour. We saw several points of interest including Fruit stand with lots of samples of local fruits and coffee. We went to a banana plantation and learned all about the workings of plantation and sampled several bananas. We went on canal boat ride where we saw sloth, monkeys, lizards and many different birds. Our tour guide Larry was awesome, very knowledgeable and shared so much of the culture and customs of Limon. Would definitely do it again on our next visit.
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Eleanor_s
Jan 28, 2026
Larry, our guide, was... - Larry, our guide, was great. Only 8 of us on this tour so almost private. Free bananas and coffee at a stop.
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111red222
Feb 28, 2026
A great day out - Excellent guided tour both driver and tour guide could not do enough.
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Kay_b
Feb 8, 2026
I wouldn’t recommend it - A nice tour. The driver and guide were good. I didn’t like the fact that we were taken to places where the guide would get a cut. The canal trip was boring as we didn’t see much - in fact I fell asleep ! The worst was at the end of the tour we were taken to a beach for 30 minutes. In fact it was a restaurant where the guide was clearly getting a cut. After30 minutes when the other passengers hadn’t received their food (we didn’t want any - we were 5 minutes away from the ship) I asked if we could get a taxi then the guide said they would take us back (about 8 of us) and go back afterwards for the others
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