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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Raelene_g
Nov 2, 2025
Best afternoon everrr!!! - This tour was perfect for the afternoon. The tour guide Sergio is extremely knowledgeable and very pleasant and accommodating. The history of Costa Rica is rich and interesting and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about the country and have a good time.
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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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Explore297628
Sep 6, 2025
Great experience for a quiet day if you love history - Great experience there is not much to see but it is still worth it. The meal was super good and the guide interesting. A way to go around the city, safely.
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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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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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Michellemx3129df
Sep 15, 2025
A little disorganized - The tour got off to a very unorganized start. The shuttle was late arriving. When we got to the bus they told us to get on and I went up the stairs to be seated then the guide came and told us to get off the bus and took across the street to a beautiful museum. We had to wait 10 minutes for him to get our tickets before we could proceed.
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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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Geraldws612vc
Nov 2, 2025
Lack of communication ends in not-so-good results - Unfortunately, we were unable to take part of this experience. We booked our trip on Thursday afternoon for a Saturday 3pm tour; and immediately received confirmation of our booking. On Saturday morning, my wife and I went walking and exploring our local area. But we were diligent in knowing that our tour pick up was scheduled for 3pm from our hotel. As tourists, we are not obligated to stay in our hotel room nor do we have consistent WiFi/internet connection in places where we’re at. While waiting in the lobby at 2:45 (which is when we were initially told to be there); the front desk assistant alerted us that our guide arrived earlier (at 2pm) and said he would wait “another 15 minutes” before leaving. At this time, I was able to check my email and discovered that the tour company sent me an email stating that the pick up for our tour was changed from 3pm and the new pick up time would be at 2pm. How can this company send out a notification a couple of hours prior to pick up and expect that the tourist be available and/or receive this message? And if they did send a message to tourists, wouldn’t it be considerate to wait for a confirmation?? After seeing the email, we called the company and shared our disappointment. Not once did they offer an apology. When asked, “What should we do now?” The representative said, “You can take an uber and meet up with us on the tour….but at YOUR expense!” THE AUDACITY!! Before hanging up with the representative, I informed her that I would be calling my credit card company to reverse this tour charge, especially since it never occurred… nor was it our fault that the tour company changed our tour time without receiving confirmation from us.
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From $80
up to 15 guests
2 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).