Private Tour: Major Tourist Attractions of São Paulo from Santos City

Embark on a private tour from Santos to São Paulo and explore the major tourist attractions of this vibrant city. Discover its rich culture, history, architecture, and more!

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Museu do Ipiranga - On Ipiranga slope, next to Ipiranga stream, Dom Pedro I declared Brazil independence from Portugal, in 1822. The museum was built close to where the historic Independence event took place in 1822.
    Other than the architecture of the museum, the area has Independence Park that features huge french-style gardens inspired in…
What's Included
  • Professional licensed private tour guide.
  • Transport by fully-equipped vehicle.
  • VAT, all taxes, tolls, handling charges, parking fees during stops and port Greet & Meet service.
  • Private driver for groups bigger 4 people, otherwise the guide drives the vehicle themselves.
  • Hotels and port pickup and drop-off. (Within Santos and its greater area limits)
What's Not Included
  • Entrance fees, although the tour is not aimed to get into museums and sights that charge fees.
  • Food and drinks.
  • Gratuities (optional)
Additional Information

If you are docking at Santos’ seaport terminal on a cruise or are bunking up in a hotel in Santos, consider embarking on a captivating guided expedition to São Paulo to marvel at its signature landmarks. 
Provided you’ve got a solid block of at least 8 hours, take a journey of 1:20 h from Santos to São Paulo. Insightfully explore the largest city in the…

Location
Museu do Ipiranga
Praca da Independencia Ipiranga, Sao Paulo
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Vacation67693793747
Jul 11, 2024
Great tour of Santos! - We loved this tour! Maria was a great tour guide and very knowledgeable. Santos is a super cute beach city and a great getaway from Sao Paulo. Highly recommend this tour!!
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Boilanp
Apr 25, 2024
Give us a complete experience in San Pablo - The tour guy Bruno and the bus driver were amazing, they made sure we are safe and enjoying the sight seeing at the same time.
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Geminitraveller
Apr 25, 2024
Great Tour! Highly Recommended. - Had a very enjoyable tour with Viviane and our driver Rinaldo. They picked us up on time at the port and brought us to many wonderful places in São Paulo. Viviane took care of us very well and gave us great informations on the places we visited. We loved our tour and had the best time in São Paulo.
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Daldekadibba
Apr 13, 2023
The best tour coordinator and tour guide you will ever have - While this review is for this specific Gregtur Turismo tour, if you look at many of the tours Gregtur offers for São Paulo, it is hard to see how you can improve upon their very well deserved rating of 5.0. They are absolutely outstanding! We were on a cruise and I was trying to set up a tour for 14 people, or 7 couples, five of whom contacted me through Cruise Critic and Facebook for that specific sailing. Fernanda, whom I was communicating with, to negotiate the prices, set up the tour, etc. is the best tour coordinator you can ever dream of working with. I had hundreds of questions and emails to her and she patiently responded to each one of them, very promptly, and respectfully. It was clear from my interactions with her that her primary focus was on us having a great experience with the tour, without any worries, versus a cold monetary focus as I generally come across in such situations. She is the absolutely best. Wish I could meet with her in person and thank her for an outstanding experience. Fernanda assigned us Danilo as our tour guide. Danilo is just about the best tour guide you could ever have. While we had one other tour guide in Kuşadası, Turkey of the same caliber as Danilo, I doubt you can do any better than Danilo. His English was very good and he communicated very well and clearly. He had a great sense of humor. But the main differentiator was that he was incredibly knowledgeable and very passionate about communicating to us the very best of São Paulo and Brazil. In the about 10 hours we were with him from Santos to São Paulo and back, there were very few moments of silence during that time, even through the drive from and to Santos is pretty long, because Danilo kept providing us a wealth of information. His information prompted many questions and he answered every one of them. The sites he showed us and the venues he showed them from were well curated, and I doubt you would find those on any standard tour. He really provided a great insight into São Paulo, and the history of the region in the context of Brazil. He took us to a wonderful, very reasonable, Brazilian buffet for lunch. He was very considerate of his passengers and their needs. I can's say enough about Danilo. If you get Danilo as a guide you will get the penultimate experience of São Paulo. We all felt that the value of the tour to what we paid for it was an outstanding bargain. It was so good!
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Jenniferlg8267ep
Mar 26, 2023
Great tour at Sao Paulo - Our full day organized group tour was picked up at the cruise ship terminal. Danilo was our guide and he was nice and knowledgeable. With such a limited time frame, Danilo was able to give us a good insight of the city--its history, architecture and great place for lunch as well. He enlightened us about some of Brazilian cultural practice. We were back to the cruise ship in a timely manner. Thank you Danilo and the driver (sorry, didn't get his name) for a great tour at Sao Paulo.
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James_w
Feb 18, 2023
Nalio was amazing! You have to do this!! - São Paulo is a massive city with a LOT of traFfic. Nalio, our driver, set up the PERFECT day for us. We arrived by Cruise Ship and he was right there waiting for us. We had an amazing day and I could not have been more pleased. Interesting enough we heard from folks who were on a bus trip from the ship they literally nothing, while we had a bunch of interesting stops. A++++++++
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Arthur_k
Jan 13, 2023
Superb Jewish tour. - Adi was warm, knowledgeable and easy going. He gave us a superb tour of the main Jewish sites and history of the Hews in São Paulo. The pick up and drop off was seamless. Highly recommend this tour for anyone interested in learning more about Judaism in Brazil. We also stopped and enjoyed a delicious kosher meal at a local restaurant.
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Janice_n
Dec 17, 2022
The guide makes the tour. Ilan was the best! Definitely book this tour. - Ilan was our guide. He made us feel like we were long lost family from the minute he met us. This was an amazing private tour. We saw so much and before we knew it our tour ended and we were back at the ship. Ilan is a wealth of knowledge and a genuinely fun person to spend the day with. Private tours are always great because you are in charge of the itinerary and I can tell you we saw things we didn’t even know São Paulo had to offer. The tour company was great answering my questions pre-tour.. I highly recommend this tour if your ship docks in São Paulo / Santos. And they also offer tours for those staying in São Paulo. Regardless of where you start, if you request Ilan you will have the best day ever.
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Apolovinchik
Dec 16, 2022
Private tour of São Paulo - Our tour with tour guide Doris and driver Itamar was exceptionally good. Doris was very energetic, knowledgeable and much fun to be with. We learned a great deal about the city of São Paulo, its history and major cites. Despite the traffic, the team did the best that they could to show us the city’s attractions and we made it back to the ship timely. Thank you to Doris and Itamar for the experience at Santos and São Paulo.
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Cheri_f
Mar 21, 2023
Little opportunity to get out of the car. - Overall the tour was a "drive by" sightseeing of Sāo Paulo, with little opportunity to see visit much outside of the car. Our guide was very nice and did his best to fill the time as we drove, but for the price paid and what we actually saw, the tour did not fulfil our expectations. The guide arrived 20+ min. late for pick-up at the Port of Santos and we could not reach him or the tour operator via text message. Then we encountered traffic leaving the city of Santos and on the drive to Sāo Paolo learned his car had started making noises that day (so he was driving a bit slower). Given we were only in port for 9 hours, these factors meant we would have less time to spend in Sāo Paolo. The tour highlight was our first stop at the MAC (view from terrace and architecture by Oscar Niemeyer). In hindsight, we would have preferred to visit the museum and see the modern artwork, because it was not possible to visit some of the points of interest in the city center of Sāo Paolo listed on the tour description. We selected this tour ($606 for 3 guests), over a lesser expensive full day tour ($428 for 3) on Viator because of the more detailed itinerary, but we didn't feel the extra money was worth it. For example, the itinerary indicated a 10 or 15 min. stop/visit to the Cathedral, but when we asked about visiting, our guide told us that it was not a safe area, with many homeless around who can be aggressive to tourists. We had hoped to be able to get out and take photos, but with this advice, we did not, as we didn't feel comfortable holding our cameras. Based on this, I think the Viator website itinerary should be updated because the Cathedral was just another "drive by". We were able to get out at the market, but it wasn't too interesting to us, having lived in Europe and seen lots of markets, and we were not interested in the type of "market fast food" for lunch. I would have skipped this too for a different point of interest. Most importantly with the late start and Google traffic forecast to return to the Port of Santos, we had to skip visiting Batman Alley (which we understand was an interesting stop) in order to begin the drive back to the Port of Santos. Luckily, we did leave Sāo Paolo early, as the guide's car was making more noise on the return so he had to reduce the speed. We did make it back in time to board the ship, but the day tour was more stressful than necessary.
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up to 15 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).