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Private Historic Old San Juan Sightseeing and Walking Experience

By Bucketlist Tours
8.0 out of 10
Very Good
Free cancellation available
Price is $150 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

If there is a tour every visitor and traveler must do before even trying to walk our old city’s street, this will be it!

This tour was curated with comfort and as little walking as posible in mind, and it is the single tour every and anyone should do to avoid wasting hours looking for the landmarks, buildings and walking under the scorching sun trying to discover it’s history.

In it your driver and guide will take you in a route through the 80+ main buildings and landmarks and a journey in time telling you about the city’s history in short and precise way as he drives you slowly through the narrow and colorful streets of our historic walled city.

Depending the lenght you choose, you will have from 2 to 6 stops to take pictures and get a closer look of the main landmarks of the city. Among them San Cristobal and El Morro Forts, El Convento, Ballaja, Saint John’s Cathedral, La Rogativa, Del Cristo and San Jose chapels and Colombus and Ponce de Leon square.

Activity location

  • Old San Juan
    • San Juan, Caribbean

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • United States Postal Service
    • 100 Calle Paseo de Colon
    • 00901, San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

Check availability

2 HR Prime Tour

  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English

Distillery Exclusion: Does not include the Rum Distillery Tour.

Price details
$149.99 x 2 Adults$299.98
Total
Price is $299.98

3HR Prime Old San Juan

  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English

Extra Hour: An additional hour allows you more time for a deeper exploration, more walking or extra stops for pictures.
Duration: 3 hours
Distillery Exclusion: Does not include the Rum Distillery Tour.

Price details
$199.99 x 2 Adults$399.98
Total
Price is $399.98

4 HR Prime Old San Juan

  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English

Distillery Exclusion: Does not include the Rum Distillery Tour.

Price details
$249.99 x 2 Adults$499.98
Total
Price is $499.98

Prime Old SJ & Distillery

  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English

Rum Distillery: A visit to Barrilito or Bacardi Rum Distillery depending on availability with a complimentary drink of your choice.
Duration: 4 hours 30 minutes

Price details
$299.99 x 2 Adults$599.98
Total
Price is $599.98

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Private transportation
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Bottled water
  • What's includedWhat's included
    WiFi on board
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Air-conditioned vehicle
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Gratuities
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Lunch

Know before you book

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Old San Juan

  • 2h
Your guide will drive you around the city and give you a detailed introduction to Puerto Rico's history and tell you about every main landmark. Your guide will allow you to have several stops where you can walk and take pictures while experiencing our old city.

Castillo de San Cristobal (Pass by)

Largest fort ever built by any empire in the new world

Plaza Colon (Pass by)

Columbus welcomes every visitor comminh by land to our Old San Juan.

Parque Luis Munoz Rivera (Pass by)

Park dedicated to our George Washington figure Luis Muñoz Rivera

Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery (Pass by)

One of the 3 most beautiful cemeteries of the world.

Plaza del Quinto Centenario (Pass by)

Square that conmemorates the 500 years of rhe discovery of Puerto Rico

Cuartel de Ballaja (Pass by)

Both Spanish and US troops quarters, Ballaja served as main military quarters for more than 100 years.

Old San Juan (Pass by)

Built after spanish rulers took down the eastern walls of the city, the casino became the place for the opulent balls, weddings and parties of the wealthy spanish in the city.

Iglesia de San Jose (Pass by)

Built in 1540 by Ponce De Leon family, it is the 2nd oldest church in our nation America and 4th oldest in all the Americas

Catedral Basilica Menor de San Juan Bautista (Pass by)

Built in 1511, it is our nations oldest church and burrial place of Ponce de Leon

Plaza de la Catedral (Pass by)

Renamed after our first elected mayor, Felisa Rincon de Gauthier, it is the oldest city square in all the americas.

La Puerta de San Juan (Pass by)

Main entrance to the city in colonial times, it's aligned to the cathedral's main doors so anyone coming in to the city had to pay respects to the church.

La Rogativa (Pass by)

Monument for the "Miracle of San Juan" when the bishop and the woman went to pray for the british troops to leave their attack in 1797.

San Juan City Hall (Pass by)

Second and actual city hall.

Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico (Pass by)

Former Real Intendencia, Spanish mint and US mint in Puerto Rico amd today's State Department.

Fortin San Antonio (Pass by)

Marker for the old fort part of the first line of defense of San Juan, today is a bridge that joins the main island Puerto Rico to the San Juan Island.

Fortin de San Jeronimo del Boqueron (Pass by)

Part of the first line of defense of the old city, was also the home of our second US governor Gen Brooke.

Sixto Escobar Park (Pass by)

Monument to our first world boxing champion and infantry man for the US during WW2.

Plaza de San Jose (Pass by)

Square with Ponce de Leon statue and monument

Paseo de los Presidentes (Pass by)

Monument to all US pressidents who have made official visits to Puerto Rico as presidents.

Paseo de la Princesa (Pass by)

Walkway just outside the south wall of the city

Capilla del Santo Cristo de la Salud (Pass by)

Chapel of the Christ is venerated as a place of miracles with hundreds of accounted healing miracles.

La Fortaleza - Palacio de Santa Catalina (Pass by)

Oldest executive mantion still in use in the Americas. Built in 1540.

El Bastion (Pass by)

Former place for the spanish firing squad.

Garita del Diablo (Pass by)

Old San Juan most famous garita or view point. The spanish troops considered it haunted and nobody wanted to take the night shift to it so they even played dice to choose who was going each night.

Holocaust Memorial Monument (Pass by)

Monument to the victims of the Holocaust.

Casa de Espana (Pass by)

Today a wedding venue, it was the meeting place of the top of spanish society in Puerto Rico.

Location

Activity location

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    Old San Juan
    • San Juan, Caribbean

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    United States Postal Service
    • 100 Calle Paseo de Colon
    • 00901, San Juan, San Juan, Caribbean
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    Condado Vanderbilt Hotel
    • 1055 Ashford Avenue
    • 00907, San Juan, San Juan, Caribbean

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