Full Day Private Beach Tour Santos – Culture, History & Beach (Pickup São Paulo)
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Free cancellation available
includes taxes & fees
per adult*
*Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
Features
- Free cancellation available
- 8h
- Mobile voucher
- Instant confirmation
- Selective hotel pickup
- Multiple languages
Overview
Get yourself out of a rut taking a guided tour in the beach town of Santos visiting its most significant sights to have an overview of it. Along the way, encounter beautiful beaches, historical attractions and a graceful city centre.
Visit the Coffee Museum, one of the most emblematic places in Santos and learn about the coffee importance for the Brazilian socio-economic development.
Afterwards, take a ride on an exciting funicular tram to the top of a hill and savour one of the best views of Santos contemplating the port area, the historical city centre and nearby cities.
Visit the Porchat island and admire the spectacular views of the shoreline of Santos.
Here, you can decide if you want to enjoy free time having a tasty lunch in a local restaurant or relaxing on a sandy beach having starters and drinks beachfront.
See below on the “what to expect section” other things to do in Santos to guide you on planing your 8-hour perfect excursion. The actual tour can be totally personalised.
Activity location
- Coffee Museum
- Rua Quinze de Novembro 95
- 11010-151, Santos, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Coffee Museum
- Rua Quinze de Novembro 95
- 11010-151, Santos, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Full Day Private Beach Tour Santos – Culture, History & Beach (Pickup São Paulo)
- 8h
- English
Pickup included
Price details
AU$676.17 x 1 AdultAU$676.17
Total
includes taxes & fees
*Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
Until Fri, 14 Nov
What's included, what's not
- Hotels airport pickup and drop-off. (Within São Paulo and its greater area limits)
- Professional licensed private tour guide.
- VAT, all taxes, tolls, handling charges, parking fees during stops and airport Greet & Meet service.
- Transport by fully-equipped vehicle.
- Private driver for groups bigger than 4 people. Otherwise, the guide drives the vehicle themselves.
- Entrance fees and admission fees.
- Food and drinks.
- Service charge (optional)
Know before you book
- Specialised infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Activity itinerary
Coffee Museum
- 30m
- Admission ticket not included
Have a breakfast at the stylish coffee shop of the coffee museum in Santos, and visit it to learn about the importance of the coffee for Brazilian socio-economic development.
The coffee shop offers the opportunity to try out all the types and aromas of coffees grounded right before drinking.
Built in the richest times of the city, the imposing Coffee Museum is an eclectic style building opened in 1922 to be the Santos Stock Exchange. It has a luxury finish with imported materials such as marble Carrara and Bohemian crystal chandeliers.
Monte Serrat
- 40m
- Admission ticket not included
Ride on a trem upwards Monte Serrat which is a peak that has a superb panoramic viewpoint from the former old casino on the top of it. The access to the hill is made by a funicular system (called the cable car of Monte Serrat) that connects the top hill to the centre of the city and departs every half hour.
From its viewpoint, it is possible to have a complete view of the port, the urban part of Santos and surroundings, Bertioga Canal, Estuary and Barnabé and Santo Amaro Islands. At the top of peak lays a 17-century Chapel of Our Lady of Monte Serrat, patron saint of the city and one of the historical attractions of it, dating from 1603.
Porchat island
- 20m
Admire the marvellous view of the shoreline of Santos and the city of "Saint Vincent" (First permanent Portuguese settlement in Brazil) from Niemeyer’s monument on the top of Porchat Island hill.
You'll be able to see the whole shore, ships on the horizon, waves being formed, people like ants and paragliders flying around!
The belvedere was projected by the famous Oscar Niemeyer Architect, and inaugurated in 2002 due to 500th year of Brazil's "Discovery". It purely makes this place even more special!
In addition, you can enjoy a good lunch at a nice restaurant beside the Niemeyer’s monument. It is an obligatory stop while you are in Santos.
Orla and Gardens of Santos Beach
- 40m
Spend some time at the well-maintained beach with the world's largest beachfront garden according to Guinness Book of Records.
The beach has a variety of trees, plants and flowers spread between the street and the edge of the pavement by the sand. Several exercises stations and cycle tracks if you are in a mood to exercise, or benches to sit down and relaxing sipping on a cold coconut water directly from the fruit, long white sandy beaches for recreation and sunbathing, a variety of options to eat from, and very colourful vendors all over its extension.
Museu Pele
- 40m
- Admission ticket not included
The Pelé museum presents the history of the word's most famous and genius football player, Pelé. Pelé played for Santos, which is why there is a museum dedicated to him in this city.
The 5-story building museum has a very comprehensive collection of prizes and highlights about the 2 football World cups won by Pelé, photos and video footage, interesting facts about special matches, timeline of his life, and much more.
The museum is English speaking friendly and doesn’t cost much to go in. A good way to spend a couple of hours in Santos.
Municipal Botanical Garden of Santos
- 30m
It’s is an ecological park aimed to preserve different species of plants and to cultivate the seedlings that supply the gardens of the beach and streets of the city. It has a fountain and a wooden deck over a lake, and yet, a living collection of more than 300 vegetal species, divided into 20 collections. It emphasises species of the Atlantic and Amazon forests, besides a grove of the so-call Brazil-wood tree that gave the name for our country.
Catedral de Santos (Pass by)
A cathedral is Gothic mixed style architecture, its construction began in 1909, but it was not until 1951 that it was fully completed. It has frescoes by Benedito Calixto and images of the Sacred Heart in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. It’s something to not be missed!
Location
Activity location
- Coffee Museum
- Rua Quinze de Novembro 95
- 11010-151, Santos, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Coffee Museum
- Rua Quinze de Novembro 95
- 11010-151, Santos, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
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