Santos Private Tour – Mount Serrat, Pelé Museum, Coffee Museum
São Paulo, Brazil
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Get an overview of the beach town of Santos on this private tour
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Get an overview of the beach town of Santos on this private tour
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Get an overview of the beach town of Santos on this private tour
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Get an overview of the beach town of Santos on this private tour
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Get an overview of the beach town of Santos on this private tour
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Get an overview of the beach town of Santos on this private tour
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Get an overview of the beach town of Santos on this private tour
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Get an overview of the beach town of Santos on this private tour
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Get an overview of the beach town of Santos on this private tour
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Get an overview of the beach town of Santos on this private tour
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Get an overview of the beach town of Santos on this private tour
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Get an overview of the beach town of Santos on this private tour
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Get an overview of the beach town of Santos on this private tour
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Get an overview of the beach town of Santos on this private tour
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Tour type: Private tour.
Live guide & available language: Deutsche, Français, Español, English, and Português.
Tour Operating Hours: Book this tour between 06:00 to 11:30.
Transport: Fully-equipped hatchbacks, sedans, minivans, vans, buses according to you group size.
Instant confirmation: Yes, from Monday through Sunday.
Tour start location / Final tour location: Any pick-up and drop-off in São Paulo, Santos or elsewhere are included like hotel, airport or port.
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 downtown.
We'll meet up at your hotel in São Paulo and set off on a fantastic tour. Once there, visit the Coffee Museum, one of the most emblematic places in Santos and learn about the coffee importance for the Brazilian socio-economic development.
After this visit, we'll go up the Monte Serrat taking funicular train to the top of the hill, where the city's old casino is located. From there you will savor one of the best views of Santos which takes in the port, the historical city center, and the magnificent church of Our Lady of Monte Serrat.
We'll then head to Porchat Island, where we'll take a delightful walk to admire the spectacular views of the coast of Santos. Afterwards, we head to the fascinating Botanical Garden to see the wide variety of endemic plants of Brazil.
Here, you can decide if you want to enjoy free time having a tasty lunch in a local restaurant (not included) or relaxing on a sandy beach having appetizers and drinks beachfront.
Then we'll head to the final stop of the day. Here, you can decide if you want to enter the Pelé museum which honors the famous soccer player; or visit the beautiful Sanctuary of Antonio Valongo and its surroundings. Whichever option you choose, you won't be disappointed!
See below on the “things to do section”, other attractions to do in Santos to guide you on planing your 8-hour excursion. The actual tour can be totally personalized.
These below sights are simply suggestions of activities to do and sights to see in Santos. The actual tour can be personalized by the guide according to your preferences and available time.
Notice that some of the suggested activities charge admission fees that are not covered for the given rate here. Meals and drinks are NOT covered as well.
Click on the " " sign for a little insight of the sight or place and picture.
Beach Santos
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 sidewalk 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 colorful vendors all over its extension.
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Coffee Museum
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.
Mount Serrat
Ride on a tram upwards mount 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 center 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
Admire the marvelous 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.
Santos Stadium
It offers guided visits to the field and stadium's dressing room other than featuring the Memorial of the Conquests of Santos football club and its historical collection of trophies, plaques, streamers and photos that tell the club's history and titles.
Pelé Museum
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.
Botanical Garden
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 emphasizes species of the Atlantic and Amazon forests, besides a grove of the so-call Brazil-wood tree that gave the name for our country.
Street Car Tour
There is no more picturesque way of getting to know the historical center than by tram, an original 1920 electric street car that circles the streets of Santos downtown in a guided ride. As Santos was one of the oldest settlements in Brazil, founded in 1546. the ride makes tourists feel as if they were in an open-air museum,
The tour has a route of 5 km that covers several historical points of interest of the Center and lasts about 50 minutes.
Cathedral Santos
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!
Aquarium Santos
The Aquarium of Santos is one of the most visited touristic sights in town. This complex makes visitors feel as if they were immersed in the environment, with thousands of sea animals from hundreds of species.
Fishing Museum
The Fishing Museum offers an overview of the main marine animal groups in Brazil and in various parts of the world. It has the largest collection of shells in the country. The guided visit also includes the collection of taxidermy animals, which includes turtles, sea birds, sea sponges, seaweed and corals, and a specimen of the largest shark in the world, the whale shark.
Cable Car and Paraglider
Take a cable car up to a steep hill next to beach. Atop of it, there is takeoff ramp for paragliding flights. Tourists can either contemplate the astounding views of the Santos shoreline or do panoramic flights covering the entire Bay of Santos, its beaches, the port, and Porchat Island.
Tourists being conducted by the guide Diogo.
Tourists being conducted by the guide Diogo.
Tourists being conducted by the guide Diogo.
Tourists being conducted by the guide Adi.
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Transport by fully-equipped vehicles.
Any address pick-up and drop-off are included like hotel, airport or port as long as the booking system accepts the address you enter.
Licensed bilingual private tour guide.
Private driver for groups bigger than 4 people, otherwise the guide drives the vehicle themselves.
VAT, all taxes, handling charges, tolls, parking fees during stops, airport / port Greet & Meet service.
Meals and drinks.
Tips. (optional)
Entrance fees.
Confirmation is sent just after the booking is made.
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately.
Tour guide details is sent 1 day before the booking date.
This tour offers stops en route for pictures, contemplation, relaxation, exploration, snacks or lunch, and a little shopping for souvenir.
Adult pricing applies to all travelers.
Wheelchair accessibility: As long as the tourist has some mobility then this tour would be suitable.
Casual clothes or beachwear for those who want sunbathing.
Sunscreen.
Comfortable walking shoes, flip flops or sandals, and sunglasses.
If you arrive at the "SEAPORT", you MUST advise as soon as possible your Ship name, docking time, disembarkation time and ship departure time so that appropriate arrangements can be made.
If you cancel at least 5 days in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.
If you cancel between 2 & 4 days in advance of the scheduled departure, there is a 50 percent cancellation fee.
If you cancel within 1 day of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.
The charge is made in Brazilian currency.
Make a down payment online of either 50% or the total amount. If 50% of the payment is made online as a down payment, the remainder should be in cash directly to the guide on site.
Wherever you specify at the time of the booking as long as the booking system accepts the address you enter. The booking system may automatically reject too long-distance pick-ups & drop-offs.
As it’s a private tour, you choose the best pick-up point that suits your needs.
Any day available on the timetable of the “PRICE FORM”, which is from Monday through Sunday.
Museums and other cultural Santos activities are closed on Mondays like Coffee museum.
Any time available on the timetable of the "PRICE FORM".
The system receives bookings from 4 to 10 hours of “tour guide & vehicle availability”. The key part of our system is the flexibility to book a tour according to your available time, number of people, pick-up and final drop-off locations.
We don't actually sell a set tour program for a certain number of hours, but instead we sell the number of hours the “TOUR GUIDE & VEHICLE ” are going to be at your availability to do a certain activity with you. There is also private driver for groups bigger than 4 people in addition to the guide.
Make sure the number of hours you entered in the “TOUR GUIDE & VEHICLE AT YOUR AVAILABILITY” field, which is the 2º field on the "PRICE FORM", is enough for you to cover the sights you want to see and the activities you want to do.
Wherever you specify at the time of the booking as long as the booking system accepts the address you enter. The booking system may automatically reject too long-distance pick-ups and drop-offs.
As it’s a private tour, you choose the best drop-off point that suits your needs.
You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.
Once you have arrived at the airport or seaport there will be a member of our staff (or guide) waiting for you at the arrivals area holding a clear sign with your name on it, they will then escort you to your waiting private vehicle.
Our team member will be waiting for you even if the flight / ship is delayed.
In the very unlikely situation that the customer is not able to locate our guide, please call our emergency telephone number on the voucher.
As soon as the tour guide arrives at your hotel, they get the front desk to call you in the room in case you are not at the lobby.
In the very unlikely situation that you are not able to locate our guide, please call one of our emergency telephone numbers that are on the voucher.
For long-distance trips, we may have to ask the state or federal road department authorization for taking open highways with big vehicles like vans and buses. Thus, in order to do that, it's required the list of all passengers and their passport or ID numbers at the time of the booking (Send it via e-mail after the booking). Therefore, it’s extremely important to book tours with long-distance pick-ups or drop-offs with at least 24 hours in advance.
If big vehicles like a van or a bus is traveling without the required documents and the police pulls it over, the trip cannot continue.
For local pick-ups or drop-offs like airport or nearby cities, there is NO need of such list and passport or ID numbers.
Such requirement is not necessary for small vehicles like sedans, minivans and SUVs.
The assigned vehicle is according to the number of passengers for the tour. The vehicles are all fully-equipped and suitable to fit you and your group comfortably.
Hatchback vehicles
Midsize sedans
Minivans
15-seater vans
19-seater vans
29-seater minibus
44-seater buses
Count starts from the pickup moment, no matter where you are.
The tour coverage depends on the number of hours hired by customers ranging from 4 to 10 hours. If you take the 10-hour full-day tour and pick-up location is in the city of Santos itself, it's likely that you are going to be able to visit all the suggested sights and much more.
Tourists should have complete control of what to see and do during the tour. If you want more time for beach, relaxation, contemplation, exploration, pictures, museum, snacks or lunch, shopping or anything else... just give instructions to the guide of what your interests are. The tour coverage depends on the tour rhythm as the guide goes at your pace, and also pretty much on the pick-up and drop-off locations.
In case tourists want to spend more time at a sight, it should impact on the tour coverage reducing the number of seen sights.
Other adversities may also slow down the tour progress such as traffic jam, and the group size that determines the size of the vehicle. Bigger vehicles assigned for bigger groups tend to be slower, and thus cover less ground and sights.
Just fill out the “PICK-UP” and “FINAL DROP-OFF” location fields to have the price for the tour guide to pick you up wherever you are, take you on the tour in Santos, and return you back to your place afterwards. The booking system may automatically reject too long-distance pick-ups and drop-offs, as the tour may NOT be worth taking because of the too long trip time to the city of the tour. In this case, you can either select closer locations or get in touch with us for options.
This field is to specify the number of hours the licensed private “TOUR GUIDE & VEHICLE” will be at your availability. The count starts from the pickup moment the tour has been set to get started at your hotel, airport, port or any address you have chosen.
As there are several sights to visit in Santos, the actual tour can take between 4 to 10 hours depending on your willingness to explore and available time. So you can select the number of hours you want the tour guide be at your availability.
Pick-ups OUT OF or FAR from Santos, from 50 to 100 KM distance, it's advisable to book between 7 to 8 hours of "tour guide & vehicle availability". E.G. Considering that is about 1:00 to 1:30 h driving trip to Santos from your place, booking 7 hours, you should have effectively about 4 to 5-hour tour in Santos as 2 to 3 hours will be used for the round trip transfers. This is recommendable for cities like São Paulo and its surroundings, GRU airport (City of Guarulhos), and others.
If you want to have a break for a proper lunch at a restaurant, it should also be taken into account in order to select the right number of hours that the tour guide is going to be at your availability.
The Santos tour can be taken on any day of the week between 7:00AM and 19:00. However, it just depends on the activity you want to do at first. Perhaps, a good time to start the tour is around 8:00 as many city attractions begin its operation at 9:00.
No, this tour is designed to be taken in daytime as many of the suggested sights to be visited are closed in the evening.
Yes, always. Sometimes, other than the tour guide, there is also a driver depending on the number of people.
Yes, private tours are totally personalizable according to your interests and likes. Talk directly to the tour guide about your wishes or state / type them in the “BOOKING OBSERVATION BOX” further during the booking process.
The tour is totally private and exclusive for you and your group. No other person out of your group must join your tour, unless it's invited by you.
The tour guide themselves drives the vehicle in case of groups with up to 4 people. Groups bigger than 4 people have also a driver along with the tour guide.
The guide’s basic expenses such as meals, drinks and parking lot are paid by themselves onsite. Museums, cultural and some entertaining activities are free of charge for tour guides.
The guide may decline to participate in high-priced activities that fall out of the scope of a regular tour such as going to fancy restaurants, dance clubs, nightclubs or anything out of a standard tour. In these cases, if customer wishes to have the guide as a permanent companion, the guide’s expenses should be covered by the customer. Otherwise, the guide must wait for the customer just nearby to continue on the tour afterwards.
The tour starts where you are. It could be at a hotel, airport, seaport, company or any address you'd like to be picked up by our licensed tour guide and be taken on the city tour.
All tour guides have complete knowledge about the city sights, culture, history, and social-economic aspects of Santos and Brazil. Some guides are experts on architecture, street art, music, local crafts and design, fashion, cycling, hiking, photograph, business, sports, LGBTQ culture, nature, religion, shopping, gastronomy, art, nightlife, and other topics. If you want a deeper understanding of a specific topic, please state / type your interests in the “BOOKING OBSERVATION BOX” further during the booking process.
Once you have arrived at the airport or seaport, there will be a member of our staff / guide waiting for you at the arrivals area holding a clear sign with your name on it, they will then escort you to your waiting private vehicle.
The "tour count"of hours starts to run from the time the tour guide meets the tourist.
Our staff / guide will be waiting for you even if your flight / ship is delayed, without extra charges.
The tour can be hired for 1 person up to 42 people. We will assign a suitable vehicle according to your group.
If you have groups with more than 42 people, the ideal is to make two (2) bookings splitting the group and using two vehicles plus two tour guides.
For groups from 27 up to 42 people, 2 tour guides should be assigned to give all the assistance, tour information and explanations, besides taking care of everything at each stop.
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