Manuel Antonio National Park Guided Tour
Overview
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2 hours 30 minutes
Mobile ticket
This a lifetime experience, due that Manuel Antonio National Park features very stunning biodiversity, some of the best beaches, hiking trails, and family vacation opportunities in the country.
Its high biodiversity remains hiding using camouflage, it means that animals are there but not easy to find them with out the expert eye of certified, reliable and regulated guide. So, our guides will find them for you, then use a spotting scope to provide closed up views and take photos through the lens of the scope using your smartphones, while sharing updated information, facts and stories of each spotted species.
If your next adventure includes Manuel Antonio, our passion is to make it a lifetime experience for you.
Additional Info
Wheelchair accessible
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
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Warn any medical/physical condition
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Manuel Antonio National Park
Our activity consist on an easy, slow, nice 2,2 kilometers walk on a gravel trail and sandy trail near the beach, spotting as much wildlife as possible. We focus and wildlife spotting, nature photography, share nature updated information and some stories accumulated in the field. Nearly 2 hours after we started the walk we arrive to a coffee shop, here we can make a short break, so, you can buy something to eat or to drink. Just 100 meters ahead Manuel Antonio National Park safest and mean swimming beach invites you to swim, this a white and fine sandy beautiful beach. Just another 100 meters ahead a second nice swimming beach, here we usually finish our activity, so you can stay in the park, but if planning to leave the park we make 25 minutes brake for you to take some pics or quickly jump in the water. Walking back to the park entrance is faster due that, by this time it's already hot and most animals already had their breakfast, but landscape is still wonderful.
What‘s Included
Local guide
Digiscoping
Spotting scope
entrance fee per person not included, must buy it online in advance.
Parking lot fee if driving, no included. Suggested one $10
Options
Group tour
Entrance fee not included: Pay online at the officia
For this tour option you must meet your guide at the park entrance 10 minutes before tour startime
Meeting at the park entrance: For this tour option you must meet your guide at the park entrance 10 minutes before tour startime
Group tour: small group of up to 10 people per guide
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
No food or single use plastic: Not allowed to bring in the park any kind of food, neither single use plastic. Drinks allowed only in reusable bottle
Park entrance is also the exit: Park entrance is also the exit, you might choose to stay in the park on your own after the tour, then come out on your own
Public transportation : Public transportation available every 30 minutes to arrive or departure
Private tour
Park entrance fee not included: Pay online at the official website or do a paypal payment of $20 per ticket to [email protected] and send us passport pic
Meeting at the park entrance: For this tour option you must meet your guide at the park entrance 10 minutes before tour startime
Tropical fruit snack
Reviews
556 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Not to be missed!
Nadine F,,Dec 25, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Highly recommend this tour. The company was very responsive throughout the booking process and sent clear instructions prior to the tour. The group was 10 people. Andrea was our tour guide, and she was simply fantastic. We participated in several tours while in CR and by far Andrea was the best guide. She was enthusiastic, friendly, highly knowledgeable and shared so much information about the flora and fauna as well as the wildlife. We learned so much. To top it all off, we saw so much wildlife, thanks to her keen eyes (4 sloths, snakes, monkeys, lizards, birds, crabs, iguanas). She took amazing pictures and video with her scope and shared those with us after the tour. The tour is a gentle walk through Manuel Antonio for about 2 hours and ends at the beach. Recommend exiting the park through a different trail (which Andrea recommended). We saw so much more wildlife in that portion of the park and the views were spectacular. Highly recommend this company for a guided tour of Manuel Antonio.
Get Albin Gutierrez as your guide - he is great
Michael E,,Dec 22, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Saw lots of wildlife, went on earliest tour. It was great. Only doable with a guide to be honest. We would have missed things otherwise. Albin Gutierrez is the best guide.
Amazing tour with brilliant guide
Ruth B,,Dec 19, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Fantastic tour! The guide was very friendly and super knowledgeable. Always went out of his way to fund us wildlife whilst still being respectful to the wildlife and national park. The guide had a telescope to view wildlife closer up and helped us to take amazing photos through the telescope. The park was beautiful but a guide was well needed, we’d never have spotted the wildlife without him!
Great experience
Bobby F,,Dec 18, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Did this with my girlfriend, we are both young adults traveling the country. This was a highlight. We’ve done a few other similar tours in other areas of Costa Rica. But this one we say the most animals. We had Albin as our tour guide. From the moment we started I knew I liked him and he didn’t disappoint. He found some pretty incredible finds and it was a pleasure having him as our guide. After the tour, we parted ways and stayed in the park. So it was a great combo of having a guide and then staying additionally in the park. Would recommend this tour. Thanks Albin! Pura Vida 🤙
Andrea was an excellent...
Charlotte H,,Dec 17, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Andrea was an excellent guide. She is extremely knowledgeable and spotted all sorts of animals. We saw everything!
Kevin was a great guide and very knowledgeable
Kevin K,,Dec 13, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The guided walk through the national park with Kevin was a great experience. He was able to point out many animals to us which we would not have seen ourselves and he was very knowledgeable. He also helped us take great photos through the telescope.
Highly Recommended
S6809SGwilliama,,Dec 11, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Kevin was fantastic! He helped us spot animals we never would’ve found on our own, gave great info about the wildlife, and took awesome photos. Friendly, funny, and super knowledgeable. Highly recommend!
Manual Antonio tour
J733AYsilviai,,Dec 11, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00It was all nice.. we saw a lot of animals. We took many photos. The guide was helpfull and funny. We had a nice whether with a sunny day
This is a must do if you...
Alexis B,,Dec 9, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00This is a must do if you are going into the national park! We would have seen only a tiny fraction of the animals that we saw with our tour guide Kevin. Even if there are other groups around, a lot of the animals are invisible to the naked eye without using the tour guides scope. We got the most amazing pictures and videos which our tour guide takes through the scope, and they are experts at it. This is a must do!
Guided Tour of Manuel Antonio National Park
Z8580HGalexisb,,Dec 8, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We did the guided walking tour of Manuel Antonio National Park. I would highly recommend doing a guided tour. I was a bit hesitant to pay for the tour, however it is the biggest recommendation I would make for someone else going. Our tour guide was Kevin Jimenez and he was amazing! It was incredible how he would spot the animals! They are not able to be seen with the naked eye and they were impossible to spot ourselves. Even when he would tell us where it was I couldn’t see it until he showed us through the scope. We had an amazing time and saw so many animals!
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