Sightseeing in Valparaiso, Chile for a few hours before getting on a flight home

[gam888]

We will be getting off the Celebrity Infinity in March. The ship docks at 5am. Our flight home is at 7:30pm. There are 3 disembarkation excursions offered by the ship but all of them require the flight leaving Santiago after 9pm. So that won't work for us. If we leave the ship and go to the airport right after, we would be sitting around waiting for hours. Is there any local company that we can hire for a private tour for maybe 5 or  6 hours to do some sightseeing until mid afternoon before dropping us at the airport. We have to think about the security of leaving all our luggage in the trunk of the car when we step out of the car to visit a site. Not to mention if something goes wrong, we would be really messed up not getting to the airport on time. Does anyone have any suggestion of how to get a few hours of sightseeing in before going to the Santiago airport to catch our flight. We have never been to Santiago or the Chile coast before so we would like to see at least a bit of it. Staying an extra night is not an option though because the next day the flights available are all very indirect and a lot more expensive. Thanks for any suggestions in advance.

[mahdnc]

29 minutes ago, gam888 said:

We will be getting off the Celebrity Infinity in March. The ship docks at 5am. Our flight home is at 7:30pm. There are 3 disembarkation excursions offered by the ship but all of them require the flight leaving Santiago after 9pm. So that won't work for us. If we leave the ship and go to the airport right after, we would be sitting around waiting for hours. Is there any local company that we can hire for a private tour for maybe 5 or  6 hours to do some sightseeing until mid afternoon before dropping us at the airport. We have to think about the security of leaving all our luggage in the trunk of the car when we step out of the car to visit a site. Not to mention if something goes wrong, we would be really messed up not getting to the airport on time. Does anyone have any suggestion of how to get a few hours of sightseeing in before going to the Santiago airport to catch our flight. We have never been to Santiago or the Chile coast before so we would like to see at least a bit of it. Staying an extra night is not an option though because the next day the flights available are all very indirect and a lot more expensive. Thanks for any suggestions in advance.

 

That is a nice cruise.  We were on Infinity in Dec 2016 but we embarked at Valparaiso.  Your idea is a good one as that area is worth exploring and you don't want to simply rush off to SCL only to wait for the majority of the day.  You will need to decide what you want to concentrate on as there is simply too much to do and see in the short time that you have.

 

You should be able to find a company that will conduct a private tour that will pick you up at the cruise pier and drop you off at SCL.  Because my situation was different, I have no recommendations for you.  However a cursory check of the internet shows that those services are available.  Here are examples: link and link.  

 

Good luck.

 

Infinity docked at Valparaiso, Chile, Christmas Eve 2016

Edited December 13, 2022 by mahdnc

[ptater]

We took this cruise several years ago and had the same situation with an evening flight.  We took a cooking class that including some sightseeing, grocery shopping,  and then the cooking class.  It was a lot of fun and we met some interesting people.  Can’t remember who the tour was with but you probably can google and find something similar.