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Bio Bay Tours
4 listings
Bio bay tours start at $70. Punta Arenas, La Chiva, Cayo Afuera, and mangrove tours also start at $70; the longer Tres Palmitas trip starts at $150.
Shore snorkeling starts at $65, guided kayak or paddleboard trips at $85, and day rentals at $60. A 24-hour snorkel set is $17.
Rental prices exclude sales tax. Call for motorboat tour pricing and multi-day rental rates.
Clear-bottom kayak bio bay tour from $65; the kayak-and-snorkel combination runs $145. Only the earliest departure makes the last ferry on weekdays.
Group kayak tour is $60 for adults, $55 ages 6-12, $45 ages 4-5. They run clear-bottom kayaks and note the price rises in high season.
Prices are the group rate the operator publishes; high season and private tours cost more.
Horseback Riding
1 listing
Restaurants
6 listings
The cool-down after a day on Esperanza beach.
Near the ferry terminal, which makes it a good first or last meal around a crossing.
A local default on the malecón strip, and one of the easier places to eat without a reservation.
Closed some weekdays. Check the current schedule before walking over.
Open arches catch the sea breeze off the Esperanza malecón, and most people call it the most romantic dinner on the island.
On Wednesdays the kitchen closes and a food truck pulls up to the curb instead, with happy hour and local musicians.
Food Trucks
2 listings Out past the airport, so pair it with a beach day on that side rather than driving out on its own.
Open three days a week. Confirm the day before you drive out.
Parked in the lot at the east end of the Esperanza malecón. Repeat visitors treat it as a fixed stop rather than a backup.
Food trucks keep their own hours. Check it is parked before you plan lunch around it.
Places to Stay
7 listings
Closest of the boutique hotels to the ferry, which makes it the easy pick for a short trip without a car.
Most rooms sleep two only. Confirm occupancy before booking for three.
The concrete architecture is the reason people book it and the reason a few people do not. Look at photographs first.
About ten minutes from the beach, so budget for a rental vehicle rather than planning to walk.
On the hillside above Esperanza, so you get the view and a short drive rather than a walk to dinner.
Open-air lofts in the hills with no glass in some windows. Wonderful in good weather, and a real decision in August.
Across from Esperanza beach and a short walk from where most bio bay operators meet their groups.
Rooms sit above El Quenepo on the malecón, so the island's best-regarded dinner is downstairs.
Car & Jeep Rentals
2 listings
Kia Soul $75/day, Jeep Wrangler $90, Kia Seltos $95, before roughly 11.5% tax. On Route 201 between the two towns, so plan a taxi from the ferry to collect it.
Rates read from a sample two-day booking, so a longer or high-season rental may differ. The damage policy is still worth getting in writing.
Advertises free pickup and drop-off, which saves you the taxi leg to a lot in the hills.
We have not confirmed current rates or the damage policy. Get both in writing when you book.
Taxis & Públicos
6 listings
Bilingual driver, useful for arranging a return pickup from a refuge beach.
Number comes from an island directory last updated in 2019. Call before you rely on it.
A booked local driver removes the main risk of the mainland leg, which is standing at Ceiba watching an app search for a car that never comes.
Rates come from an island directory last updated in 2019. Confirm the price on the call.
Listed as working in English and Spanish, which matters when you are arranging a beach pickup by phone.
Number comes from an island directory last updated in 2019. Call before you rely on it.
Number comes from an island directory last updated in 2019. Call before you rely on it.
The number spells 741-TAXI, which makes it the one worth saving before you land.
Number comes from an island directory last updated in 2019. Call before you rely on it.
Number comes from an island directory last updated in 2019. Call before you rely on it.
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