The Best Montevideo City Tour

I took this tour on the day I arrived in Montevideo and it provided a decent overview of the city. Stopped at Independence Plaza, the Legislative Palace, Mercado Agrícola, and the Montevideo sign. Guide was conducting the tour in Spanish, Portuguese, and English unfortunately for me, English got the shortest explanations. I was staying in the Old City so it was nice to get out and see parts I might not have seen otherwise. Tip: At Independence Plaza, take steps beneath Artigas monument to visit the mausoleum. Tour guide didn't mention this but we had time at the Plaza and it only takes a few minutes.

This tour gives you a taste of the city of Montevideo its parks, architecture, history and culture. It was an enjoyable day with good photo opportunities.

Tour was ok but to little and to long stops in places. We arrived two hours late back to hotel and this was due to long stays at some places.

The tour overview certainly does not suggest the tour is predominantly in Spanish. Our tour was overwhelmingly in Spanish. The guide provided perhaps a quarter of the content in English. My wife could not follow at all. But, I did follow the Spanish content and it was disappointing and superficial. We were told a few major dates and place names. But, we spent many minutes driving through older neighborhoods which were run down, and heard nothing about what had changed to cause the deterioration. We learned nothing about the people, the economy, the culture. Perhaps the best example. We stopped for a five minute photo opportunity at a sculpture depicting an colonial settler on a horse-drawn wagon. We learned nothing about where they had come from, where they were going, and what the settlement process was all about. It could have been a statute of a US wild west wagon. The guide was pleasant and polite, and the tour did cover the City. We just didn't learn much about why Uruguay is different from Argentina or Brazil.

Wasted way too much time going from Hotel to Hotel to pick up other passengers. Then wasted more time dropping everyone off.

Perfect!! Well organized and punctual!! Tour guide Frederica and Gustavo were awesome! They could inform everything related to Uruguai such as curiosity, economy, history and so on. Congratulation!!!

Excellent tour giving a good brief overview of the city

This tour was billed as 2.5 hours private tour with an English speaking guide. The bus was 40 minutes late arriving. It was a minibus of 24 people, very cramped and uncomfortable. Those sitting in the aisle seats had restricted views due to the bus construction and curtains which couldn't be moved any further. We were the only 2 English speakers. 80 of the commentary was in Spanish with just a nod to English. The bus spent most of the time in heavy traffic rather than visiting the sights of Montevideo. About 40 was after dark which meant we couldn't see anything anyway - remember they were late picking up. The trip ended around 7pm when we were told it would be 2.5 hours from 2.30pm. This buggered up our dinner reservation - for my husbands 50th birthday! Not worth the money, or the time spent, I know no more about Uruguay and Montevideo than I had read before coming to the country. Don't book this tour!

A great half-day tour of Montevideo. Perfect way to have a good idea of the landmarks and general layout of the city. Our guide Jocelyne was just perfect!

This tour had some high points and some low points, but I'll start,with the high points. Sara was a really good tour director. She had to translate into four different languages formus, plus one family had a baby, but she carried on with grace. She told us some personal stories, which I found endearing and which made the tour more real to all of us. The tour itself had a high point when we stopped and were able to visit the market and buy a few nice souvenirs. Again, Sara was patient about giving us all plenty of time. The itinerary of the tour is quite lackluster, not really what I had expected in a tour of Uruguay's capitol. We mostly looked at the outside of buildings, with little time to get out. But Sara'/ taking the time to take us past some regular neighborhoods and telling us a lot about the people was a plus. There was some mixup at the beginning and rather a long wait, but things happen and we understand that. Would I recommend this tour? Maybe not. Had I known ahead of time, I would have hailed a cab and gone straight to the market. But since our Spanish is rusty at best, Sara was a big help that way. So to answer: if you are not proficient in your Spanish, I think it could be a good idea. Luckily, we were dropped off steps from another outdoor market where we had a delicious fish lunch and shopped the street wares. If someone with you speaks Spanish, get on line, do your homework and take a cab for your own trip. You can do better.