9-tägige Tour Das Beste von Patagonien: El Calafate, El Chalten und Puerto Natales

I’m glad we used Viator to plan our trip to Patagonia. It was nice to let someone else make all the hotel and transportation reservations as the thought of doing that ourselves was a bit overwhelming. We chose the superior option for hotels, and the ones that Viator booked were all good. However, I recommend they select a different hotel for El Calafate going forward because we weren’t very impressed with Design Suites. It was too far outside the city (40 min walk into El Calafate) and the complimentary shuttle the hotel provided did not run at convenient times, so we had to take a taxi every time we wanted to go into El Calafate. I also think there were nicer hotels in the center of El Calafate. The tour company provided a helpful agenda outlining our whole trip including pick up and drop off times for activities and transport. We chose to upgrade to the mini trekking activity on the Perito Moreno glacier and the full day hike in Torres del Paine. We were glad we upgraded those activities because it was well worth it. However, I recommend going forward they provide more info on what is included with the full day hike in Torres del Paine. We had no idea it was going to be a very strenuous 14 mile hike up and down a mountain. Fortunately, we were up for the challenge, but we would have appreciated knowing more ahead of time. We had to call the emergency phone number one time when we thought we were going to miss our bus transfer. Nobody answered and there was a message in Spanish so we didn’t know what it said. Fortunately, right after I called, someone from the agency texted me so they must have seen that I called the emergency number. They responded quickly via text. Overall, I would recommend this tour.

This trip was awesome. What you're getting is someone to book everything for you - no need to find bus schedules, research hotels, book tours. I usually love doing these things, but I've not had a lot of free time and was getting frustrated with researching these things on my own. Having this group take care of it all for me was a HUGE relief and they did an AWESOME job. I wanted an epic trip for a milestone birthday, and this delivered! I initially wanted to do as much hiking as possible, but I'm glad we had the pace that we did. For our open day in El Calafate, we independently took a bus out to Lago Roca for the day to do some hiking, which gives you a view of the Perito Moreno Glacier. There is opportunity for a lot of hiking in El Chalten (I recommend buying trekking poles in town for hikes). I hoped for more hiking in Torres del Paine, but honestly there is so much to see there, given the time that I had for my overall vacation, I was grateful to get to see so much of the park by taking the bus tour. Overall, we were the right amount of busy to maintain an active yet relaxing vacation. I felt like I got to see a little bit of everything and can't wait to go back when I have more time to spend in the area!

Fue una experiencia inolvidable. Los glaciares son impresionantes, la vista al lago Argentina en el Hotel Design Suites y la caminata al Lago de los tres en el Chalten nos encantó. El Calafate es un pueblo hermoso. Agregaría a la experiencia 1 día adicional en Puerto Natales para hacer la caminata a la base de Torres del Paine . También Agregamos al paquete contratado la visita a Glaciares Spegazzuni y Upsala el el Maria Turquesa de la empresa Marpatag. 100% recomendado