Three penguin sites in one day with lunch and entry fees inside the price, which no other shore excursion here includes.
from $234 per person, live price on the listing
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Most Falklands tours sell you the drive and the guide; this one folds in the day's logistics too. Premium Penguin Tours strings Bertha's Beach, the Rookery Bay viewpoint and Gypsy Cove into a four-to-five-hour small-group run, and the price carries a licensed local guide, lunch, snacks, drinks and every entry fee. It is the most complete penguin day you can book from the jetty short of going private.
Bertha's Beach is the long white strand about 70 minutes from Stanley where gentoos come and go from the surf; it gets the day's biggest time allocation. Rookery Bay adds Magellanic penguins at a lookout on the return, and Gypsy Cove finishes the set minutes from town, with its burrow slopes above Yorke Bay.
The listing sits at 5.0 on its first review, with pickup at the Falkland Islands Tourist Board or the cruise jetty and free cancellation to 24 hours.
At $234 per person it undercuts the private 4x4s for solo travelers and couples, while covering more penguin sites than any of the short excursions. Groups of three or four should run the arithmetic against Bertha's Beach & Beyond, whose per-vehicle price can win at full occupancy; the trade is this tour's included lunch and fixed multi-site route against a private day's flexibility.
The listed price carries the guide, transport, lunch, snacks and drinks, and entry fees. That bundled lunch and fees combination is unique among the shore excursions on this site.
Yes, with a mid-length call: it runs four to five hours from the jetty or the Tourist Board office, and the operator schedules around ship days in season.
Gentoos at Bertha's Beach and Yorke Bay, Magellanics at Rookery Bay and Gypsy Cove. Kings are Volunteer Point's specialty and need that separate, longer day.
2 hours 40 minutes · Jetty pickup · TravelFalklands
The busiest shore excursion on the port-day circuit: a shared minibus meets the tenders at the jetty, covers the Stanley landmarks, and gets you to a penguin colony and back with hours of your ship day to spare. Accredited local guides, 143 reviews, and a Badge of Excellence on the listing.
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2 hours 30 minutes · Closest penguins · JT Tours
The tight port-day loop: Gypsy Cove's Magellanic burrows, the gentoos on Yorke Bay sands, the Lady Elizabeth shipwreck and the Stanley landmarks, all inside two and a half hours. A newer listing from a local operator, so the review count is still small; the route itself is the classic one.
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1 hour · 1-hour run · Simon's Tours
One hour, one gentoo colony, forty dollars. Simon's Tours runs the shortest penguin trip out of Stanley: transport out to the colony, unhurried time with the birds, and back to the jetty before your ship has finished tendering the next group ashore. The obvious pick when your port call is short or the budget is spoken for.
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