A half-day trip from Punta Arenas to the 1843 fort on the Strait, with the historic port of Port Famine on the way back.
The cheapest way onto the Strait with a real guide, and the shortest commitment of the twelve. Choose it if your ship leaves the next day and you want to see the water without a 15-hour day. The fort itself takes 40 minutes; the value is the crossing, not the ruins.
- Duration
- 4.5 hours · small group
- Price
- US$ 55
- Departs from
- Punta Arenas
- Price checked
- 2026-10-28
Read the full breakdownA longer version of the fort trip with a walk along the Strait shore and lunch on the way back.
Same anchor as the 4.5-hour tour but with the shore walk and the lunch, which is what actually makes it feel like a day rather than an excursion. Worth the extra US$ 50 only if you did not do the short one already.
- Duration
- 6 hours
- Price
- US$ 105
- Departs from
- Punta Arenas
- Price checked
- 2026-10-28
Read the full breakdownA 6-hour boat trip across the Strait to Magdalena Island, with a walking visit among the Magellanic penguins.
The best-reviewed of the twelve by a wide margin, with 272 reviews. The boat is the attraction: you cross open water and land among the colony on foot, which no cruise shore excursion gives you. The reviewer count says the operator has been running this for years.
- Duration
- 6 hours
- Price
- US$ 170
- Departs from
- Punta Arenas
- Price checked
- 2026-10-28
Read the full breakdownA 5-hour boat crossing to Magdalena Island with a guided penguin colony visit, slightly shorter than the 6-hour option.
One hour shorter and US$ 10 cheaper than the 272-review trip, with a slightly higher 4.7 rating across 73 reviews. The rating edge is real but the sample is a quarter of the size; treat it as the same product, not a better one.
- Duration
- 5 hours
- Price
- US$ 160
- Departs from
- Punta Arenas
- Price checked
- 2026-10-28
Read the full breakdownA 15-hour day trip to Isla Dawson for the king penguin colony and the Tierra del Fuego national park.
A genuinely long day — 15 hours is not a figure of speech — for the king penguin colony on Isla Dawson, which the Magdalena trips do not reach. Read it as two days compressed into one. If you have three days in Punta Arenas, take this and then the shorter fort trip on another day.
- Duration
- 15 hours
- Price
- US$ 130
- Departs from
- Punta Arenas
- Price checked
- 2026-10-28
Read the full breakdownA 4-hour walking tour of the centre of Punta Arenas, the closest thing the city has to a sightseeing route.
The only tour in this catalog that stays on the pavement. Useful if you arrive between boat excursions and want the historical centre without another boat. There is no measured rating for it, so we are not going to invent one.
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Price
- US$ 76
- Departs from
- Punta Arenas
- Price checked
- 2026-10-28
Read the full breakdownA 14-hour small-group trek from Puerto Natales to the Base of the Torres, the classic Torres del Paine day.
The strongest review count in the whole region: 942 reviews at 4.8. It is the Torres del Paine trip everyone books, and the small-group label is the differentiator over the larger coaches. Book it first, because the Base Towers slot is the one thing in Patagonia that sells out.
- Duration
- 14 hours · small group
- Price
- US$ 115
- Departs from
- Puerto Natales
- Price checked
- 2026-10-28
Read the full breakdownA 12-hour full-day visit to Torres del Paine with hotel pickup and a guide.
The cheaper and shorter alternative to the Base Torres trek, at US$ 75 against US$ 115. It reaches the park but it does not reach the towers on foot, which is the whole point of most people choosing it. Take it if the price matters and the Base slot is gone.
- Duration
- 12 hours · small group
- Price
- US$ 75
- Departs from
- Puerto Natales
- Price checked
- 2026-10-28
Read the full breakdownA 3-hour boat navigation to the Grey Glacier, the shortest and cheapest glacier trip from Puerto Natales.
Three hours, US$ 130, and you are looking at the Grey Glacier face from the water. For the value this is hard to beat: the 8-hour Grey Glacier cruise costs US$ 249 for five extra hours and mostly more of the same water.
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Price
- US$ 130
- Departs from
- Puerto Natales
- Price checked
- 2026-10-28
Read the full breakdownAn 8-hour cruise to the Grey Glacier with the longer navigation and the wider shoreline.
The highest rating in the catalog at 4.9, but on 44 reviews, which is a fifth of what the 3-hour trip has. The extra five hours buy the wider navigation of the lake. Take it if the weather window is tight and you want more of the lake rather than more of the same glacier.
- Duration
- 8 hours
- Price
- US$ 249
- Departs from
- Puerto Natales
- Price checked
- 2026-10-28
Read the full breakdownA 6-hour navigation to the Balmaceda and Serrano glaciers, the two calving glacier fronts of the Paine massif.
The two glaciers most people picture when they picture Torres del Paine, and the only trip here that reaches both. Six hours, US$ 120, and a rating of 4.7 over 119 reviews. Between this and the 3-hour Grey Glacier trip you have the whole water side of the park covered.
- Duration
- 6 hours
- Price
- US$ 120
- Departs from
- Puerto Natales
- Price checked
- 2026-10-28
Read the full breakdownA 12-hour trip combining the whale route of the Strait with the glaciers, out of Punta Arenas.
The most expensive tour in the catalog at US$ 365, and the one that runs the full length of the Strait: the narrows at Cabo Froward and the two angosturas. It is the trip that makes the map make sense. The 272 reviews are shared with the Magdalena boat trip, which suggests the same operator and the same guide team.
- Duration
- 12 hours
- Price
- US$ 365
- Departs from
- Punta Arenas
- Price checked
- 2026-10-28
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