Free walking tours in San José

Jules is a great guide that enjoys sharing San Jose and the culture of Costa Rica. He goes the extra mile making sure everyone is comfortable and engaged.

Jules provided an in-depth overview and historical account of Costa Rica and mostly San Jose. He has a well organized routine that provided snack breaks and amazing highlights of the city. We enjoyed the tour and education he calls “Fun Facts”. Definitely recommend his tour. 👍

We had an excellent tour with Jules, approx. 4 h walk with history and culture information to Costa Rica and San Jose, a lot of practical tipps and to top spots in San Jose. A perfect tour!

Excellent introduction to San Jose, Costa Rica! Jules made us feel like we were walking with a local friend abd he was prepared with lots of food for picnic and bought us fresh fruit juice in local grocery stores! The pace was perfect, and he always made sure we were in the shade while explaining the significance of the buildings. I really appreciated the insider tips on where to go next. Don't forget to wear comfortable shoes and tip your guru—they truly earn it!

We had a very nice walk through San José. Jules showed us that the city is worth to be visited.

Could not have been any better. Great way to start your trip.

Jules does an exceptional job at guiding you through San Jose Costa Rica. This is such an informative perspective on the area, not only historical but local. Things to do and see here and places to see across the country. He doesn’t worry about how much time he spends with you and he makes sure you are set up for a successful Pura Vida Holiday. Make sure you take this tour in as early as possible in your travels and reward him for his exceptional level of effort, Pura Vida Jules!

A great way to see the highlights of the City with local food & beverage sampling, including a picnic in the park 😋

Tour gave a good overview of the downtown core, Costa Rica history

Great San Jose tour. Our guide was quite good with giving us many facts and interesting information on San Jose. He was very knowledgeable and explained in detail the history of San Jose. Loved his presentation and kept the tour interesting!

Jules spoke excellent English and explained to us a lot about Costa Rican culture and facts. He loved trivia to engage us which was fun. The 3.5 hours passed in no time. We even had a small picknick in a park. That never had happened on a Guru walk. We appreciated also that the tour was small. We were only 7.

Jules made an extraordinary tour for us. He introduced us to the culture and let us in on all the good things to know about.

Our Guide Ama was very passionate about his hometown and made the tour in our small group of 7 very enjoyable.

Fantastic tour! Thoroughly recommended.

He was fantastic, we got a good idea about past, present history, culture and politics of Costa Rica. Thank you.

David war ein fantastischer Tour guide. Er hat die Tour sehr unterhaltsam gestaltet, spricht super Englisch und ist sehr spontan auf Fragen eingegangen. Es gab sehr viele Informationen über die Kultur und Geschichte Costa Ricas, ohne dass es langweilig war. Wir haben schon ca 15 Guruwalks gemacht, aber David war bisher der beste Guide.

Ricardo knew so much about the history, places, plants and trees of San Jose. He was interesting and fun, great tour guide.

Great! David was knowledgeable and congenial. The more we walked, the better I enjoyed him. The end was very moving.

Jules was wonderful! so much information and he was extremely nice buying us drinks and getting tea in the park for us too! an absolute gem! the best guru guide i ever has

This was a relaxed and informative tour with well placed breaks and options!

Great tour, would highly recommend.

Jules is a very educated guide, we went though a few stores and passed by national museum and theater. I would've liked better if the tour had more historical data and more storyline. But it was interesting anyway.

I really liked the tour. A mixture of cultural and historical information and fun facts.

Very informative, packed with lots of fun facts and bonus refreshments along the way!

We've been on about 100 of these free walking tours, and Jules was one of the best we've ever had. He had great stories and anecdotes. Having been born in Costa Rica, then growing up in the USA before returning, gave him great insight into what Americans would find interesting. He provides free snacks at one stop and pays for generous free snacks at the other. He took us to places we might not have found out about on our own. He gave stellar advice on restaurants and things to do. He made San Jose seem beautiful and fun! (it seemed a little ugly and boring on our first day). Only two complaints: 1) he meets you in a vaguely described, crowded place where there are literally dozens of toursstarting at the same time and doesn't have an umbrella, a special hat, or any identifying features. He was late due to traffic and didn't make sure he had the whole group of people by name. As a result, he left behind half the group before he started. The other folks gave up and left, but he helped us to find him at his 2nd stop. 2) The info was a little basic for anyone who has already done some reading about Costa Rica, but that is part for the course on these tours.