Top Panama City Layover Tours

Don’t pass up the opportunity to visit the Panama Canal during your layover at Tocumen International Airport. This half-day tour with a private guide provides you with flexibility to explore the sights at your own pace. Stroll past Spanish-colonial architecture on the narrow streets of Casco Antiguo (Old Quarter) and also see the modern side of the city.

Discover the best of Panama City as you embark on a sightseeing tour of its top landmarks. Alongside a private guide, visit several points of interest including the colonial area of Casco Antiguo, the Causeway of Amador, and the Monument to the Martyrs. The highlight of your tour is a stop at the famous Panama Canal, where you can marvel at this modern wonder.

If you’re on a short stopover in Panama City there’s no need just to sit in the airport. Get out and make the most of your time in this vibrant city. On a five-hour private city tour you have time to visit the engineering marvel that is the Panama Canal, drive along the Amador Causeway for great city views, and learn about Panamanian history among the beautiful buildings of the old town.

As a popular connecting site for travel to North America and South America, Tocumen International Airport (PTY) is a destination many visitors will stop at. Instead of spending hours sitting in the airport, use this layover tour to see Panama City’s popular attractions. You’ll visit the city’s historical district, admire the skyline from the Amador Causeway, and spend time at the Panama Canal before getting back to the airport with plenty of time before your flight.

Make the most of a short stay or a layover in Panama City with this handy private tour of the highlights. Customize the 4-6 hour itinerary to suit your needs and available time. Suggested inclusions are the Miraflores Visitor Center at the Panama Canal, the Amador Causeway, and atmospheric Casco Viejo.

Observe the monkeys during this tour from Panama City. Round-trip transportation from Panama City hotels included. Morning or afternoon tour times available.

Travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans during this full-day tour of the Panama Canal. With your local guide, explore the canal by sea and on foot, viewing the ships passing through the locks and the variety of plant and animal life on the canal's shores. Explore Gatun Lake and Monkey Island, home to howlers, capuchins, and tamarins. Stop at the Agua Clara Locks Visitor Center to get an overview of the canal's history through informative displays and exhibits. Explore San Lorenzo National Park and Fort San Lorenzo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and enjoy a picnic lunch. All activities, entrance fees, lunch, and round-trip transportation from Panama City hotels are included.

Take a partial transit cruise on the Panama Canal and journey through the Miraflores Locks. Marvel at this incredible feat of engineering as your ship is raised up to 54 feet (16 meters), enabling Pedro Miguel's lake to fill the chambers where the vessel is locked. On this half-day trip, enjoy Panama City sights and travel along Amador Causeway during the drive from your hotel.

The vibrant nightlife of Panama City, a modern city with skyscrapers, enjoy the sea breeze and the beautiful view of the city from the Amador Causeway, where you can walk in front of the Pacific Ocean and see the ships entering the Panama Canal. Panama. Walk the cobbled street, see the beautiful architecture of the Old Town, its squares and churches, and then enjoy its history and our gastronomy, in one of its good restaurants. There is no doubt that you will love this tour.

In this tour you get exclusivity since the guide will be only for you. Route flexibility, see a spot you like for a special picture? We can stop! Privacy, only friends and/or family members inside the car. Safety, the guide will always be with you. Why us? As a small, family owned tour business, we will povide our best since we want your satisfaction. You give us the opportunity and get ready for a unique experience to actually learn from the places we will visit, have a local insight. As a plus we are not looking for commissions so will provide you with accurate and honest information on where to buy and eat. Minimum 2 passengers as it is a private tour.

Got a layover in the Panama City airport? This 3-hour tour allows you to use that time to experience the Panama Canal including transportation and a guided tour of the Miraflores Visitor Center. See ships passing through canal locks and learn about canal construction and history before returning to the airport to catch your flight.

Layovers happen. Travelers in Panama City, Panama can make the most of that time with this 5-hour tour of the city, including the Panama Canal, from the Tocumen Airport. Watch massive ships pass through locks on the Panama Canal at the Miraflores Visitor Center. Explore the historic streets and churches in the hip Casco Viejo neighborhood. Admire the city skyline from the Amador Causeway.

'All Inclusive' entrance fees. During your brief stayover, we´ll pick you up, show you Panama City or Panama Canal and provide a great time. We'll help make your visit memorable and get you back to your outbound flight on time. Background: Panama is beautiful and rich in culture, heritage, and history. Panama is a small, safe country that connects North to South in the Americas. A travel hub, home to the famous Panama Canal & stable U.S. dollar economy. Panama City is over 500 years old. It is the oldest city erected by the Spaniards in the American Pacific. In 2019, Vogue magazine wrote: "Why Panama Is the Place to Go... Panama City—the oldest continuously occupied European settlement on the Pacific coast of the Americas— Ancient walls, glassy skyscrapers, and a mix of African, Native Panamanian, and Spanish cultures have all played a part in forming the frenetic “Miami of Central America."

Instead of waiting around Tocumen International Airport between flights, take advantage of your extra time with a layover tour of Panama City. You’ll gain admission to the Miraflores Locks at the Panama Canal before a drive along the Amador Causeway to Casco Antiguo. Your guide introduces you to must-see sights in the capital city and drops you off at the airport in time for your connecting flight.

Enjoy the most amazing fully guided bike tour in Panama. Our guides will take you to the most notorious places like French Plaza. Fish Market, The best Panama Sign spot, the amazing cost line with a stunning skyline view of the city, and finally the old town or Old Quarter or Casco Viejo.

Make the most of a layover in Panama City on a flexible, half-day tour that’s tailored to your schedule. You can see the city center, Panama City’s atmospheric old town, the Amador Causeway, Panama Canal, Miraflores Locks, and the Panama Interoceanic Canal Museum, while enjoying the security of a driver who will get you back to the airport in time for your departing flight.

From towering skyscrapers to a colonial-era walled city, you can experience Panama City highlights in just a few hours, but coordinating transport and tours can be tricky when you have a flight to catch. Make the most of a layover in Panama City with a private tour that’s tailored to your schedule and preferences, and designed to ensure you’re back at the airport on time.

Casco Viejo Walking Tour & Panama Chocolate Tasting Casco Viejo is Panama City's old town and a World Heritage Site. A local licensed Tour Guide will show you the most important buildings, squares and churches of Panama City's colonial district, while you learn about the Hispanic legacy and admire the European and neoclassical art of its buildings. After a brief introduction about the foundation of Panama City by Spain, and the events that led to its transfer to Casco Viejo, we will walk around the old town. You will have the opportunity to taste chocolate made in Panama (gourmet bonbons made with Panamanian cacao).

Our guide will collect you at 7:30 am from your city hotel, we will head the 7 wonders of modern engineering, the Panama Canal, the visitor center Miraflores visitor center (entrance fee not included) Then we will visit the former US fort and Canal Zone and US Governor office which is the current Canal Administration Building. We will drive and cross the Bridge of the America to take amazing picture of the city entrance and chinese presence monument. Time to visit the amazing open sky colonial and West Indies museum where you will learn from real Panamanian architecture and tradition. Finally, we will stroll along the charming cobblestone streets of Casco Antiguo . Tracing its history to 1673 and filled with splendid Colonial architecture, this Unesco World Heritage Site is today one of Panama City’s liveliest districts. There are Local and Indigenous arts & crafts at Casco Antiguo. We will bring you to your city hotel around 2:00 pm.