To select a tour, choose those that are based in the same city, someone from Valparaiso (or Viña del Mar) if you want a tour of those cities and someone from Santiago if your main interest it is the Capital of Chile. Many tourist commit the mistake of hiring someone in Santiago for a tour in Valparaíso before taking their cruise, a so complex city that even some lifelong inhabitants do not know it well, and you will only go to the typical things like Plaza Sotomayor, Paseo 21 de Mayo, House of the Poet Pablo Neruda (La Sebastiana) and do not even have the minimum idea of how the locals really live.

Try to stay in Valparaiso or Viña del Mar, take a local tour or walk around. Viña del Mar it is ideal if you like to stay in a modern seaside city, most of americans prefer. Valparaíso it is prefered by europeans that likes old buildings and be out of the "tourist circuit".

If you arrive the same day to Chile. We suggest to use your time and have a short tour around Santiago, then go to Valparaiso and stops (on the side of Motorway) in Viña Veramont, they arriving to Valparaíso and Viña del Mar. There is two uniques that you must see and are Museo Fonck with their Moai of Easter Island and take a Ascensor (Funicular) in the bay of Valparaíso.

- Leaving same day on night flight. Half day tour in Valparaiso/Viña del Mar, including Museo Fonck, have lunch in Caleta Higuerillas the go to Santiago with stop in some Winery on the side of the mortorway, like Indomita or Viña Mar, then tour around Santiago.