I have done this tour several times. This is an excellent tour. If you book it ahead of time, when you get there, tell them you want a tour guide that really gives you interesting history of Cartagena or you will give it a bad review. Then, they will give you a good tour guide. All the tour guides might be good but I think if they see the people are not listening, they shut down a little because they think the people did not want to hear. Someone in your group needs to politely but assertively say when you are ready to move on. In other words, if they are standing you somewhere to try to get you to buy things and you want to move on, TELL THEM. You are paying for a tour, you are not paying to satisfy the vendors and buy stuff. I think there is a lot of beauty and history in this walled city and the tour is worth it. We also tried "the hustle" for the much cheaper tours with a group I was with in Cartagena and the guy hardly knew any of the history and it was not good. It was worth a try but this is a case of you get what you pay for. If you pay US$30 a person, you get a crappy tour. They are asking me with this review for attraction phone number and website and I do not remember other than when it is booked thru travel advisor it's good. I go in Jan. 2023 next and I will write down the website and local phone number.

The walled city of Cartagena is a nonnegotiable place to explore and spend quality time when visiting the city as a whole. It’s iconic, colorful, rich, and full of the most fascinating history you could imagine. See my pictures to understand how truly beautiful this quarter of the city is. Note: you’ll find plenty of salespeople in the area, especially by the clock tower entrance into the walled city, who will strongly urge and beg you to let them give you tours and sell you souvenirs. I must say two things here: as far as tours go, there are actually free tour options in the walled city. Hear me out: some tours require no payment. So basically anyone who offers you a guided tour for any price, even for 100 pesos or whatever, is ripping you off. Try the free tours and at least see how you like them! Secondly, as far as the souvenirs, feel free to firmly decline their sale offers. I am still very inexperienced with price negotiating, so I decided to just refuse all the offers without arguing any lower prices. Your choice either way, depending on your comfort levels. I hope this review encourages you further to visit the walled city! It is, again, a MUST in Cartagena. Enjoy your time!!!

The historical quarter of Cartagena is one of the most pittoresque and beautiful old towns I have ever visited, and it is a pure joy to walk around there and absorb the atmosphere. However, how I would wish that cars were not allowed inside the walls. The streets are narrow, there are horses and wagons, and there is a constant honking of car horns and roaring engines, to the annoyance of everyone - drivers included. Also the rappers who keeps hounding tourists, following them on the street while rapping aggressively about them, are a constant pain in the ass. We found a balcony on the first floor of a plaza restaurant to watch the steet life from above without the hassle. Some complain about sellers and hawkers, but most of them are not aggressively insistent, a simple «No Gracias» will do the trick 95% of the time.