A waterfall cave. Taino carvings. Seafood after.

Book the Adventure Expedition if you are comfortable in deep water and want the rapids, the jungle hike to the hidden waterfall and the petroglyph walk. Book Pool and Waterfall for anyone aged 4 and up who wants the natural pools beneath the main waterfall without the rapids. A split group can book one of each for the same date.

Rough enough that the tier requires sneakers, puts a helmet on you and asks that you are comfortable in deep water. You move through moving water where you cannot always stand. The guide reads the river that morning and sets the line. If that is more than you want, the pool tier stays beneath the main waterfall.

The Adventure Expedition is sized for guests comfortable in deep water who want the rapids, so judge your child by that, not by age alone. The minimum age of 4 applies to the Pool and Waterfall tier. Message us with ages and how each child handles deep water and we will say which tier fits.

For the Adventure Expedition you need to be comfortable in deep water, because the rapids include places where you cannot stand. For the Pool and Waterfall tier you do not. It stays in the natural pools beneath the main waterfall, where the youngest guests sit beside a parent. Weak swimmers belong on the pool tier.

Sneakers on the Adventure Expedition, laced and ready to get wet, because you walk wet rock through the rapids and a jungle trail to the hidden waterfall. Flip-flops are fine on the Pool and Waterfall tier. Whatever you wear on the river comes back soaked, so pack a dry pair for the lunch stop.

No. The Taino petroglyph walk is part of the Adventure Expedition only. The Pool and Waterfall tier spends its river time in the natural pools beneath the main waterfall. If the carvings are the reason you are booking, choose the Adventure Expedition and make sure everyone in your party is comfortable in deep water.

Hotel pickup in San Juan is at 7:00 AM. The Fajardo meetup is at 8:00 AM at Farmacia Caridad #39, next to Ralph's Supermarket, off Highway 3. Both tiers use the same times. The day runs 5 to 7 hours and ends back at the meetup point or at your San Juan hotel.

Both are at your own cost and are not in the tour price. The morning starts at a local bakery for Puerto Rican coffee and fresh pastries. After the river you eat at the Malecon de Naguabo seafood boardwalk, where 30+ restaurants line the water and you order what you like. Bring a card or cash.

The local guide, the San Juan hotel pickup or Fajardo meetup you booked, the river day on your tier, and a helmet on the Adventure Expedition. The bakery and the Malecon de Naguabo are stops, not inclusions, so you pay for your own food at both. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before departure.

The guide decides on the morning. Short rain changes nothing. After heavy rain the day is shaped around what is safe, and if the tour cannot run, the weather cancellation is refunded in full. Nobody is sent into rapids the guide would not run, and the pool tier is the fallback for anyone unsure.

Yes. Charco El Hippie ends in the afternoon, in time for the evening Bio Bay kayak departure from Fajardo, booked on the operator's main site from $85. River in the morning, seafood at midday, glowing water after dark is a common east coast day. Leave yourself the gap in between for a shower and dry clothes.

Charco El Hippie is the full day: the rapids, the pools, the petroglyph walk and the Malecon lunch. The Multi-Waterfall Hike, rung 2, is four hours of pure river with more water time. Canyoning, rung 4, is harder: a private canyon with cliff jumps, body rafting and cable climbs. Pick it if this one sounds too easy.