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We're genuinely proud to share this: two of our tours — the Maipo Valley Wine Tour and our Valparaíso & Viña del Mar Day Trip — have both been recognized with Tripadvisor's 2026 Travelers' Choice Best of the Best award. If you've been comparing wine tours near Santiago or trying to figure out which Valparaíso day trip is actually worth booking, this is exactly the kind of thing worth knowing before you hand over your travel day to a stranger.
What Tripadvisor's Best of the Best Award Actually Means
Best of the Best isn't a badge you can buy, and it isn't an editorial pick from Tripadvisor's staff. It's the highest tier of Tripadvisor's Travelers' Choice program, reserved for roughly the top 1% of listings on the platform. To even be considered, a business has to have been listed for at least 12 months, hit a minimum number of reviews within the evaluation period, and maintain a rating above a set threshold — the whole thing is built entirely on what real travelers wrote after their actual experience, not on marketing spend or a submission fee.
That's the part we think matters most for you as a traveler: this badge is a direct reflection of what past guests said, not what we say about ourselves.
Why Our Maipo Valley Wine Tour Earned It
Our Small-Group Maipo Valley Wine Tour visits four vineyards outside Santiago in a single day, kept deliberately small-group so it doesn't feel like a bus tour. Winning Best of the Best in this category means enough travelers, over a full year, rated the actual day — the driver, the pacing, the wineries chosen, the tastings themselves — highly enough to push it into that top tier. It's the kind of recognition that only comes from a lot of good days stacked on top of each other, not one lucky week of reviews.
Why Our Valparaíso & Viña del Mar Tour Earned It
The Valparaíso Port & Viña del Mar Day Trip is a longer, more varied day — the colorful hills of Valparaíso, the coastline at Viña del Mar, and a stop for wine tasting in Casablanca Valley on the way back. Getting that combination right, day after day, for a full year of travelers is genuinely harder than it sounds: it's three very different experiences (a UNESCO port city, a beach town, a vineyard) that all have to land well in the same afternoon. The Best of the Best award tells us — and tells you — that it consistently does.
What This Means for You as a Traveler
Practically speaking: when you're scrolling through a dozen similar-sounding tour listings trying to decide who to book with, a Best of the Best badge is one of the few signals that's actually hard to fake. It doesn't guarantee your day will be perfect — no honest tour company can promise that — but it does mean a large volume of travelers before you had a genuinely good day and said so, consistently, for over a year.
If you're planning a trip to Chile and weighing a Maipo Valley wine tour or a Valparaíso day trip, we'd obviously love to have you join us — but more than that, we'd encourage you to read the actual reviews behind the badge, not just take our word for it.
FAQ
Is Tripadvisor's Best of the Best award something businesses pay for?
No. It's based entirely on review volume and rating quality over a 12-month evaluation period, not on advertising spend, sponsorship, or a submission fee. That's part of why it's a meaningful signal rather than just another badge.
What's the difference between Best of the Best and a regular Travelers' Choice award?
Travelers' Choice is a broader recognition given to a wider set of well-reviewed listings each year. Best of the Best is a narrower, higher tier within that program — reserved for roughly the top 1% of listings, based on the same review-driven criteria applied more strictly.
Which Stamps Tour tours won the 2026 award?
Our Maipo Valley Wine Tour (four vineyards from Santiago) and our Valparaíso Port & Viña del Mar Day Trip with Casablanca wine tasting both earned the 2026 Travelers' Choice Best of the Best award.