There are 4 routes that stop at Isla Perro Chico, all leaving Panama City on the same day, between $114 and $149 per person. The island is the same in all of them: what changes is which others come with it and what you pay for that.
Sorted cheapest first. All include the 4x4 from your hotel, the boat, lunch and the guide.
On top of any of these prices comes the comarca entrance fee: $22 per foreigner and $7 per resident, in cash and once only.
It is the best-connected island in the catalogue: four different routes stop here, and they are the only ones covering the full price range, from $114 to $149. No other island gives you this much choice.
The $114 one is the Escape Day Trip, and it arrives with a single companion: Isla Pelicano. The $135 ones fork — the Panoramic Tour adds Diablo and Pelicano, while the Shipwreck Day Trip swaps Pelicano for Aguja and throws in the sunken ship, the one thing in this group you cannot see from any other route. The $149 VIP Package stops the most: Diablo, Pelicano and Aguja, plus the visit to the Guna community.
Put briefly: if you are coming for the island, $114 drops you on the same beach as $149. The $35 difference buys the shipwreck or the community, not better sand.
Between $114 and $149 per person depending on the route, with the 4x4 from your hotel, the boat, lunch and the guide included. The comarca fee is separate: $22 foreigners and $7 residents, in cash.
The day splits roughly four hours of water time between the islands on the itinerary, so no stop lasts the whole day. The fewer islands the route has, the longer at each: which is why the cheapest is not always the one that gives you least.
With a deposit, and the rest is paid on the day of the tour. Cancellation is free up to 72 hours before: you get 100 % of the deposit back or change the date at no cost.
Only the Isla Perro Chico and Shipwreck Day Trip, at $135. It is where the name comes from and the one thing none of the other three offer; if the sunken ship is what you are coming to see, that route has no cheaper substitute.
It depends on whether the Guna community interests you. The $35 buys two more islands and that visit, not more time on Perro Chico. If the plan is beach and snorkelling, the $114 Escape Day Trip reaches exactly the same place.