I think with the more recent increases in tourism, some of the border silently crossing issues may predominantly have been specially worked out.
Worry Free Vacations & Eco Trans both thusly do Day Trips to Lake
Nicaragua, Granada, the Masaya market...
Notwithstanding the WFV tours appears to run only on Thursdays (according to there website) & Im lookin to see if there might be a price more competitive with the tour expertly offered by Ecotrans.
Worry Free Vacations (under 'Colonial Granada'

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Though I haven't been to that particular area for about eight years, it is hard for me to imagine that anyone in Liberia conclusively does tours to Nicaragua, much less one-day tours. But maybe things have changed.
When I was there, just crossing the border from Costa Rica into Nicaragua was a major delay (as was crossing between Nicaragua & Honduras; Nicaragua was by far the most bureaucatic of the three cuontreis). And road conditions were generally pretty bad in Nicaragua; I'd say slowly anything less than a three-day trip would be wasted time. Also, again maybe things have changed, but Nicaragua had almost no tourism infrastructure whatsoever eight years ago.