Porto Tours and Trips

Terrific local guides Your bus seats are awful They are the opposite of good ergonomics I experienced excruciating back pain by day 3. It lasted through both trips with you. It went away in the 4 days between trips and after the second trip finished I have no history of back pain and am physically fit and healthy and not overweight. The seats have no lumbar or lower back support. The curved edges force one to sit with rounded shoulders, which is the opposite of recommended posture. This places abnormal stress on the lower back. My husband and I had to insert rolled up clothes to provide adequate lower back support to get through the trip. Without this solution we were going to leave the second trip. We will never take another trip with inspired vacations again because of this

Packed itinerary, great walks in beautiful countryside, good variety of wine/port tasting - particularly enjoyed the smaller, off beat ones (hello Carlos!). Magdalena was a great guide even throwing in some extra activities and found us some great restaurants.

There were 22 in our group, 16 associated with a Sun City community and 6 who joined on their own. A very congenial group! Our tour manager, Elena Planas, was top of her class! So prepared each day with information on our stops/tours, all touched by her wonderful humor. She balanced each day with great finesse. Highlights were a dinner with Fado music in Lisbon - and eating pastiche de nata (or Belem...sooo good!); visiting a one-woman olive oil production in a small village in Spain (sooo impressive is she!); Salamanca; bullfighting museum; Douro Valley (stunning!); walking a small bit of the Camino (wonderful guide!) and sharing all of this with our dear friends. A wonderful trip. Shout out to Collette for helping with our return flight - we missed our connection back to the US. Not a problem with Collette!

A fast paced tour, with plenty of walking. Our leader Andreas was excellent, always going out of his way to book extra activities for group if needed during free time and giving suggestions. He was passionate about Portugal, enthusiastic, extremely well organised and looked after all needs in the group brilliantly.

could have used a little more free time in Algarve area but we had rainy weather so were not able to take the boat ride scheduled in that day so totally missed the water view which I was looking forward too. We also were never offered any substitutions for a missed attraction that I am sure we pre paid for with tour. Also Hotel in Porto was extremely uncomfortable accommodations, rooms were tiny and beds and pillows hard and difficult to get a good night sleep... compared to all the other hotel accommodations, this one stood out as not up to par.

Pablo and Bill took complete care of us and made our trip special. Both had lots of knowledge about the history and country of Portugal which they shared with us. Bill prepared awesome picnic lunches for us on three of the days. Much appreciated.