Portugal Art architecture Trips

This tour was packed with sights, sounds, and tastes of Portugal, as well as much history surrounding the castles, palaces, cathedrals, and towns. The main tour guide, Pascal, as well as the Local Specialists were most informative and helped to make this a most memorable adventure. As advised in the brochure, a lot of walking was required, and it was worth it! My favorite location was the Ponta de Piedade, the sea-shaped cliffs in the Algarve, even with the 190 steps.

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.

Another brilliant Explore trip. As usual the tour guide, in this case Tania made the tour even better with her unceasing energy, enthusiasm, knowledge and dedication to everything you might need. The hotels were very good, in fact the best overall in the 3 tours we have done. The scenery was fantastic and the walks were varied in length and level of challenge. Eating out was inexpensive by UK standards which was a refreshing surprise as were all drinks from coffee to alcohol. We covered 4 islands on the tour and intend to return for the others

Our tour leader (Tania) was fantastic and worked tirelessly to make this holiday brilliant. Her knowledge, enthusiasm and passion for the beautiful Azores islands shone through and made this a very memorable and amazing holiday.

It was a very comprehensive trip, allowing us to experience the beauty of Portugal, get to know some of its history, and meet some wonderful people who love Portugal and are devoted to promoting their country.