Portugal Family Vacation Review: Porto, Lisbon, Douro Valley, Obidos, Sintra, Cascais, Sunset Sailing, Tuk Tuk Tour, 8-Day Trip

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Gary B.

7.25.2023

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Which Country (Countries) did you visit on this trip?

Portugal

Your overall comments on the trip and the travel company:

This was our second trip with this travel company and it was just as good as the first! While our first trip was just my wife and myself (to Spain), we enjoyed this trip with her entire family. The travel agency did an amazing job at accomodating our large group (8 adults + 1 baby) for all activity, restaurant, and lodging recommendations. We could not have been more pleased with our experience!

What were the most enjoyable or memorable parts of your trip?

We all loved Porto! This is where we started our trip. Overall, we stayed 4 days in Porto and 4 days in Lisbon. We also enjoyed a couple of day trips out of these cities and had a couple of stops on our transfer from Porto to Lisbon. When looking at the entire trip, our favorite locations and experiences were as follows:

4 day in Porto & Porto Guided Tour
Wine & Walking Experience in Douro Valley
Obidos
Magical Lisbon Guided City Tour by tuk tuk
Discovering & Enjoying Sintra & Cascais
Sunset Sailing Experience

If you could take your trip again, what would you do differently?

There are a couple of things that we probably would have done differently if we could take our trip again:

We would probably skip stopping in Coimbra on our transfer to Lisbon. There was a ton of history at the University, and our preference is not so much of an indictment on Coimbra as it is that we simply wish we had more time in Obidos. Obidos was such an amazing village and we only had a small amount of time there. If we could take the trip again, we would certainly be okay bypassing Coimbra to spend more time in Obidos.
The other thing that we would consider doing differently is having less planned tours overall. My wife and I a repeat offenders of this as we always tend to overbook ourselves on vacation. Don't get us wrong, our guides and tours were FANTASTIC. However, by the end of the trip we were quite exhausted and wished that we had taken another day or two as free days.

Overall, these are very minor preferences that our group had but the trip as a whole was absolutely incredible!

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