Portugal & Spain Vacation Review: Madrid, Lisbon, Porto, Evora, Douro Valley, Sintra, Caminito del Rey, Alhambra, Hammam, Museums

Review by traveler

Dustin L.

4.22.2023

General Info

Traveler Review

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

Spain

Portugal

Your overall comments on the trip and the travel company:

Incredible experience overall with this travel agency. The travel company was easy to work with, communicative, informative, and curated an itinerary through collaborative discussions around what we were looking for in our trip and they delivered everything we hoped for & more. The travel company booked excellent guides in each city that we never would have found on our own. They also coordinated great accommodations and transportation for each city / adventure. Highly recommend!

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

We had an incredible experience in each & every city we went to and with each booked excursion. What was most enjoyable was the variety of our experiences and the guides who really helped immerse us in our trip / each place we visited through personalized & incredibly informative tours of their city as well as the various places of interest within. Most memorable parts were the quinta we visited as part of our Douro Valley excursion that was recommended by our guide, day trip to Sintra with our guide, hiking the Caminito del Rey & El Torcal, stopping in Evora, Plaza de Espana, La Mezquita, Alhambra, museum hopping Malaga, relaxing in a Hamman, and exploring all the remarkable history & culinary diversity of the "big" cities - Porto, Lisbon, Madrid.

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

We would book farther in advance so that we could iron out any finer details. For example, we would look more closely at the location of some of the accommodations to ensure it was located more centrally or in an area with less noise. In Sevilla, the hotel was located on a very busy / main road with a lot of traffic and with our room facing the street, there was a lot of noise making it difficult to sleep. Another example was the location of the hotel in Madrid - it was quite far from the central areas. To give us AND the travel company more time & options to sort out some of the accommodations would be the primary thing we would do differently next time around.

Travel Company Comments:

Hi Dustin, thank you so much for takin the time to write your trip review. I am happy to hear you had such a wonderful time in Portugal and Spain and that you liked all your visit with our local guides. I will pass on your kind words to all our team! Thank you for sharing your thoughts about the hotels, since it was such a last-minute booking we had to change some of your hotels due to availability, and your hotel in Madrid was not as centrally located as the original one quoted. It was a true pleasure to work with you to design your ideal trip to Spain and Portugal and I hope you come back to see other cities (you always have to leave something to come back). Warmest regards, Marta