Travel Review: Portugal Trip, Porto, Lisbon, Coimbra, Estremoz, Evora, Douro Valley, Fado Dinner, Walking Tours, 2-Week Tour

We thought the trip planned for us by our travel specialist and the travel company, was outstanding.  Every detail seems to have been taken into consideration.  We were met at the airport in Porto by an agent and shuttled to our hotel, which was extremely nice and located right in the center of the tourist district.  (All the hotels that the travel company booked for us were excellent, some exceptional.  A full and diverse breakfast came with every hotel.)  We were given a Hotspot so that we always had WiFi while touring in our car, which made communication with other cars possible.  We were also given a GPS which was pre-programmed with directions to our hotels so that when we got close to them, we could just select that location and the GPS took us there.  We had two walking tours, one of Porto and one of Lisbon, and both guides were truly excellent, well-informed, spoke easily understandable English, and knew how to pace it for us.  We also had a tour by van up the Duoro River valley where we did some wine and Port tasting and took in the incredible views.  We ultimately selected the cities and areas we wanted to see, but with input and recommendations by our agent, who was excellent.  As a result, we felt we got to see much of Portugal and came away feeling like we knew the country pretty well.  Our rental car was a Renault Kadjar, Black Edition, very nice.  It was delivered to our hotel in Porto and picked up at our hotel in Lisbon, so we didn't have to negotiate going to or from a car rental facility.  When departing our hotel for our return flight to the US, our travel specialist met us at our hotel...very early in the morning...and escorted us through the Lisbon airport, right up to the security check point, which made the process simple and stressless.