Small-Group Douro Valley Guided Tour with 1-Hour Pinhão Cruise, Traditional Lunch & Wine Tastings

O guia Paulo foi super simpático e prestativo. As vinícolas que visitamos tinham vinhos bons, e até azeite de oliva e mel estavam incluídos na degustação. Os locais por onde passamos tinham paisagens muito belas, e ainda tivemos um plus parando em Amarante para provarmos os doces típicos da região. O grupo estava bem integrado e pudemos conversar sobre vários assuntos. O dia discorreu agradavelmente, como se fizessemos parte de uma família a desfrutar de um passeio juntos. Adorei!

As promised, full day of views, learning and tasting. Personal touch of driver knowledge and pace made an enjoyable tour!

I really enjoyed the trip overall, I think it is worth the value and absolutely worth booking. I'll start with the positives: The driver, Daniel, was very nice and attentive. He really cared about the people and was helping everyone engage on the journey to Douro Valley and back. The convenience of pick up and drop off is a plus given it is a long day. The multi layer view you get of Douro, from the landscape, to the river and within the wineries is like no other. The wines in the organic winery were very nice, interesting set up. Bruno on the boat tour was especially a highlight, knowledgable and humorous. Sadly, the negatives: Not picking up at my hotel even though it was a one minute drive, emailed to ask but apparently not possible. The quality/quantity of the wines was not the best, not expecting anything crazy naturally but was literally 1/4 a mouthful in each glass. Albeit some of the staff in the wineries were so nice and helpful, they could do with maybe some extra presenting skills just to make it easier for the people to understand. Another note on the staff in the second winery, super pushy for sales to a point of it being aggressive, threatening that you won't get them if you don't buy today and apparently knowing everything about Irish alcohol laws was a bit tedious. Very cocky and made it uncomfortable to be honest, even as Irish people but it did affect the American people with us. We did feel a bit unwell after the food, probably a bad day in the kitchen as the others we remained in contact with said the same. As I said, overall definitely worth the trip for experience but needs some touching up and maybe some considering on the wineries they work with to polish the tour up, as after all, it is a wine tour supposedly.

Learning the history and friendly folks willing to answer questions! Carlos Silva was great!

Your was authentic and the views were amazing. A must see part of the experience!