This is the cruise everyone talks about! Enjoy a sublime day on the renown wine region of Douro: depart from Porto and enjoy the beauty scenic views along the way. Once in Régua, A magnificent boat tour that takes place everyday to discover the best that the Douro has to offer!
This day trip offers a cruise from Régua to Porto, including an wonderfull experience.
The Alto Douro Vinhateiro, constitutes the one of the most representative and better conserved demarcated wine regions in the world.
This trip gives you the opportunity to know all the secrets preserved in the Douro wine region, the essence of the wine at their purest state.
Posted By : S5008XAgustavoa
Wonderful trip with just the right amount of stops and great food and wine. Juliana Marco was a great guide full of energy and knowledge.
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Posted On : 2024-06-29 11:54:39
Posted By : Jennifer_M
Well organised trip, nice lunch (could have been warmer) , beautiful scenery, dams were interesting,
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Posted On : 2024-06-24 12:50:04
Posted By : Mark_C
Overall- nice slow cruise with great scenery. We had perfect weather- sunny and not too hot. But I could see how this would be bad with any other kind of weather. Nothing much to do except watch the scenery as it goes by. Would have been nice to have comfortable lounge type chairs with umbrellas, instead of plastic ones. Lunch was ok.
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Posted On : 2024-06-16 18:52:56
Posted By : cerizeeemonts
Maria was amazing!!! Very friendly, funny and knowledgeable. You can tell that she loves her job. Our driver Maykel kept us safe in the winding roads. We were very happy with the overall experience! Thank you so much Maria & Maykel for making our trip extra memorable!
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Posted On : 2024-06-14 23:28:25
Posted By : V6907AHteresam
This was an amazing tour with our guide Ana Alves. We lucked out with small group of 4, and were picked up at hotel in a nice, comfortable van. The Duoro Valley was beautiful, wine tasting at Val Moreira with lunch amazing. Ana was full of information about the history of winemaking. We had an extra surprise stop in route. The boat ride was lots of fun. This was well worth the expense.
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Posted On : 2024-06-11 16:00:10
Posted By : Scenic22821748047
Amazing tour with some great views. Enhanced by Orlando and Nuno with their music and good vibes. The history we learnt as we went was incredible as well and Orlando was amazingly charismatic
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Posted On : 2024-06-10 16:37:59
Posted By : Quest104828
The day started with a meeting at Sao Bento train station at 7:45. We arrived early to make sure we were at correct place. Unfortunately the tour company representative arrived 20 minutes late.-this was the only negative part of the day.
After some anxiety and several minutes lining up to check in. we were able to walk to a bus and boarded for our ride to Regua. The bus ride took us through the urban part of a busy Porto morning traffic, and left this area to see the many mountaineous areas on our drive to Regua. As we got closer to Regua, we started to see the many vineyards. Much of grapes are grown on side hills. Many are so steep that the land needs to be prepared in terrace levels.
Our arrival in Regua had us park along the Douro River approximately 90 minutes after leaving Porto.
We had a short walk to board our waiting ship to take us the remainder of our tour on the Douro River throught the Douro Valley.
The ship had 3 levels open to the tour group. Top area had seating both inside and out doors to sit and view all the sites on 6 hours on the river. The second level down was an area that would be set for our lunch and also available to sit after lunch for viewing on our cruise. When we arrived, we were assigned a table on this deck that was reserved for our lunch and for sitting throughout the cruise. The lower level had washrooms for the cruise passengers.
The cruise on the Douro river is incredibly scenic. Lots to see and take photos.
Many of the vineyards that are situated on the Douro River go from the top of the hills down to close the river edge. Some have elaborate terraces that are wonderful to see, especially if you have not experienced this before. Many have other crops mixed in like olive trees growing making these scenes very picturesque.
Lunch on board was very flavorful. The amount of food served family style on our table was more than we could eat. This was also accompanied by a cold water carafe, a litre of orange juice, and a bottle of wine for the two of us.
The cruise is capped off with the ship cruising into the City of Porto. Many companies offer City river cruise featuring the 6 bridges. Our entry in to Porto includes 5 of those bridges.
It ends cruising under the Ponte Luis and docking at Porto Ribeira in front of the Praca Da Ribeira.
We recommend that you consider doing this trip when you visit the area.
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Posted On : 2024-06-10 14:23:56
Posted By : Vacation282901
The tour was very good, the guides were excellent. Worth. The food was great. The driver Ricardo and Inés gave us very good service
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Posted On : 2024-06-10 13:34:32
Posted By : bensI8938OT
Good trip. Orlando really brought it to life and made it engaging. Nuno was really helpful when I needed help. The boat tour would have been better for having them.
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Posted On : 2024-06-10 11:51:38
Posted By : RosF256
Lovely trip. The scenery is beautiful and the dams amazing. The food was very good and the staff were very helpful. I’d recommend the trip.
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Posted On : 2024-06-10 11:35:18