Portugal in Depth Reviews

A comprehensive tour with a very knowledgeable guide in Pedro. The whole itinerary was enjoyable. Whilst so many, the cathedrals and castles were stunning and scenery breathtaking. A highlight for me was Porto - it has been my screensaver for several years! A trip not for the faint hearted with cobbled tile pavements and at times challenging steps into ...read more buildings. Accommodation in Lisbon at the Hilton felt like a prison, stark black corridors on each floor with room numbers impressed into the carpet at the door. Globus we arrived early and you offered transfers airport to city for A$80 pp each way! The airport was less than 10 kms away and organized transport could be booked for A$40 a car each way - not nice. The group of over 40 was a good one - everyone mixed and proved good company. (GJ. Organised transfers offered by the operator will always be more expensive than local transport options which is why, if tour clients are confident travellers, we recommend catching an Uber or taxis in most cases. However, some clients prefer the safety and knowledge that everything is pre-planned and pre-paid before they arrive.)

Excellent tour from start to finish. Made new friends from California to New Zealand. Accommodations were very good. Learned a lot about the country, did not feel rushed. The Globus coach was very comfortable. Well run tour. Would recommend it to anyone.

Portugal In Depth was an excellent tour. We got to see so much of the country and I just loved it. Everything was quality. The guide was well informed and the coach was new. The hotels were all good as were the meals. A great tour of people. Just couldn’t recommend it highly enough.

This was a well planned itinerary visiting many places of interest. The hotels were of a very good standard and all were centrally located. The tour guide and driver were excellent and the included meals were of a high standard.

The accommodation throughout was excellent with spacious twin rooms. Breakfasts in all of the hotels was of a good standard. The coach provided was very comfortable and the driver was pleasant and skilled. Out tour director was extremely knowledgeable, friendly and very enthusiastic in showing us his country. We all learnt a great deal from the ...read more tour director ( Rui ) as he was able to answer any queries and questions put to him. He was at all times jovial, gracious and inclusive with all passengers.

Schedules were all adhered to and the days itinerary was presented and explained to us prior to departure or on the bus as we left for the day. Rui was very concerned with client comfort and went out of his way to point out amenities required along the route and offered a variety of suggestions for our free time. The local city guides were also pleasant and knowledgeable and provided us with plenty of local information, history and anecdotes.

This is an excellent way to see Portugal. The Tour Guide was very informative, if anything he spoke a little too much. The accommodation was very good some of the hotels were 5 star, not expected for the price of the tour.
The tour was excellent value for money and went at a very comfortable pace.

Really organised, had a great driver and tour leader and my fellow travellers were great. Saw some absolutely beautiful areas and sights. Dined both on the street and restaurant style. Was really looking forward to Portugal and this tour didn't disappoint.

Overall the tour was very good. The tour guide Rui was excellent - his personality suited the job. He was v knowledgeable, patient and responsive. We enjoyed his company and the group awarded him a medal for his efforts. The hotels were mostly good a couple in Oporto and the Algarve did not have air circulation or air conditioning and we had a few hot ...read more nights!

From the itinerary description we thought we would see Sintra (the brochure said Sintra district) but did not which was disappointing. Luckily we stayed on and saw Pena palace etc later. The tour group was larger than we expected but it was very well managed by Rui the tour guide. We enjoyed our holiday.

Our tour started in Lisbon on 29 June which was a perfect time as the weather was just perfect. We had no rain on our whole trip and saw some amazing places. Our Tour Guide, Uri, was very helpful especially as one of our travellers had a back problem and couldn't visit all the places so Uri just organised for her to rest up at a lovely spot so that ...read more she could take in the atmosphere at least.

We met some travellers from other parts of Australia, the UK, and America so it was a varied group and the coach was so comfortable and fitted with Wifi so easy to keep in touch with family at home. My favourite place was probably Lagos on the way to the Algarve and we could have just stay there for days and days but unfortunately we had to move on to the Algarve instead which was equally enjoyable too.

We enjoyed our trip travelling around Portugal with Globus. Our hotels were great and centrally located. Our tour guide, Pedro , was very organised and knew when we needed to get to a place early to avoid all the other tour groups. We had many nationalities on our trip, but all good fun to be with (only one other Australian). We particularly liked ...read more Lisbon with it's history of different cultures and it's many places to eat.

A comprehensive journey around Portugal that included all of the major and desired destinations. Highlights of the tour were Porto for all of its treasures, the Night Templar castle at Tomar, and the ghoulish Ossary chapel at St Francis's in Evora. This tour is packed with so called " must see attractions" and points of interest, and spaces them out ...read more very skilfully. If you're not beholden to Papists you'll probably find the visit to Fatima both appalling and indeed fascinating if you're interested in human nature. The various stalls selling wax candle models of almost every imaginable human body part and organ to be offered up in one of three ostentatious churches at Fatima is likely to fill you with disbelief, if not disgust, but as an example of MacReligion, upsized, you will find very few other exemplars to upstage it. Be aware that the ratio of wheelchairs to pedestrians is much higher in Fatima.

Hotels were largely comfortable and historically interesting apart from the Mondial in Lisbon and the very tired and smelly Tivoli at Carvoeiro, where I would have gladly given up the stunning ocean view for something more of the general Globus standard. The historic hotels at Viseu and Evora were a special delight. Think about arriving in Lisbon two to three days earlier, as I did. This will enable you to either walk or take a tuk-tuk up to Sao Jorge's castle, spend more time in the old town, visit some interesting museums like the Gulbenkian which has many treasures, and to use the hop off hop on bus to visit other attractions not covered by the short orientation provided by the tour. Overall, I found it a great tour that lets you dip your toes into Portugal and make many discoveries about this lovely little country of ten million people.

Another fabulous Globus tour. Tour guide Rita was simply wonderful. Sharing her passion for her home country, adding little extra side excursions to experience local life and treating us with regional delicacies all added to a memorable trip around Portugal. Her knowledge of the country's history and culture was expressed in humorous and entertaining ...read more tales. The tour was perfectly paced to enjoy all that Portugal had to offer, though extra time in Sintra on the optional excursion should be considered for future tours. Luckily I was able to return to Sintra after the tour and explore this beautiful town further.

Hotels were in great locations and some were absolute jewels, particularly in Evora and Tomar. Time spent on the Algarve was a relaxing way to end the tour in a stunning location. The hotel was in need of a renovation but we were warned that it was not the standard of all our previous accommodations and was chosen for it's beautiful clifftop setting. Meals on the tour were delicious and abundant! All tour members waddled out of our Porto restaurant...a feast to remember! In summary, I would happily recommend this tour as it showcased Portugal's diverse regions in a comfortable and relaxed pace. A big thank you to Hannah of Global Journeys for her timely communications. Always a pleasure to deal with a true professional. I look forward to booking my next adventure with her and the Global Journeys team.

Repacking and moving on can be a bit demanding with a coach tour like this, but Portugal has the advantage of short coach times between stopovers. It proved to be a surprising and rewarding tour in many ways: educative and interesting, as well as enjoyable. Portugal is a small country packed with cultural and historical attractions. It was an eye-opener ...read more to discover that this small country pioneered colonisation of the known world (and probably discovered and dismissed Australia as a worthwhile acquisition before any other Western navigators). Henry the Navigator was the first of a series of intrepid sailors and discoverers (or, from the opposite perspective, colonising conquistadors and exploiters). They ventured as far as India and Japan before Spain and other European countries. We did all of the optional tours and thoroughly enjoyed them.

Great tour, well worth the money and guide Beatrice was excellent, no nonsense and very informative!

We wanted to discover Portugal and its history and the tour enabled us to do this: it included all the places we particularly wanted to visit. The tour guide Pedro was very organised and efficient. He was pleasant and amusing, giving us interesting historical explanations as well as describing everyday life in Portugal. We felt in safe hands with Carlos, ...read more the driver, who was always patient, polite and helpful. All the hotels were comfortable and central. The Mundial in Lisbon was very close to the famous squares of the Baixa and the buses and trams. Although our only disappointment on this tour was the food at the hotel Mundial, where vegetables came out of tins and fresh fish was unknown. Overall, the tour was very enjoyable although the tour pace was maybe a little strenuous for the average age of the participants.

Our tour guide was Rui Veiga and we could not have had a more knowledgeable and congenial host. His commentaries were excellent and his information often went beyond the usual scope of a tour guide. He made the holiday in Portugal for me and other members of the group. A common opinion of Portugal was that we were pleased to have seen it but would not ...read more want to return.