Experience In The Douro: Tua De Rabelo, Quinta, Tasting And Lunch

Our boat guides were Diego and Kalil, they were both great, provided informative entertaining tour on the river. Afterwards we were picked up by Simon, he was also a great guide. The two wine tasting tours were excellent, the train station tour and Miradouro stop with Simon was also excellent. The only negative was the lunch. The service was good but the food was very sub-par. We had three options (if you have food intolerances or vegan etc) you won’t have any options. The lunch brings the rating to a 4 star, otherwise it would have been 5 stars. Also, nice small group. 8 in our van, and we toured the day with two other vans for a total of about 18 people. Despite the poor lunch, I would still recommend this.

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We had such a lovely day. It was quite warm and Simon the guide was mindful and attentive to park in shady spots and run the AC. He was extremely informative and answered all our questions. I enjoyed the two hour boat ride and the train station art information. Lunch was a good deal and the outlook was stunning. Thank you for this opportunity!!

The combination of a boat ride on the river, a delicious local lunch in Pinhão and a tasting tour at Crofts made for an exciting and fun day. Our guide Simon was great - energetic, knowledgeable and entertaining.

Tour operator, Douro Tour, could care less about your experience. Boat tour "guide" was a recorded message on a loop. The only time we saw an employee was as he delivered 1/2 ounce pours of bad tasting cheap port wine. No safety message, no explanation of life saving devices, you are on your own during an emergency. Next stop, Croft winery, or as I call it Crap Winery. Bad wine monotone scripted tour that consisted of a 100 meter walk and back. The tasting was low end. The lunch was the worst bowl of gruel I have had during my two week trip to this beautiful country. Just when I thought it couldn't get worse, our driver caused an accident. 40 minutes stranded and we missed the train station tour. No offer of a discount or any other compensation. My wife had saftey glass all over her from the blown out back window. This was no fender bender. What an awful way to drop over $300.00.

Relaxed pace, beautiful views both from the river and from the top of the hill looking over the valley, excellent lunch and the tour of Croft was both informative and picturesque.

It was a great tour. Luis was a great and knowledgeable host/guide. The boat ride was so beautiful and the two who skippered the boat were also great. The lunch provided by Manuela was outstanding! I love her. The wine tasting was fabulous as well. Such a beautiful area and the vineyards and winery were something out of a novel. Family owned. Our host at the winery while the owner was away was so impressive. His English was so good in spite of the fact that he learned it only in a few months. (Wish I could remember his name)

We had one of the best tour guides and the most enjoyable tours we ever experienced. Angie was knowledgeable, engaging, and responsive to our questions and our interests. Her English is excellent on any topic and our interactions could range across a wide range of topics. Her knowledge goes beyond the Douro region, encompasses economics, geography, culture, history and more. She had the right balance between talking, listening, allowing time to absorb, ask questions, be on our own and interact with other providers and guests. Her relationship with the other tour guides, restaurant owners was positive and effective. We felt so very fortunate to have met her. We experienced problems when we were booking and the team at Douro recognized that we’d booked twice on the same day and contacted us to clarify and ensure we didn’t pay twice and that we got on the time slot we needed. They could have easily ignored that and we’d have paid twice. Such great customer service.

An AMAZING day! Paulo our driver and guide was informative, polite, professional while Kalil and Gugu were humourous boat tour fellas! Would definitely recommend if you want to see stunning views, enjoy the magnificent ambiance of two wineries! We especially enjoyed the quaint small group of just 4 couples - intimate and a chance to make new acquaintances and friends!

An amazing tour with gorgeous views. We had a great time with GuGu and Bruno and would come again in a heartbeat! It was just the right combination of instructional and relaxed.

Well prepared guys, amazing places and nice experience. And of course very good homemade Porto at 10.30 in the morning.

Pedro was the best tour guide we had during our trip to Portugal! He made our Private Duoro Valley tour and amazing day. We enjoyed visiting two family owned quintas. The personal tour at the first Quinta was wonderful . We loved the delicious lunch with a beautiful view at the second Quinta. We ended the day with a pleasant River cruise. Pedro was knowledgeable, entertaining and so much fun to be with. He made this our favorite day in Portugal! We highly recommend taking this tour with Pedro.

We had a wonderful day with Douro Tours - we got a little bit of everything: learned about and tasted port wine, visited a few vineyards, had a lovely lunch, had a 1 hr boat trip and learned a bit of the history of the region. The real treat was our guide Angela - she was enthusiastic, warm, clear and knowledgeable. She was fantastic!

The driver Simon was very kind, a very professional guy in his work, he explained many things to us about the environment we were in

A very positive experience

I repeated again, and the way I do the tours, I make the complete tour with stops at the miradouros to take photos tasting in a farm with 60 hectares of vineyards with excellent guided tour

The river cruise was very nice and entertaining. The audio guide was exciting. The staff should be equally friendly and attentive to all guests—not just to the Portuguese, which was strange... The subsequent tour, with a very good lunch in a lively yet cozy environment, a great port wine tasting with interesting information, a visit to the train station in Pinhão, and a drive to the panoramic viewpoint, was beautiful and an unforgettable experience thanks to our guide Simon! He made our day!

Exactly as I imagined! Simply perfect!