Day 1 · Porto
Arrive in Porto
You are met at Porto airport and collect your hire car, travel notes and documents. Check in, then rest or head into the UNESCO-listed old city for a first walk and a taste of the local food.
- Meals
- Dinner
8 days · 7 nights
Port cellars, Gothic monasteries and the capital, then three slow nights on the Algarve.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesPick up your car in Porto for two nights in the port wine city, then drive south past Fátima, Batalha, Alcobaça and Óbidos to two nights in Lisbon. The last leg runs through Évora to Lagos, where three nights on the Algarve leave time for beaches and cliff-top villages before you fly home from Faro.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
Porto
Day 1 · Porto
You are met at Porto airport and collect your hire car, travel notes and documents. Check in, then rest or head into the UNESCO-listed old city for a first walk and a taste of the local food.
Day 2 · Porto
Spend the day in Porto's neighbourhoods. See the São Francisco church, the finest baroque in the north, and the Stock Exchange Palace with its Arab Room, then cross to a port wine cellar for a tasting. Santa Catarina street is the place for shopping.
Lisbon
Day 3 · Lisbon
Drive south with stops at Fátima, the great pilgrimage centre, the UNESCO-listed Gothic monastery at Batalha and the Cistercian abbey of Alcobaça, a town known for its blue pottery. The walled medieval village of Óbidos is another good stop before Lisbon and an evening in Bairro Alto.
Day 4 · Lisbon
A full day in the capital: the Jerónimos Monastery, the Belém Tower and the Monument to the Discoveries, São Jorge Castle and the lanes of Alfama and Bairro Alto, with the tile and coach museums if you have time. Or drive out to Sintra, Cabo da Roca at the western tip of Europe, and the seaside towns of Cascais and Estoril.
Lagos
Day 5 · Lagos
Head south to the Algarve, stopping in Évora, a UNESCO-listed town partly enclosed by medieval walls with a Roman temple at its heart, and in the old town of Beja. Arrive in Lagos to settle in for three nights.
Day 6 · Lagos
Explore the harbour town: the 17th century Bandeira Fort, the old slave market, said to be the first in Europe, and the church of Santo António. Lunch and dinner at the local bars and restaurants are your own to choose.
Day 7 · Lagos
The Algarve was the last part of Portugal taken back from the Moors, in 1292, and their mark still shows in the terraces, chimneys and whitewashed houses. Spend the day on a nearby beach or drive out to Sagres, Silves, Ferragudo or Cape St Vincent.
Faro
Day 8 · Faro
After breakfast, drive to Faro airport and return the car before your flight.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Porto · 2 nights
In or near Porto. Or similar
Lisbon · 2 nights
In or near Lisbon. Or similar
Lagos · 3 nights
In or near Lagos. Or similar
Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
Spain
8 days · 7 nights
Costa del Sol → Seville → Lisbon → Huelva → Costa del Sol
Pick up your car on the Costa del Sol and drive by way of Ronda to two nights in Seville. Cross into Portugal through Évora for two nights in Lisbon, then return along the coast to Huelva and the Costa del Sol for your last night.
Portugal
6 days · 5 nights
Lisbon
Stay put in one Lisbon hotel for five nights. A guided morning takes in Belém and the old quarters, an afternoon goes up into the forested hills of Sintra, and the days between are left free for the riverfront, the viewpoints and an evening of fado.
Portugal
6 days · 5 nights
Madrid → Porto → Fátima → Lisbon → Madrid
A guided coach journey that leaves Madrid for two nights in Porto, with a river cruise and a port cellar tasting, then a night at Fátima after Coimbra. Two nights in Lisbon follow a day among the monasteries and fishing towns of the coast, and the drive back to Madrid stops at Roman Mérida.
Pick up your car in Porto for two nights in the port wine city, then drive south past Fátima, Batalha, Alcobaça and Óbidos to two nights in Lisbon. The last leg runs through Évora to Lagos, where three nights on the Algarve leave time for beaches and cliff-top villages before you fly home from Faro.
Every trip can be shaped around you before you book.
Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
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