Portugal's River of Gold Reviews

Emily, thank you for organising our river cruise. It was done efficiently and was very professional. We enjoyed our river cruise very much and the sites were exciting and interesting. Our only fault was that there were a lot of coach trips to and from, some were up to 2 hours travelling to get to a destination and a lot of free time to shop. Some of ...read more the smaller towns this time was too much. We did not realise this at the time. Towards the end it became tiring. After saying that though, the staff and food were wonderful. The length of the cruise was perfect and we could have opted out of some of the excursions but we really didn't want to miss a moment. Thank you once again, and we certainly would go through your agency for future travel.

The river cruise was excellent. Amazing scenery and places to see. Food excellent. Silver service package let u relax and not worry about drinks bill! Staff went out of way to assist. Very Professional operation. 1 lock was broken so schedule was rearranged so we did not miss any excursions. We missed the last day and farewell dinner as my husband was ...read more sent to hospital. Viking sent a crew member with us. He stayed with us all day to help translate and advise re hospital administration. Peter is still in hospital. So we will be in Portugal until he is fit to travel to UK. We were lucky to nearly have completed the cruise. Information re chargers: each room has quiet boxes charging for the guided tours. These also have USB slots so you can charge phones in room. We missed the Lisbon tour as our flight was delayed and taxi took us to wrong hotel, ( there are / hotels same name a block a part) but we enjoyed the day trip to Porto. Main negative was lack of local walking tours. Each day was a bus trip this was not really explained in the brochure. There was a small endless swimming spa so tell people to take their swimming costumes.