Créateur d’expériences de voyages, locaux et responsables à Porto
Créateur d’expériences de voyages, locaux et responsables à Porto
Choose the trip, the date and the number of places. The boat is capped at twelve people.
Porto looks better from the water. The Gaia cellars lined up along one bank, the Ribeira stacked on the other, the six bridges one behind the next: it is the only angle where the whole city fits in the frame. Both our trips are under sail, on a twelve-seat boat, with a skipper who talks you through what you are looking at. Nothing like the big barges moored along the Ribeira.
Ninety minutes of sailing between the Ribeira, Vila Nova de Gaia and the river mouth. The skipper covers the Douro of the rabelo boats and the port wine trade while the house cocktail goes round the deck. This is the one to take if you want the view without giving up half a day, and it slots neatly between a morning cellar visit and lunch in Gaia.
Practical: 1h30, twelve people maximum, meeting point at Douro Marina, R. da Praia 430, Vila Nova de Gaia. Included: all fees and taxes, house cocktail, snacks. Private charter available at €523.
Two hours at the point where the light drops and the Ribeira facades turn orange. The boat runs along the cellars, back up towards the bridges, and the skipper takes the buildings one by one as you pass. Porto tónico and Portuguese snacks, in a considerably calmer setting than a cocktail bar.
Practical: 2 hours, twelve people maximum, meeting point at Douro Marina, R. da Praia 430, Vila Nova de Gaia. Included: all fees and taxes, Porto tónico, Portuguese snacks. Private charter available at €791.
Douro Marina, R. da Praia 430, Vila Nova de Gaia, downstream of the Arrábida bridge. Around fifteen minutes by taxi from the Ribeira, a little longer on public transport.
The standard cruises take forty to fifty people on a motor boat for a fifty-minute loop. Here there are twelve of you at most, under sail, with a skipper who talks and something to drink on board.
No. The skipper handles everything. You can take the helm if you feel like it and conditions allow, but nobody expects you to.
The skipper decides on the day. If the trip is called off for weather, it is moved to another date or refunded in full.
No, neither boarding nor the deck allow for it. Write to us if you have difficulty getting about and we will point you to another option on the river.
Yes, on both trips, and it books directly from this page: €523 for the daytime trip and €791 for the sunset one, whatever the number of participants up to twelve.
Departure is at 6pm. The trip runs two hours all year round, but the colour of the sky changes a great deal between December and June.
