Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Two hours on the Douro aboard a small boat, through the heart of Porto and Gaia - past the six bridges, the port lodges and the Ribeira waterfront, the city seen from the water. Small groups and an unhurried pace, with a local captain who has spent his life on the water: Olympic-class sailing, years commanding ocean-going yachts, and Master 200GT certified. Guiding in Portuguese, English, Spanish and Italian.
Highlights
2 hours
Offered in Portuguese & 3 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
2 hours
Offered in Portuguese & 3 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Alcoholic Beverages
Entrance fee
Meeting Points
Departure
Marina da Afurada
Meet Tomás at Pontoon B
Return
Sunset Cruise
Vila Nova de Gaia
About
Two hours on the Douro aboard a small boat, through the heart of Porto and Gaia - past the six bridges, the port lodges and the Ribeira waterfront, the city seen from the water. Small groups and an unhurried pace, with a local captain who has spent his life on the water: Olympic-class sailing, years commanding ocean-going yachts, and Master 200GT certified. Guiding in Portuguese, English, Spanish and Italian.
Highlights
2 hours
Offered in Portuguese & 3 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
2 hours
Offered in Portuguese & 3 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Alcoholic Beverages
Entrance fee
Meeting Points
Departure
Marina da Afurada
Meet Tomás at Pontoon B
Return
Itinerary
1
Rio Douro
We cast off from Douro Marina as the afternoon softens into gold. The Douro is the reason Porto exists, a river of wine, granite and light. And from the water you meet the city the way it was always meant to be seen.
2
Ponte da Arrabida
The first great arch overhead, completed in 1963 to a design by Edgar Cardoso. At the time the longest concrete arch span in the world. On the way back to the sea, its curve catches the last of the sun.
3
Alfandega Porto Congress Centre
The long granite façade on the Porto bank is the city's 19th-century customs house, now a riverside congress and culture venue. A reminder of the days when everything that entered Porto came up this river.
4
Jardins do Palacio de Cristal
High on the Porto hillside, these terraced 19th-century gardens look straight down onto the water. The original glass palace is long gone, but the green slopes and the panorama over the Douro remain one of the city's finest views.
5
Cais De Gaia
The Vila Nova de Gaia waterfront, lined with the port wine lodges where the wine has aged for centuries. As the lights begin to warm, the rooftops and the old rabelo boats make the postcard everyone knows.
6
Cais da Ribeira
Across the water, Porto's UNESCO-listed old town tumbles down to the river in a tangle of medieval lanes and tiled houses, the Church of São Francisco rising behind. The heart of the city, seen from below.
7
Luis I Bridge
Porto's great double-deck iron arch, completed in 1886 by Téophile Seyrig, Gustave Eiffel's former partner. Passing beneath it is the moment most people came for. And at dusk it begins to glow against the sky.
8
Ponte D. Maria Pia
your turning point upriver: the elegant iron railway bridge opened in 1877, designed by Gustave Eiffel's firm and the oldest of Porto's great spans. Retired now, but still one of the most graceful shapes on the river.
9
Jardim do Passeio Alegre
The finale. We drift back downriver to the mouth of the Douro, where the river meets the Atlantic and the palm-lined gardens of Passeio Alegre open onto the sea. This is where the sun goes down. The whole sky over the ocean. And the reason the cruise is timed the way it is.
10
Douro Marina
We head back in the blue hour, the bridges now lit and the city glittering on both banks, to step ashore where the evening began.
