MagicTrain Tour and Port Wine Cellar Visit & Tasting

Foi uma ótima experiência que eu recomendo a 100%! A viagem é muito gira e informativa, e a visita à Real Companhia Velha é interessante e proporciona uma excelente prova de vinhos, é incrível!

This is a typical tourist trap. I fell for it because of the rain. The audio is not syncronized with what we saw. The departure was delayed by 15 minutes.

We usually avoid tours like this, preferring to explore independently. But my husband had suffered a knee injury just before our city break to Porto, which was restricting his mobility, so this seemed like a good option to see the sites. It really wasn’t! We paid €61 for the train/wine cellar/boat trip, which was way over-priced. The train, as others have said, was really uncomfortable, especially over cobble stones. The recorded audio guide covered at least four languages and was therefore never in synch with what we were seeing. We stopped listening in the end. Mostly the train part of the tour consisted of sitting in Saturday afternoon traffic. We could have stayed in London for that. The boat trip was … okay. No audio this time and it only lasted 45 minutes, not one hour as advertised. I am sure there are better river tours for less money. Only the cellar visit elevates this tour from one star to two. Our English speaking guide was very informative. But again we felt short changed to see that other tours got to taste 4 different wines and we only tasted two, with no explanation. And, while the tour itself was quick, there was a lot of sitting afterwards while we waited for the next train. This was a disappointing and underwhelming experience in what was mostly a magical visit to Porto. I would not recommend.