Affiliate Disclosure

The short version

Tour and activity cards on this site link to GetYourGuide, the one booking network live on Visit Porto City Guide on the date above. Hotel and neighbourhood links — the "see stays in this area" buttons on the where-to-stay and neighbourhood pages — go through Stay22, which forwards you to Booking.com, Agoda, Expedia or another booking site and pays us a commission on the same terms. No other network is used; if one is added, this page will name it and say where it appears. If you book after clicking either kind of link, the platform pays us a commission out of its own margin. Your price is identical either way, and clicking costs you nothing.

We are not a tour operator or a travel agency. We sell nothing, take no payments and act as nobody's agent.

Who does what

We compare listings and link out. The platform takes your payment, issues the voucher and handles customer service; the company named on the listing runs the actual tour, tasting, cruise or transfer. If a departure is cancelled or a guide fails to show, that is resolved between you, the platform and the operator under their policies — we have no standing in that conversation and cannot refund or reschedule anything.

Museum admission is different. Where the official ticket office is the right place to buy — Livraria Lello's time-slotted voucher on its own site, the Sé's €3 ticket at the door, Palácio da Bolsa's guided-tour ticket, Taylor's walk-in cellar visit and the Andante card for the metro and buses — the page links to it directly, with no tracking and no commission to us.

What the commission does not buy

Placement, ratings, wording. Nobody has paid to appear on this site or to be described in a particular way, and no operator sees a page before it is published.

The test is on the pages themselves: several of the most-read pages here send you to an official ticket office that pays us nothing, and recommend skipping a guided option that would. Where a tour is worth its markup we say why in the same terms — time saved, a cellar you cannot otherwise enter, a Douro boat you cannot otherwise board without a car.

Ratings and reviews

Every rating and review count shown on a tour card is the platform's own published number, read at the check marked on the card. We calculate no rating of our own, this site carries no aggregate rating of its own in its markup — it has no reviews — and we write no testimonials. Quoted reviews are short excerpts kept as published, with the source.

Prices

Tour prices here are the lowest adult rate on the listing at the last check, and ticket prices are the official rate on the institution's own page at the same check. Both move: platforms reprice constantly and Portuguese museums and lodges adjust admission by season and by year. Dollar figures are a gloss on the euro at the European Central Bank reference rate; the euro figure is the one on the door. The figure that counts is the one on the checkout page before you pay. When it disagrees with ours, the checkout is right and we would like to know.

The nightly bands on the neighbourhood pages are a separate thing again: they are the middle half of the rates a hotel search returned for one midweek night, read at the check marked beside them, and are there to compare areas with each other. They are not a quote, and they move with the date you pick.