Sintra or Cascais Half-day Private Tour - The real portuguese essence!
Description
Sintra and Cabo da Roca or Cascais, why renting a car to go around lost, when you have a local guide driving you on the coast line to the best gems, meeting the real portuguese people! (The half-day day tour, you take 1 hour to go and 1 to comeback to Lisbon, you have 2/3 hours to manage and spend where you want, Cascais or Sintra) - you can also add time later ! This tour is 100% PRIVATE & customizable at your taste, so you are the boss. Take a rest and see the best ! We know the ways to skip the lines for you to enjoy the best out of your time! We have modern vans reserved just for you, your friends and family. From the pick-up time to the stop-points, you decide where to go and what to skip, managing the time as you wish (unlike the group tours) A lot of the places are UNESCO protected places, for being patrimonium of the world. From the monuments, to forest, to beach, to the local restaurants full of the best, of course you go in a tourist, and leave 100% local. Let's go!
Tour Options
Itinerary
If you wish to stop at Pena Palace, you can decide if and how long you want to stay at the stunning gardens of the almost 200 acres of lush exotic gardens and rivers with species from all over the world or also see the palace. If you wish to pass by the fairy-tail palace from the XIX century, designed to be the lush summer home of the portuguese royalty, we facilitate access to the tickets to the inside and outside of the palace! With stunning views over the valley of Sintra-Cascais, you can see all the way until the coast-line (where we'll go next, after the Masonic Well at Regaleira!) At the palace you also have a nice caffe where you can have a bite!
This Mourish Castle is located in the middle of the Sintra foorest! Well-built on the top of a mountain. The castle itself has more than 1000 years! We stop there and go when you ready.
Here we taste the good sweets and drinks, made by local friends! Also here we make a pause for lunch if you need. We stop there and go when you ready.
The closest point to the Americas in Europe, here you are at the extreme west, where before there were temples of meditation ! In here you can even get a certificate by the cityhall saying that you were at the most west point of europe! We stop there and go when you ready.
Cascais the famous up-scale beachtown that everyone wants to visit and where many want to move-in! Here, the huge bombs of water in each storm carved a huge cave in the rocks of the beach, which now we call in portuguese Mouth of Inferno. We stop there and go when you ready.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
The pick-up & drop-off personalized by you, as well as the time of pick-up. You can also go to the meeting point "Largo do Regedor", choose what is best for you!
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(24)
Our guide Pedro was so great… he was so knowledgeable about the country and all its history .He was so informative. Sintra and Cascais are both worth seeing as well as a tuk tuk around the city. It’s beautiful!
Nico was an amazing guide. So knowledgable and interesting we had the best day visiting Sintra and Cascáis. Highly recommend a tour with him
Sintra was great but the best part was the tour guide Pedro. He helped us understand the history, kept it fun and interesting, got us the local pastries and had so many great insider tips. Fabulous experience all around.
Nico was an amazing tour guide. He treated us like family from the moment he met us. He provided a completely customized tour and was very flexible in designing a route that worked for us from the beautiful castles of Sintra to the beauty of Cascais. Obrigado Nico!!
I don’t think I could be much more disappointed. But the tour that is the topic of this post was NOT a private guided tour. It was a glorified cab ride. In essence, you get a private driver but NO tour. He took us to the entry point for Sintra, then left us to wander on our own. No added value whatsoever. No information. No commentary. He went to get a couple of local pastries (which were nice) but pastries are a far cry from 4 hours of valuable, interesting information. After we left Sintra, he took us to a “typical Portuguese Sunday market”, which was what we would call a “flea market” or “garage sale” in a parking lot. Used potty seats, unwanted clothes and shoes and dishes…I cannot fathom the reason he took us there. Again, he waited with the car - due to where he parked, but I think based on the Sintra experience he would not have walked with us anyhow. Finally, we were dropped off at the airport, 30 minutes early. We paid, for an adult and child, 220 Euros for a driver for 3.5 hours. NOT a private guided tour of 4 hours. I have been on “private guided tours” before - in fact, the most recent was just 2 days before this one. On the other tour, for a total cost of 130 Euros, the guide was with us the entire time, sharing the history of the site, answering questions with ease, and the 4 hour tour ended up being about 4h20 before we parted. The only time he left our side was for a 10 minute stop at a souvenir shop. It was consistent with our prior private tour experiences and enriched our experience so much that we wanted to do the same on our layover in Lisbon. I recommend you do better research than I did and choose a different “tour” for your precious layover time.
Hi there! Unfortunately what happened was that you arrived to the car angry because like you said you were "very upset with the airport service and up since 2:30AM" After that you told the guide, when he was explaining lisbon's history on the way out of the airport to "shut up because you were texting", wich the guide understood that you didn't want explanations so he was only answering to your questions after that and not freely speaking to not upset you. When you arrived to the Palace the guide asked you if you wished to be escorted and you said no, that you preferred to go alone with your daughter. The "garage sell" is the most traditional market of sintra, and that shows your disrespect for our traditions. And don't forget you wanted to leave sintra earlier because like you said you were "done with it" Obrigado
Peter was knowledgeable and a great tour guide. He was very professional and amiable. I really appreciate his services.
Tour guide Pedro was amazing! Extremely knowledgeable and had a wonderful sense of humor. He made the trip extra special!
If you visit Lisbon this tour is an absolute must. So beautiful and our tour guide Niko, was fabulous. So knowledgeable and accommodating!
First off hats off to Viator by phone. Their operator found us a last minute private tour. When the driver got stuck in traffic, the tour operator sprung into action and got us a replacement a couple of hours later. “John” was very nice and took us around in a beautiful car. We enjoyed our experience. Would have given it a 5 if he talked more about the sights and less about himself.
We had such a great trip to sintra with Niko! Niko worked with our schedule and having to adjust the tour time to work with our travel schedule and gave us such a wonderful day! Definitely recommend! He was very knowledgeable and really tailored the day to our preferences.
