Aveiro Half-Day Tour with Moliceiro River Cruise from Porto | La Vacanza Travel

Aveiro Half-Day Tour with Moliceiro River Cruise from Porto

Duration: 4 hours
Destination: Portugal, Northern Portugal, Porto
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  • 4 hours
  • Porto
  • E-Voucher
  • Lowest Price
  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

A half-day tour will let you see why Aveiro is known as the Venice of Portugal. Despite having only three canals in the city centre, Aveiro is charming enough to become a life-long memory for those who visit it. You will also have the chance to pop over to the Costa Nova beaches and discover the typical coloured fishermen's houses.

What Can You Expect?

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Moliceiros Pier, R. do Clube dos Galitos 19, 3810-164 Aveiro, Portugal

Moliceiro trip through the canals of the Ria de Aveiro.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Museu de Arte Nova, Rua Dr. Barbosa Magalhaes, 9, 10, 11, Aveiro 3800-200 Portugal

The Art Nouveau Museum of Aveiro is housed in one of the most emblematic buildings among the heritage of this artistic current.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Mercado Peixe, Largo da Praça do Peixe 1 sn, 3800-243 Aveiro, Portugal

The fish market is one of the most emblematic places of Aveiro city center.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Costa Nova, Costa Nova, Ilhavo, Aveiro District, Northern Portugal

One of the major attractions are the famous "Palheiros", characterized by their colorful striped paintings.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Farol de Aveiro, Lgo do Farol 1, 3830-763 Gafanha da Nazaré, Portugal

Barra Lighthouse is the largest lighthouse in Portugal.

Duration: 10 minutes

Inclusions & Exclusions

Inclusions
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Driver/guide
  • Transport by air-conditioned
  • Moliceiro cruise
  • Private transportation
  • Entry/Admission - Moliceiros Pier

Exclusions
  • Food and drinks, unless specified
  • Gratuities

Additional Info

  • Infant seats available
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • A minimum of 2 (Adults) people per booking is required
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 8 travelers
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking

Departure Point

Departure Point

Traveler pickup is offered

Airports

  • Porto Airport, Porto Portugal

Duration & Voucher Info

Voucher info

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Duration

4 hours

Cancellation Policy

User's Reviews

Linda_T

30 Sep, 2023

Having spent the majority of our stay in Porto the trip to Averio provided additional insight to Portugal’s history and culture. Enjoyed the salt farming and seaweed gathering insight. Evy, our guide was quite informative and helpful.

jslavender

04 Nov, 2022

This tour sounded great, I booked it well in advance. Proceeded from US to Porto, Portugal and stayed in the Hotel. We were there two days prior to scheduled tour. The company knew the hotel, since they were picking us up there. On the day of the tour, not having excess to my e-mail we waited out front for the tour operator, no one showed up. Another tour guide was extremely helpful, and placed a call to the tour operator (BE Driven) for me that is how I found out the company had cancelled the tour. I went inside the hotel, called from the hotel phone and talked to someone apparently working for the company, hard to tell since there was children and household noise in the background. The man said they cancelled the tour because they didn't have a driver. Since the company knew well in advance of the date and time of tour, wondering why they didn't have a driver, he didn't know either. Just said, sorry it's cancelled. The company should have contacted the hotel, via phone and left a message for me, not everyone has a phone or access to e-mail in a foreign country. No, they didn't bother doing that at all. It should be noted, that I also used the company BE DRIVEN for a airport pick-up upon arrival. They couldn't do that well either, )see review). So my advice, if they can't secure a driver, can't manage a professional office staff or try to notify the customer, then the tour will be bad.

Mildred_T

07 Oct, 2022

Ana was my tour guide. After picking me up from my hotel, 1st stop in Aveiro was the boat ride giving me a different perspective of the town. On the boat, there was someone who gave us info on what we were seeing. The we walked around Aveiro and saw the street art. Finally we finished with a visit to Costa Nova and the colorful houses. Did not heel rushed. The pace was very good.

JordanaBlackman

02 Jan, 2020

This private tour started with a pick up from our hotel and a 45 minute drive to Aveiro. It's a lovely spot and we were quickly ushered onto a long "venice" boat... the tour on which was quite strange! It's 3 water avenues you go down with a few landmarks pointed out on the way, but it wasn't anything you couldn't have seen on foot and we would have preferred the walk anyhow. Impressive was the host on the boat who was able to explain everything in 4 languages. We would have liked to stay in Aveiro and check it out a little instead of feeling rushed to get back to the car and head to the next destination. The fishing village was very cute, nice to take some pictures but again we would have liked to hit up one of the restaurants on the waterfront for a drink (it was New Years Eve!). All in all, nice to see some spots outside of Porto, but there's probably a better and less rushed way to do it than on an expedition like this.

Annette R

15 Apr, 2017

Let me say first that our tour guide was great. Very informative, pointed out some very interesting items including the flamingos nesting. We were looking for a last minute 1/2 day tour while finishing up our vacation and thought this would be different. Well, we gave this only 3 stars because the area we went to, even though beautiful, for the hour or so it took to get there, didn't have a whole lot to offer. We did go on the canal ride but essentially it went down one way, turned around, went down the other way and came back. All in about 30 minutes. If you've never been to Venice, maybe you would enjoy it more. But besides the excavation of sea salt, there wasn't much to see along the route. Essentially the Town of Averio has a lot of new buildings that recently sprout up due to the football championship that was held near by at their new stadium.
So if you are looking for old, historic, quaint town, I wouldn't have stuck to Oporto, which we loved.

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