Douro, Porto and Salamanca River Cruise - JWT Travel

Douro, Porto and Salamanca River Cruise

New
  • 3 April 2025
  • 7 Nights
  • From €2,299 Per Person
  • Dublin
  • MS Douro Elegance
Discover one of Europe’s best kept secrets and most undiscovered corners on our Douro, Porto and Salamanca River Cruise. Explore the sleepy villages and medieval towns unchanged for centuries, amongst the breathtaking rolling hills and terraced vineyard slopes of the stunning Douro Valley.

Commencing in the Roman city of Porto, the home of Port wine, Portugal’s once wild river Douro has been tamed by locks into resembling a series of finger lakes, adding greatly to the valley’s ambience.

Leaving behind the Atlantic influenced greenery of the coast, you are soon immersed in a land of olives, vines, and picturesque, medieval hilltop villages. Our destination is the higher reaches of the valley from where we visit Salamanca – home of one of Europe’s oldest universities, two of its finest cathedrals, Spain’s finest city square and even the Inquisition!

You will adore the away-from-it-all experience and visit some of Iberia’s most beautiful medieval towns, monasteries and vineyards, and feel you have been away for months!

Douro, Porto and Salamanca River Cruise departs weekly from April – October 2025

Talk to the JWT Cruises experts to book your place on the Douro, Porto and Salamanca Rive Cruise with 5* Riviera Travel.

 

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Douro, Porto and Salamanca River Cruise

Discover one of Europe’s best kept secrets and most undiscovered corners on our Douro, Porto and Salamanca River Cruise. Explore the sleepy villages and medieval towns unchanged for centuries, amongst the breathtaking rolling hills and terraced vineyard slopes of the stunning Douro Valley.

Commencing in the Roman city of Porto, the home of Port wine, Portugal’s once wild river Douro has been tamed by locks into resembling a series of finger lakes, adding greatly to the valley’s ambience.

Leaving behind the Atlantic influenced greenery of the coast, you are soon immersed in a land of olives, vines, and picturesque, medieval hilltop villages. Our destination is the higher reaches of the valley from where we visit Salamanca – home of one of Europe’s oldest universities, two of its finest cathedrals, Spain’s finest city square and even the Inquisition!

You will adore the away-from-it-all experience and visit some of Iberia’s most beautiful medieval towns, monasteries and vineyards, and feel you have been away for months!

Douro, Porto and Salamanca River Cruise departs weekly from April – October 2025

Talk to the JWT Cruises experts to book your place on the Douro, Porto and Salamanca Rive Cruise with 5* Riviera Travel.

 

Itinerary

DOURO, PORTO AND SALAMANCA RIVER CRUISE ITINERARY

Day 1 – Fly to Lisbon or Porto , where we’ll meet and transfer you to your five-star cruise ship in Porto

Day 2 – Mateus Palace

As dawn breaks over Porto the adventure begins as our elegant vessel commences her stately passage upstream. We will cruise into the small town of Peso da Régua, from where we visit the grounds of the splendid Mateus Palace

Day 3 – Castelo Rodrigo

This afternoon we visit Castelo Rodrigo, a delightful 12th-century walled village tucked away in the picturesque highland ranges bordering Spain

Day 4 – Salamanca

Today we visit historic Salamanca, one of the many UNESCO World Heritage Sites on this journey, regarded by many Spaniards as their nation’s most beautiful city and home to one of the country’s oldest Universities.

Day 5 – Peso Da Regua

Enjoy a visit to a local historic quinta to learn all about the stages of wine production, from the planting of the vines, harvesting, the wine-making process and finally tasting and labelling

Day 6 – Lamego

This morning after breakfast we take a short drive to historic Lamego, home of Portugal’s sparkling wine, Raposeira

Day 7 – Porto

Porto is of course synonymous with wonderful port wine and all the famous port producers are here, such as Cálem, Sandeman and Ferreira, so a visit here would not be complete without a tour of one of them

Day 8  – Transfer to airport for flight home

Prices are per person, based on two people sharing a twin cabin (lower deck) with a limited number of sole occupancy cabins available on all decks, at the relevant supplement. The price includes:

  • Return flights from Dublin
  • All meals on board – from dinner on your day of arrival until breakfast on your final day – including welcome cocktails and the Captain’s dinner.
  • Complimentary on-board tea and coffee
  • All visits and excursions as mentioned
  • Airport/station transfers
  • Coach travel as mentioned
  • Complimentary WIFI on board
  • The services of a Riviera Travel cruise director
  • Operates weekly from April until October 2025
  • The Ship will differ depending on dates but all are Riviera 5* standard
  • Why not extend your stay in Porto, talk to your JWT Cruise experts for more information
  • Subject to availability, T&C’s apply

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