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Highlights of Spain & Portugal

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Discover the culture, cuisine and history of Spain & Portugal on a 9-day tour from Madrid to Lisbon, Porto and beyond.

Discover the culture, cuisine and history of Spain & Portugal on a 9-day tour from Madrid to Lisbon, Porto and beyond.

Tour overview

Start Point
Madrid
End Point
Madrid
Accommodation
8 Nights(3 & 4 star hotels)
Meals
8 Breakfasts4 Dinners
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Summary

Satisfy your wanderlust with this 9-day trip to Spain & Portugal! Start in Madrid and discover tapas, flamenco and ancient sites in Toledo, Granada, Seville and Ronda. Cross into Portugal, admire Algarve views, experience lively Lisbon and taste port in Porto. Explore enchanting Salamanca and Avila before leaving with lifelong memories.

Included

  • 8 Nights (3 & 4 star hotels)
  • 8 Breakfasts | 4 Dinners
  • Air-conditioned coach
  • Fully-guided tour

Everything you’ll want to Know

Where you'll stay

Hand-picked hotels throughout

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Day-by-day itinerary

Where you'll be and what's on each day

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Experiences

What's included and what you can add

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Our Tour Leaders

The people who make it work

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20+ YEARS ON TOUR

“THE BEST PART OF A GROUP TOUR? THE GROUP.”

JAKES MARITZ, CO-FOUNDER

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Highlights of Spain & Portugal

Travel on the 2nd leg of the combo tour to experience 9 days in Spain & Portugal

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Rating4.6
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Spain & Portugal Explorer

Combine both single legs into the full-length, 15-day combo tour to experience the best of Spain & Portugal.

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Rating4.7
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Taste of Spain

Travel on the 1st leg of the combo tour to experience 7 days in Spain & Andorra

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Tour Highlights

16 Included Experiences

  • Explore Madrid
  • Enjoy a welcome dinner in Madrid
  • Visit Toledo
  • Discover the delights of Granada
  • Admire the views from Puente Nuevo in Ronda
  • Enjoy a local dinner in Seville
  • Explore the streets of Seville on a guided tour
  • Visit the Algarve
  • Enjoy a driving tour of Lisbon
  • Visit Obidos
  • Enjoy a driving and walking tour of Porto
  • Taste Port
  • Visit Ciudad Rodrigo
  • Explore Salamanca
  • Enjoy a farewell dinner in Salamanca
  • Visit Avila

Included Experiences

Optional Experiences

Not sure how to spend your free day? Explore the city on your own, or choose from these handpicked optional experiences designed to show you the best of the region.

Unless marked as "Pre-Book", all optional experiences can be booked directly with your tour leader on tour, payable in cash or by card in the stated currency. Prices and availability are subject to change.

Tour map & itinerary

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Day by day itinerary

9 days itinerary trip from Madrid to Madrid visiting 2 countries

Start Point
Hotel in Madrid | 10:00 AM
End Point
Hotel in Madrid | 02:30 PM (traffic dependent)

Accommodation

We partner with a range of hand-picked hotels in each destination. The hotels listed below are those we stay at most frequently. However, you may stay at different hotels of a similar standard. 

All rooms are twin share with private, en suite bathrooms. Solo travellers will be paired with another traveller of the same gender. Single supplements are available upon request at checkout. A confirmed list of hotels is emailed to all travellers prior to their tour departure. To extend your stay in Madrid, click here to book pre and post-tour accommodation through our partner Booking.com.

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Sercotel Madrid (or similar)

  • Madrid
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Sercotel Madrid (or similar)

  • Madrid
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Abades Nevada Palace (or similar)

  • Granada
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Abades Nevada Palace (or similar)

  • Granada
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Hotel Porcel Torneo (or similar)

  • Seville
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Hotel Porcel Torneo (or similar)

  • Seville
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VIP Executive Art’s Hotel (or similar)

  • Lisbon
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VIP Executive Art’s Hotel (or similar)

  • Lisbon
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Park Hotel Porto Gaia (or similar)

  • Porto
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Park Hotel Porto Gaia (or similar)

  • Porto
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Zenit Hall 88 Studios (or similar)

  • Salamanca
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Zenit Hall 88 Studios (or similar)

  • Salamanca

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Traveller Stories For This Tour

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Nana1

Canada
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Great tour! Saw lots in a short time! Excellent tour guide , Emiliano was the best! As was our driver. They both were part of the group and very attentive…
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Argos

South Carolina USA
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Gustavo our guide was amazing! He was uplifting, funny, informative,friendly and would go out if his way to make you happy. There were so many highlights in this tour to list. Seville, Granada, Sinatra, Alcazar, Lisbon, Porto, there are just too many to list. Gustavo and our driver Flavio even took us to an extra stop to see Christ the King statue up close. What a treat. Can't wait until pur next trip with expat.
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RFS

New York
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Beautiful tour through Spain and Portugal. Our tour guide Emiliano and our driver Marcio kept us safe and entertained.
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Lady J

Australia
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It was an amazing experience! Our team leader Emiliano was truly wonderful , awesome and amazing, very helpful and a good team leader . He always made everyone comfortable and entertained. He's very knowledgeable with the history and culture of the place, providing us good tips and suggestions of beautiful places to explore! Paolo, the driver was also amazing and incredibly very experienced driver. He really knew his role well, navigating difficult routes and handling our baggage's in order. Thank you so much! Looking forward to another trip with Expat Explore!
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Justin

Toronto
Avila
It was a great way to relax and have fun, discover and understand another culture, try new food, visit the places that I used to only read in the magazine, meet new friends, and most of all, spend time to bond with my family. Pauline, our tour leader was great, helpful and shows genuine concern to us. When our daughter lost her luggage going in to Madrid, she was the one calling the airport and arranging for the hotel delivery once the luggage is found. It was a stressful time for my daughter, and for us, as she only had an extra day of new clothes to wear before the start of the tour but having Pauline there to talk on her behalf (we can't speak Spanish), made us all feel we can get through this glitch in our vacation and continue to have a great time. Luis is a great bus driver, polite, helpful with baggage handling - we never felt we were in danger when travelling even on very narrow roads. Bus also has wifi. We never had serious problems on the hotel we stayed - toilets are clean
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KAT

Australia
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We recently embarked on the Spain & Portugal bus tour, overall, it provided a decent travel experience considering its price. Here are the highlights of my journey. One of the highlights of the tour was the wonderful group of people I had the pleasure of traveling with. The camaraderie and friendly atmosphere among fellow travelers made the trip enjoyable and memorable. Interacting with people from different backgrounds and sharing experiences added a delightful dynamic to the journey. The tour leader, was generally pleasant and approachable. However, I did feel that he could have made a bit more effort to provide us with interesting facts and insights about the places we visited. A knowledgeable and engaging tour leader can greatly enhance the travel experience, and I believe he missed an opportunity to truly captivate the group with his commentary. Unfortunately, the quality of some of the hotels on the tour left something to be desired. Several accommodations were quite basic and
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SB

UK
Sevilla
Beautiful tour of Spain and Portugal, went as a solo female traveller and made some great friends. Marysol was amazing, energetic, kind and taught us a lot. Would've been nice to have more time in Granada and Porto but amazing chance to try each place out Loved seeing the smaller towns such as Obidos, Ronda and Toledo!
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G and V Aussie Retirees

Australia
Good bye to Spain
This tour was an amazing experience. Antonio our Tour Leader is quite likely the BEST Tour Leader we have EVER had with any Tour Company and we were very fortunate to have a Tour Leader in training in Emiliano, as well. They were both so full of knowledgable about history, the areas we visited, local customs, language and all sorts of extra things about their own countries too. They were both so kind and helpful to everyone. My husband chipped a tooth and neede a Dentist and Antonio just arranged it, as if it was no bother at all and then made sure my husband didn't miss out on any of the tour we had while they were at the Dentist. Beyond any expectation of ours. We just drank up all the history of these two countries …. there are amazing sights to see and more history to absorb around every corner and of course, as we have found with other Expat Tours, the people we met on tour were a great mix of ages, personalities and customs and all were delightful and interesting to spend our day
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Jo

California
The entrance at The Cadtilo De Obidos
Love every single day of our Highlighrs of Spain and Pirtugal. No downtime moments everyday is a exciting experience Always looking forward what next the Architecture, History Landscape wow pure breathtaking.
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Robin

USA
Just trying to see the World.
The tour was phenomenal. Marysol did an excellent job.
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Dan

North Carolina, USA
First stop!
This was a singularly amazing experience, perfectly timed and coordinated by our guide Antonio and expertly transported by Gonçalo. The early departures made for amazing photos and secluded experiences, the free time was perfectly allocated, and there was a great balance of walking and driving. Antonio was exceptionally talented and humorous, and the coaches were comfortable and just what we needed to travel in style. This holiday was the adventure of a lifetime! My family's first trip abroad was so full of experiences it will take a lifetime to remember them! I cannot wait for our next trip with expat, and fear that this trip set an impossibly high standard for our next experience!
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Katherine

USA-CT
Rhonda
Two beautiful countries with lots to see and do; great itinerary and optional excursions. I would recommend adding an overnight stay in Algarve even if that meant eliminating one of the smaller layover cities. Antonio, was an attentive tour leader and went out of his way to make it a memorable experience for us. Would recommend accommodations closer to downtown areas and upgrading the hotel selections.

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