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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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21 YEARS ON TOUR

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

JAKES MARITZ, CO-FOUNDER

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Highlights of Spain & Portugal route map
Classic
Rating4.7
9 days2 countries16 highlights
Highlights of Spain & Portugal

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

From£1,145
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Spain & Portugal Explorer route map
Classic
Rating4.6
15 days2 countries28 highlights
Spain & Portugal Explorer

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

From£2,035
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Taste of Spain route map
Classic
Rating4.7
7 days1 country14 highlights
Taste of Spain

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

From£935
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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

The reviews are in

4.7 out of 5209 verified reviews
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    Sun

    Phenomenal Tour

    My husband and I had an amazing time in our Highlights of Portugal and Spain Tour in September 2026. We were extremely fortunate to have amazing sunny weather daily that truly enhanced our experience. Everything was wonderful including the itinerary, bus accommodations, hotels and especially our tour leader John B.He was outstanding and made the entire experience a success!
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    Clo

    Experience of a Lifetime

    This was my first tour with Expat and definitely won't be my last. Marysol, our tour guide was the absolute bestest person and most knowledgeable out there! Her stories made it even more special seeing the highlights of our trip. I'd been to Spain before but did not receive the information that we did on this trip, making this one more memorable. The experience becomes more personal when knowing the background and history of what you're seeing. Extremely grateful meeting such wonderful people that made the trip so enjoyable. The laughs and the amount of consideration the people, our tour guide and our driver (Rui) had, made the trip as seamless as can be! Going home with many stories to tell!! Thank you Expat.
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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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Vero

San Diego, California
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We joined Expat Highlights of Spain & Portugal, 9 Days April 15-23, 2022. Overall a great tour to see Spain and Portugal by bus in 9 days. We loved all we saw on the tour, it's hard to pick a favorite. We wished we had more time to spend in Portugal. Honestly, Spain is not complete without visiting Barcelona, which we did post tour on our own since we could not fit in Expat Taste of Spain to our schedule. We were very lucky to have Antonio Veiga as our Tour Leader. He definitely made our tour even more special and enjoyable with his great sense of humor and ensuring we maximized our time. He helped make everything look seamless and organized. Optional Excursions- We did them all and they were all great, it's well worth your time and money!! Alhambra was a favorite, so make sure to prebook so you don't miss out. Hotels-basic rooms with a bed. Most important clean rooms with white clean sheets and towels. It was fine for a quick stay. Check ins were easy and fast. Paulo our driver was very professional and most important we felt very safe in his hands the whole trip. The bus was spotless, very comfortable with Wifi and USB charging ports. Overall we were very pleased on whats included on this tour, including all the included experiences and dinners. We averaged about 16,000 steps a day so make sure to take some good walking shoes to explore the best places by foot. I would definitely recommend this tour to my family and friends. This was our 2nd time traveling with Expat and we're already planning our next Expat Tour.
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Vivs

USA
Alhambra Palace
Spain and Portugal was absolutely amazing trip. We had a wonderful time from first day up to last day . John is the best tour guide a happy jolly guy as well as Diogo an excellent driver.Surely,we will come back for more 😊
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Scott K

Utah, USA
Antonio and Carl of Expat tours
Another Great Tour for us from Expat! Super tour director in Antonio Veiga, his knowledge and personality was far more than we could have ever asked for. Being Portuguese from Porto he knew every hidden gem of areas to go, not only in Portugal but Spain as well. Bus drivers were also very professional and highly skilled, amazing to see how well they maneuver the coaches in such tight spaces and roads. We even had one of the owners Carl join us in Granada for the tour. Expat goes out of their way to make the tours great! Great Hotels, Food, and a great group of travelers made this tour awesome, we can not wait for another Expat tour. The highlight was being in Spain for Easter and Holy week, how Antonio was able for us to see all the festivities was very very remarkable.

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