Portugal June 2025

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My brother and his fiance's wedding is scheduled for 21st June 2025 just outside of Porto so my wife and I are looking at flights, accomodation, visa's, etc. At the moment it doesn't look like we will take our sons as the youngest will be just over a year old. We are looking at where else to visit/travel in Portugal, Spain, France, etc. where we don't have to travel too far.

Any and all suggestions about travel around Portugal and nearby countires would be great...
 
Neuk_ said:
My brother and his fiance's wedding is scheduled for 21st June 2025 just outside of Porto so my wife and I are looking at flights, accomodation, visa's, etc. At the moment it doesn't look like we will take our sons as the youngest will be just over a year old. We are looking at where else to visit/travel in Portugal, Spain, France, etc. where we don't have to travel too far.

Any and all suggestions about travel around Portugal and nearby countires would be great...
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There was a detailed thread about a Portugal trip earlier this year..

Can't be arsed to do the search for you now though, but you would find everything you need in there..
 
WAslayer said:
There was a detailed thread about a Portugal trip earlier this year..

Can't be arsed to do the search for you now though, but you would find everything you need in there..
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So I must do the search? This is why I started a thread on MyBB, so others can do the work for me, get your arse in gear dammit...
 
WAslayer said:
There was a detailed thread about a Portugal trip earlier this year..

Can't be arsed to do the search for you now though, but you would find everything you need in there..
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This one...

Portugal travel tips

Its that time of year again - planning the annual "work" trip. This year my wife's congress is in Lisbon for three days then we pop a week onto either side and were in Portugal for around 2 weeks. Not planning on doing another country so wanna focus the time in Portugal. Date will be last week...
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Neuk_ said:
This one...

Portugal travel tips

Its that time of year again - planning the annual "work" trip. This year my wife's congress is in Lisbon for three days then we pop a week onto either side and were in Portugal for around 2 weeks. Not planning on doing another country so wanna focus the time in Portugal. Date will be last week...
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Look at you, being a big boy and searching for yourself..!

That's the one..
 
Neuk_ said:
This one...

Portugal travel tips

Its that time of year again - planning the annual "work" trip. This year my wife's congress is in Lisbon for three days then we pop a week onto either side and were in Portugal for around 2 weeks. Not planning on doing another country so wanna focus the time in Portugal. Date will be last week...
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yeah hope it helps :) Loads to see in Portugal easy to travel and decently priced. My thread is super detailed shout if you have any question.

the TLDR post is here

Portugal travel tips

Safe and sound SA side will leave the tips etc when I have a chance. Will leave this as a "sneak peak" so long
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Neuk_ said:
My brother and his fiance's wedding is scheduled for 21st June 2025 just outside of Porto so my wife and I are looking at flights, accomodation, visa's, etc. At the moment it doesn't look like we will take our sons as the youngest will be just over a year old. We are looking at where else to visit/travel in Portugal, Spain, France, etc. where we don't have to travel too far.

Any and all suggestions about travel around Portugal and nearby countires would be great...
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Stick to Portugal and Spain, France is a place you can skip entirely.
 
Snyper564 said:
yeah hope it helps :) Loads to see in Portugal easy to travel and decently priced. My thread is super detailed shout if you have any question.

the TLDR post is here

Portugal travel tips

Safe and sound SA side will leave the tips etc when I have a chance. Will leave this as a "sneak peak" so long
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Thanks, reading through the entire thread as and when I can.
 
EADC said:
Stick to Portugal and Spain, France is a place you can skip entirely.
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We have friends that live there so may swing past, my wife has travelled a bit of Europe as she was an air hostess many years ago, I have done very little so keen to see a bit while we are in Portugal.
 
EADC said:
Stick to Portugal and Spain, France is a place you can skip entirely.
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Porto to France is a long distance so not ideal to waste a day traveling unless by plane. Beautiful country though.
 
Neuk_ said:
We have friends that live there so may swing past, my wife has travelled a bit of Europe as she was an air hostess many years ago, I have done very little so keen to see a bit while we are in Portugal.
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You have to go I just have a love hate relationship with France. Portugal is great loved it, I did a drive from Lisbon to Porto which is nice to see the smaller places in between, Its not big at all so driving is Manageable.

If you in Lisbon go to Romero great restaurant.
 
Neuk_ said:
My brother and his fiance's wedding is scheduled for 21st June 2025 just outside of Porto so my wife and I are looking at flights, accomodation, visa's, etc. At the moment it doesn't look like we will take our sons as the youngest will be just over a year old. We are looking at where else to visit/travel in Portugal, Spain, France, etc. where we don't have to travel too far.

Any and all suggestions about travel around Portugal and nearby countires would be great...
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how long you looking at you can easily spend 2 weeks in portugal.

We often stick to one country when doing Europe and spend 2 weeks there and 2-3 days per town area etc
 
EADC said:
France? only thing beautiful about France is CDG when you leave.
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Not an uncommon view. I’ll admit that my last visit was a long time ago but I long to return and take in more of it.
 
Paul Kemp said:
Not an uncommon view. I’ll admit that my last visit was a long time ago but I long to return and take in more of it.
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I did France 2019 and would skip Paris now

Here is feedback - not as detailed as my Portugal/serbia threads

France trip: trip done, my feedback!

Hey guys so the planning is progressing for the trip in August. It appears that the cheapest flights for France connect through Heathrow via BA. I will literally be jumping off BA and climbing on Iberia on the way to France with Schengen Visa etc. Do I need this thing? Direct Airside Transit...
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France trip: trip done, my feedback!

Hey guys so the planning is progressing for the trip in August. It appears that the cheapest flights for France connect through Heathrow via BA. I will literally be jumping off BA and climbing on Iberia on the way to France with Schengen Visa etc. Do I need this thing? Direct Airside Transit...
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Snyper564 said:
how long you looking at you can easily spend 2 weeks in portugal.

We often stick to one country when doing Europe and spend 2 weeks there and 2-3 days per town area etc
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No idea at the moment, we'll spend at least 3 - 4 days in or close to Porto for my brothers wedding, getting ideas of where to go and what to see before making final plans. We also don't want to be away from our sons for too long either, we would love to take them but that raises costs and limits what we can do and see as they are still very young.
 
Neuk_ said:
No idea at the moment, we'll spend at least 3 - 4 days in or close to Porto for my brothers wedding, getting ideas of where to go and what to see before making final plans. We also don't want to be away from our sons for too long either, we would love to take them but that raises costs and limits what we can do and see as they are still very young.
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based on this response alone I wouldnt go to any other country. as close as everything is in europe I realised when traveling less is more, pick a location 2-3 days then travel to another part of the same country just sooo much to see my thread has 5-6 locations I think
 
Paul Kemp said:
Not an uncommon view. I’ll admit that my last visit was a long time ago but I long to return and take in more of it.
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Its not that bad I am just being harsh, Paris was actually great second time round.
 
Snyper564 said:
based on this response alone I wouldnt go to any other country. as close as everything is in europe I realised when traveling less is more, pick a location 2-3 days then travel to another part of the same country just sooo much to see my thread has 5-6 locations I think
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Thanks, slowly getting through the other thread, I'll hopefully have more specific questions when I am done. One thing we have to figure out though is visa's, I am South African and British so have both passports, my wife is South African but has successfully applied for British citizenship although she hasn't sworn at the King yet so may not have her passport in time.
 
EADC said:
France? only thing beautiful about France is CDG when you leave.
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We went twice over last 20 years and enjoyed it. It has been a while though - just waiting for son to be 10/12 before we visit some part of Europe.
 
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