Premiere Tours - Portugal

We had an excellent, private tour today with Pedro from Premiere Tours. He picked us up from our Lisbon hotel in a very comfortable Mercedes sedan for a full day trip to Sintra and the coast. Pedro is a great driver, informative, and engaging with a fun sense of humor. During the day, he shared a lot of Portugal and Lisbon’s history with us. We also had interesting conversations about family and daily life. That personal touch made is what made the tour special. Despite the rain, we were able to visit the Peña Palace and the National Palace. We also visited the beach towns of Estoril and Cascais. We especially liked going out to lunch at Estrela de Serra with Pedro and stopping at Boca Inferno for a great photo op. We highly recommend Premiere Tours and Pedro for your customized day trips.

Thanks to Paulo and Jorge I had seen parts of the beautiful Portugal during my 4 days tour.

I’m very fortunate to have Paulo to take me to Porto, the Douro Valley Minho and Lisbon. We always use private tour guides around the world when we travel, and Paulo is one the best I ever met who always put his client interests first and would go the extra miles to deliver my requests. I have never met a tour guide so genuinely honest and passionate about making the clients happy. Paulo is also a generous man with his time, he would never rush me even that would mean working overtime for him. He let me enjoyed the moments in each place at my own pace. We also had very good engaging conversations of different subjects like good friends would do. When we arrived at Lisbon, Paulo’s hometown, he educated me with all these wonderful stories of Lisbon that really opened my eyes. I could not thank Paulo enough for showing me the beautiful Douro Valley, the enchanting Minho and the exciting Lisbon.

I’m also happy to meet Jorge, the founder of Premiere tour, whom we exchanged emails when planning the trip. Jorge took me to see Sintra. Although that was the only day it rained during the whole time when I was in Portugal, the weather didn’t diminish the beauty of Sintra with Jorge’s captivating stories of the palace we visited and the less well known history of Portugal. Wherever I travel I would be like a student with eager minds to learn about the places I visit and Jorge is definitely a good teacher.

I'm so grateful to have found these 2 gentlemen to be my tour guides and had given me so many beautiful memories of Portugal. I would highly recommend Paulo, Jorge and his company.

Best regards
Linda

Recomendo os serviços da Premiere Tours, pois trabalham com muito profissionalismo e responsabilidade. Fizemos tours por Fátima, Batalha, Nazaré, Óbidos e por Lisboa com o guia Bruno que além da segurança na condução do veículo se mostrou um profundo conhecedor dos locais aos quais visitamos, explicando tudo com riqueza de detalhes. O atendimento por parte do Sr. Jorge Brás também é digno de elogio, sempre atencioso e pronto para ajudar. Quando voltar a Lisboa utilizarei novamente os serviços dessa empresa.

Equipa fantástica que fará a sua viagem tornar-se
incrível e memorável. Recomendo 1000x de olhos fechados ☺

My second tour with them. My first tour was in 2015 and was 4/5 stars.Fast forward to this tour- 10/ 2022. It was an overzealous itinerary created by Jorge...just too packed with cities and long car rides making it like the movie "if it''s Tuesday it's Belgium". Our guide was an on the job trainee- our tour was only his second with the company- obviously not vetted. Lovely, polite, young man though.. just inexperienced in professional guiding. Disappointing ....

Edited 10-4 a year later. I feel I can now respond to the owner’s remark about ruining their good name. If they still have Rui as a guide - hopefully he has become more experienced. The assigned guide showed up between 45 minutes to 1 hour late daily, he was disorganized and blamed his inability to arrive timely on traffic and sadly on his wife. He had NO clue about the cultural or historic sites ( I was guiding off of visit a city blurbs). He never stopped unless it was DEMANDED for a bathroom break. He never stopped for lunch despite being told we were hungry and then he had no idea where we should eat. Lunch ran into dinner. It was always chaotic He changed schedules without looking into what might be problematic… like An IRONMAN competition closing ALL toads the day HE chose ( due to traffic????) to go to Sinatra??? He complained hourly about his boss. The trip was a horror for multiple reasons, but he was the primary. We left our travel companions ( they were a bit dependent in many ways) with him the last two days so that we could finally have a stress free moment. There should not be a “good name” for this company to lose- it does not warrant a “good name”.