Family trip to the Azores
the Azores
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Aug 20 - Sep 3, 2023
Marta was an excellent travel agent. She helped us a lot with planning our family trip to the Azores. She was also helpful with information during our tripbas well.
Our Kayaking tour in Sao Miguel was excellent. The 2 guides were awesome.
In Terceira we did an ebiking tour. The guide was very patient with my teens.
In Flores our favorite tour was canyoning. The guide was so very helpful with my daughter who was quite scared at times.
Hotel Reviews
Beautiful resort! Good restaurants. Be sure to make a reservation for the rooftop restaurant!
Nice views. Great pool and jacuzzi.
We stayed in a nice little house. Was great to have our own place with a kitchen and washing machine. Just would have loved some AC since it was so hot there.
Activity Reviews
Guide super nice. Weather unfortunately didn't cooperate so we couldn't see much.
Super fun. Guides were fantastic
Guide was very nice and knowledgeable. Enjoyed visiting the coffee plantation and talking to the farmer. I thought we would visit more places within the city to sample food, but it was mainly dinner and then a small walking tour.
Lots of fun. Beautiful views. A bit scary coming down the mountain bit we did it!
Boat ride over was quite choppy. Got a bit sea sick but did see dolphins. We thought we would be getting a tour of corvo Island but we were kind of just dropped off and left to fend for ourselves for the day. We were told not to bother bringing swim stuff but it was so hot and no shade, it would have been great to swim. Also didn't know we would be dropped off by taxi at a giant crater to hike for a couple of hours. Didn't come prepared with proper hiking shoes. Boat ride home was much easier and saw beautiful waterfalls and caves and lots of dolphins. Boat driver was amazing.
I was hoping we would drive around and stop a few times to hear about the places we were seeing and also get a chance to take photos of the gorgeous views. We only stopped once to go to the washroom at the halfway point. No explanations of anything we saw. Guide didn't even learn our names.
Super challenging day but really great overall. I think canyoning alone or the hiking alone would have been enough. Was a lot for us to do in just one day.
Hi Miriam, thank you so much for taking the time to write a thorough review! The Azores are a booming destination where tourism is still growing and adapting to bigger amounts of visitors which makes it a changing environment for us each year. We do wish to keep our best guides in time so we can offer only the best experiences and hope you can refer to us when traveling through Portugal, Spain, Morocco, or Italy in the future! Wish you and your lovely family all the best - Marta