Day 1 - Porto

The hotel offers a breakfast buffet in the morning in their restaurant, which is located off the reception area. After we ate, we located a coffee shop a few blocks away that had really good coffee. In the late morning, we met with the two guides, Melondy and Augusta, and went over what to expect the next 9 days. Afterwards we went and walked down by the river, Rio Douro, and crossed over to the other side. On the way back to the hotel we stopped at a cafe for lunch where we had a burger and fries and a salad with chicken. It was okay the salad was very salty even the lettuce.

We met in the reception area at 5:00 PM, for the welcome reception and dinner at the hotel. We had drinks and appetizers out on the lawn behind the hotel/restaurant with fellow Adventures. Dinner was a buffet, and the food was mediocre. Before we dished up dinner, we went around introducing ourselves. Always interesting hearing about other people's lives and why they choose to go on Adventures by Disney