Fresh perspective. - Having spent the majority of our stay in Porto the trip to Averio provided additional insight to Portugal’s history and culture. Enjoyed the salt farming and seaweed gathering insight. Evy, our guide was quite informative and helpful.

Wonderful - It's no wonder they call it the Portuguese Venice. A unique city in Portugal, charming and cozy. I already knew the city on a trip I took alone with my wife, but this time it was even better with the tour option we took to take our mothers and also our daughter to see the city. Getting to know the city with a guide was special, it introduced us to wonderful places that we hadn't known about on our first visit to the city. Thank you BeDriven, and appreciate your driver João (I forgot his last name) he was very attentive to us, making the tour even more fun.

Great Tour - Ana was my tour guide. After picking me up from my hotel, 1st stop in Aveiro was the boat ride giving me a different perspective of the town. On the boat, there was someone who gave us info on what we were seeing. The we walked around Aveiro and saw the street art. Finally we finished with a visit to Costa Nova and the colorful houses. Did not heel rushed. The pace was very good.

Nice Spots, Weird Boat Trip, Bit Rushed - This private tour started with a pick up from our hotel and a 45 minute drive to Aveiro. It's a lovely spot and we were quickly ushered onto a long "venice" boat... the tour on which was quite strange! It's 3 water avenues you go down with a few landmarks pointed out on the way, but it wasn't anything you couldn't have seen on foot and we would have preferred the walk anyhow. Impressive was the host on the boat who was able to explain everything in 4 languages. We would have liked to stay in Aveiro and check it out a little instead of feeling rushed to get back to the car and head to the next destination. The fishing village was very cute, nice to take some pictures but again we would have liked to hit up one of the restaurants on the waterfront for a drink (it was New Years Eve!). All in all, nice to see some spots outside of Porto, but there's probably a better and less rushed way to do it than on an expedition like this.

Let me say first that our tour guide... - <p>Let me say first that our tour guide was great. Very informative, pointed out some very interesting items including the flamingos nesting. We were looking for a last minute 1/2 day tour while finishing up our vacation and thought this would be different. Well, we gave this only 3 stars because the area we went to, even though beautiful, for the hour or so it took to get there, didn't have a whole lot to offer. We did go on the canal ride but essentially it went down one way, turned around, went down the other way and came back. All in about 30 minutes. If you've never been to Venice, maybe you would enjoy it more. But besides the excavation of sea salt, there wasn't much to see along the route. Essentially the Town of Averio has a lot of new buildings that recently sprout up due to the football championship that was held near by at their new stadium. <br/> So if you are looking for old, historic, quaint town, I wouldn't have stuck to Oporto, which we loved.</p>

It was ok, but the driver was tired... - <p>It was ok, but the driver was tired and we almost got into an accident. I was very happy to just get back to my hotel. Don't reserve these on the morning after New Years Eve.</p>

Not a reliable company - This tour sounded great, I booked it well in advance. Proceeded from US to Porto, Portugal and stayed in the Hotel. We were there two days prior to scheduled tour. The company knew the hotel, since they were picking us up there. On the day of the tour, not having excess to my e-mail we waited out front for the tour operator, no one showed up. Another tour guide was extremely helpful, and placed a call to the tour operator (BE Driven) for me that is how I found out the company had cancelled the tour. I went inside the hotel, called from the hotel phone and talked to someone apparently working for the company, hard to tell since there was children and household noise in the background. The man said they cancelled the tour because they didn't have a driver. Since the company knew well in advance of the date and time of tour, wondering why they didn't have a driver, he didn't know either. Just said, sorry it's cancelled. The company should have contacted the hotel, via phone and left a message for me, not everyone has a phone or access to e-mail in a foreign country. No, they didn't bother doing that at all. It should be noted, that I also used the company BE DRIVEN for a airport pick-up upon arrival. They couldn't do that well either, )see review). So my advice, if they can't secure a driver, can't manage a professional office staff or try to notify the customer, then the tour will be bad.