If you browse a little, you’ll find a variety of very different opinions on them.
For one, it was more than once that we found ourselves in a “local” restaurant or café surrounded by other tourists with the same travel guide. That makes you wonder if you are actually travelling independently and how different your trip is from a package tour.
On the other side, if you don’t, you can end up caught by yet another tourist trap!
A few years back I organised a group trip with a bunch of my school friends. That meant two 9-seaters strolling along the North of Spain and a load of opinions and misinformation. One night we were still far from our destination and the group decided to stop on a roadside restaurant for dinner. Summing up, it was one of the worst experience I ever had. The food was just tasteless and the options very limited…
Online resources are more and more at hand and a better way to find great, and safer, choices. And also go a long way on helping you find the absolutely impossible-to-skip touristic attractions.
When it comes to Portugal, we are no different. There are some online resources that are only available to native speakers, but there’s always a solution to access them.
Read more about specific websites and apps that we use to plan our getaways here:
- Boa Cama Boa Mesa (hotels and restaurants in Portugal);
- Guias de Arquitectura (architecture worth visiting in Portugal);
- Airbnb (p2p house sharing);
- Booking (hotels);
- Tripadviser (hotels,restaurants, tours, etc.);
- Yelp;
- Zomato (restaurants);
- The Fork (restaurants);
- Wikiloc (trekking).