We received a really warm welcome and although we arrived a little earlier than expected, we were still made welcome and Jose accommodated us.

This is an absolutely beautiful spot, the house was clean and very well equipped and the garden was just fabulous. We usually want to explore an area, to be quite honest we were just happy relaxing in the beautiful garden, using the pool and swimming in the river and just watching the boats go by.

Getting to Porto is fairly straight forward and we did spend a day in Porto and a day at the beach near Espinho. The rest of our time was spent enjoying our surroundings of the villa.

The only negative was a beach campsite nearby and our sleep was disturbed a little some nights due to noise, but if you can trade this off Casa do Rio is a little gem.