Ponta Delagada - Help

[Nellie100]

We are doing a first a TA from Barbados after many fly Caribbean cruises, we are looking for some help in Ponta Delagada, we would like to do a trip to see pineapples growing but my OH is waiting for a knee replacement so is limited to how far he can walk can anyone suggest a tour? or tour operator? P & O's tour is £42 and says walking over rough terrine   

 

[jeanlyon]

Does this help>  https://www.viator.com/tours/Azores/Sete-Cidades-Half-Day-Tour/d22379-23466P1

Edited February 25, 2019 by jeanlyon

[Nellie100]

thank you jeanlyon gosh a lot of options on there may be easier to book when we get there!! will have a good read through and cheaper than with P & O

thanks again

anyone got any recommendations?  

[Clodia]

Never walked on a terrine before; I'd have thought you'd sink in! (Sorry,but highly amused!)

[Nellie100]

bit messy i would have thought 

[bclub]

Used Azores Volcano Tours, Nelson Pragana. Found Nelson when we got off the ship in Ponta Delgarda, on a HAL, TA last April. We had 5 of us and found another couple as we negotiated a price. Cannot remember what we paid but think it was around $30-35 per person. Nelson was great, he showed us were he would take us, gave us lots of local info. We went to the pineapple plantation. Do not think Hawaii, these pineapples are grown in green houses. Nelson parked right outside and it was a short walk to the greenhouse. We also went to a tea plantation, up towards the lakes. It was about 4 hrs tour. He dropped us back in the center of town and we had time to find Wi Field. Hope this helps.

[joro44]

We went on an island tour by PO, that included a visit to a pineapple farm. The cultivation was in greenhouses, showing the different stages that are linked by flat paths. The visit included the farm's showroom/ bar to taste pineapple tipples.

[Wiltonian]

On 2/25/2019 at 5:55 PM, jeanlyon said:

Does this help>  https://www.viator.com/tours/Azores/Sete-Cidades-Half-Day-Tour/d22379-23466P1

Of course Viator only act as agents for local companies, creaming off a nice commission for doing very little. A bit of googling will find local providers, at less cost.

[tartanexile81]

I definitely wouldn’t book anything in advance for Ponta Delgada. We’ve been quite a few times and the only time we booked in advance the weather was dreadful as it can be in PD with fog and rain. We could see nothing and the guide kept saying - if it wasn’t so foggy you’d see this interesting spot or that lovely view!! 

 

You dock in the town and there are numerous taxi drivers waiting to offer you an island tour or at least a visit to Sete  Citades or there’s a little train at the end of the pier which will take you round. 

Edited March 7, 2019 by tartanexile81