Fatima
- Address:Apartado 31, Fatima
- Hours:Open daily
- Admission:Free
Cultural Experience, Holy Place, Religious Experience, Church / Cathedral, Monument - Historical, Tower
Fatima Reviews
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First I have to gripe about other Viator reviewers: Please write more than just "it was excellent" as this tells me
nothing about the tour. Please please please write details, be more descriptive for heavens sake... *Second* Viator can be absolutely WRONG on meeting point details. I almost missed this trip cuz they were wrong as to where to meet, it's not in the square. It's like one block up from the arch to the right at the Yellow Bus company with NO historic Red Tram or whatever. Viator u suuck! The only thing that saved my @ss was that there was a tourism office in the square and they told me where to go with seconds to spare. Even the number to call had nobody to pick up. GRRRR! *** Now then, we went to Fatima 2 days before the big anniversay/holiday they celebrate with a million people. We lucked out, we saw big pilgrim groups, hikers, kneelers, all without the big crowd effect. The place is massive like the Vatican, but the Basilica is not as big but still very impressive, architecture, views, etc. You basically are given free time to go explore, so I just did the basillica, mass area, saw the candle fire area and then went straight to town for shopping and eats. Shopped at both the big square and where they are mixed in with the cafes, one shop i stopped at a young woman was so nice rounding down the prices of everything I asked about without even haggling. Well worth the trip.
Great day! First time in Portugal and got to see so much. Lovely countryside, beautiful Fatima, seaside town and quaint little village celebrating a chocolate festival.
This was a wonderful trip to Fatima. We wished we could have spent a little more time there because it would have been nice to attend Mass.
My tour to Fatima and the others cities was fantastic! And the tour guide Anna knew her fact and made them very interesting. Lunch was absolutely divine. And so was the service.
It was good as an overall. However, they should allow more time at Fatima. We only got an hour there and there was not time to explore the area. I did not like going to a particular giftshop selected by the tour company. There are a lot of giftshop at Fatima with more selections.
It was all worth it, the trip to Fatima was great . I will surely recommend your company to my friends. Thank you!
Obidos is definitively one of the most appealing pictouresque Portuguese towns and the Nazare beach and lunch in the coast restaurant make it very interesting. I appreciated the good choice of Portuguese wine in the lunch made by the restaurant .
Regarding Fatima, what I do not like is the very commercial side of what is a religious fact although this has nothing to do with the tour.
Our tour guide/driver, Miquel was not only well-informed, but extremely professional and personable. Taking a private tour allows for a much greater appreciation and better understanding of the site you are visiting. Admittedly it was pricey, but after considering the time it took us to travel there, it was well worth the money. Fatima is a most spiritual, restful and beautiful sacred place. I would return again and spend even more time (the tour was a half day). Highly recommend this tour and ask for Miguel. Beth and Gerry Wagner
The tour was very well organized and the guide was very informative. The lunch in Nazare was 5 stars, much better than most tour lunches. My husband and I would have preferred more time in Obidos and Nazare, and less time at the Fatima shopping outlet. The guide presented all day in three languages; we think two should be the max per group as it was hard to sit through the same thing three times. At the end of the tour, the bus dropped us off near our hotel rather than at our hotel which was disappointing as I had indicated our hotel location on a map earlier in the day. Overall: we loved it, and would recommend it!
Called and confirmed before 24 hours prior to tour as directed on voucher. We were told to be at a hotel that was 'next door' to our hotel about 45 mins before the scheduled start. After arriving at the appointed hotel which was really about two blocks away, the hotel concierge knew nothing about that tour company. We waited around outside for about 10 mins and they arrived and took us to meet the tour bus at another venue picking up others along the way for various tours.
It was good to have direct transport to the Shrine without having to figure out public transport on our own. The descriptions along the way was done in so many languages that I sometimes missed the English version. Good that there wasn't too much commentary. Stopped at the factory with some time to make purchases. At the shrine we had enough time to walk around and there were two services in progress. Return to the pick up point was drawn out with everyone to be dropped off. If you are looking for direct transport to and from Fatima without much more expectations, then this is for you.
The tour guide was ok. She spoke too loud so it was difficult to understand her and after little explanation we were left to roam the Fatima city on our own. Overall it was good that we were taken and returned with some explanation however we have I been in better tours.
Due to miscommunication, full day excursion was changed to only half-day visit to Fatima which was the main reason for visiting Lisbon. Definitely worth visiting Fatima.
Having been told that I had to phone to confirm that I needed picking up from my hotel I tried, in vain, for 48 hours with no answer to either of the telephone numbers provided. It was only because we had a very helpful Concierge at our hotel that we were able to discover that we were to be picked up from another hotel. As no details of what to do if you were not going to be picked up were provided I can only assume that we would have lost our money. On the tour itself we arrived so late that the service was just ending. This was particularly disappointing for my wife and her sister who had desperately wanted to attend Mass. Part of the reason that we were so late was there was an unscheduled stop at a factory to buy religious artefacts which we were assured would be blessed by the priest at the service in Fatima. I cannot help thinking that this unscheduled stop was more of a financial arrangement between the tour operators and factory rather than for the benefit of the people on the tour. There were some good point to the tour but these were totally outweighed by the lack of time in Fatima.
The tour was good, everyone on the bus was most interested in Fatima and we didn't get there until 4:30pm and only had over an hour. That was the purpose of the trip..too much time spent at the other locations, and didn't get back to city til almost 8pm.
The places are fantastic, but I was not totally satisfied. We did not have almost any time in Obidos and Batalha, but we were given more than one and a half hours in Fatima. It was not meant to be a pilgrimage after all.
The bus, our guide, the lunch - everything else was OK, only the proportions of the program were not.
