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Recent reviews mentioning Porto

41.56633, -4.8605

Got here atlike 11pm, Hotel is expensive and when I walked south to see if I could wild camp I was greeted by big guard dogs on premise barking at me, so I gave up on that idea and went to see if i could catch a ride.
Luckily an amazing trucker pulled up and got me to porto im the night haha

rating: 3/5, wait: 60 min, ride: 390 km ←

―Anonymous, July 2025

41.82409, -8.86909

If you go south, better ask only for rides to Viana. From there it's easier to go to Porto. This spot got me a ride compared to the one on the south of the town

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 🪧, ride: 17 km ↘

―jkczech, Tue 22 Jul 2025, 12:00

41.80111, -8.85696

I was trying to get a ride to Viana/Porto... But too much local traffic, or bad luck (: decided to walk to the other side of the village where is a connection to the highway and got a ride there.

rating: 3/5, wait: 20 min 🪧

―jkczech, Tue 22 Jul 2025, 11:30

42.02602, -8.64661

I was dropped off here coming from Spain. But at this spot only 2 cars going back to Spain stopped for me, noone in the direction to Porto. So I took the local train to help me.

rating: 3/5, wait: 80 min 🪧

―jkczech, Mon 21 Jul 2025, 17:00

42.03595, -8.65671

Try not to get dropped off here. It's indeed a spot, but on the highway and the cars go really fast here. The parking is closed btw so not a valid rest stop really. (Sign: Porto)

rating: 1/5, wait: 15 min 🪧

―jkczech, Sun 20 Jul 2025, 18:50

40.6052, -6.95263

Not the busiest in terms of cars but bunch of trucks. Waited for just over 3 hours at this station. Asked around, stood at the exit, tried the highway too. Eventually a truck stopped at the exit and agreed to take me to Porto.

rating: 3/5, wait: 180 min 💬+🪧, ride: 197 km ↖

―VeikkaK, Tue 13 May 2025, 17:00

39.12241, -8.90739

Signs in general don’t seem to have worked for me so when I started asking people through Google translate I had much better results. Did this from 9:30am and at 11:20 a man was going to Fatima and said he can take me. March 8th during raining time and still all good. I’m sure you could find people straight to Porto or Coimbra but I wasn’t lucky enough

rating: 4/5, wait: 100 min, ride: 74 km ↑

―Anonymous, March 2025

42.40527, -3.54891

We saw another pair of hitchhikers immediately find a lift to Porto so I think we just had less luck. We got a lift to Tordesillas with some persuasion.

rating: 3/5, wait: 45 min 💬+🪧, ride: 190 km ↙

―Anonymous, April 2024

38.76275, -9.14078

Busy gas station on the way to the main highway (A1) heading norte.

Really easy at friday's afternoon.

Talk to the drivers and ask if they can take you to the next service area. Once in the highway really easy to go to Porto.

Disadvantages: near the city center, a lot of people just passing or going for the suburbs.

rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min

―Anonymous, January 2024

43.46569, -3.8347

For the direction of Porto in Portugal, someone take us for the direction of Oviedo, so it's a nice spot. Even more because we wait under the rain

rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min

―Louis, November 2023

41.29815, -7.74967

I only took a look at this spot since the driver from Vila Pouca de Aguiar dropped me here by mistake on my way north-south. This spot can lead you west to Porto, but it's so steep so I'd recommend the one more south-west in Parada do Cuñhos. On the other hand, the bus station is 2 minutes walking :)

rating: 3/5

―GiovanniTonucci, November 2023

41.49028, -7.66231

Very good spot to continue the hitchhike to south. A water spring is available. Drivers smiled, 2 cars stopped within 40-50 minutes and the second one dropped me in Vila Real.
However, if you are going to Viseu/Coimbra, don't drop off on the western side of Vila Real where the bus station is, or you'll need a city bus to A24 entrance (5/31/51, cost 1,55€). Also if you wanna continue to Porto or the west, that highway entrance in Vila Real city centre looks steep and uncomfortable to wait at, so you'd better check the map for a better continuation.

Here might be good northward as well.

rating: 5/5, wait: 45 min, ride: 28 km ↓

―GiovanniTonucci, November 2023

40.64581, -8.59465

Difficult spot to get to, but we were immediately picked up by someone going to Porto from Aveiro.

rating: 5/5, wait: 0 min, ride: 66 km ↑

―Arnulle, October 2023

40.61866, -8.65522

I waited all morning to get a ride to Porto. Asking people I got nothing. Bad place, because it's all locals.
At 16h a couple gave me a ride to another gas station in the A1 and from there it took me 5 minutes to get a ride directly to Porto!

rating: 2/5

―Anonymous, October 2023