July 29 (D): Porto/Lisbon
Daily Notes:
● Breakfast Group 1: 7:00 a.m.
● Breakfast Group 2: 7:30 a.m.
● Buses leave from hotels at 8:30 a.m.
Itinerary:
ALL DAY
Land Only Pilgrims arrive in Lisbon & transfer to Hotel Roma
11:15 AM
Group Flight #1 arrives in Porto
11:45 AM
Group Flights #’s 2 and 3 arrive in Porto
Afternoon Meet the guides and have a panoramic bus tour of Porto
Transfer to the City Center for free time to explore and lunch on own
Time permitting, walking tour of Porto City Center
4:00 PM
Celebrate private Opening Mass at Irmandade de Santo António dos
Congregados
Address: R. de Sá da Bandeira 11, 4000-433 Porto
Following Mass, transfer to hotels for check-in
7:00/7:30 PM
Welcome Dinner at hotels
● BessaHotel Boavista (R. do Dr. Marques Carvalho 111, 4100-325 Porto)
● Holiday Inn Porto (R. Diogo Macedo 220, 4400-107 Vila Nova de Gaia)
● Hotel Fenix Ipanema (Rua do Campo Alegre 156, 4150-169 Porto)
● Eurostars Heroismo (Rua do Heroísmo 235, 4300-259 Porto)
7:00 PM
Land Only Pilgrims: Welcome Mass at Oliveira Church (concelebrated with Holy
Family Catholic Community, Fon du Lac, WI)
8:30 PM
Land Only Pilgrims: Welcome Dinner at Hotel Roma
EVENING
Overnight in Porto
Land Only Pilgrims: Overnight in Lisbon at Hotel Roma
Reminders for Group Leaders:
In Porto
- Check in with every Chaperone/YA Group Leader at baggage claim to ensure all groups have arrived through customs okay.
- Chaperones should ensure youth have received their medications and that they have been recorded on the pilgrim’s medication forms.
- Bus captain takes roll call on bus departing from airport, they can make announcement and call out each chaperone/YA Point Person’s small group to make sure everyone is on bus.
- 11:15 AM Group Flight #1 arrives in Porto
- 11:45 AM Group Flights #’s 2 and 3 arrive in Porto
- Afternoon: Meet the guides and have a panoramic bus tour of Porto
- Transfer to the City Center for lunch
- Time permitting, walking tour of Porto City Center
- Arrive at Irmandade de Santo António dos Congregados by 3PM for Reception of our Diocese at our host parish.
Address: R. de Sá da Bandeira 11, 4000-433 Porto
- 4:00 PM Celebrate private Opening Mass at Irmandade de Santo António dos Congregados
Address: R. de Sá da Bandeira 11, 4000-433 Porto
- Following Mass, transfer to hotels for check-in
- Do a roll call again each time we get on the bus. (Can call out each group and get a verbal yes from their chaperone or YAPP that everyone is on the bus)
On the way to the Porto hotels, announce how the room check in/key distribution will work.
- Upon arrival at the hotel, let the tour escort/guide and Diocesan Staff exit the bus to get the hotel room keys and instruct everyone else to stay on the bus.
- Give any directions about meeting times or plans for the rest of the day. (Announcements)
- Welcome Dinner at Hotel begins 7/7:30pm (verify time with Guide/Diocesan staff)
- Chaperones will be doing room checks. Chaperones must verify every youth from in their group is in their correct hotel room. Youth Room Check is 10:30 p.m. each night. Groups should arrive back at hotel no later than about 10:00 p.m.
- Chaperones should ensure youth have received their medications and that they have been recorded on the pilgrim’s medication forms.
- All adult pilgrims are expected to be at the hotel rooms no later than midnight.
- Wake up tomorrow is at 6:45 a.m. All pilgrims must be ready to depart (Breakfast box picked up or eaten, luggage on the bus) by 7:35 a.m.
- Tomorrow we will be at Fatima, dress appropriately.
- Once pilgrims have their keys, instruct them to disembark, find their luggage which has been offloaded by driver and porters, and head to their rooms.
- Then, assist with distributing the keys (as needed)
- Chaperones and YAPP’s must listen to key distribution to record in their rooming list the room number of each of the members of their small group.
- Once pilgrims have their keys, instruct them to disembark, find their luggage which has been offloaded by driver and porters, and head to their rooms.
- Bus captains should plan to meet briefly with diocesan staff / support staff who are staying at their hotel to review the day and ensure everything is set for the next day.