Lisboa Regency Chiado, Lisbon

Advantages: Sightseeings starts at 3 Euros a day
Disadvantages: Avoid rush hours!

...of Lisboa's downtown (Baixa Pombalina); from that date the "Baixa" was a square designed blocks with two main plaza's, Rossio (Praça D. Pedro V and Praça dos Restauradores). In the late 19th century Av. da Liberdade was opened, expanding the city far from the river. (by curiosity, Av da Liberdade starts in Praça dos Restauradores and ends at Praça do Marquês de Pombal). In 1998 Lisbon hosted the World Oceans Exhibit (Expo 98), that rehabilitated the oriental area of the city. Transports Lisbon has a very good transports systems : by bus or by subway you can go anywhere in Lisbon. Before you come you can check those websites: Carris (Bus) - www.carris.pt Metro de Lisboa (subway) - www.metrolisboa.pt (also English website - very good info) Comboios (trains) - www.cp.pt Autocarros (intercities Bus) - www.redeexpressos.pt Transtejo (Ferrie... Read review

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Advantages: Plenty to see, good food, the trams, nice people
Disadvantages: Can't think of any, unless you count having a really odd-sounding language!

...’s when your driver remembers to turn the meter on that is! One of ours didn’t but we gave him €5 for his honesty. However, the Lisboncard (Lisboacarte) does also give access to longer national rail journeys too. For instance we also took the train to Estoril and Cascais, two well-known resorts to the west of Lisbon. This is like buying a London Travelcard and finding that it includes Southend or even Brighton. The Lisboacarte is a ‘touch-card’ like London’s Oyster, and to initiate it, you just use it, writing the time and date on it, in case it comes in for any ‘non-automatic’ inspection. To navigate the metro, you just have to know the colour of line and the end stop of your direction of travel, like in Paris. Probably the most useful metro station is Baixa-Chiado (pronounced B-eye-shah Shah-doo) which is not only firmly ‘downtown... Read review

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Advantages: Pretty easy to get to from UK
Disadvantages: Lots to see not enough time!

...Lisboa, as the locals call their city – Lisbon to us British types – was my latest holiday destination. Literally just returned at the time of writing (well 22 hours ago). We were looking for somewhere no too far away, warmer than the UK and reasonably priced. A friend had told me that Portugal was pretty inexpensive in terms of a holiday location. So, given that I plan to visit all European capital cities, I figured I’d add Lisbon to my list of those visited. Lisbon is situated on the banks of the River Tagus to the southern end of Portugal.. It’s also the capital city of Portugal – which I’m pretty sure the majority of readers already knew! Getting there We flew from Edinburgh to Heathrow, then onwards to Lisbon. The journey took around 5 hours and included 1 and a half hours between flights in Heathrow. We flew... Read review

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