Lisbon > Lisbon Experience

Advantages: Interest points, Helpfull people, Nightlife, Safe place to travel to
Disadvantages: Traffic, pollution

Lisbon is a great city, it combines the narrow streets and houses with centurys with modern architecture, without shocking with each other. You will feel at home here, everyone talks at least english and spanish, and if they don't, they'll try to communicate with you anyway! There are apartments for renting just for tourists, from 1 to 30 days in typical Neighborwoods like Alfama and Bairro Alto. If you want to visit some art expositions there is ...
...art, often the expose paintings from new artists), and the recently opened Museu do Oriente. If you want to go out, i recommend you Bairro Alto, Docas, Santos, etc... I strongly recommend Art Bar, but you will allways find a place to have fun here! This is a safe place to visit, there isnt much crime in Portugal. So just go... and enjoy ... Read review

Advantages: Nowhere better in Europe for a city break
Disadvantages: Hides its problems almost too well

Lisbon is a city of contradictions. It is both modern and rustic, welcoming yet impenetrable, but quintessentialy Iberian. With the advent of budget flights (I recommend Go! from Stansted), Portugal's capital is a mere hop away, and an affordable one at that. The city centre is typical of Lisbon, or Lisboa as it known by the locals. Shunning western boutiques to a large degree, it is a mish-mash of pavement cafes, street artists and over-priced ...
...who find this uncomfortable, rather than those who dont. Lisbon couldn't be further removed from the tourist hell to be found in the Algarve. It is, like anywhere else, subject to the twin evils of globalisation and Americana, but still retains its own very unique identity, beauty and intrigue. ... Read review

Advantages: Atmospheric, great food and wine, public transport, historical
Disadvantages: Traffic

Lisbon is a very attractive and fascinating capital city with a lot of Old World charm. It was once the hub of a world spanning empire that ranged from Brazil to Indonesia and has a great historical depth. This can clearly be seen in the old centre of Lisbon with its cobbled and narrow streets, historical buildings and many famous dead people on statues taking centre stage in many of Lisbon’s squares. To get a great view of the centre and indeed ...
...a visit to Saint George Castle (Castello de Sao Jorge) which is on a hill overlooking the old centre. That is if you can find a way to it through the maze like complex of alleys and streets surrounding it which don’t seem to have any signposts towards this notable attraction ! The castle was once the site of an old Islamic fortress which was converted into a bastion of royal power. Indeed it was where the King of Portugal received the infamous explorer ... Read review

Advantages: Very cheap
Disadvantages: the taxi ride back to the airport!

We visited Lisbon in June 2006. The metro is really easy to negotiate, just four lines (red, yellow, blue and green). We bought "day tickets" from the booth at our local station (as recommended by the hotel receptionist) for around 3 Eur for one days unlimited travel. The ticket was rechargable, so the next day we took the same ticket back and paid for our travel for the rest of our stay. We didn't realise however, until our last day, that these ...
...metro stations were all very clean and modern. We also took the main line train to the beach at Estoril. We bought our tickets at the machine and were amazed that it worked out the single fare as 1.50 Eur each! When the ticket collector came to inspect the tickets while we were on the train I was half expecting him to ask for more money, but no, that was the correct price. This was for a journey which took over half an hour. Again the train was ... Read review

Advantages: Reasonably priced, lots to do, good food, great architecture
Disadvantages: Not really any

We visited Lisbon this September having decided to go there instead of Rome. It has to be said that we were initially motivated by the fact that an equivalent holiday- same number of days, same rating of accommodation- was about HALF the price of Rome. Lisbon is a fascinating place, the overall impression being of a city of great style and architecture, the ancient (colossal old buildings, grubby but striking statues and monuments) rubbing shoulders ...
...effectively a little suburb of Lisbon but which has some fantastic architecture- the famous Monument of the Explorers, and not only that but possibly one of the grandest monasteriesI've ever seen. The interior of the place took my breath away- I've seen some pretty good cathedrals in England, but this (and don't forget this is a monastery, not a cathedral) was something else. The stained glass was the best I'd ever seen, the pillars vast and high ... Read review