About Lisbon Tourism Guide
Lisbon Tourism Guide is an independent travel publication about one city. We write long, specific, regularly revised guides to visiting Lisbon — where to stay, what to eat, how the trams and trains actually work, and which day trips are worth the effort. Nothing else. The narrow focus is the point: it is the only way to keep a guide accurate enough to plan a trip around.
What you’ll find here
The site is organised into twelve subject areas — travel planning, things to do, neighbourhoods and accommodation, food and drink, transport, day trips, itineraries, museums and culture, nightlife, shopping, tours, and practical information — with more than 120 guides between them. Each one is written to answer a real planning question end to end, rather than to skim a topic. A typical guide runs 2,000 to 4,000 words and includes current prices, opening hours, transport details, and the caveats that matter.
You can browse everything by section from the menu at the top of any page, or start with the main Lisbon travel guide if it’s your first visit.
How these guides are researched
Details in travel writing rot quickly. Ticket prices rise, museums close for restoration, bus operators change hands, and a viewpoint that was free last year now has a turnstile. Our working rule is that anything a reader could be caught out by gets checked against a primary source before it is published.
- Prices, hours and closures come from the operator or venue itself — Carris, CP, Metropolitano de Lisboa, Parques de Sintra, the Oceanário, individual museums — not from other travel sites.
- Rules and regulations (short-term rental law, tourist tax, entry requirements) are traced back to the relevant Portuguese or EU source.
- Anything we can’t verify is either left out or clearly flagged as subject to change, with a pointer to where you can check the current status yourself.
- Outbound links go to official operators, museums and municipal bodies. We don’t link out to filler.
Guides are revised rather than left to age. When something changes on the ground — a station reopens, a card price goes up, a landmark closes for works — the affected guides get updated, and the revision date at the top of each page reflects the last time it was reviewed.
What we’re not
Lisbon Tourism Guide is not affiliated with Turismo de Lisboa, Visit Portugal, the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, or any Portuguese tourism authority. We are not a booking agency, a tour operator, or a travel agent, and we can’t make reservations, sell tickets, or intervene on your behalf with a hotel or an airline.
No business pays to be recommended here. Restaurants, hotels, museums and tour companies are named because they earn the mention, and the ones we advise skipping are named for the same reason.
How the site is funded
The site is supported by advertising. Ads are served by third-party networks and are labelled as advertising where they appear; they are not editorial recommendations, and advertisers have no say in what we write or which venues we cover. Our privacy policy explains what advertising partners collect and how to control it, and the terms and disclaimer page covers the rest.
Corrections
If you find something out of date or plain wrong — a price that’s moved, a place that’s closed, a tram route that no longer runs where we say it does — tell us and we’ll check it and fix it. Corrections from readers who have just been there are the fastest way this site stays useful. Use the contact page, and mention which guide you’re referring to.