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TRAVEL INFORMATION

Lisbon has an international airport, good rail public transport can negotiate their steep
links and a port that is popular with cruise hills and narrow streets. For the rest of the
liners. Its road network has improved greatly, city, the Metro is the best way to get around.
with ring roads, motorways and a second The bus network is huge, but buses do get
bridge across the Tagus; however, traffic held up in traffic. The Lisbon Coast and Sintra
can be slow at rush hour. Trams provide are easily accessible by train, and ferries are
fascinating trips through some of the city’s a pleasant way of crossing the Tagus to reach
oldest neighbourhoods; no other form of Caparica’s beaches.
Arriving by Air
number of budget airlines, cost between €10 and €15,
Lisbon has regularly scheduled including easyJet and Monarch, with a small extra charge
flights from European capitals serve Lisbon. Charter airlines’ for luggage.
and major cities, including tickets have fixed outward and The Carristur-operated
London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, return dates, but as they are AeroBus and AeroShuttle bus
Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich often cheaper than a regular services depart every 20
and Milan. Airlines with one-way ticket, many one-way minutes between 7am and
regular flights include British passengers buy a return ticket 11pm from the airport bus
Airways, Air France, Iberia and but only use the outward flight. stop immediately beyond the
Lufthansa. Most of these are Some charter companies re-sell taxi rank. They stop at major
daily, and in many cases there empty return seats at lower points in the city centre near
are several connections. TAP prices. Students can get to many hotels, such as Oriente,
Portugal, Portugal’s reduced rates Entrecampos, Sete Rios,
national carrier, through specialist Saldanha, Marquês de Pombal,
currently operates travel agencies such Restauradores, Rossio, Praça
seven daily flights as STA, and it is also do Comércio and Cais do Sodré
from London (six worth checking station.Tickets cost €3.50 and
from Heathrow and Internet travel are then valid for the rest of
one from Gatwick) companies such as the day for travel on buses,
to Lisbon. Expedia.com for trams and funiculars.
Travellers from deals. Tickets Cheaper regular city buses
North America tend to be pricier can be caught at stops a little
will usually have Signs at Lisbon’s during high season further to the right as you exit
to change at a Humberto Delgado Airport in summer. the arrivals hall. Tickets can
European hub. Delta be bought on boarding. Bus
flies to Lisbon via Paris (using numbers 705, 722, 744 and
a partner airline) once or twice Lisbon Airport 783 stop at numerous locations
daily. United Airlines flies to Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado around central Lisbon.
Lisbon direct from Newark, Airport is located 7 km (4 miles)
New Jersey, daily. Aer Lingus north of Lisbon’s city centre. It
operates a daily summer has two terminals linked by a
schedule to Lisbon from bus service: Terminal 1 handles
Boston and New York via inter na- tional flights (and TAP
Dublin. TAP’s only direct Portugal flights to Porto, Faro,
flights from the US are also Madeira and the Azores), and
out of Newark. Terminal 2 is largely used for
South America is better domestic and easyJet flights.
served thanks to Portugal’s Airport facilities include a bank
ties with Brazil: TAP has direct and a post office.
flights to and from several
Brazilian destinations. Connections with
There are no direct flights to
Lisbon from Canada, Australia the Airport
or New Zealand; London is a The airport’s proximity to
popular hub for flights from the city centre means that
these countries. it is reasonably fast and cheap
TAP Portugal also flies to to get to the heart of Lisbon.
domestic desti nations, Taxis are available from the
including Oporto, Faro and taxi rank just outside the
Funchal. SATA, in partnership arrivals hall. Fares to the The exterior of Lisbon’s large and
with TAP, serves the Azores. A city centre are metered and well-maintained airport

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