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Portugal Travel Tips
Our biggest group. Ask anything about travelling anywhere in Portugal: itineraries, transport, where to stay and what to skip.
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Everything Lisbon: neighbourhoods, trams, day trips to Sintra and Cascais, food, fado and getting in from the airport.
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Porto and the north: Ribeira, port cellars, the Douro Valley, and day trips up to Braga and Guimaraes.
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The Portugal trip checklist we wish we’d had.
Everything travellers ask in our groups, boiled down to one list you can tick off before you fly.
- What to book early (Pena Palace runs on timed tickets)
- Airport to city: metro, Uber, Bolt or taxi
- Mobile data, eSIMs and paying by card
- Car hire and tolls without the surprise fines
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“Can anyone recommend a good guide?”
It’s the question we see most. So we keep a list of tuk tuk drivers, private guides and transfer drivers in Lisbon, Sintra, Porto and beyond that our members keep recommending.
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A family in Portugal: two little ones, one dog called Tula, and 305,000+ fellow travellers.
We’re Stephen and Sabina Palmer. We live here, we explore here with a buggy and a dog in tow, and we run Portugal Travel Tips, Lisbon Travel Tips and Porto Travel Tips.
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