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Leaving Your Trip in LISBON
This page offers help (concrete or informational) on leaving your trip. Topics include...
- Where you Leave Your Trip (see immediately below)
- Our “Access Packages,” designed to help you to do so.
- Suggestions on how to time your ongoing travel, whether you are having us arrange it, or doing it yourself.
- Suggested post-trip visits, especially when these are not geographically obvious, but are rendered economical and convenient by direct rail connections.
- Hopefully helpful hints for those setting up their own travel from the trip.
If you wish to arrange some or all of your travel through us, please tell us what by means of this response questionnaire, designed to collect all the information we need to be able to book your travel.
1. WHERE and WHEN Do You Leave Your Trip?
Your trip disbands in Lisbon, on Friday morning, after a night there.
A couple of hints regarding ongoing travel are offered at the bottom of this page.
2. Our ACCESS PACKAGES
as of January 1, 2006
We don't really have one for Lisbon.... First of all, you are already there. Secondly (and unusually), a city night is already included in the cost of this trip, since there are some special aspects of Lisbon where we feel we can be of some help. But we may be able to be of help with some ongoing travel.... And we do offer train tickets back to London , for those who enjoy long-distance rail travel.
Options Offered at an Extra Cost (subject to availability)
For a general discussion of train upgrades, see here. Topics include the relative comfort of first versus second class, and different types of accommodation available on overnight trains.
- Tickets to London. 189 € if you also requested tickets from London to your trip, 239 € if not (if you wish to be in 1st class on the “Eurostar,” 225 € or 295 €; 1st class tickets include meal service). Service is overnight to the French border, with daylight connections on to Paris and London, arriving London at the end of the afternoon. Sleeping car upgrades are available. Stopover in Paris available without additional cost.
- Tickets to all other points.
- Additional hotel nights in Lisbon are available at a cost of 75 € single, 48 € / person double / twin. Prices include breakfast.
3. TIMING Your Trip
It takes about 45 minutes to get to the airport by public transit (30 minutes by taxi), so plan your flight accordingly. An 8a intercontinental flight implies a 6a check-in, a 5a start, a 4:30a wake-up.... Yuck..
4. Suggested POST-TRIP VISITS
The beautiful desert city of Evora, on the Alentejo plain, will show you a Portugal you will not yet have seen. A luxurious hotel train can take you to Madrid overnight, for a couple of days in the Spanish capital, or for a flight if you can’t find one you like from Lisbon. There is also a convenient evening train to Salamanca, a beautiful Spanish university town (arriving there around midnight)....
5. Hints on TRAVELLING INDEPENDENTLY After the Trip
Guests subscribing to an “Access Package” need not read this section.
See also “Timing Your Trip” and “Service Information,” above, as either of these may additionally help.
We gladly provide travel consulting (schedule or routing information) concerning post-trip individual travel. In particular, we have invested a great deal to become railway experts. Our service fees are reasonable: a 20 € charge for all but the most complex projects – or the most simple (for instance, only a 10 € charge applies if the service is limited to the preparation of a routine rail ticket). You will generally find them well-justified by the time they will save you in research, standing on line, overpaying for your tickets, or all three.
But, for some, this type of research is fun. So, here are some hints, intended to start off hardened “do-it-yourselfers.”
Trains. Schedules for all routes can be consulted on this web site:
http://www.raileurope.com/us/rail/fares_schedules/index.htm
The best way to reach Madrid is via the Hotel Train. You save a night's lodging and a travel day....
Planes. Lisbon has surprisingly good intercontinental air service for such a relatively small city. But if you have trouble finding an affordable flight, try flying out of Madrid, which you can reach via the Hotel Train.
If you wish to arrange some or all of your travel through us, please tell us what by means of this response questionnaire, designed to collect all the information we need to be able to book your travel.
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