lisbon,port taxi's

[spots25]

our ship will be disembarking in lisbon. anyone know any reliable taxi or drivers to use from the port to hotel or hotel to the airport?

[trubey]

I know I helped some people with this question before, so I went looking for the post. Try this thread. susana.

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=212740&highlight=lisbon

[wwinfl91]

I don't know if you want a tour and then to go to your hotel but if you do check out tours for you. See the link below. We used them for a full day tour when out TA cruise stopped in Lisbon for one day. Here is what I had to say about the company.

 

I want to strongly recommend Tours for You as a company to use for tours in Portugal. I was on a transatlantic cruise in May 2005 which was going to be in Lisbon for only one day. Through the internet I had found Tours for You and arranged for a full day tour for a group of 14 people from RCCL's Jewel of the Seas that included a morning trip up the Estoril coast, then to Sintra for a visit to several of its famous sites and finally time back in Lisbon in the afternoon to visit several of its noted places of interest. Our guide, Orvil, spoke excellent English, has a wide knowledge of the places we visited and of the history of the region and of Portugal and did an excellent job throughout the tour answering our questions and pointing out what we were seeing. The Mercedes minibus the company provided for our group had plenty of leg room for even the tallest among our group. The driver did an excellent job of navigating the narrow roads in the countryside and crowded highways around Lisbon. I would strongly recommend contacting Tours for You if you are going to be visiting Portugal whether it is for a day off a cruise liner like we did or for a longer stay in this beautiful and interesting country. Hopefully my wife and I will be able to return and spend more time seeing even more of Portugal and Lisbon.

 

The link to their site is:

 

http://www.toursforyou.pt/Eng/indexeng.htm

 

Have a great next cruise.

[MGC]

I second the sentiment in Trubey's referenced post about unscrupulous drivers -- make sure you know what the fare should be and make sure the driver knows you know, and make sure he turns the meter on. There were lots of cabs waiting when we arrived in Lisbon, but because we didn't know better we ended up paying about 3 - 4 times what we should have. The concierge at the hotel heard us talking about it, and we got some, but nowhere's near enough, of the money back.

[cruisinsince75]

Go to this website http://askmelisboa.com/frame_set_uk.htm and scroll down to taxi vouchers. It is a prepaid voucher that will get you from the airport to hotel by cab without worry of being ripped off. As far as from the hotel to the ship, the hotel should be able to advise what the normal fare would and be able to negotiate the fare with the driver for you.