lisbon tour guide?

[spots25]

does anyone have a suggestion for a tour guide for one day post cruise? or is lisbon easy to do on your own?

[cadreamer]

I found this guide sevice on this board last year. http://www.toursforyou.pt

Idid not use them but they seemed to be very professional when they responded my requests. Lisbon is quite easy to do on your own. They have a hop on hop off bus and good public transportation.

[wwinfl91]

We used toursforyou for a tour when we were on the Jewel TA in 2005 during our stop in Lisbon. They did an excellent and professional job. They provided us with a both a guide and a driver so that the guide could explain what we were seeing while the driver concentrated on the driving. We had a large group and the large Mercedes van they provided gave everyone enough room and had good A/C. Here is what I said about the tour in the guest book on their web site.

 

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.

 

Have a great next cruise and if you get Orvil for a guide tell him Warren said Hi.

[MapleleafBC]

I agree with wwinfl91....I used Toursforyou when I was in Lisbon last November prior to a Transatlantic cruise......I cannot say enough good about this company....you will not go wrong with them....

[MGC]

And here's a third vote for Tours For You :) We used them during our post-cruise stay in Lisbon for an all-day tour to Evora, and liked it so well we booked a half-day tour for the following day to Sintra.