Recent Traveler Reviews
Here is a selection of the most recent reviews of the Lisbon City Sightseeing Tour submitted by actual travelers. Read what travelers liked, what they loved, and what they thought could be improved.
This tour presented a good overview of the City of Lisbon. Our guide made the tour so interesting. We even got great commentary while traveling to the Alfama during rush hour! Thanks again to Viator!
Reviewed by: Edward C, May 2012
First I have to gripe about other Viator reviewers: Please write more than just "it was excellent" as this tells me
nothing about the tour. Please please please write details, be more descriptive for heavens sake. ***This was a nice orientation of Lisbon. I think it toured around letting you see some of the major monuments, can't exactly remember since I did a tour everyday. Definitely took us to some coach museum, I loved that it took us to Belem to see both the tower and the exploration monument (my two favorite things but didn't have enough time for each) but was still a surprise as I did not know we were headed there. I paid 5 euro for the tower and sprinted up all the way to top and took some pictures really quick and then ran back down to make the bus. For the monument there is a huge globe in front but too many bozos blocking u from taking a clean shot. Also took you to some huge church where Vasco Da Gama is buried. Then took you to some old art of town that was awesome cuz u walk up this cobbled stone road and see tons of restaurants, some are Fado, and end up in a nice souvenir shop that sells tons of different things I wanted to buy it all, plus you get to taste some wine there and buy bottles if you like. The only reason I didn't buy the wine is because I knew I was being dropped off in the city not at my hotel. The tour guide spoke maybe 4-5 languages, too many different languages were accommodated, throw out the italians haha.
Difficult to find our meeting point. Guide had excellent command of several languages which she had to use during the trip. However we all felt more details seemed to be passed on in other languages than in English.
Reviewed by: Kirsten W, May 2012
The tour is good: very informative and interesting. Exellent guide. Comfortable bus.
Unfortunatly, a lot of miscommunication. I was told that they would pick me up at 2:00p.m. from my hotel, but when I called them at the time I was told that they don't pick up from this hotel and Joana said she never told me about pick up. Nice, is'n it?
It is better to book this tour directly from the operator, not through two middlemen.
Sorry, Viator.
This was the most disappointing excursion of the entire trip. The tour, sold as "in English" certainly was...and in Spanish...and in Portugese...and in German. Nothing against multi-lingual tours, but you get rushed, very limited info in each language and that's not how it was sold. The guide was on her cell phone with a friend, laughing, for part of the tour and ran ahead of the group at every stop. At one stop she passed out ear pieces and receivers, only to later announce she didn't have her microphone with her, so we schlepped them for nothing. As usual, it depends on the tour guide, and this one was abysmal.
Reviewed by: Carl G, May 2012
