Generally easy walking with few ascents / descents, but perhaps the occasional long day.
The season for this holiday is:
01 February 2020 - 31 October 2020
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| °C | 15 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 15 |
| mm | 109 | 110 | 68 | 64 | 39 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 80 | 111 | 106 |
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4 nights: 01 February 2020 - 31 October 2020
Start any day | End by latest date(s) shown above
| Starting | Price | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Feb - 13 Mar 2020 | £370 | £260 |
| 14 - 31 Mar 2020 | £445 | £315 |
| 1 - 14 Apr 2020 | £465 | £330 |
| 15 Apr - 21 May 2020 | £445 | £315 |
| 22 May - 3 Jun 2020 | £465 | £330 |
| 4 - 30 Jun 2020 | £490 | £345 |
| 1 Jul - 30 Aug 2020 | £415 | £285 |
| 31 Aug - 27 Sep 2020 | £490 | £345 |
| 28 Sep - 27 Oct 2020 | £445 | £315 |
| 3rd & 4th person discount | £0 | |
| Single traveller supplement | £0 |
Includes accommodation, meals and services integral to the holiday as described, plus walking notes and maps, but no travel from the UK, nor any connecting travel from the airport unless stated below.
Pay locally for inexpensive train ticket between Lisbon and Sintra.
Book your flights through us and we'll find the best route and times to suit you. Please contact us to find out more about our flight booking service. We can also book connecting travel - see below.
Room upgrades (£ per person per night)
| Solar do Castelo, Lisbon | ||
|---|---|---|
| Superior 'Alfama': 01 Feb - 13 Mar 2020 | £20 | |
| Superior 'Alfama': 14 Mar - 30 Jun 2020 | £28 | |
| Superior 'Alfama': 01 Jul - 31 Aug 2020 | £20 | |
| Superior 'Alfama': 01 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 | £28 |
| Sintra Boutique Hotel, Sintra | ||
|---|---|---|
| Deluxe double (no twins): 01 Feb - 31 Oct 2020 | £20 |
Extra nights (£ per person per night) in a double or single room
| Solar do Castelo, Lisbon (B&B) | Double room | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Feb - 13 Mar 2020 | £68 | £126 |
| 14 Mar - 30 Jun 2020 | £95 | £174 |
| 01 Jul - 31 Aug 2020 | £74 | £138 |
| 01 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 | £104 | £190 |
| Sintra Boutique Hotel, Sintra (B&B) | Double room | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Feb - 13 Feb 2020 | £78 | £123 |
| 14 Feb - 22 Feb 2020 | £90 | £142 |
| 23 Feb - 03 Apr 2020 | £78 | £123 |
| 04 Apr - 16 Apr 2020 | £90 | £142 |
| 17 Apr - 06 Jun 2020 | £78 | £123 |
| 07 Jun - 30 Sep 2020 | £90 | £142 |
| 01 Oct - 31 Oct 2020 | £78 | £123 |
Travelling from the UK
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen - Lisbon (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Birmingham - Lisbon | jet2 |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Bristol - Lisbon | easyJet |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Glasgow - Lisbon | Ryanair |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Liverpool - Lisbon | easyJet |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| London City - Lisbon | TAP Air Portugal |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Gatwick - Lisbon | Air Europa, Azores Airlines (SATA), easyJet, TAP Air Portugal |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Heathrow - Lisbon | Azores Airlines (SATA), British Airways, TAP Air Portugal |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Luton - Lisbon | easyJet |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Stansted - Lisbon | Ryanair |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Manchester - Lisbon | easyJet, jet2, Ryanair, TAP Air Portugal |
| Manchester - Lisbon (via Frankfurt) | Lufthansa |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Newcastle - Lisbon (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Norwich - Lisbon (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
This list of flight options should be used as a guide only, and you should check each airline’s website for current routes, frequency and schedules. Not all flights operate daily, and may not run for the entire season. You should also heed the latest flight arrival time and earliest flight departure time stated in the connecting travel section, as it may not be possible to arrange connecting travel outside these times. Please do not book your flights until we have confirmed your accommodation to you. Alternatively, our expert reservations team will be happy to offer advice and to make flight bookings for you. We charge £35 per person for our flight booking service (£60 for India and Nepal). Your flights are then covered by our package-booking conditions, which give you greater protection in the event of delay or cancellation, as well as providing ATOL cover.
Connecting travel options - flying via Lisbon
| Outward route | Price per person |
Latest flight arrival time |
|---|---|---|
| own arrangements from Lisbon airport to hotel | pay locally | flexible |
| Homeward route | Price per person |
Earliest flight departure time |
|---|---|---|
| walk/local taxi to Sintra station (0h15/0h05), rail Sintra to Lisbon Oriente (0h40) | pay locally | 1000 |
| taxi hotel to Lisbon airport (0h30) | £24 | flexible |
If you've experienced this holiday first hand, why not write a review?
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Inntravel adapted two holidays to suit our time and travel availability so that we had a seamless and very welcome winter break visiting some intriguing parts of Portugal.
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers enjoyed our On the Waterfront Journey by Rail followed by our Lisbon & the Palaces of Sintra City Break & Walking Holiday.
We really enjoyed this trip. Your restaurant suggestions are always helpful. Other good restaurants include Restaurante Farol de Santa Luzia in Alfama in Lisbon, Romaria de Baco in Sintra, and O Lourenco in Salema [on A Coast of Many Colours holiday]. A personal highlight in Lisbon was the carriage museum. A friend had told us about it, and it is fabulous. Your notes never even mention it. You should definitely suggest it. We got there on the tram.
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers combined our city break Lisbon & the Palaces of Sintra with our walk A Coast of Many Colours
HIGHLIGHTS: The modern art gallery (Cultural Centre) in Belem is superb. Worth a whole afternoon. Also the Franciscan monastery near Sintra is very special - and almost tourist free - a great relief after the crowds in Sintra itself.
Inntravel adapted two holidays to suit our time and travel availability so that we had a seamless and very welcome winter break visiting some intriguing parts of Portugal.
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers enjoyed our On the Waterfront Journey by Rail followed by our Lisbon & the Palaces of Sintra City Break & Walking Holiday.
We really enjoyed this trip. Your restaurant suggestions are always helpful. Other good restaurants include Restaurante Farol de Santa Luzia in Alfama in Lisbon, Romaria de Baco in Sintra, and O Lourenco in Salema [on A Coast of Many Colours holiday]. A personal highlight in Lisbon was the carriage museum. A friend had told us about it, and it is fabulous. Your notes never even mention it. You should definitely suggest it. We got there on the tram.
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers combined our city break Lisbon & the Palaces of Sintra with our walk A Coast of Many Colours
HIGHLIGHTS: The modern art gallery (Cultural Centre) in Belem is superb. Worth a whole afternoon. Also the Franciscan monastery near Sintra is very special - and almost tourist free - a great relief after the crowds in Sintra itself.
TIP: Sintra Hotel strongly recommended Incomum Restaurant, in Rua Dr. Alfredo Costa no22, and it was good food and service.
Highlights were the cloisters in the monastery in Lisbon and Montserrate in Sintra. Lisboa card was very good value, saved us at least 30 euros. Palace de Pena was beautiful, but the experience of viewing the inside was very poorly managed. We were stuck in a one-way, slow file throughout the palace, that felt like the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging. Couldn't enjoy it at all, so get there very, very early in the day.
The highlight of our stay in Lisbon was staying at Solar do Castelo. The position of the hotel was lovely and the staff and rooms so good. The restaurants recommened to us by you were all good. In Sintra we have to say we found it very busy, with coach loads of tourists bused in daily. The walk to the Moorish castle and Palace was lovely but we would recommend that the Palace was visited first and Castle after. The queue to get into Pena Palace was so long that in the end we just looked around the grounds and terraces. The last morning we visited the National Palace in the center of Sintra. We arrived before it opened in the hope to avoid crowds. Silly move as the coaches were arriving first thing. Maybe a sugestion would be a visit an hour after opening when the first lot have gone round. It does rather spoil looking round when you have to dodge the crowds. All in all your walking notes were very good and hotels very good too. Less cruise ships would make a perfect holiday.
We had a great week and benefitted greatly from your information and suggestions. The Gulbenkian was our best day out. Berardo was okay but needs a better guide rather than an English translation from flowery and jargon-rich Portuguese. The MAA was worth a visit if only to see the Bosch.
The Monastery cloisters and the Pastel de Nata were outstanding in Belem but we could pass on the other Belem attractions.
The restaurant Sao Jorge was very good as was Dom Pipas in Sintra ( we went twice to each). The Tile museum which you do not mention was a 4-star visit for us.
For cities useful to have an Uber app as walking routes are steep and taxis very cheap. Arm yourself also with bus/tram map as both are very good ways to get around at low cost. Quinta de la rosa is fabulous, great food and the additional bonus of easy downhill walking distance (20 mins max) to Pinhão for bars, restaurants, boat trips.. and the most beautiful train station in Europe!
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers enjoyed our Lisbon & the Palaces of Sintra City Break & Walking Holiday followed by our Porto & the Douro Valley City Break & Walking Holiday.
We thought the whole holiday was excellent, though we didn't manage to fit everything in. There was a great variety of tourist sights and we loved them all from the colourful Pena Palace to the Regaleira Estate and St George's Castle. Since we didn't want to walk far from the hotel in Sintra for a meal we tried Romaria de Baco which is next to the tourist office and would thoroughly recommend it for its excellent food and friendly service. It is located above the Restaurante Tulhas which we also tried. The service there was very friendly but we found our meals rather disappointing.
We thoroughly enjoyed the whole holiday. Solar do Castelo hotel has a magical setting and lovely staff (and great breakfasts!) and we would happily go back. Rooms are not as soundproof as we would like perhaps but that is maybe to be expected in an old building. Sintra Boutique hotel was very comfy but a bit soul-less we felt after Lisbon (although the staff were all extremely friendly and helpful). The walking notes were great and kept us entertained, informed and on the right track in both places. We followed all 4 walks in Lisbon and particularly enjoyed Belem and the Alfama district. After speaking to hotel staff in Sintra we took the local bus up to Pena and then reversed your notes and walked down to the Moorish castle and back to town which gave us a good day's walking and sightseeing without being overly energetic in the heat. We ate well and followed some of the recommendations of previous guests but found some lovely places ourselves too - Enjoyed Clara's in Lisbon but our best meal in that city was a tiny tapas place in the Castle area whose name I'm afraid I simply cannot remember!
Our favourite memories are of taking a swim halfway through a days walk, enjoying the stunning scenery of the coast of the Algarve and more interestingly experiencing the inland views too. We loved the accommodation provided at each stop and the friendliness of the people and we definitely enjoyed the slow pace of life.
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers combined our A Coast of Many Colours walk with Lisbon & the Palaces of Sintra.
Very much enjoyed the castles and palaces in Sintra. Also enjoyed our stay in Lawrence's Hotel.
Both Lisbon and Sintra would have been wonderful in the sunshine as they were pretty great in the rain. We loved our hotel in the castle wall in Lisbon although it's a steep climb down to anywhere and then back up again. Might advise people of this.
All the travel arrangements worked well, public transport in Portugal is very efficient and the Inntravel directions were good. We took a tram on our first day in Lisbon to try and find the hotel but ended back where we started as we didn't know where to get off and the tram became too full to move but this was all part of the things we'll remember and smile about now we're home! The Maritime Museum in Lisbon was a real find, although we could have done with some walking directions back from Belem, our pathway alongside the river seemed to come to a stop and we were then alongside a busy road so caught a bus back. We enjoyed the palaces and Moorish castle, the highlight was the Regaliera Palace with all its quaint towers and underground passages and we had fun looking for the symbols mentioned in your notes! This would be a great place for the grandchildren to explore! Lots of ideas for my next sewing project too with all the beautiful patterned tiles everywhere. Best cafe - Saudade in Sintra, best restaurant - Tulhas in Sintra - food as good as our own cooked at home and that's saying something - plus friendly and accommodating staff at both places. Thanks Inntravel for the recommendations.
This was an excellent holiday that we would heartily recommend. There are challenging walks, beautiful scenery and fascinating places to visit.
Another Inntravel holiday that did not disappoint. We were impressed with both Lisbon and Sintra but difficult to make a preference between the two as they were so diifferent. Accommodation and food were better in Lisbon although the evening meals at Lawrence's in Sintra were excellent.
An idea of charges into the Palaces would be useful. Best to get a taxi from the centre of Sintra rather than the hotel as the one way system adds more distance and cost from the hotel. The directions on arrival from the train station to the hotel could be specific/detailed. Eating out in Sintra - Romania de Baco is a 3 min walk from Hotel Lawrence and is superb, we ate there both nights and the best food ever tasted, service exceptional and reasonably priced. We ate out at the Champanheria do Largo in Lisbon which was excellent, reasonably priced and 5 min walk from the hotel. We can also recommend the Mar Ao Carmo fish restaurant.
Very much enjoyed Lisbon and would strongly recommend purchasing a Lisboa card for the public transport and reduction in entry fees. We did not buy one until the Wednesday and would have benefitted on Tuesday. Sintra is a fabulous area but good to wait to tour the likes of the National Palace until after 5pm when the day tripper crowds start to disperse.
If I was booking again I would perhaps go in spring or autumn to avoid walking in intense heat.Lisbon is a lovely friendly city.We only visited Montserrate and Regaleira parks and palaces.Both were very enjoyable and provided some shade in the heat of the day.The was a wedding party at Montserrate which was fun to watch.Perhaps a bit more info about feast days may have been useful since public transport up to the castle was affected and we didn't get chance to travel on the famous no 28.The practise of queuing to pay before puchasing items such as ice creams etc was a little baffling to the uninitiated.