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About Lisbon Trip

Lisbon Trip is an independent travel guide focused on Lisbon and its surroundings. We cover the city, the Sintra and Cascais coast, the Setúbal and Arrábida peninsula, the Silver Coast, the Centro region and the Alentejo — with verified day trips, fact-checked recommendations, and zero tourist-trap fluff.

What we publish

  • Destination guides covering Lisbon's neighbourhoods, Sintra's palaces, the Arrábida coastline, Évora's Roman ruins, Óbidos, Nazaré and more.
  • Topic guides on monuments, museums, miradouros (viewpoints), fado, river cruises, beaches, food, wine, day trips, transport and seasonal planning.
  • Itineraries from 3-day city breaks to 10-day coastal and interior routes.
  • Travel tips on getting around, card acceptance, driving to Sintra and the Alentejo, and the things that surprise first-time visitors.
  • Practical tools: planning resources to help you decide what to do and when.

Every page is published in eight languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Polish.

How we work

Every destination, guide and itinerary on this site is built on first-hand research, official sources and field-tested logistics. We name specific restaurants, viewpoints and operators when it matters, mention prices in EUR, and quote journey times you can verify on Google Maps before you go.

When a destination runs hot or cold — Sintra heaving in July, the Arrábida coast perfect in September, Évora unbearably hot in August — we say so. The aim is to publish the kind of page we'd want to read before booking ourselves.

Editorial principles

  • Honest framing. We flag the tourist traps: Sintra tuk-tuks that take you nowhere useful, overpriced pastel de nata in Belém, hard-sell "Portuguese night" dinner shows. And we point you to the real thing.
  • No paid placements. We do not accept money for editorial mentions, reviews or rankings. The only commercial relationship we have is the GetYourGuide affiliate programme (see below).
  • No content fluff. Every page should help you make a decision — book this, skip that, time it like so. Pages that don't earn their place get cut.

Why you can trust this guide

Verified affiliate links

Every tour we recommend points to a real, live listing on GetYourGuide. Before each release we run structural and live HTTP audits to catch removed tours, broken URLs or changed product IDs. We refuse to write speculative "you can probably book this" content; if a tour doesn't have a verifiable listing, it doesn't ship.

Reviewed dates on every page

Each destination, guide and itinerary shows a last reviewed date. When prices, opening times or transport schedules change, that date moves. Pages with no recent review get re-checked or rewritten before they reappear in our seasonal cycle.

No invented detail

Restaurant names, opening hours, distances, prices and transport times are all sourced from published material we can verify — official tourism boards, menus, Google Maps measurements, GetYourGuide tour pages, or first-hand visits. We do not invent restaurant names or hotel addresses to look knowledgeable.

Quick answers and FAQ blocks

Most guides open with a "quick answer" box and close with a short FAQ. Both are written so that a one-minute reader gets a usable answer, and a thirty-minute reader gets the full picture. We don't pad word counts.

How we make money

This site is free to read. We do not run ads, we do not run sponsored content, and we do not sell email addresses. The only revenue source is the GetYourGuide affiliate programme: when you book a tour through one of our links (marked clearly with "Check availability" or "From €X"), GetYourGuide pays us a small commission. Your price is identical to booking directly on GetYourGuide.

If we don't think a tour is worth your money, we don't link it — even if it would pay a commission.

See our full affiliate disclosure for the legal text.

What we don't do

  • We don't run our own tours, so we have no incentive to push you toward a specific operator.
  • We don't accept payment for editorial mentions, reviews or rankings.
  • We don't generate pages with AI alone — every published page is written or rewritten by Claude Sonnet 4.6 under a human editorial brief, with human review of facts, names and figures before release.
  • We don't farm out content to translation services that produce robotic text. The eight-language versions are model-translated and human-checked.

Publisher

Lisbon Trip is published by Agence Xen, an independent web publisher.

Email: agencexen@gmail.com

For corrections, suggestions or factual disputes, the inbox is open. We update pages where we find we got something wrong.