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Lisbon Private Custom Tours with a Local: Highlights & Hidden Gems Experience
4.6
27 Ratings
Praça do Comércio
Discover the real Lisbon with a local guide on a personalized tour. Explore hidden gems, try local cuisine, and create unforgettable memories.
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Miradouro de Santa Luzia - You can start off your Lisbon experience at this popular observation deck with a pergola offers dramatic views of Lisbon & the Tagus River.
- Castelo de S. Jorge - Explore Lisbon’s highlights and hidden gems with a Local Host on a totally personalized itinerary
- Elevador de Santa Justa - Perhaps you want to view the cast-iron elevator with filigree details, built in 1902 to connect lower streets with Carmo Square.
- Carmo Convent - Explore the ruined Gothic church destroyed by an earthquake in 1755, with an evocative roofless nave & museum.
- Bairro Alto - Visitors wander the steep cobbled streets of bohemian Bairro Alto to ride the Bica Funicular, visit lavish São Roque Church and take in the views from Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara. Many of the centuries-old houses in the neighborhood are decorated with vivid street art. After sundown, a diverse crowd fill the hip, quirky bars, while the evocative sound of Fado music is heard from traditional restaurants.
What's Included
- Choose 2, 3, 4, 6 or 8 hours walking tour, exploring highlights and hidden gems
- Hotel meet-up (available on request for central location)
- Private and personalized walking tour with a passionate local
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks
- Transportation (primarily a walking experience however public transport may be used)
- Tickets to any attractions
- Gratuities (optional)
Additional Information
Experience the real Lisbon with a Local Host on a bespoke and personalized itinerary designed just for you. With a passionate Local Host by your side, you’ll be able to see an authentic side of the city at your own pace, stopping off at hidden gems in between the spots you want to tick off your Lisbon bucket list. This experience will include exciting things to do and see, restaurants, street food markets and bars that suit your budget and a few hidden gems that you won’t find in a guidebook, all suited to your wants, needs and wishes.
- After booking, you will receive a short questionnaire, so you’ll be able to tell us more about your interests and preferences. Based on your responses you’ll be matched with a like-minded Local Host
- Meeting Point
- Your meeting point is flexible, and to be agreed with your Local Host. Meet-up at your hotel or accommodation can be requested, or your Local Host will meet you at a convenient location close to the start of your experience.
Location
Praça do Comércio
After booking, you can adjust the meeting point to fit your preferences with the help of our Experience Planners.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.6
(27 Ratings)
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Piecestoronto
Sep 12, 2024
Great city awesome tour - Pedro was an excellent guide. He showed us on foot all over the town of Lisbon and explain the highlights with great detail. He was very laid-back easy to be with and a real pleasure. Thank you Pedro for an excellent tour.
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Lindaburns_h
Aug 20, 2024
Excellent - Pedro was an excellent guide, friendly, humerous, happy to answer the million questions i had about Portugal's history, and instinctively went at a comfortable pace for me. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect guide. Thank you, Pedro!
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Excursion730604
Jul 6, 2024
Food tour with Ricardo - Ricardo is very knowledgeable about Portuguese food and culture. He made our morning together fun and entertaining and made special efforts to tailor the itinerary to our needs.
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Journey723318
Jul 1, 2024
Lisbon walking tour - We had a great day seeing the sites of Lisbon with Pedro. He was very informative & interesting, providing many points information about the numerous neighborhoods we walked. He tailored our time to fit in as much as possible. Thanks Pedro!
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630eileent
May 22, 2024
Fun and informational tour with Pedro! - We had a great time with Pedro who was extremely knowledgeable about the city's history and architecture. The tour was well paced, and relaxed, yet we managed to see so much of the city. Pedro also had a great sense of humor :) Highly recommended!
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Uzubuzu
Apr 17, 2024
Enjoyed learning about wonderful Lisbon - Had a wonderful 4 hour walking tour with Pedro. We toured our first full day in Lisbon and we were glad we did. Pedro knows a lot about the history of the city and country and we enjoyed asking him many questions in an effort to learn as much as we could. He has a very easy going delivery. He paced things very well, we stopped at a couple of famous storefronts so we could taste local treats and he made recommendations for places for us to explore on our own, several of which we followed up on. Highly recommend City Unscripted and Pedro.
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Jhu038
Jun 3, 2023
Seeing Lisbon Like a Local! - Amazing private tour exploring the city and getting great recommendations. This is a great way to get an overview of the city to kick off the trip.
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Simonnes555
May 1, 2023
AMAZING food walking tour - Ricardo! What an amazing food walking tour! He is passionate & very knowledgeable about Lisbon. We are very humbled to have had this experience with him & I can highly recommend him. Thank you Ricardo
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Amanda_r
Oct 3, 2022
Disappointing walk with no local history or gems - Let me preface this review by stating I’m usually a 4 or 5 star reviewer.
Our tour guide was Paul. Paul was a nice guy, but that’s where it stopped.
Paul was not Portuguese, he was from Nigeria.
He had very little local knowledge, knew no hidden gems and spoke very bad english with a very difficult to understand accent.
He took us to very very touristy places that we had mostly already visited alone. We had to inform him that the famous Lisbon earthquake and tsunami happened in 1755, and that a fish name translated to cod.
We expected a tour guide with knowledge of the history and culture of both Lisbon and Portugal, that is not what we got.
We were very very disappointed since we had read such good reviews of this company tour.
Perhaps if we had been given a different guide it would have been excellent. Ours wasn’t
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Chiarella23
Apr 28, 2024
A very bad day in Sintra - I paid 714 euro for a private daily tour with an Italian guide but what I got was what a rasta not-very-clean girl that only spoke Portuguese and some Spanish, not even English. She just drove and left us alone to visit every place and did not say a single word throughout the entire day. During visits, we listened to other groups’ guides and read info on the internet. She picked us late in the morning at the hotel and continued the whole day, having no idea of where to park, no plans for the day, skipped half of the locations expected when I bought the trip. During the day I talked on the phone with the local agency and Viator but they did not help, they just wanted to sell me a trip knowing that they had not a guide available and no refund was provided. Unfortunately our day was totally spoilt and that is not refundable.
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