Belém Flights

When i saw that kind of bus I though " it seems I am in England ! " I think it must be nice to travel on the second floor of those buses appreciating the view and enjoying the sun.
I have to try it :-)

This little train circulates on the main streets and I think it is a great way to get know the place and enjoy the view.
Try it. :-)

A very nice way to go to Belem is by train. You have to take the Cascais Line from Cais do Sodre in Lisbon or from Cascais. At Cais do Sodre station you buy a ticket to Belem and it will cost you 0,95 cents (1in 2004). You have automatics machines to buy the tickets.

to and from belem and all over lisbon the tram is for touristic purposes the most charming way of travelling. i believe that the one shown in the pic, the nº 15, comes from downtown lisbon and sure is the number one choice for yu to go to belem district, if yu have no rental car. a very beautifull path going throu' the main touristic sites of alain taner's withe city.not to be missed.

The day before our Belem trip, we had returned to Lisbon from a train day-trip to Sintra and were wandering around downtown Lisbon taking in its sights toward the end of the day. One of the locals recommended buying a day pass for trams, busses and trains (3.35 E per pass), so we decided to get one for our planned trip to Belem. These can be bought at sidewalk kiosks operated by 'Carris'.

The next morning we waited at a bus stop not far from our hotel in the Saldanha district, looking for #27 (according to the sign) to Belem. A couple of busses stopped, but not the correct ones as we waited a half-hour. Humm, this was a Sunday morning and maybe they had a reduced schedule? When the next bus stopped, we asked the driver if he was going to Belem and, despite the fact that neither one of us could understand what the other was saying, he montioned for us to stay onboard. He made a couple of other stops as well picking up more tourists before finally arriving where a #27 bus was sitting. We all piled onto it and away we went for quite a long drive, because Belem is in the western suburbs of Lisbon. It was already 11 AM when we finally set foot in Belem!

Our return journey to central Lisbon was also a disjointed affair, since we could not speak Portugese and did not really know the bus routes and areas of the city that well. After a couple of long waits, we ended up taking a slow trolley-bus part of the way, then got onto a double-long jointed bus which took us back to the Praca do Comercia at the bottom end of Baixa - an area that we knew. After some time downtown, we were quite tired and decided to head back to our hotel. Again, near the Restauradores monument, we had a long wait for a bus that never came so we finally gave up and took a cab! This turned out to have consequences for us, as we found out the next morning!

I'm sure the ticket would be useful and easy to use for someone a bit more familiar with the 'system'!!

Belem is about 6km west of Lisbon and there are a number of ways to get by public transport.

We took the tram from Praca do Comercio but after a few kilometres the driver announced we could go no further so we were faced with either walking the rest of the ay or finding a bus. Luckily we saw a bus for Belem on the next street so we jumped on that and it left us outside the Mosteiro dos Jeronimos.

On the return trip we took the train, which runs alongside the river, from Belem station to Cais do Sodre.

It was very easy to get to Belem from downtown Lisbon.

From the Cais do Sodre Metro station (end of the green line, just after Baixa-Chiado stop), exit the Metro/Train station to the main street. Cross one lane of traffic to the island in the middle of the street and take Tram #15 (Alges) or Bus #27 or #28.

We took the tram, and I believe the fare was either 0.80EUR or 1.20EUR. You can purchase your ticket on the bus at the ticket machine; please be aware that the machine only takes 0.05EUR or above in coins (i.e., it does not take 0.01EUR or 0.02EUR coins.)

Easy to get there from Lisbon. Either take one of the many buses or take tram No 15 from Praca do Comercio along the busy waterfront.