gordonthemoron
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Has anyone any experience of booking tickets on the cp.pt website? Do you get a self print ticket, collect from a TVM or sent by mail?
Has anyone any experience of booking tickets on the cp.pt website? Do you get a self print ticket, collect from a TVM or sent by mail?
yes, I'm not sure which Lisbon metro ticket is appropriate as I guess day tickets are the best bet but I'm not sure what the boundaries are (metro v +CP out to Sintra/Cascais)
Has anyone any experience of booking tickets on the cp.pt website? Do you get a self print ticket, collect from a TVM or sent by mail?
(I believe PT trains have compulsory seat reservations which is the only way this could work)
InterCity or AlphaPendular and of course Talgo have compulsory seat reservation. At least that was my experience on last years Algarve tour.
Worst part of the trip was queuing to buy a Metro ticket from the ATMs at Lisbon airport station (unstaffed).
That is correct. No reservations on Interregional, Regional or suburban trains. And I don't know for sure, but don't think there are any on the international Porto to Vigo trains.
You are right.
The Porto-Vigo trains are just local Porto DMUs, the same as they use on the Douro services.
I believe these CP trains originally belonged to Renfe.
A fascinating run though, ancient single track mainly.
I believe they've recently decided to upgrade and electrify to the border.
yes, I'm not sure which Lisbon metro ticket is appropriate as I guess day tickets are the best bet but I'm not sure what the boundaries are (metro v +CP out to Sintra/Cascais)
One caught fire recently.....
I ended up buying the "zapping" (pay as you go) version of Viva Viagem, because I wanted to use the Tejo ferries as well as go to Cascais (and the metro from the airport).
I put 15 on the ticket, but of course can't remember now how much credit I was left with.
The bus/metro/CP version is I think 10, and is valid to Cascais/Sintra (but not on the Tejo ferries).
A ferry trip Cais do Sodre to Cacilhas gives a great view of the city.
Starts from the same place Cascais trains start.
I recall finding some potentially useful information only in Portuguese so I tried putting it through Google Translate and it translated the place Belém, so the translation read "Take the tram from Lisbon to Bethlehem"!
Totally agree - we did the zapping thing too in Lisbon though you need to find someone to explain the jargon or read up before hand. If you take ferry, to other side, you can get a bus up to the statue of Jesus where the views are similar those of San Francisco and the Golden gate Bridge. You wont be able to use your zapping card on the bus though. Different operator but it will hardly break the bank!
Are you sure? At least the tram operator on the south side and Fertagus utilise the zapping ticket...admittedly I haven't taken the bus but I thought all Lisbon area operators accept the same tickets.
On the otherhand, as you say, Lisbon public transport is cheap
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Ian
Am I still of any help at this point?
Am I still of any help at this point?
You are right.
The Porto-Vigo trains are just local Porto DMUs, the same as they use on the Douro services.
I believe these CP trains originally belonged to Renfe.
A fascinating run though, ancient single track mainly.
I believe they've recently decided to upgrade and electrify to the border.
Actually, there is one thing. I am intending on doing Porto-Faro, the 15:47 looks OK but arrives quite late. There is a connection on the 10:52 changing at Lisboa Oriente but the connection time is only 10 minutes, is this adequate? I would prefer to use the 9:47 which has an extended connection time at Oriente, is there any way to force the website to choose this service from Porto instead?