Belém Tower (Torre de Belém)
- Address:Avendia da India, Lisbon
- Hours:Open Oct - Apr 10am - 5:30pm, May - Sept 10am - 6:30pm. Closed Mondays, Jan 1, Easter Sunday, May 1, Dec 25
- Admission:€ 5
Cultural Experience, UNESCO Heritage Site, Monument - Historical, Tower
Belém Tower (Torre de Belém) Reviews
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First I have to gripe about other Viator reviewers: Please write more than just "it was excellent" as this tells me
nothing about the tour. Please please please write details, be more descriptive for heavens sake. ***This was a nice orientation of Lisbon. I think it toured around letting you see some of the major monuments, can't exactly remember since I did a tour everyday. Definitely took us to some coach museum, I loved that it took us to Belem to see both the tower and the exploration monument (my two favorite things but didn't have enough time for each) but was still a surprise as I did not know we were headed there. I paid 5 euro for the tower and sprinted up all the way to top and took some pictures really quick and then ran back down to make the bus. For the monument there is a huge globe in front but too many bozos blocking u from taking a clean shot. Also took you to some huge church where Vasco Da Gama is buried. Then took you to some old art of town that was awesome cuz u walk up this cobbled stone road and see tons of restaurants, some are Fado, and end up in a nice souvenir shop that sells tons of different things I wanted to buy it all, plus you get to taste some wine there and buy bottles if you like. The only reason I didn't buy the wine is because I knew I was being dropped off in the city not at my hotel. The tour guide spoke maybe 4-5 languages, too many different languages were accommodated, throw out the italians haha.
We went on the Hop-On Hop Bus bus tour as soon as we arrived, and it was a great way to get the lay of the land. We took both the Red and Blue routes. If you can only do one, I recommend the Red Route, and get off at the Belem Tower for half an hour.
I was disappointed by his tour. The coach pick up person didn't come into the hotel lobby, so didn't pick us up on the booked day. We then went the next day, the last day on our short trip. The trip was 30 mins shorter then advertised. Upstairs on the bus it was near impossible to hear the guide. There was no loud speaker. There was sockets for earphones, but we weren't given any. The one on my seat was broken and several other seats had old sets still in them. We spent a lot of time in a coach museum and little time by Belem Tower, which seemed odd. More historical content would have been good. The tour guide was pleasant and skilled - in 3 languages. But doing a tour to three language groups - English, french and Portuguese - meant only a third of the time was spent giving detail. So it felt rushed and frankly, I felt we had all been crammed together to make money for the company. There was no time for questions. I thought the whole tour would be in English, allowing for interaction and discussion. We did visit the Alfama but we missed all the most interesting content and instead were taken to a souvenir shop, supposedly for a free glass of port. But it was clear that the shop was giving out free glasses of port to everyone - that was on an advert outside. I think it's really quite lame of a sightseeing tour to take people to souvenir shops. We're all capable of shopping on our own. I would not recommend this tour, I'm afraid.
