Originally Posted by attorney28
Travis, how did you get from Faro to Lisbon to Porto? Did you rent a car or take a train, and how long did it take you?
Thanks!
Hi,
We rented from Europcar (
http://www.europcar.com/) at the Faro airport - there are a number of rental car places there, and we found it to be the cheapest... we rented from Faro and dropped in Porto for no additional fee.
The car was very handy as we got to make our own schedule and parking is abundant in most places if you are willing to walk a few extra blocks.
If you have a map this will make more sense:
From Faro:
- We staying in the Algarve for a few days, then headed north to Evora.
- From Evora we went to Lisboa, Lisboa to Sintra
- From Sintra we drove to Tomar (highly recommended - I think we were the only visitors there!) - Tomar is near Coimbra on the map.
- From Tomar we did the craziest drive through the North-East region to Amarante (via Vila Real)... the new highway was not complete when we were there, so the roads are challenging at the least... weather would make them very scary.
- From Amarante we drove to Oporto to the Sheraton and parked it for the remainder of the trip - parking and driving in Porto was pretty tough.
From the Sheraton Oporto it is about 20 minutes to the airport and the car drop.
Let me know if you have any other questions - enjoy Portugal, it is beautiful!
T.
sorry - times are pretty close to mileage - you can drive 130 KM/H on all the highways. The only part that was MUCH slower was the Tomar-Amarante bit... around 30KM/H max. (and make sure you have lots of gas
Lagos to Lisboa is around a 4 hour drive.