I was in Lisbon for the first time in October. I took a cruise from Southampton to Lisbon so I arrived by cruise ship and left by plane.
I stayed at a hotel on Rue Augusta and the cruise port was so close to my hotel that I could walk if I had chosen to. The cruise port is very central and in a nice area. There is a lot of public transportation in the immediate area as well as a taxi stand across from where you disembark.
I flew home and this is about the airport. It is information for the first timer as well as a review of my experience as a first time visitor
I took public transportation to the airport. I began on the green line and transferred ot the red line. There was a lot of walking and there were spots where there was no elevators, escalators or lifts. I had to take stairs.
I am old and have mobility issues. Fortunately, there was always someone who very kindly offered to help me.
I would not recommend public transportation if you have a lot of luggage and or any kind of mobility issues.
If I returned, I would take a Uber or taxi to the airport. Also, my hotel arranges private transport so you might ask at your hotel
I arrived at the airport very early.
My memory is there was no information booth and the airport was very crowded, busy and for me somewhat chaotic. And this was very early in the morning.
I had to print out my boarding pass and the only option available was for checked bags. I had not planned on checking my bag but now I was going to have to.
I had to look for the Delta desk. It was not yet open because I had arrived so early . I think that it did not open until 8 am. It turned out to be a one person rinky dink booth that was buried by much larger desks. I was sort of shocked because Delta has such a large presence at other airports that I have been to.
I waited for it to open and I was told to go to Area F, straight down and take a first left so I probably did not have to wait for the Delta table to open. I probably could have just gone to Area F when arriving at the airport.. I guess that i could have asked the agent to print out a boarding pass that would have allowed me carry on only but I was very tired and very confused by now.
Area F was very easy to find but there was a lot of people and moving people. I did not see Delta and had to ask the moving people. Someone pointed Delta out and it was against the wall. I went over to Delta and checked my bag. My vague memory is that I had to walk through people to get to Delta.
There was no iine at Delta so it was easy to check my baggage. I had a stop over in Boston and found out that the baggage does not get checked through to final destination. I was going to have to get my luggage in Boston and then recheck it in Boston but that turned out to be very easy.
My memory is that i went through security first and that was very easy but I did not realize that there was also a second line that i had to go through for passport control or immigration. I went to what I thought was my gate nd sat down. Eventually i realized that I had another line to go through and found my way to passport control or immigration.
And this was to be a real problem. The passport control staff had decided to go on strike. The line was "out the door". I have an arthritic knee and spinal stenosis. The waiting in line was very difficult and it was obvious to airport staff who took mercy on, took me out of this line and put me in priority screening. I was through in a matter of minutes.
Now I was in the terminal. I vaguely remember a lot of walking to the Delta terminal and it seemed like a really lot of walking. Perhaps if I was familiar with the airport, it wuld not have seemed like so much walking. I passed many places to eat and other shops but i kept walking.
Finally I found the Delta terminal and there were lots of gates. My gate was another long walk. At least that is my vague memory.
To be conrtinued