This tour company was fantastic. Very organized and the tour guides are quite knowledgeable. We did two tours. We booked the small group walking tour on our first morning in Lisbon so that we could get a better understanding of the city and the culture and the history. We were incredibly impressed by Daniel Ribeiro who was our tour guide. His knowledge was really impressive and we learned so much on our three hour plus tour. He took his time and seemed to really enjoy showing us all the city. And best of all, he gave us some fantastic recommendations that we used a lot for the rest of our trip. Next we wanted to explore Sintra and get out of the city for a day. So we also signed up for the day trip to Sintra and Cascais. This was a great way to get to see Sintra and Cascais with an additional stop to see the most western part of Europe. The day itself was a little cloudy but it was April in Portugal. The palace was still incredible and what made it so great was our guide Andres. Unlike more tours where they drop you off and say meet you back in an h our, Andres actually acts as your tour guide through the palace and his knowledge was just so helpful in making us understand the history of it all. It was very appreciated. At the meeting place at the start of the day, there were so many people going on this tour, but we were split up into much smaller groups of like 6 people and each assigned a tour guide. It was all very well organized. read more

Our guide Natália was amazing! She was super funny and friendly. The walk through the city was very nice and comfortable and included tastes of traditional tart, wine, and cod cake. It was fascinating to learn about the history and the walk gives you everything you need to know for a great trip in Lisbon! read more

I love a food tour and this was a great one. Ana Filipa led me and seven strangers around the Rossio district of Lisbon for nearly four hours. We made five stops despite the rain and somewhat gloomy weather. The whole time, Ana was bubbly, personable and friendly. She clearly loves to tell visitors about the food culture of this part of Lisbon and I had a great time. We walked maybe 1.5 kilometers, slowly and with plenty of stops. Marmalada, bifana, codfish pastéis, chorizo, shrimp in garlic, cheese, bread and more. Port wine, ginjinha (with cherries!), beer, vinho verde and red wine. Lots of food, lots of drink. Very interesting and a great time! Tip: If you start with the Delta Air Lines shopping portal and then go to Viator, you'll earn bonus SkyMiles on your tour purchase! [Review 19003 overall - 201 in Portugal - 2527 of 2022.] read more

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They pulled my older parents from the van in Lisbon due to their over booking. I recommend that nobody uses to piece of junk business and they're based in Boston and they could give a damn all they do is take you on cheap thrills overcrowded little bands. It is really really bad. Do not waste your money. read more

We took two tours with Inside Lisbon - my four star rating is for the very good Food and Drink walking tour conducted by Rachel. Considering she had only been guiding for a few months she was excellent! We also took a classic Lisbon walking tour with Jorge two days before that was mediocre at best. Jorge really should not be a guide since he only relayed the minimal amount of information - it felt like he was just going through the motions. We have done much better walking tours that were free in other cities and this one was over 15 euros - it was not worth it. Back to the Food and Drink tour - this was a lot of fun! Rachel not only talked about the food and drink we were sampling but the history of the area, the people of Lisbon, culture, etc. She filled in all of the info Jorge never discussed. At each stop we sampled and learned about different dishes and drinks. Wines, port and the famous sour cherry Ginginjha (spelling?) along with cod cakes, sardines, pastries, etc. This tour was not cheap but it was worth it given the great job by Rachel. read more

The Lisbon Small-Group Portuguese Food and Wine Tour with Joana was great! Joana was amazing, knowledgeable, personable and made the experience fun for everyone. The small businesses we visited represented Portuguese culture and food expertly, each worth a visit back to sample more of their menu. If you have one day in Lisbon, please take the time to add this tour to your itinerary, I am sure you will remember the experience for the rest of your life. read more

Took the Obidos, Fatima tour with Inside lisbon. our tour guideTiago was informative and gave us just the right of time at each stop. His restaurant recommendation was superb. A nice little place with great food and ambiance. perfect day to end our time in lisbon!!! read more

We loved our trip to Fatima, Nazare, and Obidos with "the original Carlos" as he really knows his subject matter, and is funny as well as informative. When our tour for the following day was cancelled halfway through the trip, he gave us the phone number to their office so we could try to book with Inside Lisbon for the following day. We couldn't book the same trip that was cancelled, but everyone was raving about the trip to Sintra, so we took that tour instead. The person in the office was so helpful, and the next morning the staff was very kind and they were able to get us on the tour. It was great. I highly recommend this tour company. We were able to meet the "other" Carlos the next day! He was great too! read more

Agreeing with all the other positive reviews here. Our guide for a three-hour walking tour of Lisbon was Caterina. She is a magnificent guide, with intimate knowledge of all the sites and relevant history, and terrific enthusiasm to go with it. Her energy never flagged as we went past the three-hour mark. It really felt like walking around with a very knowledgeable friend, especially when, near the end of the tour, our group was guided into a private social club in the Alfama for a snack of wine, ham, and cheese. Just a great experience, and quite a bargain for what we received. read more

Definitely recommend this tour company! It first started with some confusion as we booked over the weekend....they accepted our reservation but didn't have enough seats in the van on the day of the tour!. But Inside Lisbon was able to rectify the situation quickly with patience and charm. Another tour guide drove us back to their HQS, quickly grabbed another tour guide, and found us another van...which resulted in a private tour! We had an exceptional and knowledgeable local named Hugo as our new guide. He was one of the best tour guides!  He made the tour memorable even during a pandemic;. he had vast knowledge of the area but focused on the unique history and trivia facts at each site. He shared tips only locals would know, including a little-known hill path that overlooked the bay in Nazare. He made us feel like old friends who were sharing memories and jokes along the way. We had a great experience! read more

We signed up with this walking tour of Lisbon, Inside Lisbon, because it was recommended by Rick Steve's. It surpassed my expectations. Luíz Pena was very knowledgeable about the history of Lisbon. He was warm and engaging, and we learned so much about the city. We saw key sights, and were shown the crafty back way to get there. By the end of the tour, we had a greater appreciation of the city, it's past and what still is. We also felt like we had made some new friends. Highly recommended!! read more

My wife and I booked a day tour called Sintra, Cascais and Estoril. There are rave reviews online for Inside Lisbon so I was pretty excited. We had Pedro Pedro (first name is the same as his last name) as our guide and there were about seven people on the tour all together. Pedro was all right. He was able to answer our questions, but I feel as though we didn't get the greatest information and experience. Most of the information he was telling us was done inside the van when he was driving. When we got to Pena National Palace in Sintra, he took us around the outside but to be honest it wasn't too memorable. I don't remember much of what was said. He didn't come inside the castle with us so my wife and I actually learned more from following a couple who had hired a private guide. Inside the castle he gave us 45 minutes. Next, we stopped for an hour and a half for lunch in the city centre. He just dropped us off and we were on our own. An hour and a half is a bit long here. After lunch, we went to Cabo da Roca... the most western point of continental Europe and where the world ended when people thought the earth was flat. Kind of cool and I enjoyed our time there... until it started down pouring out of no where! Half an hour here. After that we were shuttled to Cascais and dropped off for about 45 minutes or an hour. We just walked around the beach area but there wasn't much time to do anything and again, I thought this was a tour. Not a shuttle bus. The Estoril part of the tour was, "That's Estoril over there. We're going to drive through it." Really? You put Estoril as a highlight and it's a drive by? So, in summary there are a lot of awesome reviews on Inside Lisbon for the Sintra/Cascais tour. I'm not sure if we just didn't have a great guide or this is how it is. When it says tour, I assumed we get an actual guided tour. This was more like hiring a driver and going to these destinations while they drop you off, wait for you and then pick you up, while giving you a little bit of information along the way. read more

We had a wonderful tour of Lisbon, Sintra and Pena Palace with the most incredible, knowledgeable and professional tour guide; Jaime Afra! He was not only our tour guide but driver too. He knows his way around the Lisbon area and ensures his guests are well informed. He made sure our group was able to see all of the sights and answered all of our questions; will definitely request him if we come back! read more

Me and a few lads went on a trip to Lisbon to meet our pal Tom. Tom had offered us free accommodation where he was staying for the university semester. Although, had it not been free i would have left, dirty plates and no clean sheets. We arrived there via metro, which had a funny smell and set the holiday off to a slow start. But, by the end of the day we got used to the smell and the strange language. In conclusion, the holiday was amazing and the grilled fish was the best bit even though they left in all the bones. 5 stars read more

The wine and food walking tour was a great experience and far exceeded our expectations. Helder was a great guide-friendly, knowledgeable and spoke excellent English. We visited 5 establishments in four hours (the website said it would be three hours). It was a combination of standing at counters, sampling outside of stores and sitting down inside establishments. We never felt rushed. Our tour was a group of eleven plus the guide. Highly recommend. read more

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Joanne was an amazing tour guide. Personable and down to earth with excellent insights into the history and current status of Lisbon. She was honest and did not glaze over the, perhaps, less desirable aspects and history of Portugal. The walking tour was our choice and gave you a great reason to return for additional exploring. read more

I've been to Lisbon many times but this time in a stopover I chose to do a tour with Inside Lisbon to kill the hours in town. I Had Pedro as the guide in the Lisbon Walk, a great guide and a person really proud of his city. It was great to see the main icons of the city and taste some local food too! The pasteis de nata were so yummy! I recommend you to do a tour with this company! read more

We took a Best of Lisbon tour with Anna Vaccari- she was fantastic. Very enthusiastic and clearly loves telling all she knows about the city! She gave us good tips about getting into places without lines, always smiling and a wonderful guide. read more

We had an amazing experience with Tiago on the best of Lisbon tour. He provided history, humor, and pointed out some very wonderful details about various neighborhoods. This experience really made our trip to Lisbon. He is also very knowledgeable about architecture which enhances the experience. read more

What A Disappointment. Whenever I write a review of an experience, I force myself to wait a day to let the experience sink in. I want to give myself a chance to be sure that the way I felt walking away remains the same after reflection. I have to say that 24 hours after the end of my Inside Lisbon (tour group) Sintra and Cascais Small Group Tour from Lisbon, my initial sense of anger and disappointment is just as strong as it was throughout the trip. It's a shame, because the tour was highly recommended, has solid reviews, and followed a terrific itinerary. Before I get into the details I want to make clear that neither the itinerary nor the weather played a role in my negative feelings about the trip. Every spot on the tour was well-worth seeing and enjoyable, and though things were definitely 'dampened' by the rainy day, we had checked the forecast for our trip before we left the United States, and had known a week ahead that the day set aside for the Sintra trip was going to be wet. We built rain into our plan and expectations, and were appropriately dressed and equipped. So, what was the problem? The guide. 100% of the problem was the guide. He started off on the wrong foot before he even arrived. We were told that the trip would begin at 9:00 a.m. and instructed to be at the meeting point 15 minutes ahead of that time -- we were there at 8:40. We stood among a group of about 40 other tourists waiting for a variety of tours, and waited as one-by-one, guides appeared, called client names, and drove off. Our guide did not arrive on the scene until 9:15. We had actually begun looking online for alternative plans because it seemed so apparent that he was not going to show up at all. He did not apologize for his lateness, and when he walked us to the van it was not fully prepared for guests. A child's booster seat had to be removed and stowed, and once we were all in the van he sat and fiddled around for another 10 minutes, dismissing concerns about the time by saying that it didn't matter because the palace did not open until 10:00 anyway. His initial lateness was a constant rather than an exception. During the 8-hour day, there was only one time that he was actually waiting for us at the time that he had promised. Every other time, we would arrive at a site, he'd tell us what time to be back at a meeting spot or at the van, and then he wasn't there and we had to wait for him - in the rain. Again, we were prepared for rain, but it was absurd for seven of us to have to repeatedly stand and wait for him to arrive. It was also absurd that whenever we would arrive at a site, he would make us get out of the van and stand outside in the rain to hear instructions or directions instead of providing them inside the van where he had parked. That happened at every single site too. Finally, we were a mixed group - half Spanish speaking and half English speaking. Though he assured us at the outset that he would be communicating everything to all of us, he was only true to his word for the first segment of the trip. After we had completed our tour of the castle, things went downhill and stayed there. He would speak extensively in one or the other language, then never repeat or translate what he had just said unless asked to do so. We are English speaking, and know enough Spanish words to be aware that there were things that one group was being told and the other wasn't. We missed many explanations of what we were passing- and the Spanish-speaking guests were also asking for translations after he spoke only in English. We have taken all types of tours, all over the world. We generally find that tour guides are not only well informed, but also engaging - and in circumstances like bad weather, they generally work to find a silver lining and make things more comfortable or convenient. Though I have no doubt as to this guide's knowledge of what he was showing us, his overall effort at being 'personal' was to ask each of us where we were from in the first 5 minutes of the drive. Beyond that, he kept pointing out that the weather was going to keep the day from being as enjoyable as it might be, thus setting a self-fulfilling gloomy tone. The whole thing was a shame, because the sites themselves are well worth seeing, no matter what the weather. Unfortunately, we found ourselves wishing that we had taken a train or shuttle and done the whole thing on our own. We would not have seen as much, but would have been a lot less frustrated and stressed. read more

With my family We went on The tour to Sintra one day and on The tour to Nazaré and surrounding areas on the other day. Both tours were fantastic. I myself had been to these places before but got só much new information it felt like I had never been. Thanks só much for a great experience! I would deffinately recommend these tours to anybody. read more