Wonderful airport lounge to rest at in Lisbon.
Tejo Lounge is nestled away from the bustle of Lisbon Airport an escalator ride up from the full capacity seating before the boarding gates. This is TAP Air Portugal's flagship lounge in the Schengen area for domestic and EU flights. It was perfect for a layover before our Porto flight.
The lounge is bright and spacious with plenty of seating and two areas to grab drinks, one in the buffet area and another on the other side with bar service as well as espresso machines. The buffet food options were plentiful and changed throughout the day. There are also yogurts, fruits, soft drinks and meat platters for a quick fill-up.
In the morning layover, we enjoyed milky scrambled egg, local ham and sausage along with decent pastel da nata as our first local try of the famous Portuguese egg custard pastry. Before a subsequent return flight, the lunch option included pasta, caldo verde soup, sliced chorizo, traditional chickpea stew and a variety of fried items including the cod fritters. It was a nice variety even if I wished the fritters were warm.
Many of the table seats have charging outlets for convenient recharge and the lounge includes its own wifi login for better speeds. There are even 6 shower rooms to freshen up from your last flight. The lounge was kept quite clean and there were a huge set of staff working the back kitchen as well as polite staff who restocked the buffet.
A key advice if you are catching a non-Schengen international flight, the display boards inside the lounge prompt to leave 2 h ahead of departure. This is because Passport Controls especially with kids can be stuck in the long lineups. Tejo lounge is after security but before passports to get to the non-Schengen gates, and your safer bet may be TAP's Atlantico lounge instead in that area.
Skip it or hit it? Tejo is definitely a lounge worth visiting if you have premium TAP airport access. read more