LIS Lisbon airport
Alameda das Comunidades Portuguesas,
1700-111 Lisboa, Portugal
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Humberto Delgado Airport, or Lisbon Airport, is TAP‘s hub. it’s raltively close to the Old Town, 4.7 miles (7.7km) from Palace Ludovice in less than 30 minutes, $10.59 on Uber. It’s an orderly and modern airport.
The rating for this airport is poor, but I got through it in a breeze:
- Drop-off: the Uber driver has to take a ticket and park in a parking space to let us off. We then walk the short distance to the Terminal 1, which shares the road with cars.
- We’ve no check in luggage, and downloaded the boarding passes the previous day.
- Fast Track is empty, and it works well for us, which took us 6 minutes, to get to Global Blue. Not sure this is enabled by Clear or TSA Precheck.
- VAT refund in 13 minutes: Global Blue is efficient. Purchases made in Portugal can be dropped in the mailbox, and purchases made in Spain require a stamp from the office.
- We tried two TAP Premium Lounges, one before passport control and one after. There are some public seats on the second floor.
- Passport Control: is by the McDonald’s, which is a breeze; it took us 14 minutes from the McD to the TAP AirPortugal lounge, which is smaller.
The TAP air is somewhat ridiculous.
