Beware of THIS When Your Ship Stops in Lisbon, Portugal! | Norwegian Getaway, Solo Cruise

Finally a sunny day in Portugal! This is the first port this cruise that there have been a lot of people bothering people to buy excursions, rent a car, busses. Lisbon is beautiful and it was a relaxing evening on the Norwegian Getaway! Enjoy!

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[helenhelen]

Thank you for showing Lisbon Portugal. Getting a good idea of what it’s like on ship. Enjoy your documentaries immensely. Authentic.

[annasutton]

We thought we had to take the coach into the centre.Little did we know that you can walk there from the ship. Lesson learnt.
We were not bothered much, only a lady selling sunglasses who didn't hear NO! I guess as we were older no one tried to sell us anything illegall.

[topguydave]

You do excellent videos. And I like the fact that you acknowledge each comment, it shows you've read them.

[davidlee]

You know, Ben, I have always wondered How Lisbon looked like. Thanks for tor being my guide !

[benburns]

Hi Ben, enjoyed seeing some of the architecture in your walk around Lisbon. It is always interesting to see how unique some of the architecture is in different countries. It is a shame that the pesky people trying to see stuff can be so annoying.
Glad you got to experience some of the slides and it would have been great to have the Drop slide footage, but rules are rules.
I think that it is so unique that on the ship see through Stairs that they have so many different colored lights. I like the Purple lighting in the hallways to the Studio cabins as well.
Looking forward to the upcoming Sea days so hope the Seas are not too rough.

[andybaker]

Back in the 90s, a friend of my aunt paid for her to go on a Mediterranean cruise on the QE2. My aunt wasn't well travelled, she'd never set foot on a plane and had never been further from her south London home than the Isle of Wight or Devon. One of the stops was Lisbon, and I remember her saying that she HATED it because it was "full of beggars". I've since been to Lisbon myself and loved it, so I couldn't figure out why my aunt had such a problem with it! But now that I've watched this, I think I know! She probably thought those people who bothered you when you got off the ship were "beggars", bless her heart. 😊

[jameswg]

Also some ports will have tourist numbers just for the police or specific tourist police. Really useful having those numbers on you and they are usually on the daily planner.

[jameswg]

I didnt have it bad in portugal. Barcelona on the other hand was bad for it.

Another trick i learnt is if you learn the phrases for No etc in the local language e.g. portugese they usually take the hint and dont follow.

[Travel_Day_Dreams]

Repositioning cruises are some of the cheapest holidays out there (you need to factor in the flights), Costa Cruises can get crazy cheap, I've seen pricing on some of their T/A's as low as £13 pppn. We're doing a Princess T/A next month (Florida-Southampton) for about £60 pppn & using points to pay for the flight out. If you think about it, £5-10/day for breakfast, £10-15 for lunch and £25-30 for dinner, plus £10 for snacks during the day the travel part of the cruise is basically free.

[valerielane]

The wavy lines on the pavement represent the distance the tsunami travelled when there was the massive earthquake.

[garyball]

What is the ratio of passengers on board is it mainly people from the USA or a mixer I'm planning a relocation cruise on the Norwegian Encor from my home town of Southampton to Miami in December I'm assuming because the cruise starts in the UK there will be a lot of British people, thank you for another great video.

[mitchellbarnow]

Hi Ben, do you speak Cantonese and/or Mandarin? I think that you said that you started to speak in Chinese to stop people from trying to sell you stuff and it really impressed someone. I would certainly be impressed and I hear Cantonese almost everyday around where I live, but Mandarin is rare.

[non-wxqm]

Ok, ok. I guess I'll subscribe. 😁 Ben seems like a good guy.

[juanitafurtado]

Lisbon is beautiful. And so many Gypsy ladies selling identical tablecloths! Love the mosaic pavement
Can’t remember any ship where you did not have to walk through the casino to get somewhere else— maybe it is a revenue producing scheme? Hard to pass through without being tempted by those slot
Machines or the coin scooper.

[jameswg]

The casino thing is planned that way especially with american cruise lines or bigger americsn ones. They want you to walk through it and tempt you.

[valerielane]

Did you have to pay for your flight back to UK. How much did it cost?

[jenpoole]

Those pavements are lethal when wet. Sorry we didn't like Lisbon, maybe because it never stopped raining the whole time we were there

[nicholashall]

I live in Lisbon and people don't try and sell you stuff here any more than any other place. Also Lisbon is not unusual in that if you are obviously a tourist you can get ripped off anywhere. I feel its kind of unfair that you make out Lisbon to be a tourist trap. If you really want to experience extreme bugging to buy, try Egypt for example

[jackpatplod]

I thought I’d blinked and missed it but at 1:30 or thereabouts you said you’d tell me how much you paid for the cruise so stick with me… so I did and nothing, zilch, nada, nowt, 什么也没有