Wonderful airport lounge to rest at in Lisbon…read more 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.

Pretty nice lounge. Ample seating when I was there. Coffee. Tea. Water. Juices (not fresh). Bar and…read morewine. Some food but nothing wow. Meats (iberico ham) and cheeses. Waffles cereal. They had cakes (decent) and Portuguese pastries. Still much better than most American lounges. Staff was working to clean and stock. Not bad place at all. The lounge has its own bathrooms a few with showers.

An average airport lounge before passport control…read more It was busy when we arrived at 1:20, but it quieted down a bit by 2pm. The food is so-so; two bartenders are great, as is the entire staff, and I got to try two reds. It has a shower. On my way to wash my hands, I found a quiet spot near the bathrooms: a seat and a wall--super calm. My machine-made cappuccino comes out sweet: I don't remember what I pressed - must be a senior moment.

A lounge for those heading back across the Atlantic…read more Atlantico Lounge is located in the non-Schengen international zone within Lisbon Airport. It is the first venue immediately after Passport Controls from the domestic zone. This is TAP Air Portugal's lounge for international flights and is smaller in size compared to their Tejo flagship lounge. It is accessible for Star Alliance premium passengers. The lounge is smaller and typically quieter but I found it quite busy in the afternoon period with many passengers packed in with loose jackets in preparation for flights to colder climates. There is only one self-serve area with a small variety of hot foods, along with pastries, and drinks. Food variety included caldo verde soup, sliced chorizo, salad and pastel da nata plus other pastries for a Portuguese touch. Among the limited table seating, there was a partitioned section for small groups to recharge. There were no shower rooms in this lounge, and only one of each drink station for espresso, fountain drinks, juice and minibar. If you have a domestic connecting flight, the front desk here will refer you past Passport Controls to Tejo lounge instead, saving you from delays. Skip it or hit it? Atlantico can get crammed in peak hours so TAP's flagship Tejo lounge was our better option in the same Lisbon airport.

More like a mall than an airport once you get through security. The first few yards is like you're…read morewalking through a department stores perfume section. And the layout of all the restaurants and shops is like a mall. Thankfully all the signs have an English translation underneath, which was so helpful. The majority of the employees really only speak Portuguese though. Some speak Spanish, but not many will speak English. So if you need assistance either finding the right way to go, or regarding your luggage, it will be tough to find someone who can converse without a translator. Except of course for the customs agents, they are always at least quadrilingual. There is only one area for baggage claim, so you just need to follow the signs. Although before you get there, you'll need to first go through the new EES system, which will have long lines, although it does go by somewhat quickly. If you use the app Travel To Europe, you can answer all the questions ahead of time. Although you will still need to go to the customs booth to have your photo and right hand fingerprints taken. This is now just an added security feature required for anyone visiting Europe. This new EES system was just implemented on April 9th, 2026, and in the first month, there were insane delays resulting in travelers missing their connecting flights, but they are currently allowing those with children, and with any disabled to bypass this and go straight to the custom agents. Once you go through that, then you can head to baggage claim. So you definitely should use the restroom right when you exit the plane, cuz it might be an hour or more 'til you can again. Btw you won't know which carousal has your bags until you get there. There will be screens at each one showing the different flights. Some carousels will hold multiple flights bags, and you just need to walk around the find the right one.

Possibly the worst airport I've ever flown through and that's saying a lot, given the decrepit…read morestate of some American hubs. Lisbon took a good chunk of my soul. A few recommendations: 1. Budget more time than you think you'll need if you have an international flight (non-Schengen) AND you have a non-EU passport, which is the majority of travelers. Sure, you may feel a little silly sitting at your gate but that beats waiting in the middle of an enormous line knowing that your flight is leaving without you. A toss-up as to whether the airport staff (see #4 below) will try to help you out. 2. The layout is so poorly organized, it's almost comical. It's like if someone was handed the task of designing an airport to maximize traveler confusion and stress, and received an A on the assignment. So - first you go through security, where they check your passport. You might assume you're good once you see a maze of duty-free shops and restaurants but oh no, you're in for a nasty surprise. Do NOT waste any time getting stuff here. Keep walking and you'll eventually stumble into a massive queue for passport control. You pass under an arch and you're hit with more waiting. When I was flying out in June, they were rolling out the EES biometric system but, for the passport control that I endured, they were just clearing people manually because the machines were glitching out. 3. You've made it through after hours of standing in a sea of other complaining, dead-eyed visitors for whom the past few days of sunny beaches, delicious sardines, and stunning landscapes are now a very, very distant memory. You search for a restroom or maybe a cafe to grab a snack before boarding or, heck, even the Wi-Fi page to send an overly detailed complaint to the group chat. NOPE. You're going to wait in more lines for the women's bathroom, to get coffee/food at the skimpy tiny cafes servicing the post-passport control hordes, and you're going to stare in disbelief at the broken Wi-Fi link. It's crazy. The infrastructure, both physical and digital, for this airport is from something decades ago. Utterly absurd and embarrassing. 4. To make matters worse, we managed to locate our gate but missed the very, very tiny sign for it pointing away from a SECOND round of passport control. We were standing in line, looking at our gate number only a few feet away, when some people in front of us finally flagged down an employee and they were able to corral us to the right spot. As we waited for our gate to open, we saw a few other people in the same situation including two poor souls who had gone through passport control twice. We asked one employee if she or someone else could make a general announcement to the queue that passengers on "TPXXX flight to Boston" did not have to stand in this monstrous line and she basically shrugged her shoulders, saying that people had eyeballs and needed to pay attention to the (abominable) signage. People like us who missed it. 5. Budget an additional hour or two if you're thinking of claiming VAT refund status. 6. There are two lounges, ANA and TAP. You need to get through passport control to access TAP. ANA's entrance is located before passport control but when we lined up to get in, the staff at the door pointed us to passport control. When we finally made it through and then tried to find the ANA lounge, the TAP people told us it was before immigration. A mystery for another day, I suppose. 7. Don't even get me started on the utter pandemonium that was (1) trying to locate the car rental return and (2) actually trying to return it. Overall - yes, Lisbon's airport is as bad as all the stories say. Try to save yourself from some high blood pressure and fly out of Porto instead.

I only went out dancing a couple times in Lisbon, but this place came recommended & I ended up…read morethere for a 90s rock nite one Friday. The crowd was super cool, the music was good, the drinks & service were great too...I'm still not exactly sure how to get there the normal way, though, it's in the sub-sub-basement of a shopping mall, so I basically wandered into the service stairwell of this deserted building & down half a dozen flights of stairs until I found a door that was unlocked. Hahaha? No for real. CR

From the owner: 1UP Gaming Lounge is Portugal oldest and biggest videogame-themed bar. We serve themed cocktails…read moreand foods; buy and sell used games; repair consoles and computers... and we also have over a thousand games avaliable to our patrons. Visit us and discover everythying that we have to offer.

I have been regularly coming here. A nice place with a view at the marina. Food is good, drinks are…read moregreat and the staff is excellent.

Not the greatest lounge in the world, but the staff is helpful. Only snacks and drinks, no food…read morereally. This is the OneWorld lounge in LIS. Wifi.