Buying train tickets in Portugal

8/17/2019 10:14:44 AM

In Portugal train prices are stable, they never escalate. Only difference is that there are discounts (up to 65%) for people who buy some days ahead. You can check information here.

The big disadvantage when buying on the spot is that tickets may run out. This doesn’t happen often and many times they only run out in second class, so you may still find some first class tickets, more expensive, but like you said it’s not a big difference. Also even if they run out for next train there will be seats for the train after; tickets in Portugal are mostly bought on the spot so they sell their last seats in the last minutes.

Buying on the spot is a fair option. No discount, but besides that the worst it can happen is that you go in that train you would be going if you buy before.

Edit: After comments from @badjohn I know now that what I’ve written here about tickets running out prevails in most cases but not in Algarve during Summer.

8/15/2019 3:38:34 PM

Prices in Portuguese trains do change with time. This only happens in intercity trains, like the one you want to get.

This is a fairly new trend. Prices used to be the same all the time bought online or not. In advance or not.

The market is now starting to develop at this level. This means you can get good deals if buying in advance, but don’t lose your sleep over this.
The prices don’t go insane if buying at last minute.

Good advice that I can give you is to choose the bus over the train to go from Algarve to Lisbon. I love trains and would love to tell you otherwise, but unfortunately, the frequency of trains from Algarve is quite low and it often gets delayed on route.

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