💡 You can load a monthly pass or money for single journeys (zapping) onto the Navegante card; you top up at a machine or at the ticket office.
💡 Municipal - a pass for the city only, metropolitano - for the whole metropolitan area, including suburban trains and buses.
💡 The Lisbon metro lines have colours: azul, amarela, verde, vermelha; changing is mudar de linha.
💡 You have to validate your pass at every entrance, even a monthly one: without validation you can be fined.
💡 There's often a help button (ajuda) by the turnstiles - you can talk to a member of staff through it.
💡 Key words in announcements: interrompida - suspended, perturbações - disruption, alternativa - alternative route.
💡 In Porto and the surrounding area people travel with the Andante card: you buy and top it up at machines at metro stations, the zone is marked by a letter and a number (Z2 - the city centre), and every journey has to be validated.
💡 The Porto metro lines have letters and colours: linha A - blue, B - red, C - green, D - yellow, E - purple, F - orange; the main interchange is the Trindade station.
💡 Porto metro stations are open, without turnstiles: you validate your card on the platform before boarding, and inspectors check at random.
💡 On a bus you validate your Andante card by the driver when boarding; without journeys loaded it won't work - you can top it up at machines at metro stations.
💡 From Porto airport the metro goes to the centre, linha E (purple); you get a ticket or card at the machine at the entrance.
💡 You often need to flag a bus down with a raised hand - otherwise it may drive past the stop.
💡 To make the bus stop, press the paragem button in advance - it doesn't stop at every stop by itself.
💡 On a bus you tap your pass on the validator by the driver every time you board.
💡 A ticket from the driver (bilhete de bordo) is usually noticeably more expensive than a journey paid with a card.
💡 Bus and tram numbers are said as ordinary numbers: o vinte e oito - the twenty-eight.
💡 The seats by the doors are for the elderly, pregnant women and people with children - it's the custom to give them up.
💡 Tickets for fast trains (Alfa Pendular, Intercidades) are cheaper if you buy them in advance on the CP website or app.
💡 Só ida - one-way, ida e volta - return.
💡 At Portuguese stations the platform is called linha: o comboio parte da linha três - the train leaves from platform three.
💡 On the train keep your ticket until the end of the journey: the inspector (revisor) can check at any time.
💡 It's safer to show the address on your phone screen - street names are easy to mishear.
💡 To help the driver find you, name a landmark: estou à porta do café - I'm at the entrance of the café.
💡 In a taxi you pay by the meter, and luggage may be charged extra - ask before the journey.
💡 Not all taxis take cards - it's better to ask before the journey starts.