If you are traveling by car and want a perfectly wonderful place to stay near Lisbon, we can highly recommend staying at Delfina's airbnb in Caiscai. Delfina is a warm and welcoming host and you will be staying upstairs in her suburban house with your own huge bedroom with your own bathroom. Parking is very easy at the house and yet you are only ten minutes drive from the Ocean or from the train station.

We did not drive into Lisbon but rather parked our car at the station in Caiscai for 4 Euros per day and took the 30 min train ride right into the center of Lisbon. It was a perfect solution and we did this on two separate days.

Caiscai and surrounding are also worth at least a day or two. One day we 'rented' the FREE bikes down at the coast and rode all along the ocean on a flat paved bike path. Another day we drove up to Sintra to enjoy the mountain scenery and the amazing hilltop palace of Pena.

Our host Delfina is Portuguese but lived in the United States for many years and speaks perfect English. She is also a wealth of information about Portuguese people, history, food, and culture. She was eager to recommend some excellent local restaurants and to make sure we tried some local foods and pastries.

We would definitely choose to stay here again if we came back to this part of the world.