# Is Areeiro a Good Area to Stay in Lisbon? Map & Verdict

Verdict: Mixed. Fine for some travellers, wrong for others.

Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/areeiro
Every Lisbon district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon.md

Big 1940s flats around Alameda and the Areeiro roundabout. Twelve minutes from the airport, two metro lines, and no reason to walk out of the door.

Facts: 40 min walk to the Baixa; 12 min to the airport; 45 min to the beach; price €€; best for families, budget, longer stays, business trips; lines Verde, Vermelha.

Areeiro is the planned district north-east of the centre: the Avenida de Roma, the Alameda fountain, Praça do Areeiro and streets of solid five-storey Estado Novo apartment blocks laid out in the 1940s. Flats here are the largest in central Lisbon and among the cheapest per square metre.

The practical case is transport. Alameda is the interchange of the green and red lines, which means the airport is twelve minutes away without changing and the Baixa is six. If you land late, leave early, or are travelling with a family that needs three bedrooms rather than a view, this is the most sensible booking in the city.

What you give up is Lisbon. Nothing here is old, nothing here is pretty, and the walk to the Baixa is a flat forty minutes past car showrooms. The restaurants are neighbourhood tascas that close at ten. It is a perfectly decent place to sleep with excellent transport, and it is not a place you will remember.

What works:
- Alameda joins the green and red lines - airport in about 12 minutes
- The largest flats in central Lisbon, and the cheapest per square metre
- Flat, safe, ordinary residential streets at every hour
- Six minutes on the metro to Rossio and the Baixa

What does not:
- Nothing to see: 1940s apartment blocks and a lot of traffic
- About 40 flat but dull minutes on foot to the Baixa
- Restaurants are local tascas that shut by about 22:00
- Avenida Almirante Reis and the Areeiro roundabout are loud

Hotels in Areeiro: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D8215%26dest_type%3Ddistrict%26group_adults%3D2%26no_rooms%3D1

## Other districts in Lisbon

- [Santa Maria Maior](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/santa-maria-maior): Recommended. The Baixa grid, lower Alfama and the castle hill in one freguesia. You will not buy a metro ticket for three days, and you will pay for the privilege.
- [Misericórdia](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/misericordia): Mixed. Chiado by day, Bairro Alto by night. They share a freguesia and about two hundred metres of hill, which is the entire problem with booking here.
- [Santo António](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/santo-antonio): Recommended. Avenida da Liberdade and the hotels along it. Flat, quiet after 23:00, and fifteen minutes downhill into the Baixa with the metro to bring you back up.
- [São Vicente](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/sao-vicente): Mixed. Graça and the top of Alfama. The best free views in Lisbon, and you earn every one of them again on the walk back from dinner.
- [Estrela](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/estrela): Mixed. Lapa's embassies, the Estrela garden and the Santos bars down by the river. Handsome, residential, and the nearest metro is in somebody else's district.
- [Avenidas Novas](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/avenidas-novas): Mixed. Saldanha, the Gulbenkian and the office blocks. Two metro lines, honest prices, and no reason at all to walk anywhere after dinner.
- [Arroios](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/arroios): Mixed. Anjos, Pena and Intendente, up Almirante Reis from Martim Moniz. The most-lived-in central parish in Lisbon, and the one the guides tell you to be careful in.
- [Campo de Ourique](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/campo-de-ourique): Recommended. A flat grid on the hill above Estrela, at the far end of tram 28. Lisbon's most liveable central parish, with the fewest visitors in it.
- [Penha de França](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/penha-de-franca): Mixed. The hill behind Graça: 1930s apartment blocks, the best free viewpoints in Lisbon and a climb home that beats most people.
- [Alcântara](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/alcantara): Mixed. LX Factory, the docks under the bridge, and a great deal of traffic. The most photographed district in Lisbon and the one nobody thinks to sleep in.
- [Belém](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/belem): Avoid. Two UNESCO sites, the best custard tarts in Portugal, and seven kilometres between you and dinner. Come for a morning, sleep somewhere else.
- [Parque das Nações](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/parque-das-nacoes): Avoid. A 1998 world's fair site with a shopping centre and an aquarium. Clean, modern, well connected, and not the city you bought the flight to see.