All 19 listings, grouped by what you are actually buying
How to read these tables
Start at the right-hand end and work left. The platform draws what a listing includes and what it excludes as one block, ticks above and crosses below, and flattened into running text the two collapse into a single run of promises. This site reads them off the page structure instead. The last column prints only lines the listing itself strikes through. The column before it prints only inclusions carrying a condition — or, on t864858, an inclusion that says the opposite of an inclusion. Neither column is edited, shortened or tidied.
The rating column always carries its base, because on this catalogue the base is the story: five of the seven listings that name Monserrate carry fewer than 25 ratings and three of those carry exactly one. A 5.0 from one rating is not a verdict, it is one person who enjoyed their day.
Prices are what the platform showed when the catalogue was read, per person, and they move; every booking widget on this site prices itself live. And one row below is not like the others: t156750 is the operator’s own admission, at twelve euros, which is the same figure the ticket office charges. The full tariff.
The 19, grouped
The ticket to Monserrate: 1 of the 19
Parques de Sintra’s own ticket for the park and palace, sold through the platform at the figure the ticket office charges. Fast-track entry, park access, and a free app audio guide in four languages.
| The listing | Listed at | Rating, and how many | Monserrate admission | Inclusions with a condition or a contradiction on them | What it crosses out, verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sintra: Monserrate Palace & Park Ticket t156750 | €12 per person | 4.4 from 1,428 ratings | Monserrate entry stated | None | Transportation to the palace |
Shared days out of Lisbon that call here: 4 of the 19
Coach and van days on a fixed itinerary, every one of which puts Monserrate in its title. What separates them is the last two columns.
| The listing | Listed at | Rating, and how many | Monserrate admission | Inclusions with a condition or a contradiction on them | What it crosses out, verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisbon: Sintra Full Day Pena Palace, Regaleira & Monserrate t212688 | €49 per person | 4.8 from 1,848 ratings | Monserrate entry NOT included | None | Lunch, drinks and other personal expenses; Monument entrance fees (at additional cost) |
| From Lisbon: Sintra, Regaleira, Monserrate and Pena Palace t1307150 | €59 per person | 4.9 from 17 ratings | Monserrate entry stated | None | Food and drinks; Transportation between palaces unless pickup is selected; Pena Palace exteriors unless option is purchased as an extra |
| From Lisbon: SINTRA, Queluz, Monserrate, Castelo dos Mouros and Azenhas do Mar t1134812 | €71 per person | 5.0 from 9 ratings | Entry depends on the option chosen | Entrance fees to monuments (according to the option chosen) | Foods and drink; Any personal expenses; Hotel pick-up and drop-off service (available at additional cost) |
| Lisbon: Half Day Trip to Sintra and Monserrate Palace t864858 | €79 per person | 5.0 from 1 rating | Monserrate entry NOT included | Visit to Monserrate Palace (tickets not included) | Monserrate Palace entrance tickets; Meals; Tips |
A private car and driver: 2 of the 19
Your party only, priced accordingly. Two listings, and they answer the admission question in opposite ways — read that column on this group before anything else.
| The listing | Listed at | Rating, and how many | Monserrate admission | Inclusions with a condition or a contradiction on them | What it crosses out, verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sintra: Pena Palace, Moorish Castle, Regaleira, & Monserrate t1209358 | €135 per person | 5.0 from 1 rating | Monserrate entry NOT included | None | Food.; Entry Tickets (Pena Palace and Park, Castle of the Moors, Quinta da Regaleira, Monserrate Palace). |
| Private from Lisbon: Sintra, Quinta Regaleira, Monserrate + t630253 | €192 per person | 5.0 from 1 rating | Monserrate entry stated | None | Food |
The other Sintra monuments, carried for comparison: 5 of the 19
Five tickets fetched deliberately, so the comparison has arithmetic rather than atmosphere. Four of the five carry the same inclusion structure as the Monserrate ticket, because they are the same operator’s tickets sold through the same channel; the last one is privately run and looks different for that reason.
| The listing | Listed at | Rating, and how many | Monserrate admission | Inclusions with a condition or a contradiction on them | What it crosses out, verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sintra: Pena Palace and Park Entrance Ticket t79596 | €12 per person | 4.3 from 20,963 ratings | — | None | Hotel pick-up and drop off; Food and beverages; Guided tour |
| Quinta da Regaleira: Skip-the-Line Ticket and Audio Guide t623626 | €27 per person | 4.3 from 4,776 ratings | — | None | Live guide |
| Sintra: Castle of the Moors Skip-the-Line Ticket t156891 | €12 per person | 4.6 from 3,457 ratings | — | None | Transportation to the castle |
| Sintra: National Palace and Gardens Entry Ticket t124859 | €13 per person | 4.3 from 1,306 ratings | — | None | Guided tour; Food and drinks; Transportation |
| Queluz National Palace & Gardens Ticket t156735 | €6 per person | 4.6 from 557 ratings | — | None | Transportation to the palace |
Sintra days built around Pena and Regaleira: 7 of the 19
The group that makes this site’s second argument. Between them these hold more ratings than everything else on this page put together, and the four largest carry 43,665 of them. Read the note under the table: six of the seven never mention Monserrate at all, and one does, in a place the title does not reach.
| The listing | Listed at | Rating, and how many | Monserrate admission | Inclusions with a condition or a contradiction on them | What it crosses out, verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisbon: Sintra, Pena, Regaleira & Cabo da Roca Coast & Cascais t440176 | €24 per person | 4.7 from 23,591 ratings | — | Entry ticket to Pena Palace with guided tour (depending on option selected); Entry ticket to Quinta da Regaleira with guided tour (depending on option selected) | Hotel pickup and drop-off; Food and drinks; Child safety seat for children under 3 years old (passengers must bring their own, as required by law) |
| Lisbon: Sintra, Pena, Regaleira, Cabo Roca Coast & Cascais t490146 | €39 per person | 4.8 from 10,671 ratings | — | Entry tickets to the Pena Palace (if option selected); Entry tickets to Quinta da Regaleira (if option selected) | Food and drinks; Gratuities (optional) |
| Lisbon: Sintra, Pena, Regaleira, Cabo & Cascais Tour t441296 | €62 per person | 4.8 from 4,968 ratings | — | Entry ticket to Pena Palace interior or exteriors (if option selected); Entry ticket to Quinta da Regaleira (if option selected) | Hotel pickup and drop-off; Food |
| Lisboa: Sintra, Pena, Regaleira, Roca Coast, & Cascais Tour t774344 | €23 per person | 4.7 from 4,435 ratings | — | Pena Palace entry ticket and self-guided tour (if option chosen); Quinta da Regaleira entry ticket and guided tour (if option chosen) | Food and drinks (optional); Gratuities; Pena Palace entry ticket and self-guided tour (if the entry‑tickets option is not chosen); Quinta da Regaleira entry ticket and guided tour (if the entry‑tickets option is not chosen) |
| Sintra, Pena, Regaleira, Boca do Inferno & Cascais Day Trip t1351048 | €22 per person | 4.5 from 205 ratings | — | Visit to Quinta da Regaleira (Full Day / Full Experience options); Visit to Monserrate Palace (Full Experience & Private options) | Lunch, drinks, and personal expenses; Hotel pick-up and drop-off; Gratuities; In-depth guided commentary inside the monuments (visits are self-guided, with free time to explore at your own pace); A dedicated native-speaking human guide per language (multilingual support is provided by your host and live translation) |
| Lisbon: Sintra, Pena, Cascais & Cabo Day Tour With Tickets t683397 | €72 per person | 4.9 from 1,797 ratings | — | Entry ticket to Pena Palace with guided tour (according to the option selected) | Hotel pickup and drop-off; Food; Drinks |
| Lisbon: Half-Day Sintra Tour with Pena Palace and Regaleira t568499 | €79 per person | 4.9 from 1,040 ratings | — | None | Pena Palace Terraces ticket €10; Entrance fee Quinta da Regaleira €20; Drop-off in Cascais is not included in the regular tour — it's only available with the private tour. On the regular tour, we have just one drop-off point: the Hard Rock Cafe in Lisbon |
The six that skip it, and the one that is not quite a skip
This is the group people are surprised by, so it is worth being precise about it. Six of these seven never name Monserrate anywhere — not in the title, not in the inclusions, not in the exclusions. They run Pena, Regaleira and the coast, and between them the seven carry 46,707 ratings. The four largest alone carry 43,665. That is what the Sintra day-trip market actually sells.
The remaining one is t1351048, and it does not belong in a sentence that says “none of them stops here”. Its title names Sintra, Pena, Regaleira, the Boca do Inferno and Cascais, and Monserrate is nowhere in it. Its inclusion list, read to the end, carries “Visit to Monserrate Palace (Full Experience & Private options)”. So on those options it does come here, and on the others it does not. It sits in this group because that is what its title and its main itinerary say, and this paragraph exists because the label on a group is not a licence to stop reading the rows — which is the same reason the admission column shows a dash on it rather than a verdict. It carries 4.5 from 205 ratings.
t1351048 is in this catalogue because the crawl census records it on Monserrate’s own page on the platform, and what sits on a monument’s page is a fact about that page rather than about the monument. The others in this group were read off Sintra’s hub. None of them is a criticism of anybody: a day trip that goes to Pena and Regaleira and says so on the tin is doing exactly what it promises.
What each listing does about getting you in
Take the seven that name Monserrate and split them by their own pages. Three state entry outright, three cross the entrance fee out, and one makes it depend on the option chosen. One of the three that state it is the ticket itself, so among the day trips proper it is two.
Two day trips state Monserrate entry flat. t1307150 prints its first inclusion as “Entry ticket & visit to Palácio de Monserrate (starting at 12 a.m., lasts approx. 1h15)”, which makes it the only listing in the whole catalogue that puts a clock on the Monserrate visit — about an hour and a quarter — before Regaleira from three in the afternoon for about two and a half hours. That duration is one listing’s claim and this site attributes it as such every time it appears; one of its own reviewers adds that the voucher said three in the afternoon while the Monserrate visit actually began at midday, which is worth settling at booking. t630253 is private, and its inclusions name the tickets it buys — Regaleira and Monserrate, both written flat, in a list of eleven inclusions against one exclusion, which is food. They carry 4.9 from 17 ratings and 5.0 from 1 rating.
Three cross it out, and the busiest listing that names Monserrate is one of them. t212688 carries 4.8 from 1,848 ratings and excludes “Monument entrance fees (at additional cost)” — for every monument it drives you to, not just this one. Its headline figure is the day, the van and the guide; the gates are on top of it. t1209358 is a private car round four monuments and crosses out the entry tickets to all four by name. Both are defensible ways to sell a day and both are easy to misread if you skim.
And t864858 writes “tickets not included” inside its inclusion list, in the line “Visit to Monserrate Palace (tickets not included)”, then repeats it in the exclusions. Nobody is being deceived by that — the caveat is on the page twice and one of the two is where the promises live. It is simply why this site reads these lists off the page structure and not off running text: flattened into prose, that line reads as a promise. It carries 5.0 from 1 rating.
One listing makes it conditional. t1134812 includes “Entrance fees to monuments (according to the option chosen)” on a day taking in Queluz, Monserrate, the Castelo dos Mouros and Azenhas do Mar. That phrase is the whole question and it is worth resolving at booking rather than at a gate. It carries 5.0 from 9 ratings.
The price that is not a mark-up
t156750 is the one row here that is an admission rather than a day out, and it is the reason this site exists. It is listed at twelve euros. Parques de Sintra charges twelve euros at its own window. Same number, and the plain sentence is the whole finding: it is the same price. There is no ratio to compute and this site will not compute one.
The reason is visible in the table above rather than inferred. Look at the inclusion structure of t156891, t156735 and t124859 — the Castle of the Moors, Queluz and the National Palace of Sintra. Each is a fast-track or skip-the-line entry plus a free Zoomguide app audio guide in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French, with transport excluded. Word for word the shape of the Monserrate ticket, on near-consecutive listing ids. These are one operator’s tickets sold through one channel, which is what a matching price looks like from the inside.
Quinta da Regaleira is the exception in that group and it looks different because it is different: privately run rather than a Parques de Sintra site, with its own ticket, its own price and a live guide honestly crossed out. What each Sintra gate charges.
The trap in the Pena comparison
Pena’s ticket, t79596, is listed at the same figure as Monserrate’s, and if you stopped there you would conclude the two monuments cost the same. They do not. At Pena that figure is the park; the palace interior is twenty. At Monserrate it is the palace and the park, because Monserrate has no grounds-only option at all. Monserrate’s whole ticket costs what Pena’s grounds alone cost, and that single pair of facts answers “is it worth it” better than any adjective would.
Two things to hold on to. The first is a working rule: if you are comparing two platform prices, check both operators first — I nearly built this site on the listings alone. The second is that Pena’s own inclusion list names the park and the palace together, so which Pena ticket a given option actually sells is a question to settle before paying rather than at the gate. The two compared.
Where the ratings are, and where they are not
The most-rated listing in this whole catalogue carries 23,591 ratings and goes to Pena, Regaleira, Cabo da Roca and Cascais. Pena’s own ticket carries 20,963. The Monserrate ticket carries 1,428, so Pena’s ticket has about 14.7 times as many people behind its star figure as Monserrate’s has. That is the quiet measurement on this page, and it is a fact about attention rather than about either building.
Underneath the ticket the catalogue thins out fast. Of the seven listings that name Monserrate, five carry a base under 25 and three carry exactly one rating. Several of those show 5.0, and a 5.0 off one rating tells you that one person was pleased. Every rating cell in the tables above prints its base for that reason.
Written reviews are thinner still: 157 across all 19 listings, with one listing carrying none at all — and it is the dearest listing that names Monserrate, so the only thing anybody can judge it on is its own description. This site treats a listing with nothing written under it as a fact about the listing rather than a gap to write around. How the review pages handle that.
All 19 as cards
Same order as the tables: the ticket, the shared days that call here, the private cars, the neighbouring monuments, then the Sintra days built around Pena and Regaleira. Each card carries what its own listing says about admission. One label is blunter than its listing deserves — t1351048 is captioned as a day that does not stop here, while its own inclusion list offers a Monserrate visit on two of its options. The tables above are the precise version.
The ticket itselfSintra: Monserrate Palace & Park Ticket
The one most people bookLisbon: Sintra Full Day Pena Palace, Regaleira & Monserrate
States the entry, and the hourFrom Lisbon: Sintra, Regaleira, Monserrate and Pena Palace
Four monuments, entry by optionFrom Lisbon: SINTRA, Queluz, Monserrate, Castelo dos Mouros and Azenhas do Mar
Driven there, ticket not includedLisbon: Half Day Trip to Sintra and Monserrate Palace
Private, and no entry at allSintra: Pena Palace, Moorish Castle, Regaleira, & Monserrate
Entry stated, twicePrivate from Lisbon: Sintra, Quinta Regaleira, Monserrate +
The neighbour everybody booksSintra: Pena Palace and Park Entrance Ticket
The other famous oneQuinta da Regaleira: Skip-the-Line Ticket and Audio Guide
The same ticket, another gateSintra: Castle of the Moors Skip-the-Line Ticket
In the town itselfSintra: National Palace and Gardens Entry Ticket
The cheapest of them allQueluz National Palace & Gardens Ticket
The biggest, and it skips this palaceLisbon: Sintra, Pena, Regaleira & Cabo da Roca Coast & Cascais
Second biggest, also skips itLisbon: Sintra, Pena, Regaleira, Cabo Roca Coast & Cascais
Same route againLisbon: Sintra, Pena, Regaleira, Cabo & Cascais Tour
And again, for twenty-threeLisboa: Sintra, Pena, Regaleira, Roca Coast, & Cascais Tour
On Monserrate’s own pageSintra, Pena, Regaleira, Boca do Inferno & Cascais Day Trip
Includes its tickets — for PenaLisbon: Sintra, Pena, Cascais & Cabo Day Tour With Tickets
Half a day, elsewhereLisbon: Half-Day Sintra Tour with Pena Palace and Regaleira
The palace ticket, with live dates
t156750 is the operator’s own ticket for the park and palace of Monserrate: 4.4 from 1,428 ratings, twelve euros, fast-track entry with the park included and a free app audio guide in four languages. Booking it here costs the same as walking to the window. Check the date against the restoration notice on the visiting page before you pay.
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Frequently asked questions
Does the booking platform sell a ticket to Monserrate Palace?
Yes, exactly one, and it is the operator’s own. 266 activities were read across fourteen hubs around Sintra; seven of them name Monserrate and one of those seven is an admission to the place. It costs twelve euros, which is what Parques de Sintra charges at its own window, and it includes fast-track entry to the palace, access to the park and a free Zoomguide app audio guide in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French. Transport to the palace is excluded. The tariff at the gate.
Is the Monserrate ticket more expensive on the platform than at the gate?
No. It is the same price, and that is the plainest way to say it — the listing is Parques de Sintra’s own ticket sold through the platform rather than a resale of it. You can see why in the table above: the Castle of the Moors, Queluz, Pena and the National Palace of Sintra all carry the identical inclusion structure, a fast-track entry plus the free four-language app audio guide, on near-consecutive listing ids. One product line, one price. What each Sintra gate charges.
Which Sintra tours include entry to Monserrate?
Of the seven listings that name Monserrate, three state entry outright and one of those three is the ticket itself, so among the day trips it is two: t1307150, which also states that the Monserrate visit lasts about an hour and a quarter, and t630253, a private day whose inclusions name the Regaleira and Monserrate tickets flat. Three cross the entrance fee out, including the busiest listing that names Monserrate, whose exclusions read “Monument entrance fees (at additional cost)”. And one includes them “according to the option chosen”. The grouped tables above print each listing’s own words.
Why are Pena, Queluz and Regaleira tickets on a page about Monserrate?
As comparators, and deliberately. Four of the five carry the same inclusion structure as the Monserrate ticket, which is the evidence that these are one operator’s tickets sold through one channel and therefore that a matching price is what you would expect. The fifth, Quinta da Regaleira, is privately run rather than a Parques de Sintra site and its ticket looks and prices differently for that reason. Pena is also the comparison that answers “is it worth it”: its listed figure is the park, and the palace interior is twenty. The two compared.
Why are day trips that never visit Monserrate in these tables?
Because their absence is the measurement. The most-rated listing in the whole catalogue carries 23,591 ratings and runs Pena, Regaleira, Cabo da Roca and Cascais; the four biggest Sintra day trips carry 43,665 ratings between them and none of the four stops here. One of the group, t1351048, is in the catalogue because the crawl census records it on Monserrate’s own page, and what sits on a monument’s page is a fact about that page. None of this says anybody is wrong to skip Monserrate — those days serve a market. Note also that the same listing carries “Visit to Monserrate Palace (Full Experience & Private options)” inside its inclusion list despite a title that names four other places, so “skips” is the right word for six of the seven and not for all seven.
Are the star ratings on this page reliable?
The big ones are; most of the Monserrate ones are not, and the tables say which is which. Of the seven listings that name Monserrate, five carry a base under 25 ratings and three carry exactly one, so several 5.0 figures on this page rest on a single person’s afternoon. The ticket itself carries 4.4 from 1,428 ratings. Written reviews are thinner again: 157 across all 19 listings, with one carrying none. How this site reads reviews.
Do I need a tour to get to Monserrate at all?
No. The palace is on the EN375, the road between Sintra town centre and Colares, reachable from Lisbon via the IC19. Without a car, Parques de Sintra gives bus nº 1253 from Sintra train station, or bus nº 435 from the Lourel car park; trains to Sintra run on the CP Sintra Line from Oriente, Rossio or Entrecampos. A great deal of published advice says 435 from the station instead, so this site follows the operator’s own page and says so — and tells you to check the current timetable before relying on either. Getting there.