Hotels near Jeronimos Monastery, Lisbon

Massive 2hr queues first thing in the morning from coach/cruise ship trips. Go later in the day. Buy your ticket from the kiosk across the road by the car park before joining the queue. The tickets do not specify an entry time so you can buy them, then come back later.

Huge long lines for the Cloisters, book on line in advance if you want to go but even with tickets, expect a long wait. Also, the cathedral is close to the public during masses, so make sure you go when it is open. There is no line and no charge to go in.

We came on a Monday as it was advertised on google as being open, when we arrived it was closed! We spoke to some of the staff from the maritime museum and they explained it’s been an ongoing issue for some time now with tourists coming and just finding out it’s been closed when they already took the time and effort to travel there. The staff said they’ve been flagging it up for a long time that the information online is wrong to the monastery(but apparently they don’t care about wasting the time and money of people).It tells you a lot about a place if they don’t have any courtesy.

A must see architectural wow!! We happened to visit while a concert was going on. To see and hear the organ being played while taking in all the artwork and history of the interior of the church was an unexpected highlight. Walk across the square to Belem Tower, but be sure to stop and take in the view of the monastery at several vantage points. It's particularly stunning as the sun blesses the monestery at sunset.

very long waiting time in the sun (watch out for getting sunburned) It was about 2 hours to wait even with the Lisboa card. On the site from the Lisboa card it said it was a skip the line ticket but it is not. Inside the Monastery is pretty but I don't think it is worth waiting 2 hours, you are in and out in 10 minutes. You only see a very small part of the monastery whereas on the outside it is a massive building....

This is a wonderful and fascinating monastery but we had to queu over an hour to get into the cloisters and then had to queu again to get into the church, which was really disappointing. We arrived about 11 and it was much less busy when we left at 2.30 so try going later in the day.