Hotel/Guest house in Lisbon that will store luggage? Or send to Santiago?

[trecile]

I'm planning to start walking from Lisbon the week after Easter. I'd like to find a hotel or guest house to stay at for a few nights that will store a suitcase for me while I'm on the Camino.

Or, has anyone successfully mailed a suitcase to Santiago via the Portuguese post office?

 

[Devereaux]

This is a great question.
I’m stopping in Lisbon before Rota Vicente and would like to store my bag at the hotel until I return.

 

[Matthew King]

Hi
Hotel Borges Chiado stored bike bag for me for 18 days while I cycled from Lisbon to SdC on the Camino Portuguese central route and back to Lisbon on the coastal route. I did stay there on my first and last nights. They were very helpful.

Home

www.hotelborges.com

Hope this helps

 

[MesaWalker]

We stayed at the The Visionaire Apartments in Lisbon, and they stored a bag for nearly 8 weeks with no problem. We flew in to Madrid and out of Lisbon, so we stayed with them at the end of our trip.

 

[lorca1]

I'm planning to start walking from Lisbon the week after Easter. I'd like to find a hotel or guest house to stay at for a few nights that will store a suitcase for me while I'm on the Camino.

Or, has anyone successfully mailed a suitcase to Santiago via the Portuguese post office?

Hi, yes. I used a service called Luggit. You can find them on line and they have an app. They will pick up your luggage at a location that you select at the time you indicate and return it at a time and location that you designate. On time both picking up and returning the luggage. Excellent service. Would highly recommend. Bom camino.

 

[peregrina2000]

Woo hoo! @trecile bites the bullet and makes a camino plan! I remembered that Ivar had had some discussion about issues sending things from Portugal to Santiago. But maybe they have been cleared up because what I think is the most recent post suggests that things are fine.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/can-i-send-my-parcel-from-outside-the-eu-to-santiago.47111/#post-783181

But if it would be more convenient for you to leave the luggage in Lisbon, I think many places are happy to do it.

 

[jsalt]

I choose a place that suits my budget, and book one night at the beginning, and one night at the end, and I also ask them if I will be able to leave a bag in storage with them during those two dates. The answer has always been yes.

 

[Jimmy Duggan]

I'm planning to start walking from Lisbon the week after Easter. I'd like to find a hotel or guest house to stay at for a few nights that will store a suitcase for me while I'm on the Camino.

Or, has anyone successfully mailed a suitcase to Santiago via the Portuguese post

I'm planning to start walking from Lisbon the week after Easter. I'd like to find a hotel or guest house to stay at for a few nights that will store a suitcase for me while I'm on the Camino.

Or, has anyone successfully mailed a suitcase to Santiago via the Portuguese post office?

Hi Trecile , I stayed here my first night and last night . They stored 2 bicycle bags for two weeks no problem . This is there info . Is well located also if you want to do a bit of sightseeing around Lisbon .

Hotel Botanico​

hotelbotanico.pt
Rua da Mãe de Água, 16-20 Lisbon 1250-156
+351 21 342 0392

 

[trecile]

Hi, yes. I used a service called Luggit. You can find them on line and they have an app. They will pick up your luggage at a location that you select at the time you indicate and return it at a time and location that you designate. On time both picking up and returning the luggage. Excellent service. Would highly recommend. Bom camino.

But do they ship to Santiago?

 

[LesR]

I'm planning to start walking from Lisbon the week after Easter. I'd like to find a hotel or guest house to stay at for a few nights that will store a suitcase for me while I'm on the Camino.

Or, has anyone successfully mailed a suitcase to Santiago via the Portuguese post office?

I posted a box of post-camino luggage (clothes) from Lisbon Post Office to Ivar in Santiago in 2019 and it was there waiting for me...

I purchased the box from the Post Office and the staff taped it up for me - that way we both knew it would be intact when it arrived in Santiago. I received emails advising departure from Lisbon and arrival in Santiago. All up cost was about 25 euro from memory - very reasonable....

Advice from Ivar on storage and retrieval are at http://www.casaivar.com/luggage-storage-in-santiago-de-compostela/

All worked perfectly for me!

 

[trecile]

I posted a box of post-camino luggage (clothes) from Lisbon Post Office to Ivar in Santiago in 2019 and it was there waiting for me...

I purchased the box from the Post Office and the staff taped it up for me - that way we both knew it would be intact when it arrived in Santiago. I received emails advising departure from Lisbon and arrival in Santiago. All up cost was about 25 euro from memory - very reasonable....

Advice from Ivar on storage and retrieval are at http://www.casaivar.com/luggage-storage-in-santiago-de-compostela/

All worked perfectly for me!

Did you put a suitcase in the box, or contents of a suitcase?

 

[LesR]

Did you put a suitcase in the box, or contents of a suitcase?

I didn't have a suitcase - just put post-camino clothes in my backpack for travel to Lisbon, and decanted them into the box in Lisbon.

I have no idea if the Portuguese Post Office would take a suitcase (suitably sealed and addressed), but I cannot see why not...

 

[trecile]

In other threads people have posted a link to calculate prices for the Portuguese post office. When I click on it I get an error message. Is there a new link? Perhaps @jungleboy or @Friend from Barquinha know???

 

[trecile]

Woo hoo! @trecile bites the bullet and makes a camino plan! I remembered that Ivar had had some discussion about issues sending things from Portugal to Santiago. But maybe they have been cleared up because what I think is the most recent post suggests that things are fine.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/can-i-send-my-parcel-from-outside-the-eu-to-santiago.47111/#post-783181

But if it would be more convenient for you to leave the luggage in Lisbon, I think many places are happy to do it.

It would actually be more convenient for me to ship it to Santiago, then I can take a flight home from Porto, rather than returning to Lisbon. I am just having trouble now navigating the Portuguese post office website.

 

[jungleboy]

In other threads people have posted a link to calculate prices for the Portuguese post office. When I click on it I get an error message. Is there a new link? Perhaps @jungleboy or @Friend from Barquinha know???

I don't, sorry. I try to avoid the post office as much as possible

 

[Friend from Barquinha]

Not much experience myself, other than sending the occasional card etc. back to Canada from Portugal, but here's pretty much the latest...

CTT: Portugal's national postal service

Find out how to send and receive mail (and parcels) in Portugal.

www.expatica.com

Sadly, CTT's own website, though it promises "Idioma Ingles," doesn't live up to its promise with only the business investment part of the website translated.

For parcels, this is the best webpage I could find. It covers parcels up to 30 kg. and states that Spain is in Zone 1, presumably the cheapest, for international shipping.

Likely Google Translate would be your friend for this...

Encomenda Postal

Envie para o estrangeiro os seus bens até 30kg da forma mais económica.

www.ctt.pt

Bom caminho!