Family & Friends - 50% Discount

Enjoy the weekend with your family and friends and benefit from a 50% discount.

Make the most of the 50% discount with family & friends tickets. Do something different this weekend and travel with your family or friends.

Family & Friends is for groups of three to nine people, regardless of whether they are members of the same family or not, who travel together with at least one adult. 

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CP Services: Alfa Pendular | Intercidades | Regional and InterRegional | Porto urban trains | Coimbra urban trains

  • The ticket is valid for the day it is bought for an unlimited number of journeys on the chosen route on the Aveiro, Braga, Guimarães and Marco de Canaveses lines.
  • These tickets can only be used to travel at the weekends and public holidays. The ticket is only valid for the day it is purchased for (you must say what day, when you buy the ticket).
  • The tickets can be bought up to 15 days in advance.
  • The 50% discount applies to the price of two return tickets. Prices are rounded up to the nearest 5 cents.
  • Cannot be used in conjunction with any other discounts or special offers.
  • Only on sale from Porto urban train ticket offices.

Families and small groups of 3 to 9 people, one of whom is aged 13 or over, travelling together on return journeys in any class, can purchase the Family & Friends ticket.

It is valid for travelling on Saturdays on any Alfa Pendular or Intercidades train (except Intercidades 541 departing Lisbon Santa Apolónia at 08:15 for Guarda and Intercidades 544 departing Guarda at 18:07 for Lisbon Santa Apolónia on 23 and 30 March 2024), and on Sundays on the trains listed below, and offers 50% off the list price, rounded up to the nearest 50 cents. This reduction cannot be combined with other discounts or promotions in force, namely return, children and senior citizens.

The return journey can be made on Saturday or Sunday of the same weekend or any other weekend, subject to the validity of the ticket.

The ticket must be purchased at the same time for all members of the group, up to 60 days in advance, at CP ticket offices, travel agencies with a CP contract, or on the train when boarding at stations without ticket sales.

Whenever the outward, return or both journeys cannot be made in accordance with the commercial conditions established, the difference will be paid for the whole ticket, for the whole group.

Family & Friends can be exchanged for the same weekend or a subsequent one. However, whenever the exchange is requested for a train that is not included in those listed, the difference will be paid for the full ticket, always considering the return journey.

Family & Friends is refundable in accordance with the regulations.

This special offer is valid from October to April.

The journey on Sundays can be made on the following trains:

 

Sunday journeys can be taken on the following trains:

Line Train Departure From To
Alfa Pendular norte 130 05:54 Braga Lisbon
131 07:00 Lisbon Braga
121 08:00 Lisbon Porto
122 11:32 Porto Lisbon

Alfa Pendular Porto/Faro

180 05:32 Porto Faro
182 07:00 Faro Porto
Beira Alta 510* 06:08 Guarda Lisbon
511* 07:30 Lisbon Guarda
Intercidades norte 522 08:37 Porto Lisbon
721 09:30 Lisbon Braga
720 09:59 Braga Lisbon
621 11:30 Lisbon Guimarães
Beira Baixa 540 07:07 Guarda Lisbon
541 08:15 Lisbon Guarda
Intercidades Faro 670 08:22 Faro Oriente
570 10:02 Oriente Faro
Intercidades Alentejo 594 09:52 Oriente Évora
692 09:06 Évora Oriente
580 08:22 Beja Casa Branca
585 11:19 Casa Branca Beja

 

 On Saturdays 23 and 30 March 2024, the discount is not valid for travel on Intercidades 541 trains departing Lisbon Santa Apolónia at 08:15 for Guarda and Intercidades 544 departing Guarda at 18:07 for Lisbon Santa Apolónia.

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Families and small groups from 3 to 9 members that are purchasing return tickets together, with at least one of them being 13 years old or older, may benefit from Family&Friends.

If you are travelling on Saturdays and Sundays in the Regional, InterRegional and Coimbra Urban Trains, from and to any station, you can benefit from a 50% discount in the return ticket.

These journeys can be made in any train, as follows:

  • Return ticket for that same Saturday;
  • Departure on Saturday and returning on the following Sunday;
  • Return ticket for that same Sunday;
  • Departure on Saturday or Sunday, and returning on any following weekend, subject to the ticket validity.

The discount is applicable for journeys of the Regional, InterRegional and Coimbra urban trains only, or journeys carried out with one of these services as complement to an Alfa Pendular, Intercidades or Oporto Urban Trains service, if the purchasing conditions for getting the discount are complied with in both services.

The discount is granted over the listed price rounded to the higher €0.05 in the Coimbra urban services, and to the closest €0.05 in the Regional and InterRegional services.

This discount cannot be used together with other discounts or offers in force, namely for return tickets, children, senior citizens, youths. And others.

Tickets must be purchased at the same time for all members of the group, travelling on the same day, same train and with the same departure/arrival stations, until 60 days in advance, in CP ticket offices or on board the train if the station where you board does not have an available ticket office.

If these conditions are changed, you will have to pay the difference for the full ticket, including all members of the group and extent of the journey. 

Tickets can be reissued for the same weekend or a following weekend for the period during which the tickets are valid.

The tickets of the group can be refunded in accordance with the regulations.

This offer is valid between October and April.