All eighteen Convento de Cristo listings, and which of them actually buys you the door
I have read all eighteen of these pages end to end, inclusions, exclusions and the know-before-you-go underneath. Sorted by price they tell you very little, because the range runs from a walk that never enters the convent to a private day priced for a party of four. Sorted by the admission line they tell you almost everything, and that is the column this table is built around.
The eighteen, grouped by how you get there
Group headings are the gets column: what changes hands, rather than what the title promises. Inside each group the admission cell quotes the listing’s own words, because a paraphrase is where a conditional goes missing. Ratings carry the base they rest on, and the written-review count beside them is what this site could actually recover and read — two listings have none of those at all.
| Listing, titled as it titles itself | Admission to the convent, in the listing’s own words | Price, with its unit | Rating, with the base it rests on | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The ticket by itself — one listing, admission, and nothing attached to it | ||||
| Tomar: Convent of Christ and Templar Castle Tour Ticket | In the price. One line, and it is the whole listing: “Entry ticket to Convent of Christ”. The title also promises the Templar castle, which two of its own reviewers say was shut. | €15 per person | 3.9 from 173 ratings · ten written | valid 1 day |
| A guide who works in Tomar — two listings, a live guide, and you meet at the monument | ||||
| Tomar: Walking Tour to Convent of Christ Small Group & Tickets | In the price. “Entrance tickets to the Convent of Christ” and “Guided tour with a knowledgeable local guide”. Two lines, and both of them are the product. | €42 per person | 5.0 from 8 ratings · six written | 2 hours |
| Tomar and the Templars Convent of Christ: A Historical Tale | In the price. The only listing in the catalogue that prints the figure itself: “Entrance Ticket to the Convent of Christ (15€ p/person)”. | €49 per person | 5.0 from 1 rating · one written | 8 hours |
| Your party and nobody else — five listings, based in Tomar, priced per head except one | ||||
| Walking Tomar: Templar Secrets & Convent of Christ Included | In the price. Said twice, which almost nothing here does: “Entry to the Convent of Christ” in the inclusions, and “Entry to the Convent of Christ is included.” in the know-before-you-go. | €105 per person | 4.7 from 12 ratings · six written | 3 hours |
| Tomar: Private walking tour to Convent of Christ with tickets | In the price. “Guided walking tour to the Convent of Christ with entrance tickets included”. Same meeting point and same phrasing as the two-hour small-group walk above it. | €50 per person | 5.0 from 4 ratings · four written | 2 hours |
| Tomar and Almourol Castle: Knights Templar Private Tour | You buy your own. The inclusions and exclusions render as one block and read as though the tickets are covered. The know-before-you-go settles it: “The Convent of Christ entrance fee is not included in the tour price.” | €140 per person | 4.9 from 8 ratings · eight written | 7 hours |
| Best of Tomar: Private Walking Tour with a Local | You buy your own. Paid attractions sit in its exclusions, so the convent ticket is yours to buy. The same list says “Our guide is a friendly local, not a certified professional.” | €30 per person | 1.0 from 2 ratings · none written | 1–6 hours |
| Tomar: Knight's Templar Castle and Convent of Christ Tour | In the price. Three lines: “Tour of the Convent of Christ in Tomar”, “Knowledgeable local guide”, “Entrance Tickets”. | €440 per group, up to 4 people — about €110 a head at four | 4.7 from 109 ratings · ten written | 2 hours |
| A day out of Lisbon — seven listings, transport included, and the convent is one stop of several | ||||
| From Lisbon: Tomar, Convent of Christ & Almourol Castle | Gated behind an option. “Entrance to the Convent of Christ (if option selected)”. The convent is in the title and gated in the inclusions. Almourol’s admission and its boat are not gated. | €67 per person | 4.8 from 700 ratings · ten written | 9 hours |
| From Lisbon: Tomar, Christ Convent & Almourol Castle Tour | In the price. “Entrance fee to the Christ Convent and Almourol Castle”, flat, with no option attached. The page carries no not-included list at all, which is a different thing from everything being included. | €80 per person | 5.0 from 75 ratings · ten written | 8–9 hours |
| Lisbon: Knights Templar Tour - Almourol, Tomar and Convent of Christ | Gated behind an option. “Admission to the Convent of Christ (if option selected)”, and the boat and Almourol are gated as well: three destinations in the title, three conditionals underneath it. | €71 per person | 4.8 from 72 ratings · ten written | 9 hours |
| Lisbon: Tomar (Convent of Christ) Half-Day Private Tour | In the price. “Entrance ticket to the Convent of Christ in Tomar”, unconditional. The header says five hours and the body says “5-7 hours”, so the page disagrees with itself about length. | €95 per person | No rating at all, and none written | 5 hours |
| Small-Group Tour of Tomar from Lisbon – History of the Knights Templar | In the price. “Entrance ticket to the Convent of Christ”, flat, alongside “Small group. Limited to 8 participants” — the only stated cap on any shared listing here. | €110 per person | 5.0 from 1 rating · one written | 10 hours |
| Tomar, Batalha, Alcobaça & Óbidos Templar & Medieval Legacy | Gated behind an option. Both options say “Visit to Tomar”. The private one adds “Entrance ticket to the Convent of Christ in Tomar”; the small group one says “Entrance tickets to the monuments are not included”. Same listing, opposite answer. | €90 per person | 5.0 from 99 ratings · ten written | 11 hours |
| Lisbon: Tomar, Batalha and Alcobaça (3 UNESCO) Private Tour | In the price. All three tickets named one by one: “Entry ticket to the Convent of Christ in Tomar”, then Batalha, then Alcobaça. Nothing conditional anywhere on the page. | €150 per person | 5.0 from 1 rating · one written | 10 hours |
| Does not go inside — three listings, one Tomar walk that never enters, and two that are not about Tomar | ||||
| Tomar: Templar Historic Center | Never goes in. The convent is in neither the inclusions nor the description. It passes the Convento de Santa Iria, which is a different building with a similar name. | €35 per person | 5.0 from 1 rating · one written | 2 hours |
| From Lisbon: Fátima, Nazaré, Batalha, and Óbidos Guided Tour | Never goes in. Neither Tomar nor the convent appears anywhere on the page. It is here so this site can say honestly how small this monument’s catalogue is. | €34 per person | 4.7 from 4,430 ratings · ten written | 10 hours |
| Lisbon: Sintra, Pena, Regaleira & Cabo Roca Coast & Cascais | Never goes in. Sintra, Pena, Regaleira, Cabo da Roca and Cascais. It does not go near Tomar, and it is here for the same reason as the one above it. | €24 per person | 4.7 from 23,563 ratings · ten written | 9.5–10 hours |
The three that say “if option selected”
This is the trap on this monument, and it is not a trick played on anybody. Each of these three names the convent in its inclusions and then puts a bracket after it. Booked without reading the bracket, you get the day out and stand in the courtyard.
“From Lisbon: Tomar, Convent of Christ & Almourol Castle” is the one that matters most, because it carries 700 ratings — four times the plain ticket’s 173 and more than any other listing that reaches this place. The convent is in its title. Its inclusions read “Entrance to the Convent of Christ (if option selected)”. Almourol’s admission and boat ride are in the same list with no bracket at all, so this is not a page that gates everything as a matter of habit. It gates the convent. Read it in full.
“Lisbon: Knights Templar Tour - Almourol, Tomar and Convent of Christ” gates all three of its headline stops: “Boat crossing to Almourol Castle (depending on option)”, “Admission to Almourol Castle (Depending on option)”, “Admission to the Convent of Christ (if option selected)”. It is at least consistent, and it carries the widest language list on this page. Read it in full.
“Tomar, Batalha, Alcobaça & Óbidos Templar & Medieval Legacy” is the one I would send back for rewriting. Both of its options carry the same summary line, “Visit to Tomar”. Underneath, the private option says “Entrance ticket to the Convent of Christ in Tomar” and “Tickets included to all 3 monuments”, while the small-group option says “Entrance tickets to the monuments are not included”. A reader comparing summary lines gets the opposite answer from a reader comparing inclusion lists.
Open the option picker before you compare anything. On all three of these, the option is where the convent is decided, and the price you are looking at on the results page may be the option without it. If the convent is the reason for your day, the cheapest of these listings is not a saving — it is a different day out.
The two that tell you to buy your own
“Tomar and Almourol Castle: Knights Templar Private Tour” reads backwards, and I mean that literally: its included and excluded lists render as a single block, so a straight read down the page says the convent and Almourol tickets are covered. The know-before-you-go says the opposite in one flat sentence: “The Convent of Christ entrance fee is not included in the tour price.” It is a well-liked listing — 4.9 from eight ratings — and the fault is in the layout rather than in the day. Ruby, who gave it four stars, ran into a different scheduling problem: “important buildings as part of the tour are closed on Mondays”. Read it in full.
“Best of Tomar: Private Walking Tour with a Local” excludes paid attractions, so the convent ticket is yours to buy on top. It shows 1.0 from two ratings, and both of the written reviews behind that are about the same thing: “The guide never showed up” and “Our guide didn’t show up.. we travelled 3 hours for this tour.” That is two no-shows. It is not a judgement on the tour anybody experienced, because neither of them experienced one. The listing is also franker than most about its own shape: “Our guide is a friendly local, not a certified professional.” and “This tour emphasizes local culture over detailed historical facts.”
The one price on this page that is not per person
Seventeen of the eighteen listings print “per person” beside the figure, including four sold as private tours. One prints “per group up to 4”: “Tomar: Knight's Templar Castle and Convent of Christ Tour”, at about four hundred and forty euros for the party. Read down a per-head column that is nearly three times the next largest figure in the table. Read correctly, a party of four pays about a hundred and ten each, which puts it among the private walks a few rows above it.
Nothing on this site divides a party price into a head price outside that one cell, and nothing multiplies a head price up into a party. If you are two people rather than four, the arithmetic changes and the widget is the thing that knows it: put your real party size into the date picker before you compare that listing with anything else. Its meeting point, by the way, carries the plainest warning about this hill in the whole catalogue: “Cafetaria do Castelo, a small café in the parking area of the monument, which is uphill, not downtown”.
The seven with a guide who works in Tomar
These meet you at the monument or in the town and none of them involves a van from Lisbon. They are the shortest way to get somebody knowledgeable standing next to you in the Charola, and they are also where the thin samples live: of the seven, one rests on a single rating and one on two. A five with one rating under it is a number that has not been tested yet.
The two-hour walk is the one this site points at, at about forty euros with the tickets stated flatly, and its sister private walk at about fifty uses the same meeting point and the same phrasing. The eight-hour day in Tomar at about fifty euros is the only listing in the catalogue that prints the ticket price inside its own inclusions. And the three-hour private walk at about a hundred and ten adds the Tomar Synagogue and the historic centre — it says its entry is included twice over, in the inclusions and again in the know-before-you-go, which almost nothing here does.
Cheapest with a guideTomar: Walking Tour to Convent of Christ Small Group & Tickets
The whole day, in TomarTomar and the Templars Convent of Christ: A Historical Tale
Convent and synagogueWalking Tomar: Templar Secrets & Convent of Christ Included
Cheapest privateTomar: Private walking tour to Convent of Christ with tickets
Bring your own ticketTomar and Almourol Castle: Knights Templar Private Tour
One star, and whyBest of Tomar: Private Walking Tour with a Local
Priced per partyTomar: Knight's Templar Castle and Convent of Christ Tour
Written up one at a time: the two-hour guided walk, the private tour priced per party, and the private day that adds Almourol.
The seven that are a day out of Lisbon
Seven of the eighteen listings here are a day trip from Lisbon with transport included, which is the single largest group in the catalogue and, on the evidence of the ratings, the way most people reach this monument. They run between five and eleven hours. Two of them go to Tomar and nowhere else; three add Almourol; two add Batalha and Alcobaça, one of those with Óbidos on the end. The convent is one stop of a long day in almost all of them. Whether that is the right shape for your visit.
Most-rated by farFrom Lisbon: Tomar, Convent of Christ & Almourol Castle
Ticket and lunch inFrom Lisbon: Tomar, Christ Convent & Almourol Castle Tour
Templar-specialist guideLisbon: Knights Templar Tour - Almourol, Tomar and Convent of Christ
Half a day, ticket inLisbon: Tomar (Convent of Christ) Half-Day Private Tour
Capped at eightSmall-Group Tour of Tomar from Lisbon – History of the Knights Templar
Read the option carefullyTomar, Batalha, Alcobaça & Óbidos Templar & Medieval Legacy
Three UNESCO sitesLisbon: Tomar, Batalha and Alcobaça (3 UNESCO) Private Tour
The three that never go in
“Tomar: Templar Historic Center” is an honest Tomar walk that does not pretend to enter the convent: Santa Maria do Olival, the old Jewish quarter and its synagogue, the Mouchão garden and the wheel, ending in the Praça da República. The near-miss worth knowing about is that it passes the Convento de Santa Iria, which is a different building with a confusingly similar name.
The other two are not about Tomar at all, and they are on this page for scale. The Sintra day and the Fátima circuit carry 27,993 ratings between them against 1,266 across all sixteen Tomar listings put together — 22.1 times as many, which is a division this site performed rather than an adjective it reached for. Neither goes anywhere near this monument. If you have three days in Lisbon and are choosing between a famous day out and an obscure one, you are entitled to know which of them is which.
Does not go inTomar: Templar Historic Center
Not Tomar — for scaleFrom Lisbon: Fátima, Nazaré, Batalha, and Óbidos Guided Tour
Not Tomar — for scaleLisbon: Sintra, Pena, Regaleira & Cabo Roca Coast & Cascais
Which of the eighteen to book
If you are already in Tomar or arriving by train, book the two-hour guided walk: it is the cheapest way in with somebody explaining it, its admission line has no bracket in it, and ninety of its hundred and twenty minutes are spent inside the walls. If you are coming from Lisbon for the day and the convent is the reason for the day, choose one of the day trips whose admission is flat rather than one of the three gated ones, and read the option picker before you pay. And if all you want is the door, the door costs the same either way. What the ticket covers.
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Frequently asked questions
Do Convento de Cristo tours include the entrance ticket?
Ten of the eighteen listings this site tracks put the ticket in the price. Three gate it behind an option, in the words of their own inclusions: “(if option selected)”. Two say outright that you buy your own, and three never go inside the convent at all. The table on this page carries the admission line for every one of them, quoted rather than paraphrased.
Which Tomar tour has the most reviews?
Ratings and written reviews are two different counts, and this page keeps them apart. On ratings, the Lisbon day trip that pairs the convent with Almourol Castle leads with 700 — four times the plain ticket listing's 173, and more than any other listing that reaches this monument. Read its inclusions carefully before you book it: the convent is in its title and gated behind an option in its inclusions, while Almourol's admission and boat ride are not.
Why is one listing priced per group instead of per person?
One of the eighteen prints “per group up to 4” beside its figure rather than “per person”. Read down a per-head column it looks four times its real cost; read correctly, a party of four pays about a hundred and ten each. The table on this page keeps the unit in the same cell as the figure and converts nothing, and the booking widget prices the party you actually are.
Are any of these tours rated one star?
One is, on two ratings, and both of the written reviews behind it describe a guide who never arrived. That is two no-shows rather than a verdict on a tour, and this site says so on the row rather than letting the number stand unexplained. The same listing is unusually frank in its own exclusions about what it is and is not.
Which Convento de Cristo tour should I book?
The two-hour guided walk, for most people: it is the cheapest way in with a guide, its inclusions name the entrance tickets with no option attached, and ninety of its hundred and twenty minutes are inside. It rates 5.0 from eight ratings, which is a small base and is printed here rather than rounded up into an adjective. From Lisbon, take a day trip whose admission line has no bracket in it.