Lisbon - Post Report Question and Answers
Are preschools available? Day care? Are these expensive? What has been your experience with them, if any? Do the schools provide before- and/or after-school care?
The Embassy has a daycare. - Aug 2015
There are plenty of preschools available in Lisbon. In expensive compared to USA prices, if you are willing to leave them with Portuguese language only care. English language care tend to be more expensive, about US$300 a week for 5 hours or so a day. The Embassy has a day care available which I was grateful for. Price was very reasonable at about US$500 month if I remember right. Plus I got to see my kid during lunch breaks. - Jul 2015
The U.S. Embassy has a very affordable nursery/preschool on-site, which is a Godsend for parents with infants and young kids who don't want to be far separated from them. - Jun 2012
Widely available in every neighborhood. Predominantly Portuguese speaking, some are bilingual and some bilingual with English. They are somewhat costly. The US Embassy has an on-site day care for its employees which is significantly less expensive. - Oct 2011
I do not know generally, but people at the American Embassy have in-house daycare. - Aug 2010
For embassy folks, there is a daycare in the embassy. I'd never seen that anywhere else and it was fantastic.the center also does summer camp when school is out, so we eat lunch with our kids all summer.there is a pool, tennis/basketball court, and playground at the embassy, so the kids enjoy it here immensely. - Sep 2008
