Miragaia
A true travellers' hub, this hostel-gallery has clean and cosy dorms and doubles, a sunny, glass-enclosed back patio, a grassy terrace, a cinema room, a…
Must-see hotels in Portugal
The Beiras
The best-value stay in town. Friendly staff extend a warm welcome at this modest hotel in a quiet backstreet behind the cathedral. Rooms come with big,…
Coimbra
Handily located for the bus station, yet still accessible to the historic centre on foot, this modern boutique-style hostel impresses across the board. It…
Parque Natural da Serra da Estrela
The pick of Covilhã's accommodation, this revamped mansion coolly blends contemporary design with creaking wood floors and old timber beams. Each guest…
Ribeira
Down by the Rio Douro and right in the thick of the action, Porto River is a class act. The owners have waved a magic wand over this old stone warehouse…
Aveiro
More a boutique guesthouse than a traditional B&B, this cracking place has got the lot: a convenient central location, welcoming staff and nine modern…
Funchal
These superb digs are regularly voted the world's leading design hotel by the World Travel Awards, making the fact it's located above a shopping centre…
The Douro
Set between the vineyards and the river, the all-wood Casa do Rio at Quinta do Orgal has a mix of rooms and suites offering stunning river views. Guests…
Viseu
Occupying a tall town house overlooking Praça Dom Duarte, this new hostel – it opened in the summer of 2018 – squeezes in four dorms, sleeping from four…
The Beiras
A lovely boutique hotel, only a few blocks back from the beach. Its interiors are stylish, from the ground-floor lounge bar to the carpeted guest rooms…
Pousada de Rainha Santa Isabel
Alto Alentejo
In the restored former palace, this lavish pousada (upmarket inn) offers spacious rooms with antique furnishings and views over the Alentejo plains. There…
The Beiras
The best budget option in the historic centre, the friendly Santos offers value for money with spotless, light-filled rooms. Its labyrinthine interior…
Funchal
Funchal's first hotel is still Madeira's top address for the smart set, despite the luxury glass-and-steel additions to the Hotel Zone that grew up around…
Trás-os-Montes
The region’s most upscale accommodation is this refurbished stone-walled house, run by a friendly Anglo-Dutch family. It retains numerous period features,…
Ribatejo
With the atmosphere of a stylish country retreat, but right in the city, this secluded manor house is set by its own section of the city walls, offering…
Zambujeira Do Mar
Four kilometres north of Zambujeira do Mar is this upmarket quinta (estate) building with rooms and apartments of the fluffy-pillow variety. Some are…
Peniche
This hip spot is all about the design. And experience. Given its apparent target (surfers who are riding a money wave, and are happy to spend it), it…
Setúbal Peninsula
Your charming and stylish host Filipa has turned this former architect's home into an upscale surfers' crash pad. Her keen eye for vintage design ensures…
Lagos
Most of the spacious rooms at this pristine, stylish hotel, which opened in 2018, face south and open to balconies overlooking the pool. Family rooms have…
Viana do Castelo
Down near the riverfront, this recently remodelled boutique inn offers plush rooms with three-star amenities in sober tones of grey, white and beige. The…
Nazaré
Built around a series of flower-strewn courtyards and patios, this pretty family-run complex a few blocks up from the beach was a former fishermen's…
Faro
A renovated mansion on a pretty square houses this cool, laid-back hostel. Great facilities include a lounge with long, sociable tables and beanbags, an…
Funchal
One of only two hostels in Funchal, these laid-back lodgings occupy a beautifully restored 1930s city-centre town house. The revamp is of 21st-century…
Parque Nacional da Peneda-Gerês
This manor house (rather than a cottage), off Largo do Eiró by Soajo's parish church, dates from the 18th century. Rooms are huge, furnished with antiques…
Baixa & Rossio
In the heart of Baixa, this high-security hostel is one of the best maintained you'll come across. Facilities are above and beyond, from the professional…
Lisbon
This phenomenally restored 1908 art-nouveau bed-down just might be Lisbon's coolest new hotel. The 36 rooms feature French-style doors to seal off double…
Baixa & Rossio
Location, location, location! Portugal's Pestana chain hit the jackpot in 2015 with this privileged position on Praça do Comércio. A €70-million…
Cooking & Nature Emotional Hotel
Estremadura & Ribatejo
This boutique hotel is located in Alvados, a quaint rural village. Each of the rooms is whimsically decorated in line with an emotion: Meditation,…
Belém
This hypermodern boutique hotel near Lisbon's waterfront offers stylish rooms that present relationship-defining bathrooms: do you opt for a room with a…
Bairro Alto, Chiado & Cais do Sodré
On the edge of the Bairro Alto, this superstylish hostel has 11 dorm rooms (with six to 12 beds in each) and four mid-century-modern-leaning minimalist…
Bairro Alto, Chiado & Cais do Sodré
Billed as a 'gay urban resort', this fabulous Bairro Alto place is better described as a high-style guesthouse where gay couples (and those that are…
Lisbon
Italian architect Nicola Bigaglia's 1904 Valle Flor Palace – now a National Monument – is easily Lisbon's most historically stunning luxury property…
Martinhal Lisbon Chiado Family Suites
Bairro Alto, Chiado & Cais do Sodré
This new, kid-centric boutique hotel refuses to sacrifice style for substance – it combines the two in what is one of the world's most fashionable family…
Monsaraz
Set on a 780-hectare estate of olive groves and vineyards, 7km west of Monsaraz, this rural tourism stay offers countryside charm that doesn’t stint on…
Cascais
If you like your hotels with a jolting dose of personality, the newly made-over, so-very-blue Villa Cascais (blue walls, blue couches and blue ceilings!)…
Baixa & Rossio
A fantastic hostel, Good Morning is a ship tightly run by a veteran Lisbon hostel owner who knows a thing or two about what travellers want. The social…
Estremadura & Ribatejo
Leiria's first hostel, co-owned by the bassist in the city's biggest alternative band (Nice Weather for Ducks), is chock-full of character – from original…
Lisbon
This romantic 18th-century mansion inspired Eça de Queirós’ novel Os Maias. Take a load off in the wonderful bougainvillea-draped courtyard, complete with…
Baixa & Rossio
This high-concept hotel has four types of rooms, each conjuring a radically different aesthetic. Urban rooms have brightly coloured artwork and duvets;…
Baixa & Rossio
Formerly a broom-maker’s and the modest Hotel Lisboa Tejo, this 135-room hotel was phenomenally upgraded by the local My Story chain in 2018. It's now a…
