Bairro Alto Hotel if you want the city on your doorstep and a rooftop for the evening. Palácio Príncipe Real if you would rather have a garden, a pool and staff who know your name by breakfast.
The all-rounderThe Lisbon hotel that gets location, character and a rooftop right all at once.
€€€€From about €525 a night
Choose Bairro Alto Hotel if
The catch
Rooms facing the square hear Bairro Alto nightlife and the tram until late.
The special oneA twenty-odd-room palace with a garden and pool where the owners' taste sets the tone.
€€€€From about €550 a night
Choose Palácio Príncipe Real if
The catch
Rates now sit firmly in the upper band for a small hotel whose spa is two treatment rooms.
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| Best design hotels in Lisbon | On the list | Not on the list |
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The verdict
Bairro Alto Hotel if you want the city on your doorstep and a rooftop for the evening. Palácio Príncipe Real if you would rather have a garden, a pool and staff who know your name by breakfast.
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Questions people ask
Bairro Alto Hotel if you want the city on your doorstep and a rooftop for the evening. Palácio Príncipe Real if you would rather have a garden, a pool and staff who know your name by breakfast.
For a Lisbon trip made on foot, with a proper bar to come back to, this is the choice. The position, the rooftop and the feeling of the place are hard to beat. The most central address in this edit, with a rooftop half the city seems to know about. It is lively, unmistakably Lisbon and priced for the position rather than for facilities.
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
The most personal luxury in Lisbon. If the trip is a celebration, this is the choice for it. A twenty-odd-room house party in the best neighbourhood, where staff know your name and the garden does the work a view would do elsewhere. Quiet, personal and expensive for what it lacks in facilities.
It has an outdoor pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
