The best and most beautiful hotels in Porto

Maison Albar Hotels Le Monumental Palace | Vitória district

A stay at the Monumental Palace is like stepping back in time to discover the Porto of the Roaring Twenties. Inaugurated in 1930 as one of the city's most luxurious cafés, the Monumental attracted the gotha and quickly established itself as a veritable institution of Porto nightlife. Passed into the hands of the Maisons Albar Hotels group (Le Vendome in Paris, l'Imperator in Nîmes, etc.), in 2019 it will be transformed into a 5-star hotel, cultivating the excellence of the greatest Parisian hotels.

For this is the philosophy of Maisons Albar Hotels: to offer the art of French elegance through its exceptional Maisons, all over the world. Behind the building's neo-Gothic façade lies a sumptuous showcase that brilliantly combines heritage and modernity, refinement and conviviality. The Frenchman Jacques Bec and the Portuguese Arthur Miranda, founders of the interior design agency OitemPonto, were entrusted with the task of perpetuating the Art Deco spirit of the establishment while bringing it into line with the times. Imposing columns, white Estremoz marble, antique mirrors, black ironwork and lacquered woodwork give the place a hushed atmosphere, inviting you to take a real trip back in time.

Spread over 4 floors, the 63 rooms and suites of the Hotel de Portosare made unique by a play of assemblages and juxtapositions of materials and graphic motifs, underlined by bespoke furnishings. Spread over 80m2, the Affolante suite, for example, is a vibrant tribute to the 1930s, while the Monumentale suite cultivates the art of living of old bourgeois homes.

On the dining front, guests can choose between Olivier Da Costa's fusion cuisine at Yakuza Porto, where Japanese flavors meet Brazilian influences, and Julien Montbabut's gourmet cuisine at Le Monument, awarded a Michelin star in 2024. Having worked in the kitchens of L'Hôtel in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the chef offers a cosmopolitan vision of cuisine, combining local produce, traditional Portuguese recipes and French savoir-faire.

You'll love the green asparagus from Guimarães, smoked cod and egg yolk, or the blue lobster cooked on vine shoots with a Douro red wine sauce. For dessert, pastry chef Joana Thöny-Montbabut unveils a sumptuous sweet score that promises to take guests' taste buds not back in time, but to the four corners of the globe.

Good to know? The hotel boasts the Le Grand Bleu spa, one of Porto's finest wellness areas, featuring the Augustinus Bader et ignae brand of cosmetics from the Azores, a swimming pool, sauna, hammam and ice pool.

Maison Albar Hotels Le Monumental Palace
Av. dos Aliados 151, 4000-067 Porto
From €345 per night

Casa da Companhia | Rua das Flores

This newly opened, 5-star boutique hotel in Porto is located in the bustling, commercial Rua das Flores, which winds its way down to the Unesco-listed quayside. The international hotel brand IHG (Six Senses, Kimpton, Voco, Intercontinental...) has chosen to inaugurate the first address in its Vignette Collection in this former 16th-century merchant's house, later transformed into a Port wine company, and in the modern building next door.

Walls steeped in history stand side by side with decor that's both classic and contemporary, a perfect reflection of the zeitgeist. In the 40 bright and airy rooms and suites, mirrored headboards and wooden crosspieces add personality, as do the artist's loft-style windows separating the bath from the bedroom in the 3 Suites on the upper floors, which also offer a breathtaking view of the cathedral and the rooftops of Porto. For wellness enthusiasts, the hotel offers a well-equipped gym, an exquisite spa and, above all, a magnificent 11-meter indoor pool bathed in soft natural light. Outside, a more intimate pool borders a vast terrace, offering an open-air aquatic experience right in the heart of the city, a rarity in Porto. As for gastronomy, a restaurant opens on rua das Flores, with a predominantly Portuguese menu, and where local wines and Port play the leading role.

Casa da Companhia
R. das Flores 69, 4050-416 Porto, Portugal
From €240 per night

Renaissance Porto Lapa | Lapa

Perched high above Lapa, the Renaissance Porto Lapa boutique hotel overlooks the city skyline and is just a 10-minute walk from the city center. With 163 rooms, including 4 suites designed by Visioarq Arquitectos and Broadway Malya in a palette of pastel colors and adorned with azulejos - patterned earthenware tiles - the lifestyle hotel is part of the Portuguese landscape, paying homage to this 500-year-old artistic tradition.On the first floor, the Renaissance Porto Lapa houses the a.typical restaurant and a bar that comes alive at dusk, offering cocktails and an exquisite selection of Port. But it's on the top floor that the hotel's real attraction is housed: a rooftop with heated pool offering panoramic views of Porto, and a lounge area with a distant view of the Atlantic Ocean.

Good to know? The hotel in Porto, which will soon be surrounded by a park, has a beautiful 544 square-meter event space that can accommodate up to 600 people for a seminar.

Hotel Renaissance Porto Lapa
163 keys.
R. de Cervantes 169, 4050-289 Porto, Portugal

Torel Palace Porto | Santo Ildefonso district

Visitors entering the Torel Palace Porto, a 5-star boutique hotel with just 24 rooms, discover a bourgeois palace of romantic architecture dating from 1861. With its sculpted façade, domed glass roof crowning the staircase and stuccoed ceilings decorating the rooms - all named in homage to a Portuguese writer - the renovation has preserved the traces of this grandiose past, playing with furniture, light and color to infuse it with a modern touch. The mirror-covered cube in the middle of some rooms houses the bathroom. The hotel also boasts a restaurant, the Blind Gastrobar, a terrace with swimming pool and a spa with Phytomer products.

Bonus tip? Browse through the books scattered throughout the hotel, especially in its cosy library.

Torel Palace Porto
Rua de Entreparedes, 40 4000-197 Porto
From €300 per night.

The Rebello Hotel & Spa

Built on the banks of the Douro River in the place of former boathouses, The Rebello has an industrial-chic look. Now labelled Small Luxury Hotels, several 18th-century buildings have been converted into a 5-star hotel complex featuring 103 rooms and penthouse suites. Pieces by Portuguese designers and artists coexist in large spaces with a minimalist aesthetic, leaving the major painting to subjugate us: the panoramic view of the Bay of Porto. Once past the lobby and a few steps, we enter the spa, where we discover a swimming pool surrounded by ochre walls featuring Roman arches, discovered during the renovation. In the kitchen of Pot & Pan, chef André Coutinho delights our taste buds with traditional Portuguese recipes revisited according to seasonality, which he then reworks at Bello, the second table set up on the rooftop, in finger food versions from around the world. From up here, the backdrop is Porto and neighbouring Vila Nova de Gaia, linked by the Dom Luís Bridge.

Good to know? on request, the chef can organize a tailor-made dinner including a morning at the Mercado do Bolhão, where you choose the ingredients with him before seeing them blossom on the plates that evening.

The Rebello Hotel & Spa
Rooms from €210 per night
Cais de Gaia 380, 4400-245 Vila Nova de Gaia

Exmo. Hotel | Ribeira district

Behind its majestic yellow façade, the Exmo. Hotel hides a building dating from the Middle Ages, entirely renovated in a contemporary style, with 16 rooms and suites, some with balconies, others with terraces. The view looks out over the Douro and the Villa Nova de Gaia Port cellars on one side, and the beautiful red wrought-iron Ferreira Borges market on the other, which now hosts cultural events. The simple, contemporary decor enhances the building's oldest features, as in the bar with its waxed concrete floor and banquettes, designer lamps and large old stone walls. A modern, ultra-central address that's a must-try.

Good to know? Sleeping at the Exmo. Hotel is to spend the night in a building designed by the Floret architectural firm, which has graced the cover of numerous architecture and design magazines.

Exmo. Hotel
Rua do Infante D. Henrique 91-65, 4050-297 Porto
From €200 per night.

Gran Cruz House | Ribeira district

In addition to being the world's largest exporter of port, Gran Cruz opened its first hotel in 2018, in a 17th-century building with just 7 rooms and a breathtaking view of the Douro. Inside, fresh colors welcome guests: pistachio walls, mango-colored cushions, red fruit facades. The charming rooms are spread over four floors, each inspired by a different Port wine. The Rose room, for example, evokes misty summer days, where bright colors and cheerful patterns give way to giant windows and a balcony overlooking the square. The restaurant is the jewel in the crown of this Porto hotel. Inspired by local history and landscape, Casario is an ode to local gastronomy and wine, overseen by Miguel Castro Silva. The menuse divides only between hot and cold dishes.

Gran Cruz House
Praça da Ribeira, 19 Viela do Buraco, 4050-132 Porto.
From €220 per night.