Last updated on January 09th, 2022
Welcome to Lisbon, Portugal’s compact, history-packed capital bursting with sunshine, friendliness and history. There’s no shortage of great hotels.
Our picks of the best are the Corpo Santo Lisbon Historical Hotel with its intimate five star luxury and, by sharp contrast, the Epic Sana Lisboa Hotel, with its unbeatable rooftop infinity pool looking down over all Lisbon.
In historic Alfama, you’ll find our pick of the boutique hotels in Santiago de Alfama, a loving tribute to the area around it. We’ve also selected the best family hotels and the best of the hotel with a pool. Enjoy. Lisbon and its best hotels are ready to welcome you.
What is the most expensive hotel in Lisbon Portugal ?
Contemporary artwork meets Louis XVI style at Four Seasons Hotel Ritz, Lisbon’s most exclusive address and its most expensive hotel. It’s not hard to see why. From a tree lined high-rise dining terrace and a private running track on the rooftop to the ambassadorial elegance of its public spaces, Four Seasons Hotel Ritz has it all.
What are the Best Hotels in Lisbon City Centre ?
The subtle five star luxury of the Corpo Santo Hotel is to be found in just 77 rooms and suites, some with sweeping views over the River Tagus. Located in the bustling Cais do Sodré district, the Corpo Santo Hotel melds the history of its exterior with a contemporary interior by some of Portugal’s leading designers. The hotel’s Porter restaurant and bar is open throughout the day from traditional Portuguese breakfast to sumptuous evening meals. Best among Lisbon hotels for understated style.
Spectacular doesn’t even cover it. Hotel Myriad occupies a striking white sail-like building on the River Tagus, offering panoramic views from your bed. Guest rooms are furnished in minimalist sparkling white, with bright red accents. Here the view is the star, not least from the hotel’s gourmet River Lounge Restaurant and Bar. If that isn’t enough, the hotel’s luxury spa is an international award winner. The best in Lisbon for glamour.
Tucked away through an ancient tunnel in one of Lisbon’s trendiest districts, Memmo Príncipe Real occupies the site and building of an old royal palace. Ancient limestone flooring contrasts with highly contemporary appointments in 41 superior guest rooms, with dark wood floors and deluxe fabrics. A soothing rooftop plunge pool has far-reaching views over Lisbon Portugal. Café Príncipe Real is the hotel’s bar and restaurant, with its own terrace and gourmet fusion food. Hidden luxury at its best.
A 19th century viscount’s palace in Lapa, Lisbon’s most exclusive area, is now home to the Olissippo Lapa Palace. Portugal’s finest artists and decorators created the interior, faithfully restored today, with 109 rooms and suites furnished in sumptuous traditional style. Extensive grounds surround the hotel, with a pool and sweeping views from a hilltop location. Take meals around the pool or at the lavish Lapa Restaurant. The hotel’s Rio Tejo Bar is the ideal retreat.
Set on Lisbon’s elegant Avenida da Liberdade in the city centre, PortoBay Liberdade is quite simply the best urban resort choice in Lisbon. There’s a heated indoor pool, a fully equipped spa, sauna and a Turkish bath to sooth guests after a day’s sight-seeing. Ninety-eight rooms, many with their own terraces, feature quietly luxurious style in neutral tones. A rooftop bar joins the hotel’s own gourmet bistro and informal bar/restaurant as eating options.
Entirely unique, Hotel O Arista evokes the decadent spirit of 1950s Lisbon with a magnificent film star ambience. Each of the five guest rooms and 16 apartments draws on different aspects of distinctly Portuguese design, from the elegantly restrained to the superbly lavish. The hotel’s Restaurant O Ato serves some of the best of highly contemporary Portuguese cuisine and the location puts all of cultural Lisbon on your doorstep. Top choice for culture lovers.
7. Hotel da Baixa – Great Value
An outstanding hotel in the desirable Baixa district, perfectly located for all of Lisbon’s sights, Hotel da Baixa’s intimate charm is to be found in 66 guest rooms in a restored and much loved historic building. Decor is in welcoming, muted tones with Portuguese rugs over wood floors, with some rooms offering city views. The hotel’s Restaurante do Azeite serves traditional Portuguese food under a soaring vaulted roof, with terrace seating also available. A delight.
8. BessaHotel Liberdade – Great Value
Ideally located steps away from the desirable Avenida da Liberdade, this highly contemporary hotel is a top-quality for superb value in the city centre, without stinting on highly contemporary style. An indoor spa pool joins a fully equipped gym and a relaxing outdoor terrace among the hotel’s facilities. Superior rooms feature some of the latest Portuguese design with dark wood floors, huge mirrors and bright colour accents against neutral tones. The hotel’s Tabik Restaurant serves a contemporary take on Portuguese food.
9. HF Fenix Music – Affordable / Good Value
Funk it up at this hip and happening music-themed hotel. Among the best of Lisbon’s most affordable hotels, H F Fenix Music’s bold decor starts with a reception desk modelled on a drum kit. Huge wall pieces of turntables, guitars and singers feature in black and white guest accomodation and there’s a rooftop swimming pool and sundeck with its own bar. A restaurant offers a breakfast buffet and the hotel’s bar lobby bar is one of the best places to experience the unique beat of this city.
What are the 4 Best Boutique Hotels in Lisbon ?
1. Memmo Alfama – Design Hotels – Spectacular View
In historic and atmospheric Alfama, Memmo Alfama has been named as one of the world’s best urban hotels, and with good reason. Just 42 rooms create the ambience of a stylish Portuguese home with muted colours and river views from some rooms creating a sense of deep calm and quiet luxury. A wine bar and terrace crowns the experience with fine wines and Portuguese gastronomy, served against a panorama of the city and river beyond.
Simplicity and authenticity make Hote Santiago de Alfama one of the picks of the hotels in this most historic of Lisbon districts. The 19 lovingly restored rooms combine traditional wood pannelled ceilings and polished floors with a distinctly contemporary minimalist style. Audrey’s, named after the founder’s daughter, is the hotel’s delightful all day cafe and restaurant. For informal, yet award-winning, luxury, Santiago de Alfama is one of the best in Lisbon Portugal.
Set directly on Avenida da Liberdade, Valverde Hotel transports guests to a world of deeply elegant luxury. Cossetting deep colours feature in all accommodation at this most sophisticated of Lisbon boutique hotels, mixing contemporary with mid-century vintage furnishings. This meticulous aesthetic extends to the high ceilinged Sítio Valverde restaurant, serving Portuguese cuisine throughout the day. A secret garden with a plunge pool provides the ideal retreat.
In a 200 year old building in the heart of Lisbon Portugal, Pousada de Lisboa draws on a remarkable heritage of hosting kings and banquets as a former Ministry of the Interior. Artworks are provided by some of Lisbon’s finest museums, ceiling frescoes have been superbly restored and public rooms are sumptuous. Classic, restrained decor features in all guest accommodation. Dining options include an outdoor terrace and the Rib Beef and Wine Bar. Among Lisbon’s historic hotels, this is one of the very best, all just steps from the river.
What’s the Best Hotel with Rooftop Pool & Bar ?
An infinity rooftop pool looks out over both the city and the River Tagus, surrounded by decking and a cool, on-trend bar. Shady enclaves complete a picture that makes Epic Sana Lisboa Hotel the best among Lisbon hotels for both pool and poolside ambience. Sit back with a cocktail and drink it all in. There’s so much to enjoy here. The 311 guest rooms are bright, efficient and furnished in a Portuguese contemporary style, while among dining options Flor-de-Lis offers contemporary cusine throughout the day.
What are the Best Family Hotels in Lisbon ?
1. Vincci Liberdade – Good Value
Centrally located, this superbly appointed four star hotel offers triple accommodation in spacious wood floored rooms where elegance and simpilicity are the key. Adjoining double rooms can also be booked, offering accommodation for four or more. Among the hotel’s facilities are an a la carte restaurant where breakfast is also offered daily. A charming hotel terrace is a city centre sanctuary. Unusually for central Lisbon, there’s also parking.
2. Jupiter Lisboa Hotel – Very Popular
An of-the-moment rooftop pool is one of the contemporary delights within this centrally-located heritage building, which dates back to 1906. Families can choose to book two adjoining rooms which can accommodate a maximum of two adults and three children in stylish, wood-floored accommodation which features striking photographs of Lisbon’s most notable attractions. A full breakfast is served every day while there’s a taste of the Algarve in the hotel’s Dom Alimado Restaurant.
3. Corinthia Hotel Lisbon – Luxury
This landmark modern high rise hotel is the ideal five star choice among Lisbon hotels for families looking for style and luxury. Superbly appointed family accommodation, with decor in deluxe contemporary style and featuring far-reaching views, can accommodate up to four people in inter-connecting rooms, with deluxe options available. A large indoor pool offers entertainment delights for all while there’s a fully equipped spa and gym, too. Evra is the hotel’s highly rated restaurant.
What’s the Best Cheap or Affordable Hotel in Lisbon ?
Within walking distance of all major attractions, this ideally situated Holiday Inn Express offers efficient, contemporary accommodation in the heart of Lisbon Portugal, making it the pick of the city’s affordable hotels. Bright colours in guest rooms offset muted tones, making for a welcoming ambience at the end of a busy day’s sightseeing. A buffet breakfast is offered to start each day and there’s a wealth of restaurant and bar options within easy walking distance.
Best Value Hotels in Lisbon City Centre
Lisbon’s city centre is where the Portuguese capital sets up shop. Whether you’re in Baixa or the Avenida da Liberdade there’s always a reminder that this is and always has been a truly great trading city. One tip is to dive off the main roads or pedestrian thoroughfares up an unlikely side street. Here you’re likely to find traditional craft-making such as leather work or Portugal’s famous hat-makers. Lisbon is one of those cities where getting lost is a great pleasure. A must see among the many city centre museums is the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The collection of one man, this vast collection travels between continents, centuries and cultures in a purpose-built brutalist building in its own lush gardens with an excellent restaurant. Lisbon’s other essential are its traditional yellow trams, useful for traversing this city of hills. These are not just tourist attractions, but everyday transport. An exhilarating way of getting around.
Top Rated Hotels in Lisbon City Centre
- EPIC SANA Lisboa Hotel – Affordable Luxury
- My Story Hotel Rossio – Affordable
- Lisboa Pessoa Hotel – Great Value
- HF Fenix Music – Great Value
What’s the Top Accommodation in Baixa and Rossio Neighbourhood ?
Rossio is Lisbon’s main square, where the city comes to meet up, celebrate and simply sit to watch the world go by. The area around it bustles with shops, local restaurants and bars. A short walk away, Baixa is Lisbon’s restored old town, rebuilt after the devastating earthquake of 1755, and now spilling elegantly down to the edge of the river and culminating in the magnificent square that is the Praça do Comércio or Commerce Square. The pedestrian areas of Baixa are always thronging with shoppers, city-dwellers and street musicians. There’s no shortage of cafes to sit and watch all of Lisbon go by.
Finest Hotels in Baixa and Rossio
- Hotel da Baixa
- Be Poet Baixa Hotel – Affordable / Good Value
- Lisbon Wine Hotel – Boutique Hotel
What are the Best Hotels in Alfama District ?
Alfama is the oldest district of Lisbon, the place where this ancient city began. Look out for Lisbon Cathedral, with its beginnings in the 12th century and of course, high above it all, the magnificent São Jorge Castle, an essential for any Lisbon visit, with its panoramic views from the battlements. Down the tiny streets of Alfama, daily life continues much as it always has, and by night this is the place to come to find the perfect fado bar and here the authentic sound of Lisbon. For more contemporary tastes, there’s also a wide selection of superb of-the-moment restaurants.
Outstanding Hotels in Alfama
- Hotel Convento do Salvador – Good Value
- Alfama – Lisbon Lounge Suites – Aparthotel
- Alfama Luxury Lofts – Aparthotel
What are the Top Properties on Avenida da Liberdade Boulevard ?
For anyone with a passion for history, the Colosseum and Roman Forum have to be two of the top sights that Rome has to offer. The stunning ancient structure of the Colosseum is hard to miss, and it is highly recommended that you take a guided tour of this top attraction. Discover where gladiators fought and wild beasts were unleashed on prisoners at this amazing site, but arrive early to avoid the tourist crowds. Just beside the Colosseum, the Roman Forum awaits with its spectacular ruins from centuries gone by. A guided tour will help you to imagine how this place looked when it was full of Roman citizens.
This part of the city is popular with tourists and there are many famous name and boutique style hotels offering a high standard of accommodation.
Best Hotels near Avenida da Liberdade
- BessaHotel Liberdade – Luxury
- Valverde Hotel – Boutique Hotel
- Fontecruz Lisboa, Autograph Collection – Luxury
