JNcQUOI House Opens 3 December: Lisbon's New 16-Suite Hotel on Avenida da Liberdade

Around Avenida da Liberdade

Olivia Lisboa Hotel opened in April on Rua Alexandre Herculano 35, a few minutes' walk from the avenue and about 10 minutes from Príncipe Real. It is a five-star with a restaurant, a bar and 24-hour reception, and the top-floor suites look over the rooftops. There is parking with electric-vehicle charging, which matters if you are driving in. There is no pool. Book it for the position and the comfort rather than the building.

Wilde Aparthotels Lisbon Liberdade is the cheaper way to stay up here. It opened in January at Rua Castilho 74, in the building that used to be the Hotel Diplomático, and Marquês de Pombal metro station is a short walk away. You get a mix of hotel rooms and studio apartments sleeping up to four, and the ninth-floor units have private terraces. Rates run from €120 to €260, depending on the night and which unit you get. There is a café-deli, a courtyard and a co-working mezzanine if you are working while you travel.

ME Lisbon opened in August 2025 at Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar nº2, a couple of minutes from Parque Eduardo VII. The Radio Bar on the roof has a seasonal outdoor pool and views across the city. Attiko, the pan-Asian restaurant, opens at 18:30 and has a sushi bar and a terrace. Fismuler is on the ground floor and has its own door onto the street. The Nordic food there is meant to be shared. Downstairs, the Korpo club has a long indoor pool, a sauna, a hammam and a 24-hour gym, and non-residents can use it too. Rooms start at €380.

In the old centre

Andaz Lisbon is the first Andaz in Portugal. It is on Rua do Comércio, between Praça do Comércio and Rua Augusta. You are inside the Baixa grid, with the river at the end of the street. Luzzi, the rooftop restaurant, does breakfast every day and dinner from 19:00 Tuesday to Saturday, with brunch instead on Sunday. The ground-floor lounge is open from 09:00 to midnight and cooks Portuguese standards in the style of the city's street kiosks. A double starts at €327. The spa it was announced with has not opened, so do not book here for that.

Lisbon Chiado Hotel & SPA opened in September 2025 on Largo Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro nº20, a short walk from Rossio. The reason to pick it is the basement, where a heated indoor pool, a sauna and a steam room are open from 09:00 to 21:00. Very few hotels in Chiado can offer that, as most of them are converted townhouses. The Beyond rooftop bar looks over the tiled roofs to the Tagus, and the restaurant is called Flavors.

Olympia Lis Boutique Hotel is the old Cinema Olympia on Rua dos Condes, just off Praça dos Restauradores, and it opened in February. The standard rooms are decorated like theatre dressing rooms. The deluxe suites have balconies, and some of those balconies have a jacuzzi. A large Joana Vasconcelos piece hangs in the atrium, and there is a bistro and bar. Booking sites also list the place as Olympia Lis Baixa Hotel, so search both names before you decide it is full.

North in Avenidas Novas

The Cloud One Lisbon opened on 8 May on Rua Dr. Nicolau de Bettencourt, and it is Motel One's first hotel in Portugal. There is a heated indoor pool and a sauna on the lower level. The rooftop bar on the fifth floor opens when the weather allows, and the restaurant is called Sazonal. Inside it is warm wood and heavy planting, with a vertical garden climbing the courtyard wall. Skip it if you want to walk into the historic centre, as Avenidas Novas is a business district and Baixa is a metro ride away.

By the river in Belém

MACAM Hotel is inside a working contemporary art museum. A lift runs between the two halves, and the bedrooms have works made for them. The building is an 18th-century palace at Rua da Junqueira 66, between Alcântara and Belém. The museum opens every day except Tuesday, 10:00 to 19:00, with the last tickets at 18:30. Entry is €15 for everything or €8 for the permanent exhibition, and it is free on the first Monday of the month from 10:00 to 14:00. Contemporâneo serves lunch from 12:30 and dinner from 19:00. The bar in the old chapel opens Wednesday to Sunday evenings. The studios take families and longer stays. Jerónimos Monastery and Belém Tower are a short drive west.

Before you book

Do not arrive at MACAM on a Tuesday, when the museum is closed. Do not count on its rooftop pool between 1 November and 31 March.

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