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The Editory Boulevard Aliados Hotel, Preferred Hotels
Porto, Portugal · Editory · Accessible Luxury
Two buildings, two moods. The guest entrance opens onto Avenida dos Aliados, the ceremonial boulevard that runs up to Porto's city hall, while the bar and restaurant face Rua do Almada, a late eighteenth-century street full of everyday local trade. Ding Dong, the Portuguese studio behind both the architecture and the interiors, set out to make a 2022 hotel feel as though it had always stood there: oxblood-red window frames, oak floors, rugs woven for the house. Sixty-eight rooms and a heated outdoor pool sit above all of it.
- 68 rooms
- Opened 2022
- Neighborhood: Aliados
- Rooms from 194 sq ft (18 m²)
- Architect: Ding Dong
- Interiors: Ding Dong
About The Editory Boulevard Aliados Hotel, Preferred Hotels
- The hotel opened in May 2022 after a build costing around 20 million euros, joining two separate buildings that are protected as part of the Aliados and Rua do Almada ensemble.
- Rooms are sorted by which front they face, Aliados or Almada, across eight categories that run from cozy up to the Suite Aliados.
- New floors were added to both buildings to reach the room count, and the finished rooms range from 18 to 28 square metres.
- Entry-level rooms start at 194 sq ft (18 m²).
History
The hotel was made by joining two buildings back to back, one on Avenida dos Aliados and one on Rua do Almada, in a block classified as part of a protected ensemble covering both streets. It opened in May 2022 as the fifth hotel of The Editory Collection, a partnership between the FVC Group and SC Hospitality, part of Sonae Capital, after an investment of around 20 million euros.
Architecture and interiors are both by the Portuguese studio Ding Dong, working from the premise that the hotel should look as if it had always been in place: a reinterpreted past rather than a copy of one, in noble and natural materials, with detailed joinery, oak floors, frames painted oxblood red, bespoke Monsaraz rugs and drawings by a Portuguese artist. New storeys were added to both buildings to make up the room count, giving 68 rooms across eight categories from cozy through city view and Aliados view up to the Suite Aliados, sized between 18 and 28 square metres, sorted by which street front they sit on. The Aliados side holds the guest entrance and the main common rooms; the Almada side is deliberately open to the city, with a 30-seat bar acting as a shop window for the restaurant. Below ground are a meeting room and a gym, and there is a heated outdoor pool.
The setting
Avenida dos Aliados is Porto's stage, a broad early twentieth-century boulevard rising to the city hall, used for everything from election nights to the football parades that fill it end to end. São Bento station and its tiled atrium are at the bottom of the slope, the Clérigos tower and the 1906 Lello bookshop a few minutes west, and the Ribeira quay a steep walk further down. Rua do Almada behind the hotel is the counterweight: an eighteenth-century street of hardware shops, small restaurants and, more recently, bars, where the neighbourhood rather than the tour groups still sets the pace.
Amenities
- Caixas técnicas no pavimento
- Internet Wi-fi
- Material AV
- Luz Natural
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