Two Portuguese hotels among “Europe’s most incredible” – Portugal Resident
Two Portuguese hotels feature in the Condé Nast Traveller ‘2026 Hot List’ – a presentation of the best new hotels to have opened in the last year.
They are Palácio de Tavira, in the Algarve, and Tarabel Lisbon, in Lisbon.
Before we explain what powered the two venues into this most prestigious list, we should add that Condé Nast describes its research as “a thankless job: spending a whirlwind 24 hours at a highly anticipated hotel the day before it opens; securing hard-to-get reservations and forging through 12-course tasting menus; sailing to every end of the world and back. But hey, someone’s gotta do it.”
And in such uncertain times, it is good at least to be sure of what awaits:
Palácio de Tavira is described by travel writer Mary Lussiana as “a game-changer for the region, finally putting it on the map for the discerning traveller.”
The latest hotel from Spanish group Marugal Distinctive Hotel Management, Palácio de Tavira follows Marugal’s last, higher-profile Portuguese opening: Vermelho in Alentejo’s Melides, but is “an altogether quieter affair”, says Lussiana, with 20 of the 36 rooms housed in the old palace and the rest in a newly added ‘Medina’ – “a jumble of dazzling white-washed Moorish-style cubes.”
Tarabel Lisbon sounds equally seductive, “tucked away in Lisbon’s elegant Lapa district, where narrow cobbled streets are lined by embassies and the private palaces of wealthy Lisbonites”, affording “astonishing views” reaching across the Tejo.
“Tarabel has the feel of a private home, and its interiors have been carefully curated”. At prices from €390, Tarabel is also €200 more expensive than Palácio de Tavira.
And while we are on the subject of Condé Nast Traveller, its main page features “6 European countries without EES worth visiting” – A summer escape without the hassle? Yes please”. If this isn’t a clarion call to the government to heed the appeal from Ryanair to suspend the EES until September, one can only conclude that the government has gone deaf.
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