Bairro Alto Hotel

Hotel Bôtanico

by travelmad478 about Hotel Bôtanico

The Hotel Bôtanico is a tourist-class hotel, with small but clean rooms, air conditioning, phones, and local TV. Breakfast is included with the rate. The staff spoke English and were helpful with making restaurant recommendations, providing directions, etc. This hotel's main advantage was its location, just up the hill between the Av. da Liberdade and Bairro Alto. It was a very easy walk up to Bairro Alto and down to Baixa.

The Imperial

by keeweechic

The Imperial is an inexpensive hotel overlooking Praca Dom Pedro IV. Basic but cheap and there is no elevator to its upper storey location on the top floors of a 6 storey building. If you are not looking for airconditioning or extras, the hotel is in a great location to the Bairro Alto and the Baixa districts. There are varying sized rooms, some with a shower and toilet, some with only a sink and bidet.

Pensão Residêncial Camões

by shellseeker about Pensão Residêncial Camões

I paid 5.000 Escudos for a double room. They also have single rooms but they were full. It was low season. I chose to stay in this small pension because of a good tip found on the “timeout” homepage. This is a budget 2 stars restaurant in a small lane in the very cosy Bairro Alto.
The rooms are very clean, not really big and have a small bathroom with a tub, a sink and a toilet.
I think that those small lanes can be very noisy during the summer time when all the life is in the streets, not like in February when it was a rather quiet accomodation.

wonderful and inexpensive little pensiao

by Faracy about Residencia Nova Avenida

This is a wonderful, friendly, clean little place near Avenida da Liberdade and about a 5 minute walk from Bairro Alto. I loved the room I had on the 3rd floor, with the little balcony.. number 333... a lucky number indeed. You look out to people doing laundry with flowers hanging from their windows..
Its pretty plain, but you will like the location, and the staff is very helpful.. some speak English.
It is near Plaça da Alegria, which will make it easier for your cab driver to find.. mine got lost many times. Its on a little street near many main streets. I liked the view, and the high ceilings.. and the plants.. it seemed too nice to be as cheap as it was.

Good value hotel in central Lisbon

by barryg23 about Pensão Residencial 13 da Sorte

Pensão Residencial 13 da Sorte (Lucky 13 Hotel) is a good option for visitors looking for budget accommodation in central Lisbon. It's on rua do Salitre, a street off Avenida da Liberdade, very near Avenida metro station.

The staff are very friendly and welcoming and they all speak excellent English. We had a room on the fifth floor with nice enough views of the Botanical gardens and the Bairro Alto. The room had television, refrigerator, shower and toilet. The bathroom was a little bit small but otherwise everything was fine.

There is a nightclub next to the hotel but we couldn't hear any noise, maybe because we were on the fifth floor. The room cost 45 Euro per night for a double with breakfast included. I doubt you'd get better for this price in such a central location.

Hotels, Hostels, Camping and Boarding houses.

by Pedralho about many

I lived here a long time, so my knowledge of accomodation is 'general'.
Accomodation is not difficult in Lisbon. You have hotels, hostels and boarding houses (pensao), all with different prices and a different offer. Some boarding houses have common WC, others have private WCs (or a lavatory only, ask first). Boarding houses usually have no breakfast.
In East Lisbon, and in Bairro Alto one can find hotels for Gay/Lesbians. Qualities depend on the hotel. Some can be noisy, others unconfortable (I hate not having a private WC).
The real question here, and it goes for all countries, is that accomodation doesn't meet the demand for cheap travel. You can find a ho(s)tel with a room with bed, tv and loo, and a common area for food with a microwave oven and kitchen sink/fridge.

Good pensão to stay at Lisbon

by Maria_80 about Pensão Globo

Pensão Globo in Lisbon, Bairro Alto, has a great location. The staff is very friendly and helpful and rooms are nice and clean.

Casa de Sáo Mamede - Hotel

by boeing_777 about Casa de Sáo Mamede - Hotel

Tastefully converted seventeenth-century town house with moderately priced rooms near the botanical gardens and Bairro Alto nightlife.

An Angel of a Little Hotel

by SOLODANCER about Hotel Anjo Azul

Only the really savvy and well-heeled traveller to Europe knows that one of the best finds there in so far as best bargains overall - is the remarkable city of Lisbon. Where else could one purchase a bottle of good wine for 3 Euros, a cup of fantastic coffee for .60 cents and dinner at a typical Portuguese restaurant for 12 Euros which includes half a caraffe of house wine and delicious home-made dessert? Or wander into a first class museum for a fee of a mere 2.50 Euros.

And as for accommodation at a very decent respectable and clean hotel in a nice neighborhood, this too can be had for a price that would startle a most die-hard skeptic as a prisoner would seeing a skylight tucked way up in his cell.

But then again you have to be a savvy and resourceful traveller to find these things. And yet in Lisbon one need not do too real hard work, researching or leg-work to discover the true bargains. They're mostly known and also well sign posted.

So, pointing back to inexpensive accommodations in the city, Lisbon is littered with highly affordable ones. Boutique-type hotels and B&B's are everywhere and are springing up at each turn.

One of the newer ones I can recommend here is the Hotel Anjo Azul (Blue Angel Hotel) in Lisbon's most colourful and bohemian of neighborhoods - the Bairro Alto. It is the neighborhood uphill from the Baixa and facing across the other ancient district of Alfama.

The Anjo Azul is a charming three-story hotel of a former turn of the century apartment building perfectly situated in the midst of Bairro Alto's astonishing warren of snaking narrow streets and alleyways. The building is of course totally renovated presenting each individual room with modern comfort and amenities such as gleaming bathrooms and bath tubs. If I'm not mistaken, there are only four rooms/bedrooms on each floor with the exception of the ground floor bedrooms which occupy the back of the building while the front as one comes in is reserved as a reception area. To me, the best rooms are the single ones on the ground floor level which happen to have each a big patio with a feeling of almost a secluded privacy. And these rooms being single are the most affordable at about 65 Euros per night. The second and third floor bedrooms are for double and triple occupancy which definitely cost more but only a tad higher starting at around 80 Euros. Also, the upper floors both facing the little street as well as those situated in the back have the views over old apartment buildings and the open sky of Lisbon. At these economical prices one pays for these type of great comfort, it definitely is a good bargain.

The Anjo Azul also owns the Pensao Globo, a B&B, which is just as likable and comfortable but with smaller rooms but also in a very old building and even quieter street close to the stop of the funicular Elevador da Gloria and next to a still functioning abbey, in case you inquire and would find out the Anjo Azul being at full capacity. And as luck would have it, the Pensao Globo is even more inexpensive than staying at the Anjo Azul (actual room prices can be inquired at Anjo Azul).

Bairro Alto

by schielen

A glimpse of the wide Tejo at the bottom of the hill.

The symbol of Lisbon, a ship with two crows, here in use as a lamppost.

Statue of Luis de Camoes.

Just one of the many narrow streets.

And just one of the many blue-tiled buildings.

On the long stairs leading from the Largo Coelho back down to the Rossio there are many restaurants with terraces.