Lisbon, Portugal

Montecarmo 12

Price per night from$162.15

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR148.25), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Mansion-coated modernity

Setting

Prime Príncipe Real estate

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In a city as vibrant as Lisbon, adults-only Montecarmo 12 is a tonic for your senses, with muted hues, Lioz limestone interiors, and notes of rosemary perfuming the minimalist rooms. Despite the aesthetic overhaul, heritage runs deep here: the traditional townhouse has been restored with all-Portuguese materials, and plant-based breakfasts showcase seasonal produce in the intimate dining room or sun-kissed courtyard. This is an urban escape that’s rich in local flavour…

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

10.

Check–Out

Noon; check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability and an extra charge.

More details

Rates at Montecarmo 12 include à la carte vegetarian or vegan breakfast.

Also

This historic hotel has a lift, but unfortunately it is not adapted to guests with reduced mobility.

At the hotel

Garden, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, air-conditioning, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, bathrobes and slippers, and organic bath products.

Our favourite rooms

‘Love thy neighbour’ rings true at Montecarmo 12: the less-is-more interiors are the work of architecture studio Aires Mateus, who are based just around the corner from this Portuguese crashpad, and the designers have used all-local materials, such as Lioz limestone, oak and traditional tiles throughout the townhouse’s restoration. In the soft-hued rooms, floor-to-ceiling windows and Juliet balconies overlook the neighbourhood, particularly in the Premium Room with its corner setting. The Premium Room with Terrace offers glimpses of the water from its balcony, and is primed for alfresco breakfasts or sun-dappled reading sessions.

Packing tips

Lisbon is a city that doesn’t shy away from colour, so the bolder you go, the more you’ll blend in.

Also

The reading room is stocked with a curated collection of books and magazines, as well as a small bar, which is open round the clock.

Children

Montecarmo 12 is an adults-only basecamp.

Sustainability efforts

This boutique hotel keeps its environmental impact equally petite by eschewing plastic and single-use items; favouring biodegradable and eco-friendly products; spotlighting vegetarian cooking; recycling its waste, and keeping its suppliers, partners and materials as local as possible.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Settle in around the shared dining table, or for more intimate meals, nab a spot in the reading room or courtyard.

Dress Code

If your pyjamas are the put-together matching kind, you could probably roll from bed to breakfast, and there’s no need to change out of your city-strolling outfit for afternoon tea.

Hotel restaurant

There’s no formal restaurant, but you won’t go hungry at Montecarmo 12. Chef Dede uses seasonal ingredients each morning to whip up vegetarian or vegan breakfast, served at the convivial oak table or in the quiet courtyard. The intimate nature of this boutique stay means dishes can be tweaked to your taste, and tables can be set up in the reading room or your bedroom. Plant-based bites continue into the afternoon, with tea time and Mediterranean grazing boards, topped with burrata, sun-dried tomatoes, pesto and fresh bread.

Hotel bar

You can order cocktails, wine and soft drinks in any of the social spaces or to your room.

Last orders

Breakfast is served between 8am and 11am; tea and snacks are served after then.

Room service

Breakfast, afternoon tea and snack boards can be delivered to your door between 8am and 5pm.

Location

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Address
Montecarmo 12
Travessa do Monte do Carmo 12
Lisboa
1200-244
Portugal

You’ll find Montecarmo 12 on a peaceful street in the historically chic Príncipe Real neighbourhood in Lisbon, near galleries, boutiques and gardens.

Planes

Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado Airport is a 25-minute drive from the hotel; staff can arrange transfers on request.

Trains

Cascais and other coastal towns are up to 40 minutes away by train; routes run from Cais do Sodré station, which is a 10-minute drive from the hotel. Lisbon’s main rail hu

Automobiles

You won’t need a set of wheels: Lisbon’s cobbled streets are best explored on foot. That said, you might want to hop on a tram or in a taxi to bypass scaling those breath-snatching hills. There's charged street parking available near the hotel, but time limits apply.

Worth getting out of bed for

Your hosts at Montecarmo 12 take pride in their Príncipe Real co-ords, and they’ll be keen to show you why: your verdant neighbours are cypress-tree-lined Principe Real Garden, which hosts an organic farmers’ market on Sundays, and the lush Botanical Garden that blooms at the end of the street. The ‘hood’s bakeries and coffee roasters provide your flâneur fuel; pop into independent boutiques and handicraft shops to take a memento of this Lisbon locale home with you. Designer-clad department store Embaixada is the latest resident of the 19th-century palace, with Moorish details that are as stunning as the catwalk-worthy goods inside. The bohemian Bairro Alto is a stroll away, where cobbled lanes lead to vertiginous lookouts, such as Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara; the vast Castelo de São Jorge is similarly breeze-kissed, with stretching views over the water.

Local restaurants

You’ll feel virtuous (and on-point) dining at Magnolia Bistrot & Winebar: its organic wines and eat-the-rainbow plates draw a laidback local crowd. Cosy Casanostra adopts a ‘mi casa es su casa’ approach, impressing with authentic Italian fare and handmade pasta. Oficina do Duque elevates classic cuts of meat and Portuguese flavours in an industrial-inspired dining room; we’ve heard rave reviews about the decadent chocolate and olive oil mousse.

Local bars

Put on your dancing shoes and prance down to Foxtrot, an art nouveau watering hole with punchy cocktails, red velvet sofas and a lantern-lit garden. Take your date to Imprensa Cocktail and Oyster Bar for signature tipples and platters of pearly oysters (the hotel is around the corner for when you start to feel the effects of either…).

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this all-things-local hotel in Príncipe Real and unpacked their colourful sardine tins and azulejo tiles, a full account of their refined city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Montecarmo 12 in Lisbon…

The concept of ‘bed and breakfast’ gets a makeover at Montecarmo 12, an adults-only crashpad in pristine Príncipe Real. The serene rooms are designed by Lisbon-based Aires Mateus, who also curated Smith sister stay Pa.te.os, and their crisp, white fabrics and stone soaking tub are an enticing sedative. Shuffle sleepy-eyed down the spiral staircase to the verdant courtyard to sample chef Dede’s breakfast spread, which puts a Portuguese twist on plant-based fare (a theme that also runs through the afternoon tea and grazing boards).

Well rested and fed, you’ll be ready to answer the city’s call, and in-the-know staff at this bijou basecamp can point you in the right direction for traditional bakeries, wholesome farmers’ markets and late-night drinks. Your hosts are proud of the hotel’s co-ords and its community connections — suppliers, materials and products are kept close to home — so suggestions tend to take a ‘the more local, the better’ approach; an ethos you’ll soon be preaching, too.

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