Pa.te.os

Style

Architec-tonic

Setting

All-is-calm Alentejo

Set remotely inland in Portugal’s beach-y Alentejo region, Pa.te.os shows as much love to its land as it does to its stellar service and visitors. Comprised of four individually designed houses, each space stuns with award-winning modernist architecture, secluded settings and serious sustainability creds. Thoughtful touches (homemade cookies, warmed floors, lit fireplaces) may make leaving your home hard; but venture out, and you’ll be rewarded with wellness experiences and golden sands a 10-minute drive away.

Facilities

Rooms

Four villas.

Checkout

Noon. Earliest check-in, 2pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability; however, there are no early check-ins before 6am or late check-outs after 3pm.

More Details

Rates include breakfast, a welcome basket of Portuguese goodies, homemade cookies, all laundry except dry-cleaning, daily seasonal fruit basket and handmade beach bag.

Also

Unfortunately, this hotel is not suitable for guests with limited mobility.

Hotel Closed

The hotel closes annually from early January to early February (dates change each year).

Free Internet Access

Laundry

Pool

Room Service

At the Hotel

Indoor-outdoor living, patios, herb gardens, vineyards, ocean views and a gym. In houses: Bang & Olufsen speaker, air-conditioning, underfloor heating, wood-burning fireplace, air-purity control system, mosquito nets, Le Creuset and Smeg kitchen applications, wine fridge with a curated selection of bottles, yoga mats, beach bags and umbrellas, Lyn Harris home fragrance, personalised bathrobes and Aesop bath products. Houses 1, 2 and 4 each have their own honesty bar, too.

Our Favourite Rooms

The feels-like-home sweetness of Pa.te.os cuts through the Brutalism of its extraordinary architecture (designed by Manuel Aires Mateus); imagine percolating a morning cuppa in a James Turrell installation, or tucking into a tray of homemade biscuits while lost in a Richard Serra sculpture. The four symmetrical houses are monuments writ large on the landscape, but with plenty humanity: heated floors (warmed up before guests arrive on chilly days), floating fireplaces, cosy Scandi furnishings, handwoven linens, and even fresh herb-garden clippings for teas. And, outdoors and indoors seamlessly become one here; updating Islamic dar-style houses, and living up to the hotel’s name, patios are a central theme, with window walls opening up to make the whole living room a patio. There are skylights in cubicles and intimate alfresco showers, all-natural materials and earthy hues, and Lyn Harris’ (of Miller Harris perfume fame) custom scent is the essence of Alentejo’s landscape.

Poolside

Aesthetes will feel immense satisfaction on inspecting the pool – open to all guests – whose angles sit flush with the houses surrounding it and come to a point at a particularly agreeable panorama.

Spa

The hotel doesn't have a formal spa but there's an intimate space, helmed by an experienced team of masseurs who have over two decades of restorative experience to tout. Therapies focus on hot stone healing, aromatherapy and deep tissue treatments, and there’s a cold plunge nearby for detoxifying dunks and Alentejo’s striking scenery as your soothing backdrop. An in-house yoga master hosts classes for all levels, and sound healing or meditation sessions can be arranged should your breathwork require some regulating. Even workouts are all the more picturesque, with an alfresco LifeStation gym.

Packing Tips

Outdoorsiness is the whole point here, so bring shoes that can handle rough terrain, a wardrobe that’s not too precious and cover-ups for sudden chills. And, the architecture begs to be photographed with more than a phone camera, so bag your DSLR if you have one.

Also

Touches such as the custom scent by Lyn Harris (of Miller Harris fame), the natural art by Lisboan creative Olga Sanina, and the jars of clippings for herbal teas in your room are just some of the ways in which Pa.te.os brings the outdoors in.

Children

Pa.te.os is for over-sevens only, which helps when it comes to keeping the peace. However, children of all ages are allowed during any exclusive-use stays.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

Say ‘hello sunshine’ to the day, breakfasting on your terrace.

Dress Code

Keep things au naturel, even if you are wearing clothes.

Hotel Restaurant

The hotel’s farm-to-fork fare is crafted by head chef Sergi Sanz, who draws on his Spanish upbringing and deft knowledge of local terroir to create a home-from-home dining experience for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Days start with bespoke baskets, delivered to your door each morning with a selection of homemade breads, eggs, yoghurt, granola and seasonal fruit. Afternoon and evening meals can be set-up wherever you fancy (on your private porch, under the communal pergola), and typically feature elevated takes on Mediterranean classics, like farm-fresh chicken with zesty salads. If you’re heading out for the day — or simply fancy supper on the sands — staff can arrange their signature 'nomadic baskets’.

Hotel Bar

Vines, vines all around and not a drop to drink? Well, not exactly, the owners are cultivating their own wines, using an Earth-kind hydroponic method to grow indigenous grape varieties, but these things take time and patience will be rewarded in a few years. In the meantime, they’ve picked the best of Portuguese appellations to stock their cellar, and you can order bottles to your room from 8am till 5pm.

Last Orders

Whenever you please.

Room Service

Each morning (or around noon-ish if that’s when you want to eat) staff will arrive with trays of goodies.

Planes

Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado airport (blessed with a spiderweb of direct connections around the globe) is the closest to the hotel, around a 90-minute drive away. The hotel can help with transfers, but they do recommend hiring a car for long-game exploring.

Trains

Grândola is the closest station, a 30-minute drive away; trains arrive here direct from Lisbon’s Entrecampos station in just over an hour, and the hotel can pick you up from €35 one-way on request.

Automobiles

Without a car you are sort of stranded on site – although it’s no hardship; pleasant, in fact, here among the cork oaks and pine, vineyards and orchards, and the distant Atlantic. But, for beach days, village-hopping and grocery runs, a car will be indispensable. There’s a car park onsite, and – while you won’t need a four-wheel drive – bear in mind that untouched landscape has some bumpy roads.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

With its setting a short drive from one of Europe’s lengthiest stretches of sand, it makes sense that slow travel really hits its stride at Pa.te.os. Surfing is a year-round affair in this Portuguese pocket, and hotel staff have a roster of expert instructors on call should this be your first attempt at carving a wave. Private boat excursions bring dolphins into sight, and for back-to-basics beach days, Melides, Comporta and Estuário do Sado are all within reach.

Adventurers will have their pick of pastimes, too, with horseback riding along the coast, hiking paths to summit and available-to-rent e-bikes for trail cycling. Alongside the hotel's host of wellness experiences and award-winning architecture to ogle, there's more for crafters and epicureans, including private ceramics classes, cooking lessons, wine tastings, immersive meals and honey making.

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