Raw Culture Bairro Alto
Lofty vintage living
Buzzy Alto Bairro
With its polished industrial chic, artsy groove and collection of vintage furnishings to rival most retro stores, a stay at Raw Culture Bairro Alto gives you instant access to the heart of Lisbon’s so-very-hip scene. This former printworks is a living gallery, mixing iconic modern design with rotating art shows throughout its carefully crafted spaces. Each of its dozen loft-style apartments is also home to a unique assortment of pieces (from Illum Wikkelso chairs to De Sede sofas) to explore and experience at your leisure. It’s enough to excite even the most discerning of design devotees, and in one of the city’s most banging of bairros.
Facilities
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12 individually furnished loft-style apartments.
Checkout
12 noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
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Rates include breakfast, which can also be ordered up to your room for a small fee.
Also
Many of the hotel's pieces of vintage furniture and artworks are available to buy, so if a piece particularly catches your eye you can check whether it's for sale via the online catalogue.
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At the Hotel
Free WiFi, breakfast room, bar, concierge service. In rooms: Cable TV, well-stocked minibar, free bottled water, fully equipped kitchen with Smeg appliances, Nespresso coffee machine, free daily tea and coffee, air-conditioning, robes and slippers, Prija toiletries.
Our Favourite Rooms
All of the apartments are certainly special in their own way, with each named according to a subtle material or stylistic theme. We particularly love the Terracotta room with its earthy ceramic touches adding cosier warmth to the smart industrial-tinged interior.
Packing Tips
Bring your dancing shoes. Though with all those steep cobbles, nothing with heels.
Also
A ramp provides wheelchair access and one of the apartments has been fitted with wider doors and an adapted bathroom facilities.
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Much of the accommodation is big enough to sleep families with kids, plus cribs can be arranged free of charge. However, the abundance of retro curios and classic design pieces doesn’t make this the most child-friendly of stays.
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Food & Drink
Top Table
You have a beguiling choice of retro-classic lovelies to park yourself on in the snazzy bar-cum-lounge. The late-Fifties, lipstick-red Heart Cone Chair by Verner Panton set our vintage-loving pulses aflutter.
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Break out your best retro threads and you’ll fit right in.
Hotel Restaurant
There’s no restaurant, but a breakfast room continues the hotel’s gallery-quality feel with a vintage motoring theme. Each morning they serve up a spread of breads, pastries, cereal, charcuterie and cheeses. Juices are freshly squeezed and eggs whipped up to order. For the rest of the day, you can fuel up on hot snacks like falafel and French fries.
Hotel Bar
Come evening the breakfast room transforms into a buzzy neon-lit bar, where guests can rub shoulders with hip locals sipping Appletini cocktails and nibbling on mozzarella sticks. Expect regular live shows too from area musicians who often play into the night.
Last Orders
Midnight (and 2:30am at weekends).
Room Service
Most of the breakfast items and bar snacks can be ordered up to your digs until midnight.
Planes
Lisbon International Airport is the closest at around a 25-minute drive away – though expect to double that during rush hour. You can arrange a transfer through the hotel, starting at €40 each way.
Trains
Santa Apolónia station is three kilometres from the hotel, with rail services connecting to the city of Porto. The Cais do Sodré combines train and metro stations with a commuter ferry terminal, just 300 metres from the hotel. Pre-booked transfers cost €10.
Automobiles
If you’re arriving with your own wheels, there’s private parking around 200 metres away and the hotel is happy to help with luggage. Bear in mind streets around here can be steep and narrow, so hairy to navigate by car.
Worth Getting Out of Bed For
You can easily spend much of your day just wandering around the meandering cobbled lanes and pretty plazas in and around the Bairro Alto neighbourhood. A good place to start, however, is pointing yourself uphill and aiming towards the Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara for some spectacular cityscape panoramas. From here it’s a short stroll to the Lisbon Botanical Gardens, complete with butterfly garden and adjoining Natural History Museum. To delve deeper into the city’s past, head to neighbouring Alfama, with its clutch of mediaeval landmarks that includes the mighty São Jorge Castle, its nearby bell tower and the city’s 11th-century many-times-rebuilt cathedral. The steep streets will start to tire even the most hardened rambler, but do provide the perfect excuse for frequent café stops for galãos and pastéis de nata (milky coffee and velvety custard tarts). Of course ascending on one of the city’s iconic trams is also a great leg-saver – the graffiti-adorned Elevador da Gloria is a popular ride that runs through Bairro Alto.
Earn or Redeem Points with World of Hyatt
This Mr & Mrs Smith hotel participates in the World of Hyatt loyalty program. As a member, you can earn and redeem points and enjoy exclusive benefits for qualifying nights. .
