A New Coffee Hotel in Oporto (Portugal)
Pestana Oporto «A Brasileira»: a new Oporto hotel – built from the well-known coffee shop, with 90 rooms and suites over six themed floors – that smells of coffee and spices.
A few years ago, many Portuguese people cried as the centenary coffee place «A Brasileira» (place in Oporto, Portugal) was shutting down. Now, after some years of remodeling it has been transformed into a 5 star hotel. But it still has coffee aromas in the air.
«A Brasileira» provides a sensory experience as soon as you check in, where a coffee liqueur is served, in a gesture of welcome. The senses are waking up very well in this five-star hotel opened last March in the heart of Oporto, with the theme of coffee and spices marketed during the Portuguese maritime expansion in the 15th and 16th centuries.
The 90 rooms and suites cover its six floors, each dedicated to coffee, tea, cocoa, pepper, cinnamon and anise, and their aroma is felt in them. The colors also change: on floors alluding to coffee and cocoa, for example, the tones are darker. And the furniture and decoration, by the Brazilian architect Jaime Morais go with the theme, most clearly in the bed head, which bear images of coffee or the spice in question, in addition to the designation A Brasileira.
The complex occupies the historic building from «A Brasileira» coffee place, whose original design was respected.
The century-old cafeteria was accompanied by a restaurant and by this luxury hotel, equipped with gymnasium and indoor vertical garden, which is why it concluded a management contract with Grupo Pestana.
«We want to offer a service of excellence in what is the lodging experience, the cafeteria experience and the foodie experience», says Mariana Lacerda, director of Pestana Group Porto area.
Are you planning a trip to Oporto? If you are, and if you’re a coffee lover, too, be sure to check this one out.
