Three rooms · First floor
Alcove
A small room with a big bed and a good window.
1 of 2
- Size
- 20 m²
- Bed
- Double bed, 160 by 200 cm
- Sleeps
- 2
- View
- The lane and the tiled houses opposite
- Bathroom
- Shower room with a rain shower
About the room
Twenty square metres on the first floor, with a double bed set into an arched alcove and a bay window over the lane. The quiet choice, and the one most guests book twice.
The Alcove rooms sit on the first floor, where the house was once the family's front rooms. The ceilings are still barrel vaulted, and the bed fits into the curve of the wall the way a loaf fits a tin. It is a small room that does not feel small, because every piece of furniture has been chosen to be low.
The bay window looks down the lane. You will see the neighbours' washing, a corner of the tiled house opposite and, if you lean out, a strip of the river. The floor is original pine, scrubbed and oiled each spring by Dona Graça, who has kept houses in Alfama for thirty years.
The shower room is tiled in white and green, with a rain shower, a deep shelf for your things and a heated towel rail. There is a small desk by the window, enough for a laptop and a coffee, and a wardrobe with real hangers.
Look around
A 360 degree view you can drag, or turn with the arrow keys. A 360 view of a comparable room, shown here as an illustration.
360 view
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What the 360 view shows
The bed
The mattress is firm on one side and softer on the other. If you prefer one or the other, tell us and we will swap the topper before you arrive.
The bay window
The window opens fully and has wooden shutters. The seat in the bay is deep enough to sit sideways with a book.
The shower room
Through this door, a white and green tiled shower room with a rain shower and a heated towel rail.
The room at seven in the morning and seven in the evening
7 am
At seven the light comes in sideways through the bay window and lands on the foot of the bed. The lane is quiet except for the baker's van, which stops outside number 9 at ten to seven. Breakfast starts at eight, so there is time to stay where you are.
7 pm
By seven the room turns amber. The lamps are low, the window is open an inch, and the sound from the lane is plates and a radio two doors down. If you are dressing for dinner, the wine bar downstairs has a table by the stairs that guests tend to forget about.
In the room
- Linen from a family mill near Guimarães
- Rain shower and heated towel rail
- Quiet air conditioning and underfloor heating
- Small desk and fast Wi-Fi
- Espresso machine, kettle and a tin of local tea
- Wardrobe with real hangers
- Blackout curtains and wooden shutters
- Water from the house filter, in glass bottles
- Organic soap and shampoo from a Lisbon maker
- Free use of the house bicycles
Floor and access
- Floor
- First floor. The lift stops on every floor from the cellar to the third.
- Step-free
- Yes. Reached by the lift from the ground floor. The door is 86 cm wide and the shower has a low tray with a step of 8 cm.
- Bathroom
- Shower room with a rain shower
The accessibility statement has the details of the lift and the stairs.
The next three months
What the Alcove costs on each night, and which nights are already taken.
Weekday rates for the Alcove: low season €240, mid season €288, high season €336, festive dates €360. Friday and Saturday nights cost 10 percent more, shown in terracotta. Stays of five nights or more take 5 percent off, and seven nights or more 10 percent.
Darker squares are busier seasons. A night marked Full has no room of this kind left. Prices are in euros, per room per night, with breakfast included. City tax is added at the end.
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