The Design-Forward Lisbon Hotel I’ve Booked 10 Times and Counting

Welcome to Rebooked, a Condé Nast Traveler column where we share the properties our editors and contributors loved so much, they’ve booked them over and over (and over!) again. Travel journalists have their pick of the litter—so you know these are something special. When Valverde Lisboa first opened in September 2014, I learned about it on social media. I was immediately taken by photos of fashionable European influencers swanning around its small pool and courtyard garden. It looked stylish but cozy, exactly the kind of hotel that you didn’t see much of in the city. This was around the time that US traveler interest in Lisbon (and Portugal in general) was just starting to pick up, and as an American travel journalist trying to focus my expertise on the destination, I was heading there a lot. And so in November of that year, I booked my first stay. I first fell in love with this hotel for its aesthetics. Located on Lisbon’s famous Avenida da Liberdade, near designer boutiques, Valverde boasted a distinctive visual point of view that set it apart from the rest. At the time, it was a townhouse with around two dozen rooms brought to life with layered interiors: velvet upholst