Our favourite Porto hotels for a wine-filled city break

If you’ve been there and done Lisbon, but can’t get enough of Portuguese culture, custard tarts and wine, head to the country’s second coolest city and check into some heavenly Porto hotels.

BEST HOTELS IN PORTO

The Ribeira district – and its narrow cobblestoned streets, medieval old town and colourful merchants’ houses – has been deemed worthy of UNESCO protection. Tree-lined boulevards follow the banks of the river, and the city has expanded out to coastal suburbs such as Foz do Douro on the edge of the Atlantic.

Anyone here mostly for the port should head straight to Vila Nova de Gaia, where the national drink has been made for hundreds of years – helpfully, the riverside wineries have their names lit up on their rooftops after dark.

At the Yeatman, Bacchus would be proud – not only is wine poured freely in the two-Michelin-starred restaurant, but grapes are used in genius spa treatments, such as crushed-cabernet scrubs.

Stationery and typeface fanatics (we know you’re out there) will find a spiritual home at Porto AS 1829, a hotel housed in one of Europe’s oldest stationery shops; and at temple-to-typography Casa do Conto & Tipografia.

Read on for the ultimate edit of our favourite Porto hotels for 2023.