The 16 Most Sustainable Hotels in Portugal
For an Ethical and Sustainable Stay in Portugal.
A Sustainability Ranking in partnership with ETIC Hotels
You’re planning a trip to Portugal and you’re trying to be as ethical and sustainable as possible?
niood lists you the 16 most sustainable hotels in Portugal:
1. Casas Na Areia
Comporta, Portugal
From $200 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Casas Na Areia sustainable?
The heart of the renovation focused on the recovery of existing wood-masonry buildings, which provided the basis upon which the structure would be rebuilt.
The choice to forego a traditional flooring amplifies the peaceful experience even further. The treated material has been spread as paving inside the community pavilion, infusing the spaces with a natural comfort and familiarity that would be impossible to achieve with any other floor finish.
2. Cabanas No Rio
Comporta, Portugal
From $200 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Cabanas No Rio sustainable?
We invited our friend Manuel Aires Mateus to help us once more, and the renewal of these two huts flourished with respect for memory, nature and pure simplicity. This still and silent place brings calmness to whoever comes to visit.
3. Casa no Tempo
Sabugueiro, Portugal
From $250 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Casa no Tempo sustainable?
All the floors are paved with local clay blocks (heated in winter). A fully equipped kitchen is integrated in a beautiful white marble structure, exposed to the dining table in front of a huge window overlooking a 400sq – meter swimming pool.
The lounge is a luminous area with white sofas and a uniquely designed fireplace corner.
The 4 suites are very spacious, with a mixture of modern bedding and local wooden furniture; walk-in showers and toilets, ultimately finished using handmade tiles.
4. Cocoon Eco Design Lodges
Muda, Portugal
From $120 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Cocoon Eco Design Lodges sustainable?
Cocoon Eco Design Lodges Green Policies include:
- no waterproofing of the soil.
- no permanent construction (all the constructions are removable).
- replanting of local species.
- utilization of technologies thermo solar and photovoltaic
- management and optimized consumption of water and energy
- selective treatment of residual and compost.
- utilization of woods with environmental certifications.
- utilization of recycled materials.
- biological vegetable-garden.
2015, 2016 and 2019 Portugal Trade Awards for Best EcoTurism Project
2017 Green Projects Awards in Tourism category
5. Sublime Comporta
Grândola, Portugal
From $250 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Sublime Comporta sustainable?
Our extraordinary organic garden, built on the principles of permaculture, includes over 300 varieties of herbs, vegetables and edible flowers. These are used in the restaurants, bar and spa, providing unique experiences – both sensorial and gastronomic.
We recycle and have a composting plant that allows us to create substrate, through the transformation of organic waste along with garden trimmings, for horticultural application.
Sublime Comporta features a large Bio Pool (one of Europe’s largest). Here the water is treated solely with aquatic plants, excluding the use of chemicals. This space is a true living ecosystem deepening Sublime Comporta’s sustainable attitude.
6. Luz Charming Houses
Fátima, Portugal
From $130 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Luz Charming Houses sustainable?
Trusting our values and believing in a peaceful coexistence with the world around us, we have built our village inspired by nature and respecting it, a sacred place where we want to return to culture and tradition, always believing that unity is strength.
We want to offer you an authentic experience. Therefore, we have created partnerships with local businesses so you can taste the typical jams and sweets of the region, smell the warm bread in the morning and buy souvenirs made by the very hands of those who live there.
As we take care of our Mother House, we also take care of Mother Nature. We like to work surrounded by green woods, hearing the whistles of sparrows and falling in love only by breathing in the fresh air and the wonderful smell of the earth.
We dedicate some days and hours to take care of our trees and flowers and, from time to time, we bring new inhabitants to create a more colorful garden. We are proud to have a composed circuit that helps us grow our little paradise.
We believe in illuminating the soul, but also in saving electricity. Using LED technology, Luz Houses invested in low consumption lighting. Go for an evening walk and discover how many stars the sky has and how many fireflies are hidden in the corners of our village.
7. Pensão Agrícola
Cabanas de Tavira, Portugal
From $170 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Pensão Agrícola sustainable?
These are the steps this property has taken to provide more sustainable and environmentally friendly travel. The hotel offers bicycle rental.
8. São Lourenço do Barrocal
Monsaraz, Portugal
From $350 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes São Lourenço do Barrocal sustainable?
São Lourenço do Barrocal has committed in using certified stationery along other carefully curated materials. It complies reduction principles, ensuring that it minimizes the business impact on the ecosystem. It holds an energy consumption policy and a waste management plan to recycle and diminish pollution. It uses, as much as possible, local and long lasting materials in the refurbishing of its guest rooms and all other hotel facilities. Its own gastronomic concept, supported by a farm to table approach focusing on the estate’s own organic certified production and sourcing of quality produce among local producers, is a very tangible expression of the ongoing commitment.
24 solar panels installed
57 jobs created being 80% of the employees from the local area
780 hectares dedicated to hospitality and farming
350.000 bricks manufactured according to local tradition
3.700 square metres were laid using existing stones
9. Casa Modesta
Olhão, Portugal
From $200 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Casa Modesta sustainable?
The whitewashed building with its exposed terracotta bricks has been sustainably built from the ground up using traditional knowledge and architectural culture, local people and materials.
From the garden, a selection of organic vegetables are grown for the kitchen, which are cooked and served together with seafood from sustainable fishing and bio meat. Other seasonal ingredients come from the supplies of small farm producers, or are daily fresh finds from the market.
10. Pé no Monte
São Teotónio, Portugal
From $180 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Pé no Monte sustainable?
These are the steps this property has taken to provide more sustainable and environmentally friendly travel:
Water
– Option to opt-out of daily room cleaning
– Option to reuse towels
Energy and greenhouse gases
– Key card or motion-controlled electricity
– Electric car charging station
Nature
– Bicycle rental
– Bicycle parking
11. Vila Monte Farm House
Moncarapacho, Portugal
From $270 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Vila Monte Farm House sustainable?
Ingredients used in the restaurants are locally sourced (some grown on site) and organic; eco-friendly cleaning products, bathroom products and light bulbs are used, too.
12. Monte Velho Equo-Resort
Arraiolos, Portugal
From $280 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Monte Velho Equo-Resort sustainable?
These are the steps this property has taken to provide more sustainable and environmentally friendly travel:
Waste
– Water cooler/dispenser
Water
– Option to opt-out of daily room cleaning
– Option to reuse towels
Energy and greenhouse gases
– Electric car charging station
13. Casas do Côro
Marialva, Portugal
From $280 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Casas do Côro sustainable?
These are the steps this property has taken to provide more sustainable and environmentally friendly travel:
Water
– Option to opt-out of daily room cleaning
– Option to reuse towels
Nature
– Bicycle rental
– Bicycle parking
14. Tivoli Évora Ecoresort
Évora, Portugal
From $150 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Tivoli Évora Ecoresort sustainable?
Tivoli Évora Ecoresort claims to be the first cork-clad hotel in the world. This cork outer coating acts as thermal and acoustic insulation, providing exceptional energy efficiency.
In addition, the hotel uses solar panels and geothermal heating to heat the main building, swimming pools and hot waters.
15. CASA ARTE
Lagos, Portugal
From $200 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes CASA ARTE Lagos sustainable?
Organic fabrics like the pure linen of the curtains and bedding.
16. Pedras Salgadas Spa & Nature Park
Pedras Salgadas, Portugal
From $200 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Pedras Salgadas Spa & Nature Park sustainable?
These are the steps this property has taken to provide more sustainable and environmentally friendly travel:
Energy and greenhouse gases
Electric car charging station
Nature
Bicycle rental
