Porto hotels with reservations from 30% to 80% for Christmas and from 75% to 90% for New Year

A week before Christmas, Porto de Portugal has hotels with occupancy levels ranging from 30% to 80% on Christmas Day and 75% to 90% on New Year’s Eve, the city’s hotel owners said Monday.

At the Porto Royal Bridges Hotel on Rua Sa da Bandeira, next to Porto’s São Bento station, hotel occupancy for Christmas and New Year’s Eve is around 80%, with guests “mostly foreigners” coming from all over countries. from all over the world, but mostly from Europe, said Rita Cruz, assistant director of sales for the boutique hotel.

At the Vila Galé Porto Centro, located in Campo 24 de Agosto, in the center of Porto, the New Year’s weekend occupancy rate is 80% on the day of this Monday, and on the night of December 24, the occupancy rate is approx. 30% if 292 rooms are available.

At the Bessa Baixa and Bessa Hotel Boavista, occupancy for the night of December 31, this Monday, will be 75%, although it is expected that places will be sold out and appointments will be sold out after Christmas, estimates Renato Correia, general manager of Bessa Hotel Baixa and Bessa Hotel Boavista . director.

At Christmas, the occupancy rate of Bessa’s hotels is between 50% and 60%, but dinners on the 24th and lunches on the 25th “are in great demand and there are already few places available,” said Renato Correia, stressing that this Christmas season Food is in demand increasingly in demand among customers, even if they do not stay overnight.

Bookings for Christmas at the Sheraton do Porto near Avenida da Boavista are at 45%, but Christmas dinner and lunch are already sold out, says Claudia Rato, marketing director.

Bookings at the Sheraton do Porto should reach 90% by the end of the year, said Claudia Rato, noting that, like Christmas, New Year’s Eve dinner and lunch on January 1 are fully booked.

At the Dom Henrique Hotel, located in the heart of Porto, hotel occupancy was “49% as of December 24 and 94% as of December 31,” said Joaquim Simões, director of accommodation.

On November 29, the president of Turismo do Porto e Norte de Portugal, Luis Pedro Martins, said in an interview with Lusa that he predicts that tourism activity during the Christmas season in the region will be “excellent” with the arrival of the national market, Spanish, French and British.

Luís Pedro Martins then added that there were “good expectations” for tourism in 2024, as air traffic in the north of Portugal would increase thanks to the activities of Azul, Emirates and SATA.