Loft 58

Loft 58 is on the Rua Capitão Leitão in Marvila, east Lisbon — the old warehouse district that has become the city's most interesting quarter without losing its industrial shape. Five bedrooms, ten guests, and, unusually for Lisbon, a private outdoor pool.

The architecture is loft-scale: high volumes, open plan, an indoor fireplace, and enough separate bedrooms that ten people are not living on top of each other. A two-night minimum makes it workable for a short city stay.

Marvila is where Lisbon's craft breweries, galleries and the newer restaurants have settled, along the river east of Santa Apolónia. The centre is fifteen minutes by taxi or a straight run on the metro, and the Parque das Nações waterfront is close. For a group who want the city itself rather than a base outside it, a private pool in Lisbon is close to unheard of.