Grand Story

Writing a Grand Story...

Room after room, experience after experience, taste after taste, our aim is to tell you a Grand story of passion and authenticity.

Whatever Grand might be according to your books, we believe it cannot be captured by the industry’s standard. It’s an experience that goes beyond material luxury, a sense of being, a state of mind, a promise of Grand Moments highlighting how wonderful life can be.

Ain't life Grand?

Grand Style

Once upon a time, when the hotel was nothing more than a bustling construction site (yet already keeping us very busy), we gathered together for a quiet moment of respite after one of those seemingly endless workdays. Here were the doers and optimists, the aesthetes and free thinkers, the pragmatists and visionaries. We had the improvisers and improvers, the smilers and storytellers—a fellowship of individuals who poured their hearts and creative juices into reviving the Grand Dame.

We sat in what would one day become the Grand Salon, Martini glasses in hand, and – strangely enough – tried to listen to the walls, feeling the pulse of the ‘being’ that is the soul behind the Grand House. What would our Grand Dame be like? Her attitude? Her story? Her style? After all, isn’t style a manner – or is it that manner makes style?

Grand History

She was Grand. She was glamorous, attracting the affluent and influencers alike. She was one of a kind—the first luxury hotel south of the Tagus River, pioneering tourism in southern Portugal. Inaugurated in 1926, Hotel Guadiana set new standards and established itself as an icon in Portuguese hospitality.

Grand Sustainability

As you know, we like to envision our establishment as a Grand Dame: elegant, timeless, worldly, eloquent, free-spirited, and devoted to life’s finer pleasures. Yet, even as she dons fabulous shoes, her footprint should not leave any lasting ecological traces.