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The Pensão Residencial Camões is a modest two-floor family-run pension located on the restaurant-lined Travessa do Poco da Cidade in the heart of the Bairro Alto. Rooms are simple and cheap, and, as the area gets thumping every night, best suited for young (or deaf) travelers.
What? Well, one of hotel owners we met told us that only the young and old live in the Bairro Alto. "The young stay out all night and don?t care about the noise," she explained, "and the old don't hear anything and sleep through the night."
The Camões rooms are sunny and plain—offering beds, telephones, functional furniture, and cheery bedspreads. Eight of the pension?s 13 rooms feature balconies overlooking the Travessa and the Caldo Verde fado restaurant downstairs. Rooms do not have air-conditioning or soundproofed glass, so windows will be open in the summer and you might be dancing in your bed. (We recommend earplugs.)
But check out these prices. You can score a double with shared facilities for ?25, including breakfast, and prices come down in the off-season!
Those earplugs can save you a bundle.
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