Crowne Plaza Porto

On Avenida da Boavista, the financial and business district, the Hotel Crowne Plaza Porto enjoys a privileged location for setting off a discovery of the main touristic attractions in Porto and only 15 minutes away from the international airport Francisco Sa Carneiro, one of the best in Europe. The first hotel to be built in Avenida da Boavista, was built on a ground where only a gas station existed, which resulted in a partnership with Petrogal, Air France and Dicto under the name Hotelgal SA, being initially the name Le Meridien inaugurated on the 16th September, 1984. This was the first hotel to be managed by an international brand in Porto. During more than two decades, this was its official designation until the International group Global Hotels & Resorts decided to create an own brand by integrating a few of their own hotels all over the world. This is how the insignia Tiara Hotels & Resorts arrived to Porto in 2008. At the year that the emblematic hotel of the Avenida da Boav...