Set inside the Oitavos Dunes golf course with the Atlantic on one side and the Sintra mountains on the other, The Oitavos is the most spacious 5-star resort on the Lisbon coast — and, a short drive from the town of Cascais, one of the strongest arguments for taking a corporate group to the coast instead of the city.
Sea, Sand And The Town Of Cascais
The setting is what sells The Oitavos before a single meeting room comes into it: dune landscape rolling down to the ocean on one side, the green fairways of the Oitavos Dunes golf course on the other, and the Sintra mountains framing the view beyond. It’s a genuinely rare combination on the Lisbon coast, and it comes without giving up convenience — the historic, walkable town of Cascais, with its beaches, marina, restaurants and shopping, is just a short drive away, giving a group somewhere to send delegates for an evening out that isn’t another hotel bar.
Modern Architecture, Unusually Spacious Rooms
Portuguese architect José Amaral Anahory designed The Oitavos as an uncompromisingly modern building in steel and glass, flooded with natural light throughout the public spaces and the 142 rooms and suites. Every room is unusually spacious by five-star standards, with full-height glass doors opening onto a large private balcony — a design choice that keeps the sea and dune views present from inside the room, not just from the lobby.
Wellness: The Balneotherapy Area
The hotel’s Balneotherapy Area is one of its signature features, built around the medicinal effects of heated sea water rather than a standard spa menu. Guests can swim laps, work out stress points under the pool’s powerful jets, or move through a full detox circuit of sauna, Turkish bath and ice fountain, finishing in the interior jet pool — a genuine recovery option for delegates coming off back-to-back sessions, and a strong differentiator for an incentive programme built around wellness.
Meetings & Events
With 5,406 sqm of venue space and capacity for up to 1,156 people, The Oitavos is built to handle serious scale without losing the resort feel that makes it stand out from Lisbon’s city-centre conference hotels. The event spaces are used for everything from product launches and branding events to major international conferences and incentive programmes, alongside charitable functions and other private events — in short, a hotel in Cascais equipped to accommodate almost any type of corporate gathering, from a 20-person leadership offsite to a 1,000-plus delegate conference.
For organisers searching for a meeting hotel near Lisbon with genuine resort scale, The Oitavos combines the outdoor programme options of a golf and wellness resort — golf on the adjoining Oitavos Dunes course, the Balneotherapy circuit, the beach and the dunes themselves — with conference infrastructure that can comfortably absorb a large international group without feeling stretched.
- 5,406 sqm of venue space, capacity for up to 1,156 people
- 142 rooms and suites, full-height glass doors and private balconies
- Suited to product launches, branding events, conferences and incentive programmes
- Balneotherapy Area: heated sea water pool, sauna, Turkish bath, ice fountain
- Adjoining the Oitavos Dunes golf course, short drive from Cascais town centre
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