From professionals passing through for a night or a few weeks to Erasmus exchange students, The Social Hub Porto has chosen not to choose. Its hybrid hotel concept, taken to the extreme, opens its doors wide to all types of traveller. On the one hand, the recently inaugurated establishment has all the makings of a major business hotel, with over 300 rooms - including around forty residential flats - as well as hundreds of square metres dedicated to meetings and coworking, and an auditorium that can accommodate up to 250 people. On the other hand, aimed at the new generation, The Social Hub Porto also offers the codes of lifestyle and festive accommodation with its rooftop swimming pool and cocktail bar, its restaurant revisiting Portuguese cuisine with petiscos - the Portuguese version of tapas -, dishes to share and a selection of organic wines, and its vast indoor garden perfect for relaxing.
Located near the Bolhao market and the university, a stone's throw from the historic centre, The Social Hub Porto marks the arrival of the upmarket chain in Portugal. But this opening is part of the European expansion of the group founded in the Netherlands in 2012 by Charlie MacGregor. In anticipation of Rome later this year, followed by Lisbon and Turin, The Social Hub has been offering a second address in Florence, in the San Jacopino district, since last February. As in Porto, The Social Hub Belfiore offers a host of options for travellers with its 550 rooms, coworking spaces for over 600 people and a range of meeting rooms, plus a rooftop garden, bar and Olympic-size swimming pool.
Known until 2022 as The Student HotelThe Dutch group has evolved over time. Originally driven by the conviction that students deserved better than soulless residences, the group began by offering them attractive meeting places that were more like Spanish inns than dormitory buildings. But don't the new generations of business travellers have the same aspirations as young students? Without turning its back on the professionals of tomorrow - the Porto hotel also welcomes scholarship holders from the TSH Talent Foundation in-house programme - The Social Hub has opened up the field of possibilities to attract all types of travellers and fill its high-volume establishments.
Environmentally committed and recognised by BCorp certification, the brand now has around twenty hotels, some of them in the main Dutch cities, but also in other European countries. major European cities including Barcelona and Madrid, Berlin and Vienna, as well as Bologna and Glasgow. Launched in 2017 in Paris, not far from the La Défense business district, with an establishment combining student accommodation and long-stay accommodation, the brand is also present in France. in Toulouse. Located opposite Place de l'Europe and the Jardins Compans Caffarelli park, in a university and business district, The Social Hub Toulouse offers 354 rooms, suitable for both short stays and longer trips. The hotel also boasts all the brand's expertise: a rooftop bar and swimming pool, terraces, meeting rooms for 2 to 64 people and a restaurant-bar for up to 250 people.
With the opening of the Porto hotel just celebrated, The Social Hub will be spreading its community and festive spirit from the end of March in RomeThe Social Hub is located in the student district of San Lorenzo, not far from Termini station. Together with the new headquarters of the Accademia Italiana, a renowned institute for design and applied arts, The Social Hub is breathing new life into Ex Dogana, the former railway customs house. Dating back to the 1920s, the complex now comprises three structures, including a new contemporary main building, an open-air event space and a public park. Coworking space, meeting rooms, restaurants, rooms and studios: it's all here. Plus a bar and rooftop swimming pool with views of the Eternal City.
