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Pestana Park Avenue. The 100th hotel

November 14th, 2023

This is how to play two trumps with a single card: open your first hotel in New York, which just so happens to be your 100th worldwide. Originally inaugurated in March 2020, the pandemic left Pestana waiting a year to welcome guests, who were pampered with Portugal’s famous custard tarts.

At the opening of the Group’s first hotel in New York, Dionísio Pestana’s feeling of pride could hardly be contained within the 27-storey building. He was proud of entering the Big Apple (“If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere”, according to Sinatra), the investment of over 30 million Euros, as well as for what Pestana Park Avenue represents: the Group’s 100th hotel worldwide.

Interior do Pestana Park Avenue

In the city that never sleeps, priority was given to the rooms with only three or four per floor. There are a total of 95 comfortable and cosy rooms, many with a view of the Empire State Building or Chrysler Building. Portuguese touches can be found throughout the hotel, from the Castelbel soaps in the bathrooms to Manuel Cargaleiro’s tile panel on the interior patio.

A small room behind the reception area was turned into a lounge where Dionísio Pestana created his version of the complimentary breakfast he had seen in other New York hotels. To make Pestana’s stand out, Portuguese custard tarts were served instead of bagels, not forgetting the essential “coffee to go”.

Pestana Park Avenue opened in February 2020, only to close the following month because of Covid-19. The world stopped, Pestana endured and the Group’s 100th hotel waited exactly a year to welcome back guests, staking claim to this small piece of Portugal in the heart of Manhattan. Since July 2021, the small Portuguese outpost has grown with the inauguration of the Pestana CR7 Times Square.

Pestana Park Avenue
New York

The first Pestana hotel in New York was also the group’s 100th.

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