More than a hostel, a new experience.

EN The Amor ao Mar brand was created back in 2016, a magical dream since Alexandra Reis was a kid. Now she creates handmade cloth animals, mostly sea creatures   Alexandra was just a child, when she learned how to sew in her grandmother’s machine. Exploring textiles was one of her favorite games, where she…

EN Her, a beautiful blue-eyed princess. Him, a humble green-eyed shepherd. Both with the same passion: the nature that surrounded them. Many many years ago, a royal family lived in the Sete Cidades village. The princess, delicate and kind, spent her days walking around the green fields of the village, trying to escape the cold…

Carnival is always a good season to travel and in the Azores, we get a bit crazy around this time of the year! In São Miguel Island we have some really well-known traditions: 1 – Malassadas – One amazing sweet that we have here in the Azores that is to die for! Big, fried and…

The Lobster family was a big love case we had. Well…not love, love, but we ended up having a big connection with these amazing clients. Nate, Kees, and Sylvia were only a group of 2 Netherlands friends and a German girl at Procyon. They started as strangers in the dorm and in the end, they…

Sometimes we get asked about the funniest or most emblematic situations we had here at the Hostel. The truth is that we have had a lot of them…but there is always a few that come to our minds. Mr. Thomas story was one of them. This is not a typical super happy story. Actually was…

The house where we are located in was in ruins before we took her to create the Hostel. It was a family house where a radio amateur lived and the radio station was called Procyon. The radio stayed in the place and that is why we are called Procyon. We wanted to keep the house…