Some places need decor to impress. The Aethos Ericeira impresses the other way around: pale walls, simple lines, and a cliff over the Atlantic that does all the work. It’s a design boutique hotel perched above the ocean, where the landscape comes in through every window.
It’s part of the international Aethos collection, with the minimalist aesthetic and the effortlessly cool atmosphere that sets it apart: Mediterranean interiors, a courtyard garden, a saltwater pool, a spa, and the ONDA restaurant, which hosts gala dinners of up to a hundred guests. All of it with an ecological conscience that does away with buffets and single-use plastics.
For couples who want a design wedding over the sea, intimate and casually elegant, this is the spot. If you ask us, it’s the most cinematic setting on the Ericeira coast.
The hotel offers rooms and suites of ocean or garden view, plus a saltwater pool and a spa. Mary Me coordinates the room block allocation to keep the wedding party, immediate family, and VIPs at the venue, with curated overflow at Ericeira hotels for remaining guests, and transfers handled.
The Aethos Ericeira is one of seven hotels in the Aethos collection, present in places like Corsica, Umbria, and Milan, and part of the Smith Hotels selection. The house was born of the wish to create a hotel that married modern architecture with the raw beauty of the Atlantic coast — high above the sea, with the cliff and the waves as a permanent backdrop.
The design lets the landscape shine: minimalist lines, a pale palette, Mediterranean-inspired interiors, and an ecological commitment taken seriously, from plastic-free suppliers to the refusal of buffets to cut waste. The ONDA restaurant, with its terrace over the Atlantic, is the social heart of the house.
If you ask us, the Aethos understood that, on a coast like Ericeira’s, the best thing a hotel can do is not compete with the ocean — and let it in.
We’re on the cliffs of Ericeira, with the Atlantic stretching out of sight and the first World Surfing Reserve in Europe just below. Porto da Calada Beach is a kilometre and a half away, and the fishing town of Ericeira, with its restaurants and surf atmosphere, a few minutes off.
The advantage for a destination wedding is the combination of drama and access: Lisbon airport is about forty-five minutes away, and Sintra, with its palaces, a little over half an hour.
Anything the guests might want to do — surf, beach, a day in Sintra, an escape to Lisbon — is at hand, without ever losing the view of the sea. Arriving is easy. Leaving — we can’t quite guarantee that part.
A wedding at the Aethos is intimate by nature. Civil and symbolic ceremonies take place outdoors, over the cliff, with the Atlantic behind, and Catholic ones are coordinated at the Ericeira churches, a few minutes away. The cocktail spreads across the terrace and the courtyard garden, with the saltwater pool and the sunset over the sea.
Dinner settles in the ONDA — eighty square metres that combine indoors and an open-air terrace — and hosts up to a hundred guests in a relaxed gala register. The hotel’s minimalist design is part of the decor, and the house’s ecological conscience shapes the menu, with no buffets and no plastics.
It’s an intimate venue, ideal for smaller-scale weddings, with the option of a full buyout for those who want the house to themselves. And with the hotel’s rooms and suites, ocean or garden view, the couple and guests sleep on-site. The couple’s session moves over the cliff, the courtyard, and the Ericeira coastline at golden hour. Pop the question. We handle the rest.
When we organise a wedding here, we handle everything that links this hotel to the world your guests come from. We handle the transfers — taking advantage of the forty-five minutes to Lisbon airport — and the management of the room blocks between the hotel’s rooms and the Ericeira hotels for overflow, with the arrival sequencing of an international group. And there’s the practical side: the permits for the ceremony and for fireworks on the coast, the sound curfew, the civil-ceremony paperwork in Portuguese, the liaison with the Ericeira churches, and a programme of surf, Sintra, and Lisbon for the guests who stay on. From the first call to the last dance.
The ONDA restaurant hosts gala dinners of up to around a hundred guests, combining indoors and terrace. The exact capacity for your format is confirmed with the venue.
On the cliffs of Ericeira, with ocean views, a kilometre and a half from Porto da Calada Beach and about forty-five minutes from Lisbon airport. Sintra is a little over half an hour away, with transfers handled by Mary Me.
Yes, the Aethos offers full buyouts for those who want the house to themselves; alternatively, the event spaces are booked with a room block. Mary Me handles locking down the exclusivity and the room allocation.
Yes, with rooms and suites of ocean or garden view, plus a saltwater pool and a spa. The couple and guests sleep on-site; Mary Me coordinates the allocation and overflow in Ericeira when needed.
Late spring and early autumn are ideal for the cliffside ceremonies, with long light and mild temperatures. In late afternoon the coastal wind can show up — we always design a plan B, and the design interiors guarantee comfort.
Civil and symbolic outdoors, over the cliff with the Atlantic behind; Catholic at the Ericeira churches, a few minutes away. We coordinate every variant, with transfers handled.
It’s a design boutique hotel from the international Aethos collection, on the cliffs of Ericeira, with a minimalist aesthetic, an ecological conscience, and the ONDA restaurant over the ocean. Design, sea, and intimacy in one place.
