YesPress Profile · Cascais, Portugal
Luna
House
Where remote workers come to feel less remote. B&B in summer. Digital nomad village in winter.
Cascais · Portugal
Where remote workers come to feel less remote. B&B in summer. Digital nomad village in winter.
There is a three-story building on Avenida Costa Pinto in Cascais that holds a quiet but reliable secret: it works. Not in a corporate, badge-and-whiteboard way. In a real way - the kind where you wake up, eat a proper breakfast, sit down at an ergonomic chair, and actually finish something.
Luna House opened in 2022 under founder Olena (Lena) Matveieva, and it runs on a logic that sounds obvious in retrospect: some people need more than a hotel room. They need a kitchen, a coworking desk, a garden, a pool, and the occasional Sunday BBQ. They need somewhere that doesn't feel like a waiting room.
The model is straightforward. In summer, Luna House operates as a boutique bed and breakfast with nine private bedrooms - each with a queen-sized orthopaedic mattress, bespoke desk, air conditioning and either an en-suite or a very clean shared bathroom. In winter, from November to March, it shifts into coliving mode: longer stays, weekly laundry included, a coworking space that fits 25 people, and a community calendar that mixes yoga with hikes, board games and group dinners.
The coworking space runs every day, 9am to 9pm, with 120mb/sec fibre throughout. There is a conference room, a phone booth, a printing station and a kitchenette stocked with premium coffee and tea. Guests have access to all common areas - the garden, the terrace, the pool - throughout their stay.
It felt like staying with friends from the moment I walked in.
- Guest review, Coliving.community, Nov 2025
The "Luna" in Luna House is also a dog. A real one. Guests consistently name her as a highlight - she greets arrivals, attends barbecues, and has somehow become the best-reviewed staff member across Tripadvisor, Booking.com and Google. The name was not a coincidence. The feeling was not an accident.
Lena runs the place with her mother and a small team. She studied at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and now operates out of Cascais. She responds to TripAdvisor reviews personally, signs off with a plant emoji, and has spent three years building something that reviewers describe, with striking consistency, as a "second home."
"Wow! Hard to describe - a luxury co-living, co-working experience. The quality of everything is just beyond great."
— Booking.com Guest
Nine private rooms with orthopaedic beds, daily homemade continental breakfast, pool access and coworking included. Adults only. Available year-round.
Nov-Mar only. Stay for a week or three months. Community dinners, yoga, hikes, laundry once a week. For nomads who want more than a hostel dorm.
Open daily 9am-9pm. Ergonomic chairs, conference room, phone booth, 120mb fibre, printing station. Four flexible membership plans.
Rent the studio for workshops, presentations, retreats and brand activations. Natural light, projector, breakout areas. Sleepover packages available.
Bring your whole team. Rooms, coworking, event room and catering in one venue. VOLT Europa used it for a two-day team building retreat - and gave it five stars.
Morning sessions in the yoga studio. Free for coliving guests. Two-day retreats hosted occasionally for those who want to go deeper.
Shared meals happen regularly - especially around Christmas, New Year and whenever someone needs an excuse to cook. Nobody eats alone unless they want to.
Lena occasionally leads coastal hikes on weekends. Guests consistently flag this as a highlight. The Cascais coastline rewards it.
Low-key. High-energy. The lounge and terrace regularly turn into a social hub come evening. The kind of thing that happens naturally at a well-run house.
The garden terrace hosts regular barbecues. Instagram confirms they happen. Guests confirm they enjoy them. That is the full brief.
One-off workshops and professional meetups run through the event studio. Luna is a venue partner for Female Founders Breakfast - a professional women's network.
The house is named after her. Or the moon. Probably both. Either way, Luna the dog shows up in guest reviews the way most hotels wish their concierge would. "The friendliest dog in the world," wrote one guest. She attends arrivals. She supervises breakfast. She has never once missed a Sunday BBQ. If the house has a mascot, a culture ambassador and a head of guest relations, it is the same animal.
OLENA (LENA) MATVEIEVA
Founder · Host · Reviews personally on TripAdvisor. Signs off with 🌿
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan · Based in Cascais, Portugal
Lena's LinkedIn bio opens with: "Hello, My name is Lena! I have opened my first project Luna House." There is something honest in that framing. Not a "disruptive venture" or a "hospitality platform." A first project. One she opened, ran, expanded and is still running.
She chose Cascais, a coastal town 30 minutes from Lisbon by train, with a reputation for sun, safety and a growing international community of remote workers. The timing - 2022, post-pandemic, peak digital nomad wave - turned out to be well-read.
The house runs as a genuine hybrid: boutique hospitality in summer, intentional community in winter. Lena manages the property with her mother, keeps the premises immaculate, responds to every review, organises group dinners for guests spending Christmas alone, and leads coastal hikes on weekends when she can. Her presence in the operation is not incidental. It is the product.
By late 2025, reviewers were consistently describing stays of three months or longer - returning year after year. That is not a loyalty programme. That is a place people want to come back to.
Approximate composite scores derived from public reviews on Booking.com, TripAdvisor and Coliving.community.
Stayed for 2 months - honestly was like a second home. Olena, her mum and everyone there were so incredibly friendly, professional and helpful, I consider them more friends than anything.
Wow! Hard to describe - a luxury co-living, co-working experience. The quality of everything is just beyond great. The owner Lena is very... [the review keeps going].
Luna House is more than a venue. It's a home abroad with a soul, delicious food, love for the details. The team helps from A-Z and beyond expectations.
It felt like staying with friends from the moment I walked in. Breakfast was amazing, group dinners a great way to meet people. Beautifully decorated and very comfortable.
Luna, the friendliest dog in the world, made the trip particularly special. Amazing views, friendly owners and lovely Luna.
Even though Cascais was busier than we expected, we found an amazing refuge at Luna House. And the folks who run it are exemplary.
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Luna House was built for remote workers, digital nomads, freelancers, founders, creatives, slow travellers and anyone who finds a hotel room too isolating but a hostel too chaotic. It is the narrow, useful middle.
The coliving season (Nov-Mar) suits anyone who wants to spend winter working from Portugal instead of a home office. Cascais is 20 minutes from Lisbon by train. The beach is 20 minutes by foot. The weather in January is reliably better than most of northern Europe.
Team leaders running offsites and workshops have found it useful as a single-venue solution: rooms, coworking, event studio and catering in one property, with a host who handles setup.