Hotel terbaik di Vila Nova

Entering this ancient xisto town with its steeps hills and adorable cobble stoned streets was incredible. Cars are parked at the entrance of the village, and we proceeded on foot for the next 100 meters to get to the room. It felt like traveling 100 years back into time, it was fantastic. The elevation of the location is pretty high, which means the views of the surrounding area are breathtaking. All you will hear here are birds chirping and the rustle of leaves. The staff is very welcoming and everyone made sure our room was tidy, and that we had everything we needed. The breakfast options are numerous and the quality was very good. Having access to a pool was refreshing in the midday heat. It's very easy to visit Coimbra from here. We really enjoyed our stay and we hope to visit again soon! We heard about this place through (instagram) @vivacoimbra

The facilities were great - I've booked this hotel specially due to the fact that it had an interior and exterior pool, which exceeded my expectations. Also, there was sauna and steam room available without extra costs. The room was very cozy and well cleaned. I will come back for sure! Having big wide windows is awesome to have natural light, however, the curtains aren't able to cover all the light during the early morning, being a less positive point.

This is a beautiful and unique hotel and most of the staff is extremely pleasant, but I have reluctantly decided to stop suggesting it to my guests, even though I live nearby. A friend from Spain and I were looking forward to enjoying lunch in their lovely restaurant. Soon after we arrived, a couple with a small child with a very loud game player we seated near us. The noise from her game shattered the ambiance. I asked the hostess if she could ask the parents to turn off the volume, but she refused. The child had the right to blast her noisy game, she said. I suspect I may have been treated this way because I'm not yet fluent in Portuguese and obviously not Portuguese myself. But we were made to feel unwelcome. It's unlikely I'll take a chance going back if this is how hotel guests are treated. My friend was interested in booking a weekend there with her husband, but now says that based upon this experience, she has decided to book a different hotel.

A ajuda começou desde o momento do primeiro telefonema para a pousada a solicitar preços e pormenores. Obtive muito mais do que o esperado! Informações sobre transportes, percursos pedestres, locais de interesse... A simpatia, a amabilidade e disponibilidade de todas as pessoas da receção foi cativante e influenciou positivamente a nossa escolha, que se mostrou acertada. Instalações simples, práticas e limpas. A possibilidade de utilização da cozinha e da lavandaria foram pontos extra. Agradecemos toda a hospitalidade que tiveram connosco e as fantásticas sugestões de passeio. Caminhar na serra da Lousã foi relaxante para a mente, mas a pousada foi o descanso do guerreiro após cada jornada.

I visited Portugal on a group tour that included stays at three pousadas. A big takeaway from my experience is that pousadas are remarkably variable. Pousada Mosteiro de Guimaraes was fantastic, and Pousada Castelo Palmela was okay but with some flaws. However, this one, Conimbriga Hotel Do Paço, was abysmal. I recommend you choose your pousada carefully; some are great, but some, such as this one, are bad beyond belief. The hotel itself is nothing special, and a massive disappointment after the delight of the first pousada I visited, Pousada Mosteiro de Guimaraes. This pousada claims to be originally a ‘manor house’, but it just looks like a tatty old house that’s had tacky modern hotel features crudely appended. Tattiness and dirtiness were everywhere. My room was the type that motivates me to avoid touching anything I don’t need to; surfaces were not clean. However, the bed linen was okay, as was the bed. Lots of insects were attracted by the needlessly bright modern garden lights, and doors and windows were left open so they could get inside. Even my hotel key was disgusting: the tag attached to it had an old sticky label which was partly worn away, and its glue residue was holding the accumulated dirt and pocket fluff of innumerable previous guests. Presumably, no one at the hotel could be bothered to clean it. It rather sums up the hotel. Dinner was awful. The dining room’s maître d' was badly dressed in a shabby polo shirt and casual trousers; he looked like it was his job to clean toilets, not greet diners. I was brought soup, and had to request a spoon with which to eat it. Service for me was slow, but I got luckier than my fellow diners – some were waiting two hours for food. I was fortunate enough to have other dining arrangements for my second night in this hotel; some of my fellow diners who did not returned to the hotel with food from grocery stores rather than endure the same dining experience for a second time. Breakfast was also awful. The floor of the breakfast room was wet and slippery, I had to request that it be dried. I also had to request that lights were turned on in the breakfast room, which was dark. Scrambled eggs were strangely lumpy. The toaster was of an impenetrable design. Coffee dispensers ran out of coffee half an hour after breakfast started.