Beautiful resort hotel... nice views, rooms are amazing and everything from the service and…read morefacilities are all first class. Definitely coming back again! The only negative was the swimming pool, too cold! Spent a lot of time in the hot tub instead.

I found this property online while researching Portugal for an upcoming work trip and booked travel…read moreplans around a weekday vacancy for a few nights. This is one of 4 places I stayed while visiting Portugal, with 2 being AirBnB and the last the Intercontinental in Estoril. This property is a vacation destination. If you think about places where to intelligently (not the ritz) stay when money is no object. This is your place. Spend some time reading their site, but combine ultra luxury, with creative modern design, and a very cool hippie vibe of conservation and fresh food. My pictures on here tell a good story by themselves. At this point you must be thinking why only 4 stars. I really wanted to from the spectacular idea and property, but cannot give 5 as i felt the least welcomed here than anywhere else in Portugal I stayed. It may be since I stayed here on a work trip and didn't fit in the vibe of complete relaxation when rushing off to Monte Real to attend to the F-16s beckoning call at 1am. My girlfriend who was on the trip with me enjoying the luxuries while i was away daily at work, needed a bit of assistance navigating between the Intercontinental before and AirBnB after and was given a strong response of "Do not come to the property any earlier or stay later than booking hours detail". Not just the room, I can understand that, but the entire property. This caused a great deal of grief logistically while I should have been focusing on work. Instead of moving between properties together in the morning or afternoon, we had to arrange car services to transport her mid-day, on her first time outside of the USA, to remote locations of Portugal, ALONE. Imagine the fear of not knowing the language, currency, behaviors, etc and being required to go alone. When I was able to come back for the day, I found her in the last property, sleeping on the couch with a knife in her hand... I am sure if i fell into the conformist view they were looking for and was solely on vacation, this would be a 5 star review, and i would also rate the staff as a 5, but in reality I think of the property and concept as a 5, and staff as a 2.

Beautiful but terrible service. It started off with us not being allowed to check in until 4pm. A…read morewedding from the previous night was checking out, and we were told that we couldn't order food from the restaurant despite being paying customers and having 5 hours to kill until our rooms were available. We were a part of a yoga retreat, and were charged 30 euros per person to eat breakfast 1 hour later since the rest of our group was on a tour that we chose not to attend. And guess what? We ate the identical meal that we would have gotten had we gone to breakfast with the group at 7am. The entire time we were treated with disdain and resentment despite paying a sufficient amount of money for the villas. It's a beautiful location and a beautiful property but it certainly left a negative mark on my opinion of Portugal.

Manuel was warm and inviting. We were lucky enough to b able to have a dinner celebration at this…read morevineyard. The wine was kissed from haven. Full body red and a bright white accompanied our fabulous dinner. You need to come to appreciate all Portugal has to offer.

What an amazing wine tasting experience we've had with Luciana and James! And an exquisite family…read morelunch with the owners of the vineyard!