My husband and I stayed here for one night on our way to the North of Portugal. Overall the hotel is fine. It's located near the tourist office in town and near the tourist bus to go to the castle and the palace. The staff was friendly (albeit a bit quirky.) If you drive your car (which we did) the guy at the front desk has to run up the block or so with you to park your car securely and then keep running back and forth if other people need to do the same.
Our room (Tradition) was on the first floor and it was also fine. Very dated, the bathroom a little run down and quite noisy since it's near the stairs. I heard people either on the stairs or above me throughout the night.
Breakfast had what I needed before hitting the road (cereal, breads, jams, etc) so no complaints there. The wifi was a bit spotty and did not work down in the restaurant.
We had dinner in the restaurant at night. It was a very nice meal, but very expensive and the service was extremely slow. We waited over 15 minutes for our check while the two servers served cake to another party and had to ask 2-3 times for the check. Overall Sintra, is expensive. Our hotel cost was 139 Euros per night. I learned that I could have spend the night at the...My husband and I stayed here for one night on our way to the North of Portugal. Overall the hotel is fine. It's located near the tourist office in town and near the tourist bus to go to the castle and the palace. The staff was friendly (albeit a bit quirky.) If you drive your car (which we did) the guy at the front desk has to run up the block or so with you to park your car securely and then keep running back and forth if other people need to do the same.
Our room (Tradition) was on the first floor and it was also fine. Very dated, the bathroom a little run down and quite noisy since it's near the stairs. I heard people either on the stairs or above me throughout the night.
Breakfast had what I needed before hitting the road (cereal, breads, jams, etc) so no complaints there. The wifi was a bit spotty and did not work down in the restaurant.
We had dinner in the restaurant at night. It was a very nice meal, but very expensive and the service was extremely slow. We waited over 15 minutes for our check while the two servers served cake to another party and had to ask 2-3 times for the check. Overall Sintra, is expensive. Our hotel cost was 139 Euros per night. I learned that I could have spend the night at the Tivoli in the town square for 85 Euros and probably had the same experience. I also spent 135 Euros in Lisbon and in Porto for MUCH nicer hotels.
When we checked out we asked for directions from the main desk and told him we wanted to take the national road. We wanted to cross check his directions with the ones we got from the tourist office. He was very against us taking the longer route even though that's what we wanted and wanted to send us a totally different way. I'm glad we went to the tourist office first as they were much more helpful in terms of directions and places to stop along the way.
Overall this place was fine for one night, but for the price I would check out the Tivoli instead.
I also would recommend spending some time walking around the "regular" town of Sintra past the train station rather than just sticking to the tourist town.More
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