“Attractive rural accomodation, great wines, disspapointing food.”
Quite charming rural Quinta that appears to be a working winery ( i say appears, as we were only there 1 night and did not get the full tour and info, our fault, not the property) The Quinta is surrounded by beautiful country side and vineyards. It is a quntisential Douro location with plenty of beautiful sights and close to some good wine producing Quintas. The room was in a new annex that looked purpose built with a lovely patio overlooking the vineyards anfd countryside. the room was a good size and decorated nicely in rustic style, bed was comfortable. the lady who checked us in was extremely friendly and welcoming and offered us VERY generous glasses of the Quinta Da Estrada red reserva. the owner stopped at out table to chat in the evening. the wines that we enjoyed were extremely good and their great local reputation is deserved. bedroom and bathroom lighting was very poor. despite the bathroom being well proportioned, the shower was a small corner cubicle. robes would have been a very nice addition as the room was cold in the moring ( changing season) At check in we were asked what time we wanted breakfast and asked to decide every breakfast item on the menu, down to the sugar. not only was this aggravating it was time consuming. Then the greatly anticipated breakfast was very dissapointing with everything preprepared and getting cold on the table at the pre designated time slot. Our biggest dissapointmnet was the overall quality of the food products used for a light dinner and the breakfast; The Douro Valley is renown in Portugal for its fabulous fresh local products, cheeses, meats, olive olils, olives, bread, cakes etc but we did not sample any of these, everything presented was inferior supermarket quality with little varierty. Overall it was a very pleasant stay but it could have been so much better. i travel frequently to The Douro Valley specifically for a tourism based business, this was a family event
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