Vidago Palace

Excellent. The "garden" suites are very beautiful, especially in late April, early May. Classical decoration and a forest surrounding the hotel. Not cheap, but of that's not a problem, highly recommended!

one of the best hotels and restaurants in Portugal, if not the best! will definitely come back and more than once. the restaurant and service are just excellent

This is a very difficult hotel to review. It’s in a beautiful setting with lots of fantastic things to do in the country. The food is mostly fantastic, the wine list is exceptional, and the staff is magnificent. There’s a lot to like. But there are some fundamental things missing: the WiFi is abysmal. In 2025, this is unacceptable and despite my many complaints, nothing was done about it. Looking through the other reviews, it seems like this is a consistent complaint going back years. If you’re on vacation and need to stay connected with work, this is absolutely not the hotel for you. Trust me. Save yourself the stress of walking around looking for a 5G connection in a corner of your room. The toilet in our room ran all night and wouldn’t flush. I asked for it to be fixed. It wasn’t. If you bring a pet, they make you stay in one of the basement rooms. The cellular connection down there is awful and of course the WiFi doesn’t work. The rooms are spacious and pretty, but only superficially so. You only have to look casually to see wood plank floors buckling, frayed carpeting, some rooms that are too hot while the room next door is too cold, and an absolutely impenetrable steampunk shower system that would befuddle Stephen Hawking. Overall, the gastronomic experience and service are fantastic. My wife and kid went to the spa and loved it. There are certain things that would be easy for the hotel to fix, but judging by the complaints in the reviews dating back months, the hotel has deemed they’re not sufficiently important to address. It’s a shame.