Pousada Convento de Beja - Historic Hotel

“Beautiful converted convent”

We really enjoyed our stay. The facility is beautiful, the staff friendly and helpful and the site peaceful. The breakfast buffet was very nice. We didn’t try the restaurant for dinner, maybe next time! The review needs to have a minimum of 200 characters. I guess I’m not very wordy.

“Hyvä sijainti”

Siistit huoneet, sänky hyvä. Ilmastointi ei toimi kunnolla, mutta toimii jotenkin. Tuuletinta ei saatavilla. Uima-allas kohtuullisen iso, joskin allasta ei oltu puhdistettu moneen päivään. Hotellilta saa allaspyyhkeet. Aamiainen runsas. Kaikki kylän nähtävyydet kävelyetäisyyden päässä.

“It is okay, but some things are letting the place down ”

The suite was large with a large bathroom. The air-conditioning could be better. The cleaning staff and reception staff were lovely and helpful. The staff serving breakfast struggled to understand Portuguese. One of the staff at the bar made some weird/unwelcome comments. The water in the pool wa... lisää

The suite was large with a large bathroom. The air-conditioning could be better. The cleaning staff and reception staff were lovely and helpful. The staff serving breakfast struggled to understand Portuguese. One of the staff at the bar made some weird/unwelcome comments. The water in the pool was dirty with lots of air in suspension. If you subtract the quality of the water and some failures from the staff the place is fine.

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“Could easily be much better ”

The building and location score highly. And the garden is pleasant, though the swimming pool is spoilt by having steps and a sloping floor on two adjacent sides so it is impossible to swim from end to end without hitting the bottom as you approach a sidewall. The dinner was poor. After enjoyi... lisää

The building and location score highly. And the garden is pleasant, though the swimming pool is spoilt by having steps and a sloping floor on two adjacent sides so it is impossible to swim from end to end without hitting the bottom as you approach a sidewall. The dinner was poor. After enjoying a delicious, traditionally prepared 'gazpacho' on arrival at lunchtime, I couldn't resist ordering the same again. Except it was different: this time it was a bowl of watery, olive-oily liquid full of minutely diced veg. Horrible. As if the chef had forgotten to liquidise the dish which was, apparently, in the Alentejano style. Left uneaten. So, on to the main course: fillet steak. I chewed my first mouthful, and chewed, and chewed. And gave up. I hid it under the accompanying 'sweet' potato mash - which was bitter and uneatable. The ice cream for dessert was good! Apart from the gastronomic disappointment, the bedroom too left something to be desired. The bathroom was tired, the wired-in hairdryer cut out every few seconds (we were given a replacement plug-in one), and the fixed overhead shower didn't work so we had to shower by holding the flexible shower in one hand instead: not comfortable at all. In the bedroom proper, the electric sockets were virtually all at floor level - not convenient for our travel kettle for wake-up coffee (as there are no coffee-making facilities provided), and we had to have someone come to switch off wall lights because we hadn't spotted the switches on the side of a small bedside table, hidden hard up against the mattress. Which reminds me: the pillows were poor, one flat and empty, the other too big and hard. The mattress was too hard for my arthritic hips too. But everywhere was clean, and the staff were friendly and helpful. Apart from the food (constantly criticised in reviews: can't something be done?), my criticisms are minor irritants, really. Sort out the food and I'd put up with the irritants on another visit.

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