Solar Dos Marcos Rural Accommodation

“Historic building tastefully renovated”

Historic building tastefully renovated. Mario and staff could not be more helpful. Good to see local gifts available. Portuguese food including local jams and jellies. Lovely red wine from nearby village as house carafe.

“Old Bishop´s House”

We have been in Solar Dos Marcos for two nights. Arriving to Bemposta is easy with the TomTom, and once there it´s very easy to find Solar dos Marcos. It´s an old big house that belonged to the bishop; it has a pretty garden with a little pool. Our room was big and clean, and had a balcony facing t… lisää

We have been in Solar Dos Marcos for two nights. Arriving to Bemposta is easy with the TomTom, and once there it´s very easy to find Solar dos Marcos. It´s an old big house that belonged to the bishop; it has a pretty garden with a little pool. Our room was big and clean, and had a balcony facing the garden. The staff were very very polite. We were the only guests. The breakfast is complete and enough; they cook their own jams (abobora (pumpkin) and nut was my favourite). We had a dinner too, and the meals were really goods and tasty. We choose this hotel as a "headquarters" for byrdwatching activities; there are thousands of byrds all around this towns and villages; we went to Miranda do Douro for byrdwatching with the amazing Pedro of "douropulacanhada.com", who was a more than perfect guide and host, he was just a friend. But indeed, it´s quite far away from Miranda. I had the sensation of being in a new place wich is starting, and there are details that they should polish, comfort details I mean, for deserving to be a 4 stars hotel.

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“Very nice staff”

We really enjoyed the staff. Very nice and helpful. The price was also very interesting (much cheaper than the abusive normal price) and we had dinner twice in the hotel for a reasonable price too. We can have breakfast until 11 a.m., which is marvelous. But I must mention some things that we did… lisää

We really enjoyed the staff. Very nice and helpful. The price was also very interesting (much cheaper than the abusive normal price) and we had dinner twice in the hotel for a reasonable price too. We can have breakfast until 11 a.m., which is marvelous. But I must mention some things that we didn´t appreciate: the stairs which connect the garage to the reception and the stairs between floors were never cleaned. From the first to the last day we saw the very same dirt and cigarette butts on them. The garage key sometimes didn´t work and the gate stayed open. Our room was cleaned, but for several times the lady forgot to throw the garbage away and didn´t clean the ashtray. She also forgot to remove the empty glasses. We "collected" 3 empty whiskey balloons in our room. We were 3 persons and never got a third bath towel! Our sofa was supposed to be a bed, but it was totally broken. We couldn´t even seat in there to watch tv. The alternative was a very narrow extra bed. There was not many variety at breakfast and some things should look more homemade, but what really bothered us were the flies walking on top of ham and cheese. Despite all this, we consider this is a nice place. The manager only needs to pay more attention to this kind of details.

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