Hotel Dom Nuno

A good breakfast buffet, and a decent hotel within a fairly short walk of the restaurants, old town, and castle.

The staff were really friendly, and it was a quiet, uneventful stop on our trip. We arrived a few hours after midnight, but this hotel in a small Portuguese town was open and ready to take us in. The price was decent for what we got. It looked like an old hotel with a bit of lipstick to make it feel more modern, and the fully tiled bathroom was a bit much. The bath was nice after hours in the car, and there was a little terrace outside for smokers. The included breakfast was a letdown: the bread was stale, and the juice that looked like orange juice tasted more like Sunny-d. They did have fresh fruit, though.

What you see is what you get, very basic, but clean throughout. The staff were friendly and helpful, and breakfast was decent. No surprises, apart from the wonderful sunset view behind the Castle on the hill.

The experience was very modest for the price, and there was no hot water for the baths. Breakfast was ordinary, and parking is on the street rather than at the hotel. I don’t know how this hotel can have 3 stars.