Solar do Requeijo by Luna Hotels & Resorts

We had a formidable 7 day stay, enjoying the recently inaugurated facility in the beautiful ancient building. The staff was friendly and positively caring for our wellbeing at all times. We stayed in room 105 on the first floor, which is spacious and tastefully decorated, well lit, and well equipped, all as advertised. We enjoyed the King size bed with a good quality mattress and pillow menu. We frequently enjoyed the well kept heated hotel pool, yacuzzi and sauna, all with comfortable relaxing, seating and well shaded by umbrellas. Breakfast offers a good selection of choices at buffet style and complementary on order items. The location of the hotel at walking distance from the village is very convenient, and the beautiful greater area invites to being explored by car.

As a personal preference and recommendation to the hotel, we found the bed linens to be somewhat substandard for this category of the hotel. 100% cotton linens with a higher thread count would be more adequate than the synthetic cotton mix fabric chosen by the hotel. Also worth mentioning the occasional annoying noise from a nearby night club which was operating from midnight until the early morning hours.

The hotel and the area it is located in is truly magnificient: The Minho region with it's many rivers and streams is lush and green all year round and this is the perfect base to start exploring from. The room was spacious and exceedingly comfortable, the staff were very attentive and the breakfast was plentiful. The only thing missing was some shaded parking, but it is free and readily available, so that is not a complaint.

The hotel is let down only by it's food quality and availbility, which detracts from this being a perfect 10. Many of the dishes we wanted to order were not available and those that were, were sometimes of poor quality, like an almost inedible duck breast or packet chips as a side.

The rooms are very plush and very inviting especially the ones with access to your private patio. I enjoyed the swimming pool. To have both options either to be in an indoor or outdoor swimming pool smartly connected by a channel was just a great touch!

At night, lower/dim the lights in the hallway or close the big white outer doors from the public lounge area. In order to keep the bright lights from shining into your bedroom doors glass. Makes it harder to fall asleep.

From your arrival till your departure, you feel welcome and cherished. The cuisine is devine, each menu item is a fine art of cuisine. Thank you to the chef!!! The cocktail invented by the hotel barkeeper based on orange juice, Campari, honey, and more ingredients which are not to be mentioned , is unique and a must to be tasted. The location allows to visit the natural park which is a 30 minutes drive. The room was perfect, comfortable and very clean. All the staff is so friendly and forthcoming, a real pleasure to be guest.

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All the hotel experience was great: from professional staff, to cleaning standards, to confortable bed and calm and relax atmosphere. Breakfast was also great!

Restaurant was not up to the standard. It looks to be on the gastronomic side but dishes were mostly flat in flavour. Pricey for what is offered. Gym was closed for repairs but this information was not disclosed during the booking.

Solar do Requeijo is an extremely comfortable . Very well located , close to the river and the centre of Arcos de Valdevez you can literally walk to the centre . All staff are very friendly and helpful Hugo at the reception was a pleasure to deal with. A place to repeat. Thanks again.

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A really nice Five Stars Hotel located inside an ancient aristrocratic mansion. A perfetc example of a great combination of old and new, past and future. Wonderfull decoration, very good swiming pool. The garden is very weel designed, everything is five stars. The staff is very nice and speak so many languages, amazing. Location is also very good, near the river, with the view to the 2 churches and walking distance too the center.

Everything was perfect.

Bed and pillows were super confortable and the breakfast was very high quality

Outside pool was akwardly small and covered with a kind of capsule that cut half of it and some amenities like the sauna and gym were not working The room did not feel like a 5* hotel as well

The staff is 10! Especially sr EDI, at reception. He is a kind person who has given us all the information needed with kindness and courtesy. The room is very comfortable and the hotel is beautiful

The expensive prices at the bar and the checkin timming (checkin at 4pm; checkout at 12pm) (although they allow us to stay at the hotel before 4pm)

The property is beautifully regal and spacious. They have done a superb job restoring this property so that it’s history is apparent and added modern amenities for superior comfort. The location is ideally situated only steps from the vila of Arcos de Valdevez.