Portugal
Hotel Review: Pine Cliffs Resort, Algarve, Portugal
06/10/2022 .
M.Ou.Co Hotel, Porto, Portugal
18/04/2022 .
M.Ou.Co reinvents the hotel in Porto. Michael Edwards tunes in on the harmony.
Read the full story hereHotel Britania, Lisbon
03/02/2022 .
Hotel Britania, gets Michael Edwards wondering. Should Casablanca, really have been set in Lisbon?
Read the full story hereLongevity Cegonha Country Club, Vilamoura
01/07/2019 .
“All of England’s Rugby World Cup team were officially obese according to Body Mass Index stats,” I said, getting in a pre-emptive strike.
Read the full story hereTivoli Carvoeiro Algarve Resort. Outstanding golfing paradise in Portugal
15/06/2019 .
For many British visitors, the appeal of the Algarve can be summed up in one word: golf, and there’s a lot of that at Tivoli Carvoeiro Algarve Resort.
Read the full story hereVintage House Hotel
26/06/2018 .
It’s midday, the sun is shining and I’m eating lunch on a picnic table in the middle of the UNESCO protected vineyards of Quinta da Roeda, the grapes that make Croft Port wine. It’s a simple Portuguese meal but here, in the Alto Douro, among the centuries-old vines of Portugal’s oldest winemaker, it takes on much more significance. It’s living history.
Read the full story hereHotel Infante Sagres
26/06/2018 .
City centre hotels tend to come in two varieties; either bland international brands or faded dames from times gone by reinvigorated into trendy boutique properties. Fortunately, Hotel Infante Sagres in Porto’s centre is the latter. Not just reinvigorated but positively reincarnated into something even better than it was in its heyday.
Read the full story hereThe Yeatman Hotel
25/06/2018 .
Standing proudly above the Douro river on the Vila Nova de Gaia side of Porto, The 5 star Yeatman Hotel has become a Porto landmark in a very short space of time. Quite fitting when you consider it is owned by the Fladgate Partnership, the British family dynasty that has been producing Port wine since 1692 and arguably made Porto what it is today.
Read the full story hereFour Seasons Hotel Ritz, Lisbon
30/05/2018 .
I don’t suppose it’s my magnetic personality playing havoc with the key cards at the Four Seasons, but I do find myself locked out of my room a couple of times. No problem, reception simply gives me a bundle of cards to provide for any number of eventualities and, of course, it doesn’t happen again.
Read the full story hereInspira Santa Marta Hotel
23/01/2018 .
If it was a Jamie Oliver recipe, it might well be called ‘Green Hotel Casserole’. The mixture is simple: take an elegant 18th-century building in central Lisbon; mix in lots of Feng Shui design, stir in some socially responsible touches and add stacks of sustainable stuff – then hey presto, taste the Santa Marta experience.
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