Quinta Dos Machados Countryside Hotel & Spa

A beautiful hotel in the middle of nowhere. Very charming and super friendly service! The restaurant was not super tasty.. but the spa was small and cute, and there are many activities offered to do. Billiard, chess, library etc. We even got a upgrade as it was low season. The perfect stay for couples who want a cute getaway. Oh, and the hotel dog greets you very friendly!

Magic place! quiet and peaceful surrounded by an amazing forest. The kitchen staff was nice, the food was just fine, the brunch was good and abundant. Loved the small library displayed on a small trailer outside on the woods :) The swimming pool was ok. I definitely recommend this place. Only one less positive detail: some guests had to wait too long to do their check in.

I had my wedding at Quinta dos Machados recently and it was a bitter-sweet experience. I booked my wedding here mainly because of the convenience of having lodging on site, but it actually turned out to be a nightmare. The food during the reception, serving staff, and location were great! The rest I wish I could forget. We arrived at 10am to start getting ready and we were given a large living room for that purpose. At 11am (normal checkout time) the guests currently staying there refused to leave and the hotel chose to do nothing about it. They assured us that they were cleaning the rooms we requested to be prioritized for us to get ready in, and that we would be contacted when they were ready. 11am-nothing. 12-nothing. 1-nothing. We kept checking with front desk and they said the same thing - our rooms are being cleaned. All of our guests had their rooms before I did. I only got somewhere to change at 4:20 (10 minutes before the start of my ceremony). This was only because my mother insisted that we use the rooms while they were still being cleaned, but we had no choice because the living room we were using had no curtains and therefore no privacy for me to change in. I had 10 minutes to get dressed for one of the most important days of my life. What upsets me the most, is because I waited SIX HOURS for a room, I didn't have a chance to take any getting ready pictures with my bridesmaids, no pre-ceremony pictures with my family. Did I mention the same thing happened to my husband? He also only got a room at the very last minute, and missed out on all these moments that we will never get back. I can't even describe how upset and stressed this made my parents. (To clarify, that was my parent's room - I came and went without ever getting a room). Also, why our guests checking in needed to provide identification for everyone in the room (not just the person booking) is beyond me. Several of my guests had to go back to the hotel they were staying at before to get their passports. Had this been told to me before, I would have warned them. I had also been staying in Portugal for several weeks, at multiple hotels, and this was the first time this happened. Also, my guests were left very unimpressed by the slow and unproductive check-in process, which leaves me extremely embarrassed for bringing them here. Thankfully the ceremony went ok, the food at the reception was great, the serving staff was great, and the location was beautiful. Aside from the fact that my bridesmaid had to uncover the ceremony benches at the last minute because no one else did it. And aside from the fact that none of my guests were served wedding cake, like they were suppose to have, and our signature drink was only available for a limited time. Overall, if you're looking for a beautiful place to get married and eat well, this is a good choice. If you also need a place to stay, run the other way. It ruined half of my wedding day, and it's been over a month and no one has had the decency to reach out and provide an explanation, or even a simple apology. Very dissappointed, for such an important day of my life.