Great hotel, great staff. This old private mansion has been transformed into a georgous hotel : one side, the authentic one is worth every euro spent there. The modern side is, well, modern, not intresting at all...
The breakfast room is faboulous and the kitty very nice !
Did I mention the terrass and the garden, worth every second spent there !
The whole staff, from reception to breakfast speaks English and most of them speak French.
The breakfast is great. The staff is knowledgeable, considerate and helpful. Six of us in three modern family garden rooms. it is a lovely quiet location. It is a little over a mile walk down to the cathedral district. Taxis are readily available for return up to hotel. A block up there are restaurants and a great bakery.
Dear guest, we have registered and taken in consideration your positive review regarding our establishment. We are very glad and proud to see all the effort that Castelo Santa Catarina’s staff has put together being appreciated. It serves, indeed, as an encouragement to keep improving and make your next stay with us a lot better. Kind regards.
I really like to find unique places to stay and this is near the top of the list. I have read some of the negative reviews and am sorry they had such a time. We on the other hand had a wonderful stay. We had a modern room with only a few stairs to it but be warned that the tower rooms have no elevator and my sister in law would have had to carry luggage up 4 flights but the desk person did it for her since they notified in advance in Portuguese rather than English. The room had an amazing view of Porto and was old elegance in style. The breakfast area was like eating in a museum. The breakfast was great and we would highly recommend a stay here.
Dear guest, we have registered and taken in consideration your positive review regarding our establishment. We are very glad and proud to see all the effort that Castelo Santa Catarina’s staff has put together being appreciated. It serves, indeed, as an encouragement to keep improving and make your next stay with us a lot better. Kind regards.
We started walking the El Camino in Porto so Castelo Santa Catarina was our first stay on a 14 day hike. The hotel is an old castle and is very charming. The rooms are furnished elegantly, complete with chandeliers. There was a hot and cold buffet breakfast in a beautiful dining room with ornate furnishings. The hotel is filled with many unique art pieces and has beautiful grounds. Our main complaint is that when we made a collect call to our bank in Canada we were charged 40 euros when we checked out. We were shocked and explained that our call was collect. We were told this is standard pricing for any calls made in the hotel.
The hotel is suitated inside an old casle.
Most of the rooms were modernly build . Big rooms and modern. Breakfast was served in the castle first gloor. Very interedting buildi g. Breakfast was good. Staff very helpful
We recently stayed in Castelo for 3 lovely days. There was an mix-up with our booking, that we learnt about upon arrival, but the Castelo team did everything to accommodate us in the best way possible, so there are absolutely no hard feelings, on the contrary - we are very grateful for their hospitality!
The hotel itself is very unique. A true gem in a rather good location. It is located a few minutes away from Marques metro station (yellow line). Easy access to/from the airport (taxis were on strike during our visit); takes approx 40 min with a change at Trindad, but reserve an extra 20-25 min, as the trains to the airport are not that frequent. We also used uber while moving around the city; works perfectly fine and is rather cheap. Rua Santa Catarina is a very busy street, but the hotel is located up the hill, that part is very quite.
The rooms are spotlessly clean and the ones in the modern building are very spacious. Good quality of towels and sheets, nice toiletries. The staff is lovely, very smiley, friendly and helpful.
We did enjoy the daily breakfast, especially a nice selection of fresh fruit. The breakfast room is very special! So is the whole territory, very beautiful and immaculate. If Castelo had an outdoor swimming pool, I would give it 6 stars!
We were genuinely happy with our stay. Thank you!
