Mesao Frio Hotels

Charming staff, wonderful common areas. Large room and bath. Wonderful setting on a large farm

Hard to find

Undiscovered gem. The hotel is a true notbleman's century old family room that is still occupied by the owners (couple with 2 children). It is in the middle of a huge farm / family estate (the drive from the gate to the house is > 2km). Impressive property with 3 large and formal sitting rooms and 3 large and formal dining rooms. Large bedrooms in the basement. Decoration possibly too ornate / kitsch for some.

The hotel is not on the gps and is hard to find. Would be better if they give the gps information of a nearby loation instead (E.G. gas station), so that they only need to give instruction on how to reach the hotel on the last km.

The location was ideal for guests with a car. Rooms were clean and neat.

Staff didn't have much English and couldn't provide advice on reasonably-priced restaurants in the vicinity.

Clean, comfortable room. Good value for the money. Good included breakfast. Excellent restaurant next door.

Remodeling currently underway -- pretty noisy.

the place is quiet and peacefull

it was short

no restaurant on both evenings - kitchen said to be out of commission. Food was being served in dining room but only to Portuguese National jet-ski contestants, we were informed this food was brought in from another restaurant.

position for going on to other places

location of hotel close to railway station

no internet connection for guests, limited information about location for the tourists, level of english of staff

I mostly liked the confort of the hotel (room included). The breakfast was fine.

The breakfast room should be more sound efficient, any conversation we have over breakfast you can ear it all over the room.

When we had minor medical emergency, the staff responded immediately with true concern, which they showed throughout our stay. Pool and turkish bath were heavenly, very clean and well maintained.

New carpet fumes in the hallway outside our room detracted from otherwise perfect stay.

The peace and quiet - almost never seeing another guest, even though you were almost full. The food was very good

The "background" music was both a poor choice and played far too loud, especially in the restaurant.

The hotel design, the beautiful scenario of the douro hills and the overall tranquility.

The untidiness of the room. The layout and in-room glass partitions not allow a desirable level of intimacy/privacy. No particular attention or pampering from hotel staff.

beautiful house, very friendful atmosphere

Nice, spacious, clean room. Very kind staff. And the best breakfast location ever! In the old dining room you feel like a royal.

The location was superb but without the help of a local who we followed by car it would have been VERY dificult to find. This is more like staying in a private house rather than a hotel. We had dinner on three evenings and it was excellent. Just excellent produce and traditional/simple Portugese cuisine (good portions) with wine from the estate which just kept flowing ! Cost 30 euros a head. The owners were charming and spoke pretty good English, but the star of the show was the cook/maid/ you name it, who spoke no English but was simply delightful and could not have done more to make our stay there very memorable. It is very informal and relaxed, the pool was great the views superb and would be happy to go again and again and yes again !!

The lack of really clear directions for say the last say five miles from all directions.

Very charming and confortable

A charming Hotel surounded by vineyard. The original house as been restaured giving the guess a mix of modern confort with a taste of tradition. Our Bedroom was big, well decorated, and very confortable. Bathroom was a very nice surprise very modern with only the finest materials. A final toutch was given by the Occitanne products. The breakfast is served in a large room with an excellent view. The buffet was five stars, we love the natural peaches. We finished with a nespresso coffee.

Good price for a 4 star hotel.

Very quiet hotel

No internet access, TV set a bit old

Peacefull place to have total relaxation and possibility to go to big or smaller cities if needed by train.

A charming house in a lovely place, amazing viewsover the Douro River, peace and quiet of the countryside. Perfectly cleaned rooms, original antique furniture. Good size swimming-pool, vineyards, amusing animals. Extremely kind, friendly and helpful owners. Carlos&Joana's warm hospitality really has won our simpaties. A lot of interesting places to visit are more or less far from the estate. Many thanks Carlos for giving useful tips to exploring this region.

The time of the breakfast's beginning is a bit too late for "early birds"

Great character family farmhouse, friendly owners, feels like home. They also made arrangements for Port tasting and river cruise on short notice.