Casas da Lapa
Serra de Estrela, Portugal
Facilities
- Dining: Excellent daily breakfast served until 1pm. Other meals available on request - light lunches, and a 3-course set dinner
- Communal areas: Lovely split-level garden with lots of greenery
- Internet Access: Internet access in all rooms
- Swimming Pool: Heated outdoor pool surrounded by chairs and loungers, and a rooftop solarium with soaring valley views
- Spa Treatments: A sauna and turkish bath for steaming away your aches and pains after a day out in the mountains
- Recreational: Gym with an exercise bike and stepper; bicycles to borrow
- Weddings and Celebrations: Not suitable
- Meetings/Functions: Not suitable
- Disabled Access: Not suitable
- Pets: Not allowed
- Languages Spoken: English, Portuguese, French, Italian
- Parking: Car park below the hotel
Also...
- Owner Maria Manuel likes to describe Lapa as an 'art hotel' and
has created stylish yet cosy interiors that showcase stacks of
funky sculptures and paintings
- A selection of goodies on sale, which could make great presents
to take home: Sicilian bath products, locally knitted items like
shawls and blankets, and wines from the family estate
- A spectacular waterfall plummeting down just yards beyond Lapa's garden
When to go?
If you're planning to walk, spring or autumn is the best time of year to be here. But the village's soaring elevation ensures it remains cool enough for hiking to be enjoyable in summer, too. And don't forget that you're just a 30-minute drive from Portugal's most popular ski resort: most years you can expect heavy snowfalls in both February and March.
Author's tips
Don't forget to pack all your walking gear: boots, waterproofs, a daypack and water bottle, suncream and a hat
Features include:
- Bar
- Vegetarian menu
- Lunch by arrangement
- Dinner by arrangement
- Garden
- Terrace
- Laundry service
- Internet access
- Heated Outdoor Pool
- sauna
- Jacuzzi/hot tub
- Steam room
- Gym
- Bicycles available
- Off street parking
