Hotel Inglaterra - Estoril, Portugal 

Booked with Jetair-Tui. In their brochure rated as a ****. Local brochures indicate ***. Even this is exaggerated. Don't book half board. Dinner consists mostly of tinned goods. Don't as foor the duck on the limited menu. They don't have any. Don't expect the can supply everything of the wine list Don' book a balcony. You don't get one. And if you sue for it like we did, you don't use ist because of the construction noise and the icy north wind Don't ask for a breakfast before 7.30 am, because you have to pay room service and get no coffee nor tea. Don't expect any entertainment. Don't expect luggage carrier. A save costs 3.5 euro a day. A coke at the swimming pool costs also 3.5 euro. Bring along your air freshener, because the leaking airco spotted the carpet. Don't expect to take a handsfree shower And now the good things: - a TV in de bedroom + another in separate living room - fresh fruit and the ice cream

We arrived at the hotel with little in the way of good expectations as we had booked a golf trip with the hotel being part of the package. When we arrived we were greeted like we were returning guests. We found the room and the bathroom to be a touch on the small side but we only slept there so no problems with that. We found the hotel to be very quiet even though there were plenty of guests staying at the time. The fact that the corridoors are carpeted helped to keep any noise to a minimum. The breakfast was a typical hotel style. Parking is on the local streets but we found no difficulties in this. The hotel is on a hill situated close to a good all round supermarket as well as being near to plenty of great restaraunts and the train station to Lisbon and Caiscais is only a few minutes away. I would rate this hotel as a good place for the middle aged to older person who would be out all day doing other things such as golf or site seeing. It is not a hotel for families. We are already looking to book a room in this hotel in Oct 08 and would recommend this hotel to anyone looking for somewhere quite.