Hotel Real Palacio - Lisbon, Portugal     

I have just been back to Lisbon and hotel Real Palacio for 5 days. It has been more than a year since I last stayed at the hotel. I have to admit that the hotel has changed, but only for the better! The hotel now has a more restrict smoking policy, being a non smoker this is something I appreciate very much(!), and the equipment in the gym has been replaced by more modern and better equipment. I first got to know the hotel in March 2006 when I was assigned by my company to work for a project in Lisbon. One of my colleagues and I visited all the hotels in the area searching for the “perfect” place to stay when we first came the hotel. From the first moment we walked in, we both loved it! It was perfect! The hotel offered (and still offers!) beautiful and clean good size guest rooms, all with free internet access, bathrobes and slippers, a very nice restaurant with the possibility to enjoy your meal outdoors on nice sunny days and warm evenings, a gym and a small spa where one can enjoy the jacuzzi and a nice relaxing massage after spending the day at work, doing shopping or shightseeing. And last but not least the staff …. smiling, friendly, helpful and yet professional and very serviceminded. Never once did we regret choosing to stay at the hotel! They have not let us down even once! Our project ended in 2007 and I left Lisbon and the hotel at the beginning of July that year only to return now, 1 year later. Once again it hit me that this is a very special hotel! The atmosphere is still the same and the staff is still smiling, friendly, helpful and yet professional and very service minded. The members of the "old" staff still working at the hotel (quite a few!) were all welcoming me back and I was treated like a queen :-) This is definitely the hotel to stay at if you want to add something special to your stay in Lisbon whether you go there for business or pleasure. The hotel is close to some really nice shopping centers and all the main tourist attractions that Lisbon has to offer. If you don’t like to walk it is only a 3 minutes walk to the 3 nearest metro stations and most of the sightseeing buses stops at the top of Park Eduardo a 5 minutes walk from the hotel. Perfect! My colleagues and I will keep on going back to Real Palacio. In fact some of us are going back already in September and we are already looking forward to it! A stay at hotel Real Palacio is highly recommended!