Hotel Dos Templarios - Tomar, Portugal     

We got a very good price for this very nice hotel. Our kids really liked the pool, it was partly shallow so that a bit bigger kids could swim on their own. The pool area was really nice and with good service, pool towels and adjacent showers.The pool area was partly in shadow most of the day which spared the kids from too much sun. The room was quite spacious and it had a nice big balcony facing in our case the river. On the grounds was a small play ground. A large bed and one extra bed was well and enough to give us a good nice sleep with two small kids. The only things that we could complain about was that the room was not cleaned when we came back around two o'clock for siesta and that the breakfast room seamed to be a bit understaffed.

Tomar was one of our favorite places in central Portugal. The castle was amazing and the town was charming. Our room at the hotel was spacious and had an unbelievable view of the park, stream, town and castle. This is definitely a modern hotel with both the pros and cons that that suggests. We used the small indoor pool and wished the weather had been warmer because the much larger outdoor one looked very inviting. We were disappointed in nearby Fatima and were glad that we hadn't stayed there.