Hotel Pestana Cascais Ocean & Conference Aparthotel

The hotel is like a modest temple to simplicity. Its rooms stretch wide and bare, spacious enough to practice your daily routines before hitting the indoor pool. The breakfast buffet is a divine comedy of abundance. Staff are attentive and kind. And the location? It's in the quiet part of Cascais far enough from the chaos of tourism. This is not a place of luxury's shadow-play, but rather a shelter where the essential remains.

All the staff was always pleasant, the deluxe room was spacious

Inner pool was great to enjoy because the outer pool water was very cold and the area got easily windy. The bed was very big and comfortable The bar in the outer pool was great to buy a beer and listen music. The green area surrounding the outer pool was beautiful and nice to sit and enjoy the sun.

We had breakfast at the hotel. Hotel offers breakfast and dinner buffet. We did not use the pool, spa, or tennis courts. The room was clean but needs some maintenance such as the stained furniture upholstery and the slow draining bathroom sink. But overall we enjoyed our stay. The hotel is about a 20 minute walk to the town center. There is a walking and biking trail next to the ocean. You can walk that straight into town. You pass by the Mouth of the Devil, which is a rocky formation with caves. The area has nice restaurants and gift shops. Cascais has lovely restaurants, cafés, shopping. We walked by the ocean promenade that ends next to Estoril. We also visited CascaiShopping which a large shopping mall, reachable by taxi. We also visited Pena palace, Moorish castle, and Sintra National Palace. We walked around Sintra which also has plenty of lovely restaurants and cafés.

Very welcoming and friendly staff, room was a descent size regular double hotel room with a TV, writing desk, a small kitchenette, a small table and armchairs for both occupants. The bathroom was well equipped and included a bathtub as well. We also had a balcony, though as ours was towards the parking, we would rather spend our outdoor time in the hotel pool area that had plenty of space by the fairly big swimming pool including a wide lawn for a more private rest in the sun and complimentary sun beds. The pool area also had it’s own bar for the convenience of the sunbathers. There was also another swimming pool indoors especially suitable for families with smaller children with a view to the outside pool area as it was only separated from it by big glass windows. As there was a fairly long, though not impossible, walking distance to the most central parts of Cascais, with the old town and the train station, the hotel provided a free shuttle there a few times a day, but we also used a very reasonably priced taxi service a couple of times when the schedule wasn’t convenient. The hotel breakfast was quite good and and varied as well and can be recommended. And finally, we had rented a car to be able to, at our own convenience, see more of all the wonderful natural and historical sights nearby, including Sintra and Cabo da Roca, so we also very much appreciated the free parking provided by the hotel.