Solar do Castelo - Lisbon Heritage Collection - Alfama

This is a gorgeous hotel next to the castle. The breakfast room/loungeroom and outdoor areas are beautiful. Loved watching the many peacocks wandering around. The breakfast was adequate and available all morning so you can have a good sleep in 😴 The evening drinks, bubbly supplied by the hotel, are a great idea. Definitely go to this! We met lots of lovely people and exchanged contact details. There are plenty of shops and restaurants in the neighbourhood. Lisbon isn't easy to walk with the hills so make sure you find where the elevators are and use them... brilliant idea. Great hotel and love the city!

We loved the Solar do Castelo! Our room was comfortable, the staff incredibly helpful and we enjoyed the tranquility of the hotel despite its being in the thick of the castle traffic. The little touches were wonderful including an amazing breakfast, champagne each night, tea and coffee all day, and high end soaps and lotions. The roaming castle peacocks were entertaining too.

The property is close to a lot of viewpoints and obviously the castle, so you can easily reach a lot of touristic spots. The hotel offers a great breakfast and they also offer coffee/tea along with pastel de nata and other cakes throughout the entire day. In the evenings, they also have sparkling wine available for free in the dining area. At the beginning of our stay we received a bottle of wine in the room. I haven’t seen such a generous food offer from other hotels. The inner garden has 7-10 peacocks around and they make for an exotic experience. The staff was helpful and paid attention to my upcoming birthday and surprised me with a bottle of sparkling wine. The room was clean but relatively small and the bathroom was well sized and included a bath tub.

Wonderful, small historic boutique hotel. Great location at the very top of the old charming, Alfama neighborhood with its windy cobblestone streets, just outside the castle walls of Castelo de Sao Jorge. The hotel is tastefully decorated. Rooms are varied, but the highest floor ones have beautiful, exposed wood ceilings with nice partial views of the castle and river. Great air conditioning. Some rooms have showers only. Charming private courtyard to enjoy very good buffet breakfasts. I enjoyed the complementary Port wine in the room, free champagne in the eves, and cool or hot drinks, snacks, and pastries available all day. Rooms also featured robes and slippers. I especially loved the birds... Peacocks from the castle next door coo and strut the grounds. Swallows dart around at dawn and dusk. Helpful, friendly staff. As a single traveler, I was treated very well. Highly recommend. Notes: Do not drive here. Take a taxi. Uber can not come all the way to the hotel, but taxis can. From the airport, taxi is about $20 - hotel can arrange a taxi for you and might even include one-way fare in some rates. Given the location at the very top of the Alfama plus Lisbon's many hills, if you are going to walk to/from here to downtown Baixa area for sightseeing, make sure to ask for locations of the Alfama neighborhood elevators. They save many steps and make it much easier to walk from downtown back up to the Alfama. Also, make sure to visit the Castelo de Sao Jorge next door. It's views of the entire city are spectacular! Buy tickets online to bypass the lines.

The hotel itself is beautiful with breathtaking decor and peacocks roaming in the grounds. The staff were very welcoming and we felt comfortable straight away. The breakfast was perfect with good coffee, fresh juice and lots of options and there were complimentary tea, coffee and cakes available all day, plus sparkling wine in the evenings and a bottle of port in our room. So generous. We had a view of the castle from our bedroom which was lit up at night. It was a truly magical stay.