Pousada in Queluz
Pousada in Queluz – Hotel Dona Maria I
The Pousada in Queluz – Lisbon, D. Maria I, is a historic luxury hotel located in the building formerly used by the Royal Guard of the Court in the Palace of Queluz, known as the Portuguese Versailles.
Besides the palace, there are in Queluz some other interesting places that can have the attention of the first visitors, as some megalithic monuments (about 2500 bC) and some buildings from the 14th, 17th and 18th centuries. Around the old nucleus of the city started to appear some villas and houses that used to be summer houses in the beginner of this century.
The Pousada hotel privileged location, about 5 km from Lisbon, 14 km from Sintra and 20 km from Cascais, the attractive interior design and exacting recuperation of its little private “theatre”, combines with the exquisite cuisine of the Cozinha Velha Restaurant.
We have just returned from a two week holiday in Portugal staying at 4 Pousadas. First stop was Queluz for 5 nights to enable us to see Lisbon. Unfortunately the Pope decided to be in Lisbon at the same time, which meant we had to modify plans a bit!
The Reception staff at Queluz could not have been more helpful and were probably the best of all 4 Pousadas visited. We had an excellent room, albeit backing on to the back and as repoted elsewhere subject to Reveille and Last Post calls from the barracks behind. Being ex military was able to cope with this. The restaurant across the road (part of the old Palace) is well worth a visit. Its ambience is spectacular and the food excellent. However as with all 4 Pousadas the meals are quite expensive even taking into account the 20% discount offered by the Passport scheme.
The one criticism of the Pousada at Queluz is that it is not ideal for a long stay as we did. After long days trailing around the Lisbon area there was nowhere really to chill out except ones own room or a small uninteresting lounge. The bar lacked character and choice and had to be operated as and when required by the Reception staff. No outside amenity to sit around and watch the world go by. Breakfast is served in the Pousada rather than the restaurant across the road and is very good.
However for just a couple of nights the Pousada is ideally situated for covering the Lisbon and Sintra areas. Plenty of car parking space, and Queluz station is only 10 minute walk away if you are prepared to use the very efficient public transport system and its wide variety of concessionary tickets.
We stayed at the de D Maria I Queluz/Lisbon just one night in April, 2010. Was very impressed with the staff, who helped us with our bags and showed us to our room. (elevated was broken) The room faced the barracks in the rear and we enjoyed the nighttime taps and in the morning waking up to revelry. There were some noisy birds around the grounds but not enough for us to shut the windows. The restaurant attached to the pousado (acr0ss the street) was excellent and the service great. Our morning breakfast, included, was also very nice and adequate. We certainly enjoyed the palace tour. Only complaint was that a light did not work and the bathroom window was warped and very hard to open. Would recommend this very convenient location to Lisbon and away from the crowds.
We stayed for 2 nights at Queluz and visited the Palace and Gardens and drove to Sintra for an afternoon. The staff were really helpful, friendly and professional and the food was excellent. The bedroom and the public rooms were great. The sound of the frogs in the water feature around the outside of the Pousada were very amusing once we had worked out what the noise was. We also stayed at Evora and Marvao which were also very good in different ways.
This is a great place and across the street is a wonderful palace with gardens worth seeing. I felt like Alice in Wonderland in the gardens searching out the Cheshire cat. The help is gracious, especially in reception, Diogo, to be exact, couldn’t do enough for us. The rooms are quite charming and easy to live in. The breakfast is good and it’s a 15 minute walk to subway. Easy to get to Sintra from here which is very worth seeing. Booking is easy and the prices very fair. A good alternative to mid-city staying.
Excellent hotel and really good value. Breakfast was good and the staff were welcomming & polite Room very good clean & well appointed, Whilsr there we used the train to visit Lisbon & Sintra.
The Pousada at Queluz is delightful, fascinating and atmospheric and is also well situated for visiting Sintra and Lisbon. The staff were friendly and helpful, the food very good and our room comfortable. Highly recommended.
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time in all of them. the service was good, staff very friendly and
helpful and the settings all so beautiful in their own way. We had a
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It’s very easy to get into Lisbon from Queluz (short walk to the train station, and a 20 minute ride to the center of town). For that reason alone, I recommend this pousada. The hotel itself was also nice, the staff polite, and the rooms very comfortable.
Reception staff was extremely helpful. We had a corner room and enjoyed it very much though parts of the walls behind curtains have mold. The pousada is situated in a very convenient location, to Lisbon, Sintra and Obidos. We enjoyed our experiences at all three pousada’s we stayed and will recommend them to friends.
Convenient location to Lisbon and Sintra. We enjoyed the room (the largest of the three pousadas we visited) and the view of the palace from our room was great. Helpful and attentive staff.
Hotel was wonderful, the room was very comfortable. However the restaurant was the worst meal we had on our stay in Portugal. In fact we could not finish it. That apart the pousada in Queluz was very welcoming and we did enjoy our stay.
Reception and attention very good. Lights in corridor not working and the wooden floor in the bedroom entrance worn and broken. I reported these matters on departure. Someone should ‘walk the job’
That said we did enjoy our stay and the hotel is well placed and value for money.