With its perfect location, and the availability of free on-site parking right in front, the Dom Manuel Hotel was a pleasure in which to spend two nights, in a superior room with king bed, castle view, and furnished patio, #202. See photos. I believe our room was the best in the hotel. If you are prepared to pay extra for this category of room, you may wish to ask for #202. Manuel and Celeste (and nephew Bruno) run a personal but very professional operation. Everything from the outdoor restaurant tables in front, to our individual guest room, to the breakfast room, was clean, tidy, and orderly. The guest rooms have been attractively renovated. While compact (as most European hotel rooms are), they are very functional, have decent storage space and three chairs, with one very comfortable corner chair for relaxing, small fridge, full length mirror, padded bed head, good lighting, and monogrammed sheets and towels. Bathroom had good water pressure, nice bath products, hair dryer, and magnifying makeup mirror. They lack two things: face cloths, so bring your own if you use these, and coffee and tea making facilities in the room. They graciously provided us with a tray on which sat a kettle with two tea cups and saucers, napkins and sugar. You may wish to bring tea bags and coffee sachets. The safe requires a key, which we didn’t bother to request. Breakfast was good, with fresh juice and fruits, scrambled eggs, the usual yogurts, cheeses, cold cuts, bread, pastries, and something we had not seen before, crepes. Its location in this small, beautiful village is ideal. Two excellent restaurants are within a three minute walk, (Fago is exceptional and highly recommended), the tourist information office is a two minutes walk down the road, and steps leading up to the wall are almost adjacent to the hotel. It also has its own restaurant - open for breakfast, lunch and dinner - which was full both evenings of our visit. 5km away is an inviting public space on hot days, with free parking and access to the fluvial “river”, a public pool, and a snack bar with outside tables. Many Portuguese and Spanish families gathered here for picnics and water fun. We did not hear one English word the 2 hours we were there. We wouldn’t consider staying anywhere else on a return visit to Marvao.
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