Hotel Rural Casa Dos Viscondes da Varzea

Stunning property and grounds, with excellent service with food and drink. Our room was a bit tired, with an old fashioned bathroom and no air con. We found out that the excellent staff would deliver food and wine on request, but no one told us this and it wasn’t signposted! Information about dinner, services, prices for wine etc. should be made clear. Otherwise, a beautiful and unique experience. Very tranquil and serene setting.

I'm writing a negative review, which I don't usually do, because I was very upset to see my friends (who held their wedding at Hotel Rural Casa dos Viscondes da Varzea) so stressed and upset through the wedding due to the owner, knowingly, double booking their event. My friends had booked the venue for 3 days with full exclusivity - but on arrival the prior wedding guests were still there, and they were told they were refusing to leave their rooms. Later they found out that they had legitimately booked - but the venue put the blame on the guests. We even saw people on the morning of the wedding day, and because the hotel rooms had been double booked, the groom had nowhere to get ready! Personally, I had to stay in another room, 5 mins drive at the other end of the winery which was a bit of an inconvenience, the room was pretty worn down and I found a bug in the bed. Additionally, on the first day day, 3 coach loads of people arrived for a private dinner in another part of the venue - apparently this has been a weekly event since January, but the venue did not tell my friends or re-negotiated the exclusivity. The wedding day itself was beautiful, and I felt very sorry for the staff as they were really nice and must put up with a lot of complaints due to the way the venue i s run. The day after the wedding, they were still meant to have exclusivity, but guests arrived for the following wedding. Which put a bit of a dampner on the pool party they had booked, with unexpected strangers hanging around. One of the main reasons I'm writing this review is because of the way the hotel managed this - they continually lied and made excuses to my friends, which I think made it worse for them. And when sitting down to renegotiate the price and get a partial refund - the owner had the audacity to laugh at them! It is very hard to see one of your closest friends cry on the days that are meant to be the happiest and I think that the owners should significantly recompense my friends for the stress they put them through.

Don’t book an event here, owner tries to get 4 weddings in 1 weekend. Booked for a week with the whole family and yet another wedding who booked the whole place now have no rooms, (apologies to the other wedding, I hope you had a lovely day) our wedding day was lovely until it’s finished and forgot about the next day as the owner moves onto the next wedding. Asked us to move to another property twice and had to tell the owner that we have booked here for a week and we will not move. Food was good but trying to eat anything Halal is impossible. Open bar means 2 types of drinks…. Feel for the employees getting shouted out every 5 seconds It’s the most disorganised place I have ever been, surely if you know the next day that a couple have booked the full thing you would not allow us to stay a week??? Felt as though the other group were against us as the owner mentioned we were rude and uneducated as we didn’t want to move to another place with no activities (again the other wedding, I feel for you guys over there)

Great property

Absolutely stunning property. Maria and Pedro welcomed us into their home and made us feel like family. Had delicious dinner and breakfast buffet served in their beautiful dining room. The entire working property is classic Portuguese Quninta living. Staff was amazing. Looking forward to staying there again. Highly recommend if you are visiting Lamego.