This is an old hotel located at around 25kms from Lisbon Centre. Stayed here for one night in June 2008. Although advertised as a 4 star hotel, it is not. 3 at best. It?s an old hotel that needs an upgrading.The only 4 star facility in the hotel is the lobby, which is quiet nice. The main advantage is the location and the very beautiful room and restauran's view over Carcavelo's bay and its beaches. It is located between Lisbon and Cascais so, if you are planning to visit both places, it's convenient. Room furniture and overall decoration is old and somewhat shabby, the breakfast is poor for a "4star" hotel. The pool is small to my standards. But you have the beach at a walking distance. I didn't pay for my room (business meeting at the hotel) so I cannot comment on it.Room size was ok and was quiet at night, so no problems sleeping.

We stayed here in sept '07 as we were going to the moto gp in Estoril and left it too late to book any closer to the race track. We were very glad we did ,as the hotel was lovely. The staff were very helpful (if a little laid back but so is all of portugal!). The food was O.K. but I never think much of continental breakfast anyway so i'm probably not the best judge of that. Our room was on the 7th floor and we had lovely sea views, the beach is only around 100 yards away. The hotel has some great restaurants quite close by if you bother to look for them (which I recomend you do), and some great little beach side bars. Travel ti the race track was amazingly cheap (10 euros by taxi) and there were taxis available right outside the hotel. We also travelled into Lisbon by train (station about 5-10mins walk) which was amazing and again very cheap. Estoril and Cascais are both not far and offer more by the way of night life, but with taxis so cheap getting there was not a problem. Overall it was a great stay and we have just booked to return in April '08.

The location of this hotel means that if you want to go anywhere, you need to take a taxi. The exterior of the hotel is shabby and depressing! The lobby is the only nice part of the hotel and the only area that should be classed as 4*. Room service is advertised but not available. Pay-per-view movies are advertised but not available and there are only a couple of English speaking channels. Although the room itself was clean, everything in it was extremely dated. The door to the room continiously banged, the bathroom drains stank! The service and standard of the hotel is nearer to a 2*

This place was allright-- the decor was kind of weird but otherwise it was clean and adequate. The location is about 10 minutes walk from the train into Lisbon. It's not a great place to stay if you're mostly interested in exploring Lisbon and not Estoril or the surrounding area.

My wife and I stayed here over an important visit to the Lisbon area. We found the hotel acceptable only -- perhaps at a 2 Star level. It is NOT a four-star hotel, as some guidebooks have it listed. The property is rough around the edges. Most importantly, the hotel has terrible service. Their front desk staff stands there all day with nothing to do, and yet when you ask them for help (a restaurant, a trip into town, a suggestion of travel info, etc) they literallly don't do anything. Here's an example . . . we arrived with clothing that needed pressing, and there was no iron in the room so we called down to request one. By the time we eventually got our clothing pressed, it was four or five days later. It took them that long to get the ONE IRON the hotel has for its guests back from the other person they lent it to. The hotel has a good location for beach views, but only for some of the rooms. Many rooms simply overlook the llittle run-down and rather dirty town square of Carcavelos. Also, the hotel staff told us by phone when we made the reservation that the train to Lisbon is just "directly behind us." This is more than a stretch -- the walk to the train station is about 3/4 of a mile, something you get VERY tired of doing all the time. The breakfast room is very nice, at the top of the hotel with a nice view of the pretty Carcavelos beach, but the coffee is terrible at breakfast. They serve stale bread in the basket for toast, but the other pastries are good. In general, this hotel is NOT A VALUE and warrants serious consideration before staying here. Our local friends told us not to go in the water at the beach because it is "urban" and there is a "problem with fungus" (whatever that means - sorry I can't be more specific). The Riviera Hotel looks very nice, about a half block from the Hotel Praia-Mar. Don't stay here if you expect to sleep, either. The beds are terrible, not updated with good mattresses in years, and the doors must be slammed in order to get them to close. Which means that all night long and in the morning, you hear a constant noise of doors slamming.