We booked this hotel as a break from a series of stays in center city, old town hotels in Spain and Portugal. With this in mind, it worked out very well. The hotel itself was clean and the staff very helpful. The restaurant was nice and the food better than average. Our stay included use of bikes, hottubs, turkish baths and saunas - and since the hotel was almost empty we were able to take full advantage. On the downside, the surroundings are not the open countryside we had hoped for. Estarreja (and, as far as we could tell, much of coastal Portugal) seems to be in the throes of a chaotic and largely unplanned build-out, and what was probably open country a few years ago is quickly becoming a blighted mishmash of characterless 'agglomerations'. Our bike rides were a lot like soldiers' description of warfare: stretches of nothing punctuated by moments of sheer terror. If you are looking for 'old' Portugal, you might want to try Evora, which is much better preserved. Still, with these caveats in mind, this area does have pluses: Aveiro, Porto and the beaches are all quite close by.