An absolute joy, after a long drive, to see the lights, and elegant columns, of this hotel along the dark, stone pine-flanked road. Those who whinge that it should be 'modernised' have no soul - this is a proper hotel, with plush carpets, antique furniture and staff who waft you to your room without fuss. The marbled bathrooms alone are as big as some 4star rooms ...
I now go out of my way to ensure I stay here enroute to-or-from Portugal, and leave the nay sayers to their taupe, grey and chrome cookie cutter hostelries. So there.