Hotel Suave Mar

Very nice hotel with bar and restaurant. The staff was friendly and the rooms were very nice. Breakfast is also good in the morning; better than a normal continental breakfast.

Friendly & helpful staff. Nice beds. Breakfast was plentiful, but just okay. Good to fuel up for a long day of walking. Wonderful location right across from the water and on the coastal Camino route.

A very good hotel with beautiful rooms, good service, delicious food and a perfect location close to the beach. Everything is okay here.

Probably the worst breakfast experience I've ever had. I've been in hundreds of both cheap and expensive hotels since I used to travel for a living and I've seen some bad breakfasts but at least they were in cheap places, with no pretentions. This hotel though had poor, cheap buffet options, shot glasses for water so we had to refill numerous times just to get a full glass of water, grey!!! hotdogs floating in ugly water, and bitter scrambled eggs (did they put baking powder in them?). Inexplicable breakfast for such a beautiful hotel in such a great location. Rooms are not cheap, so is management trying to make even bigger profits by saving a few euros for breakfast? For people who always choose specific hotels primarily for location and breakfast, this was very disappointing. The breakfast staff, including the person who's seemed to be the manager, were walking around like hawks, watching guests to make sure... to make sure what, that we don't get an extra slice of the cheapest ham in town? Weird experience. I got angry at some point because I kept having to get up for mouthfuls of water, so I grabbed a pitcher of water out of the two that were in the main buffet area and brought it to our table. We were tired of walking back just to fill our shot-sized glass with water, and the manager immediately came to our table probably to ask why I'd taken the pitcher. Thankfully, he had the presence of mind to not ask that when he saw me refill our small glasses several times in the span of 1 minute, and instead asked if I needed water. That saved him from me shaming him and the entire hotel right then and there for the joke this experience was. It's telling of the quality of hospitality in Portugal, where they think that by charging the higher prices from other countries they don't also have to match the quality of what you're offered in other countries. We see this again and again, where the prices are high, the appearance is of some standards but the end quality is just bad. Hotels in Portugal really need to upgrade their game and get educated in what customers need for a quality vacation. This was bad quality in a gorgeous building that we enjoyed, albeit the rooms could also use a bit of sprucing up, like cleaning the curtains and putting trash bins/bags in the rooms. We will be looking at other options whenever we visit beautiful Esposende. I hope the rest of the hotels offer better experiences.

Stayed here for one night on our Camino walk. Overall I would happily recommend it. It is a bit dated and the bed is not the most comfortable I've had but for the price it is good value. There is a nice pool area, the staff were very friendly the showers in the room were great, and the breakfast was good. It is nice and close to things (in my opinion), and for starting back the next day the Camino passes straight by.