Colina Dos Mouros Hotel

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The Colina Dos Mouros is a lovely hotel that overlooks the beautiful, quiet town of Silves. We enjoyed a very peaceful and relaxing week here in September 2007. Silves is not a resort, there are no nightclubs, pubs or bars. The town is very quiet with lovely restaurants, cobbled streets and the river runs alongside. Everywhere we went we saw local people. The town’s two main landmarks – the cathedral and the castle – are located in the old town, past the old gate. The roads are very steep here and the cobbles can be a little slippery, but it is enchanting. You can hear the cathedral chiming every half hour throughout the town.
The hotel was lovely and we had an excellent, large room with a balcony that gave us a perfect view of the town (room 209). Most of the rooms were slightly smaller and not all rooms have balconies. The restaurant/bar was directly above us, but the bar closes at midnight so we weren’t kept awake late at night.
The hotel has a lovely swimming pool and baby pool with a generous surrounding area for sunbathing. Unfortunately the pool bar was closed during our stay and we had to fetch drinks from the upstairs bar. There was also no staff presence around the pool which lead to glasses not being cleared away and some unwanted guests being able to wander onto the hotel premises unchecked. Our room was serviced everyday and sheets were changed every 2/3 days. The staff were lovely and very helpful, they all spoke English and were very friendly.
Silves is a beautiful hideaway where you can get away from everything and relax. It may be missing some luxuries, but the peace and quiet are worth it.

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Myself and my mum arrived back last night from a weeks' stay at this hotel. When we arrived we found it was exactly as described, the hotel and area were quite quiet and the room and rest of the hotel were maintained to a very high standard.
We stayed on a bed and breakfast basis as we wanted to be able to try a variety of local restaurants. The breakfast included coffee/tea, fruit juice, cereal, fruit, yoghurts, bread/rolls, cheese and ham. We ate lunch in the hotel twice and the prices were reasonable and the food very nice.
There are a lot of restaurants and cafes within about ten minutes walk of the hotel and there are a few that are nearer so we usually had lunch in the ones that were a bit further away down the little streets but of a night we ate in the ones closer to the hotel on the main road.
We would highly recommend Suzie's which is on the main road if you take a right out of the hotel, take the next right and then turn left. We ate here 3 nights out of 7 because it was so nice and very reasonable. This was the only one that did not bring us bread, pate and olives and charge for them even though you didn't ask for them or eat them!
I would probably visit there again for a week as it is really nice for a relaxing break but if you are looking for night-life it is probably not the place for you.