Aldeia da Fonte Hotel

Beautiful location. Rustic. Clean. Spacious room. With both a bedroom and large sitting room. Our room was ocean facing. Listened to the sound of crashing waves and gentle blowing breeze at night. Very quiet with windows shut. We ate at the restaurant 2 evenings and had great meals and desserts. Great mattresses. Nice hot shower. Good breakfast. Overall quiet.

A hotel with a character of its own overlooking the Atlantic on the south coast of Pico, some 2-3 kms from the lovely town of Lajes. The rooms are very individual and quiet. Staff are very friendly. The hotel restaurant is one of the best that I found during my 3 week trip to the Azores

I was there on May 12th. Room prices are expensive for a solo stay. Don't take a suite for extra comfort. Because the "suite" is a small appartement with an etra bed in the living room. And the beds remain horrible, worst night I had in years. Cheap foam matress, as hard as concrete. Plus I have been charged 2 times for the room on my credit card. Waiting to be reimbursed for this "error"... Food is OK.

One of the best hotels in the world and I stayed in a lot around the globe … such attention and care for details !… from welcoming to restaurants and bar not too forget the amazing breakfast buffet and sauna gym and yoga and meditation space all around the stupendous park that drives you to the pristine swimming pool area … food is excellent like the service! It reminds me of the Post Ranch Inn in California huuuu

Restaurant was OK, breakfast sadly plain bad. Big room. Everything Looks a little bit old ("Vintage"). Really nice plants + Look at the sea.

We found this restaurant by mistake and we’re so happy to have done so. The service was outstanding our waitress was very personable. I had jumbo shrimp which was prepared in a delicious sauce, and my wife is quoted as saying it was the best steak she has ever had. Please try this place. The price was worth every penny !!

This is a terrible run down hotel . In a 2 night stay they failed to service the room. It is tired and sorely lacking in love. No Mantainance . Not much worked in the bedroom. Lamp not working. Missing batteries in the cheap remote for the fan. Bathtub chipped and marked. The furniture was old and end of life. The area rug in the bedroom was all stained and it all just smelt bad. The bedsheets were stained. Sad as the property has immense architectural and historic charm. The owners just failed to invest and refurbish a property which no doubt once upon a time must have been a great hotel. Just squandered the legacy. You can still see evidence of great craftsmanship but now all a faded hotel.

Hard beds but otherwise a fantastic experience. The hotel is a series of cottages by the ocean and has a dreamlike quality about it. It feels like something out of the hobbit. Paths wind around the facility and uncover little nooks and crannies for chilling or reading. Other paths take you along the ocean and down towards the pool and sauna. My wife said she'd come back to just stay and chill for a few days. Our room, #1, had a main bedroom and a separate living room with a bed for our third traveler. My travelers just kept repeating...'how adorable' and 'how cute is this'. The restaurant was very good and we ate there twice, sampling different meals, such as the bacon/ham pasta, code and octopus bake and baked tuna...all of which were big enough to share. Thoroughly enjoyed our visit and if we're back in Pico, will be sure to stay there again.

This hotel is nice and in a beautiful coastal location. Our room was #7 with perk-a-boo views of the ocean outside our room in the seating area. It was overly perfumed, so we had to keep the window open and door when possible. There is NO a/c, and the window tips open, maybe 30 degrees. We had to put the blankets in the closet under our beds bottom sheet because the mattress was extremely hard. The kitchen area had a nice fridge and kettle, no towel or wash cloth. The pool was extremely difficult to find because no one would take the time to show us. The second day, we had to use google maps to locate it. Find room 11A or B. You follow the sign to the sea and find the blue ropes. You will also see a steep path down to the ladder where you can swim in the ocean. Continuing to the pool you need to go past the green landing with chairs, more blue ropes and go past a house with a short wall. Finally, at the pool, the view is beautiful. The pool is in disrepair and cloudy water, which was concerning. Staff was nice, but little English spoken. No wash clothes in the room, but that is common. Breakfast had some great choices of fruit and the usual. Dinner was great. The cod and octopus plate was yummy. Filet mignon was also very good as was the lapas. All in all it was a nice place, just needs a little elbow grease.

Beautiful and peaceful place Incredible place Plants are beautiful Location is amazing We are loving our stay

This hotel is absolutely stunning. I went during the off season, so it was about half the regular price. It's relatively well maintained and the views are unbeatable. It was built outside of town along the water, so it's very private. You can walk along the "sea trail" that the hotel built and arrive at a number of ocean overlooks. One of them is right next to the water and you can climb down a ladder to go swimming. The breakfast was good and the staff were friendly. The dinner was especially nice and included lots of local produce.

This is a great stop for lunch (or dinner depending on the time when you pass by) on a self-drive-around-the-island tour. We were driving on the main road that goes around the island and didn't see many restaurant options after Madarena on our drive eastward, and so when we saw the "restaurant" and " hotel" signs on the road at around lunch time we just turned right and followed the sign down the slope for about 600 meters before we reached this restaurant inside a 4-star hotel. There were at least 20 people already there sitting indoor and outdoor eating or waiting for their meals. We got an outdoor table and ordered a vegetable soup each plus a mixed meat kabob which came with chicken, pork, and beef (all from this island) main course and a fried fish filet main course. I enjoyed the kabob but the fried fish filet wasn't as well done as the fish didn't have much taste. After the meal we ordered a scoop of pistachio gelato which was quite refreshing. If I return again I would like to try the octopus cooked in clay pot as the restaurant seems to offer a few good traditional dishes on the menu.

Fabulous place. 1st class service. Great variety of food types including local, Chinese and American. Deserts are to die for. Awesome wine list. Reasonable prices.