Alegre Hotel Bussaco

Great hotel, great staff. Very clean , good free breakfast. They helped me to book dinner reservations and taxis and realized the one I liked was closed for the week and gave me alternatives. I came in September so a lot of the shopping booths (a nice market along the park) were closed. Nice small park near entrance to major hiking trail. I drove 8 minutes to buccau national Forest, or 30 minutes walk. Lots of stairs and verticals. The forest was incredible.

The Staff is very kind and helpfull, the Hotel is rustic but with great conditions. Very clean. It's almost like a museum. Beautiful and full of history! Worth to spend some time and explore the Bussaco forest.

This hotel is a gem! A beautiful building with a rich family history, that keeps its style without succumbing to the bland beige geometry of contemporary decoration. The house was full of clocks! The room was comfortable and lively. The breakfast was honestly great, good variety. The staff is welcoming and made us feel right at home.

Very good value for money. Really charming old hotel. Very warm reception. Helpful and friendly staff. Excellent breakfast, for 5€. Great views. Top location. Swimming pool, secured parking is free of charge. I defenitely recommend this place.

A wonderful hotel at a good price. Excellent breakfast and hospitality

Enjoy this hotel. It is a feeling of an old home with very nice facilities, including an outdoor pool. The only negatives that you have to be aware of is there is no air-conditioning and the rooms are very small. There is no desk in the rooms to do work. The Internet, however, is exceptional. The hosts were very gracious and arrange transportation to and from the Camino for me. I would recommend this place.

Our stay can be summed up in one word, Fantastic. Super friendly and efficiently run family establishment. It has been in the same family for 130 years. The house is an old mansion belonging to a Duke and was rented to a lady that ran it as a boarding house. In the 1930's her daughter and grandmother of the current owners managed to buy it. It looks out over the Luso village. They serve a great breakfast. Great value for money.

We had heard great things about hiking in the Bussaco forest so added an evening in Luso to our Portugal trip. We spent the evening at the Alegre Hotel. As others have written, it is an old world family run hotel 18 room hotel. It very much reminded me of places I have stayed in rural France. Everything about the hotel needs to be viewed in the context of what it is. The keys are old style heavy brass, the parlor spaces are rather dark with period furniture, the breakfast room walls are populated by a plethora of ticking clocks that only vaguely keep time, the rooms are high ceilinged, there is no air conditioning and heat in our room on a chilly evening was provided by an electric “wood stove” in the fireplace. All that being said, the bed was warm and comfortable, the bathroom pretty modern and clean, the view over the town from our balcony fantastic, the breakfast very good and the breakfast server very friendly. We left in the morning feeling that we had spent a pleasant evening in another era.