Quinta da Pacheca

Came here for a wedding. Lovely venue. Staff were very friendly and chill. Loved the 2 resident dogs and cats. Rooms: We stayed in the regular rooms(ie not barrels). Nice decor and good size but no kettle to boil water. We had several meals here and food was pretty good overall. The only downside is the main restaurant isn’t open all day. And only opens late at 7.30pm for dinner. As it is quite small, if you don’t make a reservation, you may not get a table. Breakfast also starts late at 8am and only lasts till 10am. You can get food from the bar otherwise but menu is very limited especially for gluten free diners. We booked a car to bring us from QDP to Porto airport and was quoted £150-200 at reception. On the day itself though, it cost us £220. No explanation for the increase in fee. And it was only transport for 2pax.

This is an exceptionally nice, impeccably clean hotel and a really good restaurant. We would gladly stay there again. It is surrounded by vineyards and olive groves, and there is a winery and tasting room on the property, and peacocks patrol the grounds.||There are a few things that could be improved, however. One is that it is a complex of buildings, and it would be helpful for the owners to provide a map identifying where things are. Especially for a short stay, its easy to get lost in the maze of buildings. ||The residence building is modern and very comfortable, with barely adequate lay down space for traveler's toiletries. Patrons should be aware that the shower floors are slippery, and the shower doors are heavy and can slam closed with great force. there are no grab bars in the shower.The property's refusal to use plastic is a good thing, but I wonder if providing soap in glass containers in the shower is wise.

Didn't stay at the hotel but tasting tour was great. Very personable guide with good information. Was allowed to go into vineyard and try a grape which was very yummy since they were 2 weeks to harvest and made our day. Not all were winners but got to try a wide variety of Wine/Port and they were mostly very good. Great atmosphere, location and value for the tasting. Would visit again.

We were recommended this place for a meal so we came for a drink the day before with plans to book for lunch the next day. There are so many vineyards around here offering top class tranquil restaurants. We sat and had a drink whilst right outside a big van parks and starts offloading bikes for an hour, a man is loading plastic crates and a fork lift is zooming around with the associated beeping every time it reverses. This has to be the worst place to place a nice restaurant. What's more it's right by the river but instead of a lovely view of the river we get big van and bike trailer, fork lift and lorry loading crates. Decided not to book for lunch next day.

My wife and I did the Lagarada w/ Meal (wine tasting, grape stomping, and meal). Pedro was an excellent host, and the experience was further elevated by our group that was just extra fun to be around. A band played music while we stomped grapes, and both the wine tasting and meal (which included more wine) was excellent. Highly recommended!

We had our wedding at Quinta da Pacheca and it was pure perfection. The location, views, architecture, and aesthetic are beautiful. Staff and service were exceptional. The wine, port, and food were delicious and so many of our guests said the same! Thank you Quinta da Pacheca for making our wedding so beautiful. We will be back very soon!

It is simply impossible to stay in this hotel. At first, everything seems perfectly respectable when you arrive at reception. The staff there are polite and sensible - you can tell they’ve been trained in guest greeting standards. They even give you a tour of the hotel, show you the main areas and escort you to your room. That’s where your pleasant experience comes to an end. If you’re unlucky, as we were, and end up in a room in the residential wing, the only tolerable place to be will be the bathroom. At least it has relatively new tiles on the floor and walls. Mind you, don’t expect any amenities befitting a supposed five-star hotel. In our bathroom there was only: hand soap, all-purpose shampoo, a disposable shower cap, a nail file. Apparently the hotel considers a basic hygiene kit (cotton buds, cotton pads, etc.) an unnecessary luxury. The toilet, when flushed, simply splashes water all over the floor - perhaps that’s their idea of hygiene. But that’s actually the best part of the room. The worst is the bedroom itself. The carpet is filthy, covered in stains and ingrained with the stench of vomit throughout. Every piece of furniture - including a completely empty and pointless chest of drawers - is chipped and battered from decades of use. There is absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing, in the room that even remotely suggests five stars. Not even a simple shoehorn. In fact, there’s nothing at all. No iron or ironing board, no umbrella, no hairdryer. Nothing you’d expect from a five-star hotel. Breakfast is a special kind of masochism. There’s a menu with various egg dishes, but the breakfast chef appears to have entered a kitchen for the very first time and has no concept of cooking for human beings. The vegetable omelette had no salt whatsoever. I’ll just show you a photo of the Eggs Benedict instead of trying to explain - it was literally half a bun, about 7-9 cm across, with an egg dumped on top and two halves of a slice of bacon. No sauce, no seasoning, no salt. Thankfully the natural saltiness of the bacon saved it slightly. They serve cheese sliced straight through the coloured protective rind. Avoid the coffee machine in the dining room - it dispenses brownish water with no flavour at all. If you ask for coffee in a pot, they bring you the cheapest, foulest instant coffee imaginable. The food at the pool bar is a true culinary masterpiece - if you measure excellence by the standards of a low-grade home kitchen using the poorest ingredients. The €18 toast looks like a slice of stale supermarket bread (and I’m probably insulting supermarkets here), topped with finely chopped tasteless tomato and a sprinkle of cheese. They heat the whole thing in an oven or microwave and serve it with crisps. The crisps are the best part of the dish. The quinoa salad contained ingredients not listed on the menu (mushrooms). Unfortunately the person who ordered it is allergic to mushrooms. Apparently the hotel is unaware of legal requirements to declare ingredients/allergens. If you fancy a cocktail masterclass, be prepared to assist the instructor with their English - you’ll have to supply the words they’re searching for to explain the process. It seems the hotel knows very little about the hospitality and restaurant business in general. What they do know is how to bus in thousands of tourists for wine tastings. So if you’re dreaming of a peaceful holiday rather than the ambience of a coach park, look elsewhere. All this for over €500 a night. More expensive than almost any hotel in the region - and utterly unworthy of the price.

We had our wedding here and if I could give it 1,000 stars I would! Everything was truly exceptional. The staff are kind and accommodating. It’s clear they take pride in their job and want all of their guests to have a good time. The property is stunning. I have been in September for harvest and stomped grapes with a Portuguese band and in May for our wedding. Both times of year are beautiful. I love to travel and never have I found a place that I want to keep coming back to as much as Quinta da Pacheca! Very deserving of the Michelin guide recognition! I heard from many of our guests it was the best wedding they have ever been to. I feel lucky to have found such an amazing place and will be back for anniversaries to come 😊

BEAUTY ALL AROUND!!!! DELICIOUS PORTS AND SUPER FRIENDLY STAFF! This is the most picturesque winery I have ever been to! It is also one of the oldest wineries in the valley. I booked the tour to the this winery because it was recommended by our hotel (24€ pp) . We got there 10 mins before the tour. Parking was right at the entrance and plenty of space to park. Next we headed to the wine shed for our checkin. Then we waiting for our tour to begin. The tour guide was super knowledgeable and explained us the details the difference between port and wine and walked us through the different stages of wine making! The last but not least was tasting the wines and I have to say that QDP went all out on this. We have tasted some of their finest selection and all 5 were phenomenal. We eneded up buying 20 year aged Port and 40year aged port. After visiting here we came to know that this is also a hotel. Next time I am definitely staying there .

This place is so picturesque! We stopped by as part of a tour of Douro Valley. We are not big wine drinkers so we just wanted to visit a vineyard and have a tour. We've never experienced or seen wine grapes or olive trees, this place has an abundance of both and different varieties of g. They were able to accommodate us and our tour guide gave us a tour of the grounds. It had really well maintained grounds, gift shop, and various other amenities. On our next trip here, we plan to spend a few days here. Just gorgeous!

Amazing hotel, great service. We loved the tour and wine tasting. All the staff was accommodating and friendly. We especially loved staying in private barrel rooms, we enjoyed breakfast in our rooms delivered straight to our door, we wish we could've stayed another day but the barrels were pretty booked up. Their 30 year tawny port is absolutely fantastic!! Definitely need to try this place

We had a memorable wine tasting at one of the oldest port and wine Quinta in Douro. Quinta da Pacheca is one of the most prestigious and recognized properties in the Douro Region. The history of the vineyard in this property dates back to the XVI century when it was a collection of vines that belonged to the Monasteries of Salzedas and St. João de Tarouca. The winery is known for their famous Barrel Hotel Room rentable unit when you can virtually sleep in a barrel after enjoying your Pacheca wines! Very fitting! Our tour guide Hugo was very knowledgeable and gave us a full recap of centuries of Port wine history. The restaurant definitely deserves a special mention as the food is absolutely divine. Their leg of Lamb is just earthy and cooked to perfection. Their version of octopus thinly sliced and presented with such a pleasurable refinement is also worth mentioning. Our escapade at Pancheca was one of the very high point of out trip to Portugal!

This was one of the best experiences of my life! As soon as we arrived, I wanted to blow out our other travel plans and stay more nights. The hotel is beautiful and the room was one of the bigger ones I had in Portugal. The wine tour and tasting experience was top-notch. We had dinner at the Wine House restaurant and did the tasting menu with wine pairing. Everything was delicious and fresh and we were able to taste amazing fish, foie gras, steak, and more. There was even a ginger palate cleanser and a tasty dessert. The wines were excellent. And the price was so reasonable I had to read it again! It was a little jarring the next day when we went to the same restaurant for breakfast and it was not a lot of selection and poorly prepared.

Top class. Although we unfortunately were not able to snag a room in their uniquely beautiful wine house barrel rooms as they book out way in advance, we knew we had to make a trip to the winery. Located less than 2 hours from Porto, towards the beginning of Douro Valley, this quaint winery served our favorite red wines. Hands down the best reds we met in Portugal, even our family back home loved the wines we brought home! The winery itself was absolutely stunning - such a serene and romantic experience... highly recommend!

If you are lucky enough to reserve a wine barrel room, good for you! I almost had a chance because of how planned I started off but outside logistics held me up. The rooms are real nice but you do pay a premium for them. In about 2016, business for winery stays started booming. Before then, there were about 15 rooms with zero people staying most of the time. If you are doing it on your own, sometimes you can get a deal like free boat ride or if you tour agent/company books at a certain time or has a relationship with said hotel, they can maybe get these extras as well. Fresh juices and food abound. I wouldn't be able to provide the freshness they do but I can tell. Staff went out of their way to help me find restaurants and discuss opinions of which day I should do this or that etc. An experienced male staffer made me an americano free of charge and the night before, a lady brought my bags up w a cart even though I would've wanted to do it myself for the exercise but I was really tired from a not so great navigator and my phone not being navigation ready without using too much bandwidth to download this and that. Cheese , tomato, fruit, and meats are typical for Portuguese establishments. All of these offerings are so fresh. Wow. 3 hamlets in the premises. Red fruit drink does not have a label for what fruit it is and I cannot tell. They also offer fresh peach juice and not so surprisingly fresh squeezed orange juice. A travesty for a place in Portugal not to offer this as oranges are apparently cheap here and the process is easy enough (not easy to me haha). Breakfast is served between 830-1030. This seems to be a Portuguese standard. It is hard to fit everything in a day sometimes if your time is limited and since many things open at 9 despite this. Sometimes , I wish breakfast was typically available earlier but I know that that is the American in me. To get into your hotel room, you push the door open instead of pull it. The wine barrel rooms may be different. I had a free boat ride included with my purchase, but I didn't drive since the train ride to Pinhao is picturesque. The train was late and the directions to find the boat ride weren't the best. Even using Google maps, you have to realize that you have to go past the point to meet and then kind of turn around by crossing tracks, going on the side of a hotel, down through a garden until you find the exit to the dock area, and finally you find the company. The company has an app they want you to download for an audio tour but since I am not from the country, I have to be mindful of the data plan. I did get an international plan but there are still limits. The experience to get the boat ride and everything else was 4 star but I think the place is 5 star overall. They don't have to offer it at all. I had asked for this information in advance but they didn't want to give me the company name before I arrived in case I would cancel the hotel and go stay elsewhere. Another possibility is that they didn't decide the boat company until last minute. An included shuttle to/from Regua train station would be nice as it is recommended to do the train ride to Pinhao for the scenery. I personally didn't feel the hype but don't feel it is a bad thing either- so there is that. Winery tastings were excellent. I ended doing two and both were on site - one was free and the other included a more in-depth facilities tour- since it was supposed to rain with thunderstorms that day. Slight rain but no thunderstorms. You never know with these things. I was recommended to wait last minute to sign up for Pinhao winery tour because logistics with time might've been an issue and they would supposedly have spots but this dynamic is no longer true. Probably used to be late June - August but now probably need to book things in advance if May -September if easily accessible by train. They will add a guest relations person who can help with more thorough directions for future boat rides. They should consider a shuttle to and from Regua train station and also things like an arcade, board games, and a place for children as it is very family friendly except for the lack of activities for kids. IfnI could speak Portuguese and be paid well enough, maybe I could've been their guest relations person, haha I also used their pool, mini-gym, and had dinner at Pacheca. They comped me for the tour. Breakfast was already included in my stay. Pricy but I made sure to get the most I could for what I paid. Some locals I have bumped into feel this is overpriced for what you get and that there is fresh food offered at any of the locations because it is in a rich soiled valley where they can grow things and serve it fresh from their gardens directly.

Stayed in a regular room since the barrel shacks were all taken. Gorgeous vistas. Clean/modern facilities. Two restaurants, both were good and reasonable in prices. Swimming pool is nice, but note that they only offer a towel per person--don't lose it. Staff is quite friendly. Our tour was done by Fabio, and he was quite knowledgeable.

Wow! Is all I can say. After our wine and port tasting we had a leisurely lunch at the restaurant on the Estate. The staff was super friendly and attentive. Our meal was exquisite. We ordered the four course tasting menu with well paired wines and ports Check out our pics.

we will stay here two nights but it's quite loud; a wedding, a band. very loud for a beautiful vineyard setting. disappointed

The initial lure of our stay here was the unique nature of the wine barrel and reasonable price with included breakfast. The location is beautiful, right off the banks of the Duoro and the cute town of Peso de Regua right across the river. Our stay started out with a complimentary tour of the winery (reserved in advance). The tour was about 30-40 minutes and the best part was of course tasting their wines and learning about the differences in types and ages of port wine. I did not learn a lot from the tour about the process of wine making but it was nice to see the cellar. Then we were brought to our room in the van at sunset with gorgeous views of the valley. The staff showed us around the room, including the well hidden storage closets. Seeing as it was winter and about 50 degrees F outside we didn't get to enjoy the patio. But the room was well heated. I liked the sunroof above the bed with a motorized cover for the morning when it is too bright. Unfortunately at night, the lighting inside is not great. It is very dim and hard to see. The bed itself is beautiful to look at and has some unique features like bedside light switches, and TV remote built in. But unfortunately not very comfortable. It sinks in the middle. The bathroom sink is also a beautiful design but poorly thought out for functionality, as the water splashes everywhere for more than a trickle! A complimentary small bottle of port is included as well. The continental breakfast is in the main dining room overlooking the winery. The dining room is beautiful, and the breakfast was fantastic! A lot of good options from the standards to more unique Portuguese options. They had sparkling wine and juice for make-your-own mimosas. Overall a good stay, the wine barrels are a unique option, but I wish they were as functional and comfortable as beautiful.

Great Port wine tasting! We had a small tour of the facilities and got to try one of the port wines from the barrel - it was really neat. Each port wine was wonderfully sweet!

This is the most beautiful vineyard I have ever visited. Spectacular views, amazing port, and great food at the restaurant. Staff is friendly and passionate about their products.

Very interesting and beautiful tour. The tour guide Carla was a knowledgeable and funny which made the tour a whole lot more pleasant. Beautiful winery and great views!

One of the reasons as to why Portugal is [surprisingly] so magical is because of places like this. If you can find yourself here for a long afternoon and stay past sunset hour (radiance to perfection), then by chance, you might have one of the more transcendent vacation moments of your life. You likely will find yourself amidst a cool breeze most times of the year, but the wine will keep you warm. I like the aged red wine here best. #sublime

Very touristy. They told us they couldn't offer us a tasting because of two tour buses full of tourists they had booked. We bought two glasses and it was just ok. In the parking lot one of their employees almost ran me over. Stay away!!!

I had the chance to visit this Quinta during a Douro wine tour expedition. We tasted their vintage and rosé ports. They were all delicious ! The lady presenting us the wines was extremely friendly. She spoke perfect English and French. (Probably many other languages) The overall experience was great. The winery is beautiful with a restaurant and a hotel. Only downfall was that after trying the wines they did not want to let me buy a bottle and share it with friends. Only by the glass was allowed on their property.. which comes out to very expensive. I would recommend this winery for a good tasting experience, beautiful views and a friendly staff !

Awful experience at Quinta Da Pacheca. My husband and I took my parents on vacation to Portugal and booked two Queen rooms. We arrived to 2 rooms, both with 2 twin beds. The hotel was extremely rude and unaccommodating and said it was the fault of our rewards company. After contacting our rewards company, they let us know the hotel said they DID offer us an upgrade, and breakfast to "make it right". All of which was a complete lie. I would expect more from a high end hotel, and am insulted and shocked with how the situation was handled. I will not be back. The lack of honesty and professionalism is something I have never experienced.

Came here for lunch unexpectedly and we really enjoyed ourselves! Hubby had the chicken and mushroom dish and I had the chicken salad. The fruits and veggies in my salad were fresh and phenomenal. Both dishes were delicious. We also ordered a few glasses of wine (obviously) and the service was great. Loved the dining room area, which overlooked the vineyards. The Douro Valley is the best little secret ever!!