Casa Branca Beach & Golf

( 4 stars , Porto , Portugal )

The Casa Branca hotel is a small resort property situated adjacent to the beach on the Atlantic coast and five kilometres from the historic city of Porto. The 60 guestrooms have pastel colour schemes with dark wood furniture, glass top coffee tables and large wall mirrors, classically arranged curtains and matching bed fabrics. All include wireless Internet connection, air conditioning, satellite television and safes. The hotel's Casa Branca Restaurant serves gourmet Portuguese cuisine such as cod stuffed with ham and duck with beer sauce and is decorated in an in early 20th century style with antiques sculptures. Guests can also dine outside on the terrace, which overlooks the sea. Guests enjoy drinks and cocktails at the hotel's wine bar and lounge. In the evenings, there's dancing till late at the "Club Champagne Disco Bar". The Health Club and Spa offers beauty and health treatments including swimming pool, Turkish shower, sauna, jetted tub and gym. Meetings and banquets can also be organised among eight different rooms for as little as 10 people up to a maximum of 650. Audiovisual facilities are also available on request. Wireless internet access is also available in all public areas of the hotel. The hotel is also within four kilometres from the nearest golf course, although six more golf courses are located within a 60 kilometres radius of the hotel. Guests can also enjoy a whole host of water sports within five kilometres of the hotel. Visitors are within a few kilometres of many of Porto's cultural attractions, including artwork at the Romantic Museum and the Carrancas Palace museum, both three kilometres of the hotel. Porto Airport is 15 kilometres from the hotel.