Casa Rural As Bentinas

We stayed at many country homes along our Camino Portugués route, and this place won our best vote! This stunningly beautiful property comes with large garden, fruit orchard, and a swimming pool! We booked 3 rooms, all have comfortable beds and private bathrooms with full amenities. Bed sheets, pillows, bath towels are top notch quality. We arrived quite late, the host left our room keys in an envelop on a desk with instructions. For dinner we called for pizza delivery and ate leisurely in the lovely dinningroom. We helped ourself with wine and water from the kitchen. There was no other guests around, it felt like we had the whole place to ourself! Next morning we met our host Susana at breakfast. Such a wondeful, kind, warm-hearted lady! She served us an incredible generous and delicious breakfast: cheese, meat, bread, croissant, pastries, fruits, yogurt, juice, tea, and coffee. We all wished we could stay here longer! After breakfast we left to continue our walk, Susana carefully gave us directions to get back on the nearest Camino route. She stood outside to wave goodbye. And when she saw that we made a wrong turn, she ran after us and walked with us almost half a block to the correct road. Yes, we love you Susana! Highly, highly recommend this place.

After reading a previous review about getting kicked out early I was nervous (as this exact experience had happened to us earlier while walking the Camino de Santiago), but we did not have that experience at all! The person serving the breakfast and cleaning was quiet as a mouse, and very accommodating when my daughter wanted breakfast at a different time than me. The property is beautiful, and also clean and has modern amenities (the bathroom was great), there is a swimming pool, and a full shared kitchen. There aren't tvs in each room (a shared living room with one tv) but the wifi was good so we just watched some Netflix on our phones. There's an honor bar in the main kitchen fridge where you mark down what drinks you had and pay at the end. It's a little bit off the camino path but not too bad (maybe half a mile). This was the perfect stop for us, and we were able to wake up and only had to walk the last 5 miles into Santiago. I would recommend!