Areias do Seixo Charm Hotel

A Magical Design Hotel

Areias do Seixo Charm Hotel  is located in a secluded seaside area in the Lisbon district (only ~1hr drive from Lisbon airport). There is no better word to describe the hotel other than "magical". The owners, Marta and Gonçalo, put their heart and soul into designing and building this place. It was one of the best design hotels we have stayed at and definitely deserved the 4.5 rating on Tripadvisor. 

Despite the lack of dining options in the immediately surrounding rea, we very much enjoyed our dinners at the hotel restaurant, Food by Heart @ Areias do Seixo. Every dish was Portuguese home-cooking with fresh organic ingredients from the hotel's very own vegetable garden.

Organic Vegetable Garden Tour

As we were very impressed with the fresh ingredients in every dish we had at the hotel restaurant, we didn't want to miss a tour of the organic vegetable garden led by its very passionate horticulturist. He explained to us that they built this organic garden from scratch with no machinery/chemical involved. He introduced us to the hard-working resident plowers who helped him clean and reseed the fields after every harvest. He also showed us how he made natural fertilizer from manure (the smell was quite pungent but stil an interesting part of the tour). We ended the tour with a few fresh strands of lemongrass leaves, with which the hotel bartender made us the farewell tea before our departure to Sintra. What a perfect ending to our stay which began with this lovely welcome tea two days ago!