My husband & I stayed here 4 nights. Worked out to be £51 per night. Great room which was comfortable clean & cozy. Lovely staff who were very friendly & helpful. Breakfast had a huge selection and will cater for dietary needs.

Amazing hotel with history touch.
Extremely good staff.
Polite,cooperative,experienced.
Perfect breakfast!
We stayed before in several aces in Portugal but none of hotels before was like this one.highly recommended.

If you want a small hotel that is full of character and charm and want to avoid large, bland tourist type hotels, then the Dom Manuel is for you. The whole hotel, rooms and pool area are kept exceptionally clean. The pool is small and isn't really designed for proper swimming but it does the job of cooling you off. Balconies are lovely and really feel an extension of the room space. It was really useful to have a kettle, mugs and teaspoons in the room although I would advise you bring your own tea and coffee. We also had a fridge in the room. Breakfast is good and perfectly acceptable although not especially outstanding. There is a breakfast area outside which is very civilised but if full, you have to eat inside - the downside being that we found the chairs pretty uncomfortable - but this is a minor issue. It does take a good twenty minutes to get into the centre of town where all the restaurants are but the plus side is that it is within reasonable walking distance to some fantastic beaches.

we stayed at dom manuel for three nights in july 2012. in general the place is quite nice and offers a piece of quiet in the otherwise tourist-crowded town of lagos. the whole structure is clean and well-kept, staff was polite and accomodating. also, rooms are provided with free wi-fi, which was cool, although it stopped working from time to time.

however, i'd like to mention a couple of things we did not quite like:

breakfast quality was not more than average.

once we asked for a knife at the hotel bar because we wanted to cut some chorizo and cheese we had bought at the supermarket, and we were given one only after complex negotiations. what's wrong with borrowing a knife? if I had wanted to stab someone, i'd brought my own knife anyway!

at our arrival, there were some other people checking in and we had to wait for about half an hour before we were led to our room. Between bringing people to their rooms, Jessica was also busy at the hotel bar and answering other guests' requests. Apparently the hotel's policy is to take as much time as possible for every guest in order to make him feel comfortable, which is OK. But if more than one arrival is foreseen on one particular day, there should be more than one person available to welcome guests and manage other reception jobs at check-in time. Once you eventually made it to the hotel after a long day (as it was in our case) you really deserve to be checked in quickly and you definitely don't appreciate waiting any longer.

I don't know how often this happens but I think hotel owners should consider this last point with care especially because this affects the first impression hotel guests get.

Altogether I think the price is a little bit too high for what is being offered. We enjoyed our stay but were certainly not overwhelmed.