Does Vila Gale Coimbra Hotel have a pool?

Yes, this property has an indoor pool and an outdoor pool.

Is Vila Gale Coimbra Hotel pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much is parking at Vila Gale Coimbra Hotel?

Self parking is available for EUR 10.00 per day.

What time is check-in at Vila Gale Coimbra Hotel?

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: 1:00 AM. Late check-in is available during limited hours.

What time is check-out at Vila Gale Coimbra Hotel?

Check-out is at noon. Late check-out is available for EUR 30 (subject to availability).

Where is Vila Gale Coimbra Hotel located?

Located in Coimbra City Centre, this spa hotel is within a 15-minute walk of Santa Cruz Church, CAV, and Jardim da Manga. Núcleo da Cidade Muralhada/Torre de Almedina and Fado ao Centro are also within 15 minutes. Coimbra Station is 14 minutes by foot.

10/10 Excellent

Stéphane

Sep 19, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Great place to go

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Zsuzsa

Jul 18, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Beautiful hotel, amazing restaurant, great staff!

Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2025

10/10 Excellent

Edgar

Aug 29, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Clean hotel with all the amenities in beautiful Coimbra. Nice pool area

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Samuel

Aug 2, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Great place for a family visit or conference. My only complaint is thin walls, and much of the public, regardless of nationality, seems to have forgotten what it means to stay in a shared space while speaking in hushed tones. The people who work here are caring and kind, but hotel guests need some training.

Stayed 11 nights in Jul 2025

6/10 Okay

Todd

Aug 17, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Very friendly staff and beautiful pool. AC not good - barely worked. Not enough pool chairs - had to sit in the grass. Bed and pillows were very uncomfortable.

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Lyndon

Apr 5, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

A very nice clean property with a great indoor pool and good restaurant where the food was amazing.

Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2025

10/10 Excellent

maria

Aug 14, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Beautiful hotel with amazing staff

Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Amber

Apr 21, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Nice hotel, good food and drinks. The beds and pillows were a little hard but that was our only complaint.

Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

John

Sep 27, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

This hotel is amazing. The front desk staff are friendly and helpful. Definitely recommend this hotel.

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Caio

Nov 10, 2022

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Excellent location, great staff, great dinner and breakfast. Could use an exhaust in the bathroom and there were no handles in the bath which I think is dangerous but these are nitpicks.

8/10 Good

Diana

Sep 25, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

All the staff were really friendly, helpful and welcoming. I really liked the balcony in the room - the view of the University, especially at night was beautiful and peaceful. A la carte was on offer in addition to the buffet dinner which was a really good option and delicious.

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

CARLOS ALBERTO

Jul 10, 2022

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

When I have to stay in Coimbra for 2 or 3 days I ALWAYS stay at Vila Galé. I feel at home; the restaurant staff is absolutely friendly. The gym is very good considering it is a hotel gym and the swimming pools are great. Choose a room with a view to the swimming pool and the Mondego river.

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2022

6/10 Okay

Don

Jul 21, 2022

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

It felt a little cold. The staff was friendly but the hotel felt a little institutional.

Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2022

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Oct 5, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

Very old hotel, needs refsctions. Not good located.

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

4/10 Poor

Silvana

Aug 21, 2022

Liked: Cleanliness

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

Old fashion 1960 building. Expensive and over rated. Quiet

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Sarah

Nov 24, 2023

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Location abd parking garage was great. The mattresses were old and you could feel the springs. The showere door was useless. T h e shower wand sprayed wayer all over the floor.

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

6/10 Okay

Darla

Jul 24, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities

This hotel is beautiful like the pictures, but the buffet is overpriced. My travel companions loved the themed buffet nights, but I ordered from the menu (which was limited). The AC would have to be reset by the front desk everytime we removed the key from the power slot and one night several rooms lost power for an unknown reason... so I woke up to no AC and I had to get dressed for my conference by cell phone flash light.... When I asked to speak with the manager, I was told that she was not there... no apology, explanation, or offer to make amends for the inconvenience! The room was ALWAY cleaned excellently! The AC was very cold and the remote only worked sometimes so I had to call the front desk often for them to fix it. But they did not alway answer the phone? I am not sure why, but I had a hard time reaching any services... room service, the spa, the front desk. No one consistently answered their extension. I stayed here with 14 students and 4 coworkers so we had like 10 rooms but we experienced similar issues. The spa was very reasonably priced. I recommend using the steam room, sauna, hot tub, and indoor pool... by 8p because they literally asked me to leave the pool at 8p (even though the front desk guy said that the pool closed at 9p). Different people give you different information. For example, the bartender told us that we had to leave the lobby tables because we had outside food. When I asked at the front desk, they said we could our food anywhere!

Stayed 6 nights in Jul 2025

10/10 Excellent

Katherine

Jul 13, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

The room was lovely and the breakfasts were absolute fantastic! We were able to walk along the water to downtown easily and I could run along the water into the park and all around Coimbra. The only hiccup we experienced was that they decided to clean both pools at the same time on Monday morning (when our daughter had been looking forward to finally spending the day at the pool, after our “boring” touring all weekend), but it looked like someone else got upset about that and alerted a manager, because the cleaning promptly stopped and the kids were able to play! (Which we appreciated very much!). Cleaning of the pool after hours sounds like a good idea to me, in general.

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2024

2/10 Terrible

Jivan

Mar 18, 2024

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities

Deceiving as the hotel itself looks nice. The rooms are filthy. Smells of stale cigarette smoke and keep your shoes on as the carpet looks like it’s been trapping filth since the 70’s. The shower doesn’t drain properly and splashes water all over the bathroom floor. The beds are uncomfortable and worn. Using the pool requires you to purchase a swimming cap and they’re still playing pandemic forcing you to book a 45min time slot. I’d strongly advise against anyone booking here. Advertised as a 4 star, but more like a 2 star at best.

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Simon

Mar 22, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Allergies beware

Very limited breakfast options for non dairy family (vegan) family. The staff just kept asking us about gluten free food. I even asked in Portuguese. They clearly have no training in vegan food which for a 4 star hotel is very poor. We nipped over the road to a local shop picked up bread, butter, milk and made our own breakfast in front of them. You have to work very hard to add milk into bread, why on earth make it this hard is beyond me.

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

8/10 Good

giuliana

Sep 10, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Too expensive for what it is (standard rooms)

BEWARE, the difference between rooms is huge. I booked a standard room with a "city view". It had no ceiling light in the bedroom area with only weak side lights. Since there are no additional sockets to plug your laptop or device you need to unplug one of the bedside tables, which means you are completely in the dark. There is no desk because the tiny desk (without chair) is where the TV stands. The room itself is small but the bathroom is very nice and large. I had no heating at night because all their air conditioning systems are blocked to a standard set up, but at night it can be chilly, while in the day it's hot. The bed linen was very good but the actual mattress is not so comfortable. Portugal tends to use extremely hard old-fashioned mattresses, but if you are a foreigner, you may not find it comfortable. No memory foam mattress here. Breakfast was good enough. I am vegan so my options were limited, but at least here they had baked beans and cucumbers with olive oil, and that's enough for me. Some other "luxury" Portuguese hotels have chia seeds and soy/coconut milk as healthier options but here they do not. The room was a corner one so it had a large balcony, which I liked, but no outside chair and no outside table. I was on the 3rd floor so I could see a bit of "city" but mainly you have a car park at the bottom and a new building in front. But, if you have a room on this side on the lower floors, you will have a horrible view.

Bedside lights only with no additional sockets for your devices. Also, the bedroom section as you can see is very small. The only ceiling lights are at the entrance but not on the bed area, which makes the bedroom area very dark.

As you can see the only socket is for the bedside light. You need to bring your own multiplug. I asked at reception and they had none to give me.

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

8/10 Good

Normand

Oct 28, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Hotel was clean. Buffet supper was cold, we did get a refund for the supper.

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

Francisco

Aug 3, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Hotel muy completo. En primer lugar el parking, grande e incluido en el precio de la habitación. Habitación adecuada y limpia. No me gusta en ningún lado las moquetas, pero entiendo que se mantengan todavía en ciertos lugares, como este hotel. Varios ascensores. Atención del personal muy correcta y amable. Buen desayuno. Cenamos a la carta una noche y muy bien. Otra noche en la cafetería y también muy bien. Gimnasio con varias máquinas, también incluido, además del spá. Piscina. Incluye la bebida del minibar también y todos los días reponían agua y pienzas de fruta en la habitación. Muy recomendable.

Stayed 6 nights in Jul 2025

8/10 Good

Henrik

Aug 3, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Dejligt hotel, lækker morgenmad gåafstand til den gamle by, fin pool

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2025

6/10 Okay

Cécile

Aug 1, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

Literie confortable mais le lit d'appoint pour ma fille (chambre triple) était trop étroit et petit. La climatisation est un peu faible vue la chaleur ambiante. Beaucoup de choix au petit déjeuner. Un parking sous-terrain disponible sans problème. La piscine reste le point positif du lieu.

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

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