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The Hostelz.com Review
Ponte de Lima Youth Hostel is an ultra-modern, high-concept architectural structure that feels a little sterile, almost prison-like. It's certainly clean, the shared bathrooms are clean and spacious, and it offers a fridge and a microwave, but not a full kitchen.
The dorms are attractive and have beautiful pastoral views from large windows. The common spaces are unused and appear to have been unused for a long time. The "garden" (a cement patio) has spider webs over the chairs. Breakfast is ham, cheese, rolls, coffee, juice, cereal, and jam. The hostel seems to be occupied mainly by couples in their thirties and forties, some with kids -- mostly Europeans driving their own cars. If Ponte de Lima has any nightlife (surely it does, but we didn't find it), it would be a long walk home in the dark for anyone who didn't have a car. There's no grocery store nearby, either.
What's best about is that it's peaceful, comfortable, safe, and clean. Not much atmosphere, however. The town, accessible via the river walk, is breathtakingly beautiful -- an old Roman bridge over the River Lima, medieval churches and monuments, a lively fair once a week, a museum where you can see how lace is made, and "thematic gardens" (a Roman garden with columns and lily pads, a Romantic rose garden, a Renaissance garden with a fountain).
There's also plenty of life on the river -- canoeing and kayaking (you can rent them), swimming, and picnicking. This hostel is a great family vacation spot, or a quiet place to recoup and rest up after too much partying in some of the other Portuguese cities.
The dorms are attractive and have beautiful pastoral views from large windows. The common spaces are unused and appear to have been unused for a long time. The "garden" (a cement patio) has spider webs over the chairs. Breakfast is ham, cheese, rolls, coffee, juice, cereal, and jam. The hostel seems to be occupied mainly by couples in their thirties and forties, some with kids -- mostly Europeans driving their own cars. If Ponte de Lima has any nightlife (surely it does, but we didn't find it), it would be a long walk home in the dark for anyone who didn't have a car. There's no grocery store nearby, either.
What's best about is that it's peaceful, comfortable, safe, and clean. Not much atmosphere, however. The town, accessible via the river walk, is breathtakingly beautiful -- an old Roman bridge over the River Lima, medieval churches and monuments, a lively fair once a week, a museum where you can see how lace is made, and "thematic gardens" (a Roman garden with columns and lily pads, a Romantic rose garden, a Renaissance garden with a fountain).
There's also plenty of life on the river -- canoeing and kayaking (you can rent them), swimming, and picnicking. This hostel is a great family vacation spot, or a quiet place to recoup and rest up after too much partying in some of the other Portuguese cities.
— Exclusive Hostelz.com Review
August 2006
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Location/Contact| Address | Rua Agostinho Jose Taveira, Ponte de Lima, Viana do Castelo, Portugal |
| Location | A3 (Porto) or A27 (Viana do Castelo), exit: Ponte de Lima |
| Website | www.pousadasjuventude.pt |
| Telephone | +351 258 943797 |
| Fax | +351 258 943605 |
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