Aethos Ericeira

We stayed here for 2 nights, and we really enjoyed our time. The staff was very friendly and welcoming, breakfast is amazing, the products used were high quality. We had also dinner there, definitely to try rice with asparagus and fish soup, broccoli were also very tasty 👍🏻 good job, hope to come back again. P.s. location is perfect if you like to travel and see different places, they have a charger for electric cars 👍🏻

We had a fantastic time at Aethos! Every inch of the hotel building is gorgeous. We got in just in time for a stunning sunset and saw the fog roll in along the shore. Our room was very clean and the shower had great water pressure. We made use of the free power assisted bikes and had a blast, topped off by time at the pool, sauna with the best view ever, and the cold plunge. Dinner at the on site restaurant was just OK but breakfast was great! Highly recommend eating the little pastry called "Ourico" - they don't look like much but taste absolutely phenomenal.

We stayed at Aethos Ericeira for 5 nights. The hotel itself is beautiful – the design and aesthetics are lovely, our room was really nice, and the staff were all very friendly and kind. Breakfast included was excellent, the gym is well equipped (treadmill, bike, rowing machine, weights), and the sauna with ocean views plus a cold plunge is a great touch. The free electric bikes were also a highlight – really fun to take out. That said, a few things took away from the overall experience. Prices for food and drink felt very high – for example, the cheapest glass of wine was €14, two poolside coffees with service automatically added came to €15, and a burger (no fries) was €23. We don’t mind paying a premium at a nice hotel, but here it felt more exploitative – as though the hotel can charge what it wants because it’s secluded and there aren’t many alternatives nearby. After that first dinner, we decided to drive into town each evening instead – far better value and still really good food. We also noticed quite a few flies, both at dinner in ONDA and around certain spots by the pool. It did put a dampener on what was otherwise a nice setting, especially given the cost of dining there. Other small points: the pool is beautiful but shallow, so not really for swimming. Ericeira is well known for surfing, and while the €200–250 price for a private lesson isn’t unreasonable, it would’ve been nice to see a cheaper group lesson option for beginners. Also worth noting: the shower wall in the room is glass with a privacy screen – fine for us, but might not suit everyone. To be clear, the downsides aren’t things the staff could change – they were genuinely great throughout our stay. The flies seemed like a temporary issue, and the prices are more likely set at a corporate level. Still, it did leave us feeling that for longer stays, you really do need a car so you can escape the hotel pricing and enjoy Ericeira itself. Overall, it’s a lovely hotel with great staff and facilities, but it’s hard to shake the sense that guests are being overcharged simply because of the location.

I hate writing reviews that aren’t amazing and I want to start off by saying that the staff were AMAZING, so accommodating and friendly. We came for a one night stay on the night that we got engaged and obviously I wanted everything to be perfect but it was slightly off for us. We arrived, got into our room which was BEAUTIFUL, went for an E-bike ride on the cliffs and absolutely loved every second of it but when we got back and turned the bath on; the smoke detector started going off and we were told it always happens and we just need to wait for it to go off, we waited for about an hour with the loud beeping which wasn’t ideal and then they moved us rooms which was slightly inconvenient as we had to pack our bags etc and move. The room we got moved to wasn’t the same, it was smaller and had quite a large amount of fruit flies, on our pillows especially which wasn’t ideal. (They’re small in the photo but were everywhere) Drinks and food are also very, very expensive but it makes sense at a place like that. Beds are very hard If everything went well we would have definitely recommended Aethos for sure but unfortunately things just went wrong and it seemed like our issues were quite “normal”