The Yeatman

A truly great hotel. Great views of the Duoro River and Porto from Gaia, across the river. It’s a Relais & Chateaux hotel. Almost every room has a river view. It is built into a steep hill, so you enter in the lobby and the rooms are on 6 levels below, and very spread out. Nicely appointed rooms, beautiful public areas, and nice amenities. Nice pool; two restaurants, one a two-star Michelin, the other a nice upscale place where you have breakfast, or dinner at night (Orangerie). We actually preffered the latter. You can walk, or Uber, to the port houses, which are located in Gaia, not Porto. Ubers are very reasonable and readily available. Nice bar, complete with piano player, for cocktails. Nice staff. Highly recommend!

A family hospitalization made us cancel our Portugal trip last minute - 3 cities and 3 hotels. Hilton cancelled without charging us. InterContinental cancelled without charging us. The Yeatman's response after explaining our issue? From Miguel C, Reservations agent, via email after we tried to cancel and then charging us for the room we didn't use: "You requested a cancellation 4 days before the arrival date, making it impossible to resell the room." Impossible to sell the room? Apparently they don't have enough demand for their rooms. I'd stay at a hotel that people want to stay at.

Came straight into Porto and was so glad we started there. The view was unbelievable, the hotel great and the staff awesome. Will be back.

We stayed at the Yeatman for 3 nights for my husbands birthday. I booked a superior deluxe between floors 4-7 which was a really lovely spacious room with a big balcony overlooking the duoro river. The hotel is really lovely, lots of nice restaurants and a bar onsite. We didn’t use the outdoor pool as it was raining for much of our stay but we did use the indoor pool area and spa which was lovely. The only thing I would say is the pools and Roman bath were a bit cold. The hotel is in a great location, Taylor’s is literally outside the front entrance and definitely worth a visit and world of wine and the riverside are walkable. We walked from the hotel to the ribiera once which was fairly easy for us, about 20-30 minutes but Ubers were plentiful and cheap so no issue there. Porto is a lovely city to wander around with lots to see and do. The only down side we had in the hotel was the people using their phones and tablets, or allowing their children to, on loudspeaker which ruined the ambience- this happened a couple of times and I think the hotel should have a policy on this if they don’t already. All in all it was a great trip and I would stay at the Yeatman again happily.

Fantastic hotel. Superb views across the river to the bridges. The room was very well presented with a lovely comfortable king size bed and great views. Breakfasts had great choice and a live station with a chef. The pastries were fantastic. Dick’s bar is great and the espresso martinis were mixed to perfection. We used the laundry service which was incredibly quick. The spa was well worth trying out. The staff are attentive and very friendly. The atmosphere is chic and classy. The only issue I had is allowing brash kids to use speaker phones and tablets at breakfast. The world-over why are hotels (and families) allowing this type of boorish behaviour. I would highly recommend this superb hotel and we will definitely return.