Pousada De Sao Tiago

Beautiful Heritage building and lovely sea view place

The room was amazing. It was a two-room suite on the third floor with a balcony overlooking the river. It’s in a peaceful neighborhood on the tip of the Macao peninsula. Good if you want to be away from the crowds, though it’s about a 25-minute walk to the main historic sites. The hotel felt a bit like a work in progress. The staff was obliging but not always there. There are no elevators and there’s no one outside to help you bring your luggage up the stairs to the lobby. Our room keycards stopped working every day so we had to get them reset. A basic breakfast was included - two pieces of dim sum, congee (rice porridge) and two boiled eggs. The hotel no longer has a restaurant but it has a cafe with an atmospheric outdoor seating area that was popular in the afternoon for coffee and cakes or drinks and bar snacks. There are a couple of tourist sites a short walk north of the hotel: the A-Ma Temple, which sprawls up a hillside, and the Maritime Museum. There are a couple of good Portuguese restaurants a little further north. First is “A Lorcha”, which is on the touristy side, and then on the same street is “Restaurante Litoral”. The hotel is near the last stop on the light-rail line, so you can get to the Taipa casinos and the airport that way.