Salgados Beach Villas

“Great villa shame about the noise”

Villa was great as was the pool area. Everything you need including a full kitchen. It was a bit worn but does not affect your holiday. No problem with ants as reported. You will need a car as not much locally. The marina has plenty of good restaurants and about a 10 min drive. Check in isn't unti… more

Villa was great as was the pool area. Everything you need including a full kitchen. It was a bit worn but does not affect your holiday. No problem with ants as reported. You will need a car as not much locally. The marina has plenty of good restaurants and about a 10 min drive. Check in isn't until 4 pm which isn't good when your flight lands at 10 am so a lot of hanging around. Can't fault the villas however the bigger villas were used for a lot of stag & hen parties and also accommodates large groups of youths. Most groups were fine and you expect them to have a bit of fun however for the last 4 days a large group of lads were a complete nightmare. Music blaring full blast all day with all the doors open so no quiet relaxing by your pool. Also loads of banging and shouting sitting in cars with music full volume during the day and night.we were expecting groups to have nights out but they were arriving back around 4 am with the same noise level. If I had realised the resort was hosting large groups of youths I wouldn't have stayed there. We were put here by TUI last minute after they cancelled our village villa so not a lot of choice. I think the resort should decide if its for families or parties. Felt like I was in an 18 to 30 resort the last 4 days. Also worth noting that a couple of mornings we found the gate to our pool area was open and on one occasion a guy from the noisy villa even walked into our pool area so we never left the doors unlocked and kept valuables out of sight. If you are lucky enough to have neighbours with a bit more consideration you will have a fab time.

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“Amazing holiday - would love to come back! ”

What a fabulous week I have just had with my family! The villas and the surrounding area is stunning and myself, husband and three children loved it. The villa is beautiful and is absolutely huge and has everything you need for your stay - Iron, hair dryer etc. Upon arrival your villa is stocked w… more

What a fabulous week I have just had with my family! The villas and the surrounding area is stunning and myself, husband and three children loved it. The villa is beautiful and is absolutely huge and has everything you need for your stay - Iron, hair dryer etc. Upon arrival your villa is stocked with shampoo, shower gel, enough toilet roll for the week etc and in the kitchen, some dishwasher tablets and cloths. We was in a three bed, three bathroom villa and when I say massive, they are! Each room had a modern feel to it and the glass walkway across the top floor and floating staircase added to that. It did seem clean when we arrived but I will say we found odd dummies etc around the villa during our stay so it can’t have been as thoroughly cleaned as we thought. You do get bath and pool towels provided and these was changed by a cleaner who came in once during our stay and cleaned around. The pool area was lovely, albeit a bit cold but this can’t be helped. You did feel safe in the villa as to get on the complex you have to pass security but all the locks are by an electric keycard, I would of felt much safer if I had a chain lock or a physical lock so I knew 100% it was locked. This was the same for the basement door which led to the underground car park and front door, you never felt like they was locked. Only thing I would consider with these villas is if you have young children you can not relax, or I felt I couldn’t. The staircase would of been better with a retractable gate as you could just walk around the staircase from coming in the front door and if you have a toddler whose wanting to run round etc they would fall the two flights down to the basement. It’s hard to explain - sorry should of took pictures. The area is really nice and quiet and the complete opposite to the centre of albufeira we visited one day and I’m so glad we chose to stay in this area. The beach is a 5/10 walk away and the waters clean and the sand clean. You can hire beds and umbrellas and if you walk further down the beach there’s a couple of snack bars open. There is a grocery shop 5/10 min walk away the other way from the villas that stocks almost anything you would need for your holiday. We ended up using Ubers all week to get to zoomarine, the marina and central Albufeira to name a few. We needed an XL Uber but the most we paid was about €18 each way, they was super quick and every time came to the villa entrance in a couple of minutes. We did eat out every night but our favourite was Scenarium, we also tried Primadonna (which was in the nearby hotel), Bellavita and Ramires. Ramires was about a 20 min drive away but is a real authentic peri chicken restaurant. You don’t get a menu just plates of chicken, fries and salad. Lots of locals in, definitely should go there to try. We also ordered 2 meals on Uber eats as we got in late but they took hours to arrive and wasn’t that good. We booked the holiday only a few weeks before going so was limited to where we could find to fit us in but it really was a lovely week, the villa and beach was perfect and the quiet yet accessible location has really made us want to come again.

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