Hotel Aldeia da Praia

Breakfast offered tapioca cooked on the spot for you and many options of freshly made cakes for those who have a sweet tooth in the morning. Many beach kiosks with great food just across the street (although they close at 6pm) and bus stop in front of the hotel. Kids love the pool and sometimes there are special activities for them.

The area around pool (as pictured) is great and resembles a 4-star hotel, but the main aspect - accommodation - fails to deliver. The bathrooms need urgent renovation. We were on the ground floor, where the rooms were extremely damp and there was nowhere to hang our clothes to dry. Interesting to see that the hotel doesn't offer laundry service to guests, but is able to have washed and ironed uniforms for airline staff, that stays there regularly. Breakfast buffet had a great variety, but mostly of sweets and cakes, and not enough savoury - which was almost the same every day. also a lot of food waste as the staff was eager to clean up the tables fast while we were still helping ourselves at the buffet. Wifi worked on and off... Also, non-flexible payment alternatives and quite expensive tours.