Casa Mar d'Alma - 100m from the Beach

Location was fantastic, near beach and lots of restaurants, cafe's, bars, supermarket nearby. Lovely atmosphere generally in the area. Loved having separate rooms so my young adult daughters could have their own privacy & space. The roof terrace was an added bonus, a real suntrap

The cafe next door was fine. But their tables and chairs did block the entrance to the apartment which was annoying. I felt we always had to apologise to their customers just to get access to the front door. At least they closed at 5.30pm so it was ok in the evenings when we were going out. Otherwise I would have scored this apartment a 10!

Clean and cozy, had everything we needed for a family holiday. Location is very good, short walk to nice restaurants and the beach. We also used the rooftop balcony a lot.

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Location, interior like new, brilliant shower. Entrance just past lift to beach. Flat Big and comfortable. Large sun deck . Safe.very private

Cold shower on last day. Entrance a bit awkward due to restaurant next door. Tip. Advice on restaurant, amenities, things to do would be an added advantage.

Great location, although there were two different addresses associated with the reservations and the taxi driver actually dropped us off a few blocks away because he was confused with the address. The apartment was BEAUTIFUL, very contemporary, clean and well appointed with a few exceptions that had more to do with the host and housekeeping. Check in was very easy.

The host was seemed to only want me to call them with concerns, which I prefer not to do. It was booked through Booking.com as was most of our 7 weeks and 4 cities in Portugal. Everyone else communicated well through their messaging system which I use as documentation with any concerns or problems. We spent over $1300 for a 9 night stay, and although that is a pretty good price point we should have had the FUNDAMENTAL BASICS OF TOILET PAPER AND AT LEAST ONE VISIT FROM HOUSEKEEPING. I told the host that we only had 3 rolls (half or quarter size of normal toilet paper) and had to go out and buy our own after a couple of days and a half roll of paper towels in the kitchen. I also wondered when we would see a change of linens. I was told due to the drought, they were only changing linens and towels once a week, but after 9 nights we still never saw anyone. He said NOTHING about the lack of paper products or apologized. I get the water thing, but I ended up washing our towels, cleaning the bathroom and sweeping the floors because no one ever came or did anything. I don’t go on vacation only to do my own cleaning and the water situation has nothing to do with a visit for a quick clean up or bringing us some toilet paper! There was also the issue of having to squeeze around a 12” space in front of the bed without banging up your shins on the sharp corners of the bed frame, no blanket but for a thin $3 twin sized throw for two people AND being expected to climb up a very steep cobblestone street 300 meters to take the trash out ourselves. The family upstairs was also very noisy with stomping feet of children and moving furniture until late at night. Although there were many nice things about the apartment, I would not stay there again because of the management.