The Handmade House Azores

Spacious and charming house, fully equipped kitchen. You can feel the love owners have put into all details. The village is fantastic too and well located to have it as base camp for driving around. Parking was available right across the street. There is also a cafe, a tavern, grocery shop and seafood restaurant walking distance.

Bathroom in our room had sewage smell and very little ventilation.

The house and the garden are a gem! It feels homey with attention to detail and it's also a great way to meet other tourists if you feel like it. This place has everything you need, everything is catered for. Porto Formoso is a lovely small village with a shop, coffee bar, and a restaurant, and it's also perfectly located to explore the island. Cha Gorreana is super close too, I've loved going there a few times to wake up with (free!) tea.

No negatives, just maybe wish there'd been a more comfortable chair inside the room (other than a bar stool).

good enough to be out all day and come to a clean bed and be able to take a nice hot shower.

there are a ton of rules

The location is quite convenient, there’s a big parking space right across. The room is spacious, nice smart TV, shower looks new.

Unfortunately, the condition of the house (plumbing, water heating, ventilation, planning etc.) is really troubling and doesn’t meet the advertised level of quality or price/quality ratio, probably due to the fact that the house was built in an amateur way (which is promoted as the sweet fact of being “handmade”). Due to the unprofessional plumbing setup guests are forbidden to flush the toilet paper in the toilet, and were instructed to dispose of it un a small trash. Since the bathroom is directly connected to the sleeping area, there’s a lack of proper ventilation and the door does not close properly, this quickly leads to noticeable odors, especially given the fact that regular cleaning services were not included as part of the stay and had to be requested at an extra cost. There’re also noticeable wet/old odors in the whole house, due to the lack of proper planning and ventilation smells from the kitchen get distributed through the whole house etc. The hosts attempt to mask the smells by placing aroma sticks everywhere, yet this doesn’t help. Because of the poor water heating planning guests are asked to limit showers to five minutes and yet you also need to wait up to a minute for hot water to start. Apparently, there’re also problems with electricity in the house (so guests need to limit the amount of kitchen devices being run simultaneously).