Really gorgeous hotel, looks exactly as they show on the website. Great pool, seating area, lovely breakfasts.

However I had a bit of an issue with the location - its 10mins out of Alacati centre (Alacati itself is lovely, very chichi) in the area that is obviously being groomed to be the modern extension of Alacati old centre. It means its very near the motorway, you can see the flyover, and also you have to walk along roads either edged by scrubland waiting to be developed or half completed building sites. Its quite weird. Not necessarily spooky, we never had any problems, but certainly not a walk you look forward to having had a lovely meal in town. That said, it would be fine if you had a car or moped.

Once you're in the hotel its blissful, you can't in any way hear the motorway and staff are lovely, breakfasts particularly delicious and pool is lovely to recline by all day. Stay in one of the ground floor rooms (we stayed in room 7 which, although doesn't have... more