We are all very quick to criticise when things go wrong so I just thought I would pen a very positive holiday note.
This is now the 3rd time we have been to Monte da Quinta and have to say that the large villas with pools are perhaps the most luxurious in the Algarve.
This time though we tried the new Monte da Quinta Suites (which is the new area of the resort) and booked with Design Holidays who had an exclusive 50% discount , we paid £99 per night for 5 star luxury - we will return !!!!

Great restaurants locally include the Bobby Jones Bar & Grill, D' Lounge / Tarantino's along with Gi Gi's on the Quinta do Lago Lagoon. The Hotel Quinta do Lago for pre dinner drinks was fabulous - amazing views of the Lagoon nature reserve.

For an upmarket, relaxed & uplifting holiday in a beautiful area stay here (sunshine 99% guaranteed ex Dec & Jan)

Staff, site & facilities are what you'd expect in five star hotel

Site is immaculate, houses are of a high spec & they had just opened a new hotel on site which looks great.

It was fairly quiet when we stayed (two bedded townhouse), but i understand it gets busier in the high season.

was told three or four of he Villa's are owned by celebs!

Wonderful golfing country, stacks of restaurants around about - plus two or three perfect beaches.

Difficult to fault

We stayed here for 2 weeks this August in a 3 bedroom villa. The house was even roomier than the pictures on the website suggest -- it was heaven! Lovely decor, very well maintained, beautiful garden. The daily maid service was much more than a quick straightening of the bed -- she actually vacuumed, mopped, cleaned out the BBQ etc every day! Made my holiday!
The only tiny gripes I have about this place is the daily scramble for sunbeds at the pool: arrive too late and there are none left. Also: there are no towels at the pool so you have to carry the towels from your house back and forth. Coming back, when they are wet and heavy, this can get quite annoying.

Another slightly disappointing thing was the Kids Club. It says it's until 12 yrs old -- but the room is quite small, and certainly boys above 8 would not be able to stay in there for longer than one hour! (I guess girls might like to do some crafts and such for a longer period of time...) They don't take the kids out for any activities or excursions (except on a Friday morning to the lake), they don't even take them into the pool. A bit of a pity.

We're a bit worried what will happen when the hotel opens -- it might get much more crowded. It's fantastic as it is now, and we will be back!

We stayed in a 4 bed villa which was very spacious, great pool large gas bbq and big rooms with all mod cons (Sky and PS2)and a/c. Only problem was in the downstairs double the bed was rock hard so be warned! Resort quiet even in August but the new Aparthotel being built on MQC may make place busier in 2008. Excellent communal pool and childrens pool with bar/restaurant. Car essential as supermarket is at Quinta Shopping and the better (and cheaper) one is in Almancil a 20 min drive. Fab beaches a 5 or 15min drive away with good waves and great restaurants at back of beach (expensive). The place for golf, we did Quinta South & North (former is prettier and slightly easier) but book through MQ Club reception as much reduced green fees this way. We will go back.