Vale del Rei Hotel & Villas

Family trip with 2 children (8 and 11). Quite hotel with not much activity so a little bit boring for our children. Super good for us though for 2 nights :). Friendly staff , good food and clean.

We stayed in a house near the 'warm pool'. The accommodation was lovely and much bigger than we expected with living/dining room, kitchen (with washing machine which was super handy!), and 2 bedrooms with en-suites and balconies with views over the small pool upstairs. (The main TV in the living room was very big too which was nice too). Breakfast at the hotel was very good with a wide selection of food and drink - unfortunately we didn't get to try dinner there though. The hotel is a bit out of town so having a car is definitely helpful (but I understand they do provide a free shuttle to Carvoeira beach a few times a day). Bring a bit out of town means the hotel is spacious and the grounds are lovely with lots of plants and flowers and a wide variety of birds that visit the grounds. All in all, a very nicely done hotel which is a pleasure to stay in. The hotel also has a good policy of offering vouchers towards the restaurants on exchange for a reduced cleaning service to save water /changing towels and sheets etc. FAMILIES BE AWARE - we booked this hotel specifically because it says it has a free kids club, but on arrival we were told it wasn't busy enough so there was no kids club at all (we were there mid to end of May).