Villa Welwitshia

We have just returned from our third consecutive visit to the amazing Villa Welwitshia in beautiful Carvoeiro. From the moment you arrive, you will be welcomed by the hosts and Isa and her team will welcome you with open arms and a friendly smile. The apartments are comfortable and perfectly located for easy access to the pool and breakfast room. Our bedroom was a 10 step walk to the poolside and meant access was easy and quick. The rooms are very clean and towels replaced every day. The shower is large and bathroom is well maintained with lots of room to move and clean towels issued daily. The beds are large and access to air conditioning and the TV is great with lots of channels to watch while relaxing. Fridge is handy with water replaced each day, which is a great help. Breakfast is a friendly and relaxed affair, with a coffee machine and a continental breakfast available for all including cheeses, hams, fruit and pastries with an added bonus of eggs available - freshly made to order by the host. All in all a tasty and happy experience well-maintained levels of food experiences all set overlooking the swimming pool and patio area. As far as location, you won’t be disappointed- views overlooking Carvoeiro, a local and welcoming restaurant 50 yards away with delicious Portuguese food. The bars, dozens of amazing restaurants are 200 metres away and the gorgeous sandy beach and stunning boardwalk views, around a 5-10 minute walk. There are a few hills to negotiate which ever way you walk, but nothing too steep for able bodied people. Isa and her team are all welcoming, helpful and friendly with advice and guidance for the next restaurants to visit depending on your palate. There are books to read from the book exchange area so you’ll not need to bring one if you don’t have the luggage space! You will arrive as a stranger, but leave as a friend and will almost certainly want to return again and again - with almost 90 bars and restaurants within a 10 minute walk, you will need to!

Truly baffled by the reviews on here....?! This place is not 'boutique' by any shape of the imagination. Its a very basic premises on the top of a hill above the town. Our room had a shower with dirty grout, a broken patio door and a TV that didnt work. Raised them with reception but nothing done. Infact the broken patio door report was answered with 'its not a problem'. We travel a lot and we were so disappointed especially after reading the reviews. The many that have one word comments such as 'fabulous' and 'excellent' are very dubious to me. Such was our disappointment that we left the very next morning, during a 3 night stay and obviously lost £200 we had paid for the remaining 2 nights. On leaving I said to reception that we were leaving early due to issues and the reply was 'okay bye'. If you have very low expectations, then this place is for you.

One of the best value hotels. Nice big rooms. Cleaned daily. Breakfast is adequate for the price paid for the hotel. The man at reception is lovely. Other staff all friendly too. The pool area is nice. Plenty of sunbeds. Plenty of parking if you have a car. The location of the hotel is very good, less than 5 minutes walk into the centre where there are plant of good bars and restaurents. Close to Carvoeiro beach also (busy beach). Can get ubers to quieter beaches for cheap. Its hard to critisise anything for the price of the hotel. For the money paid it's very good value. Some small things that could be better... - staff start cleaning and hoovering way too early ie: 8am and have very little concept of notice. - breakfast maybe could be better but for the price of the hotel it's good enough. - maybe put some chilled music on low around the pool so it's not silent. - The car parks a bit ugly to look at from the pool but that's being picky and would be expensive for the hotel to fix.