Vale del Rei Hotel & Villas

We had a very enjoyable and relaxing week here. The hotel grounds are lovely with trees, birds and frogs and lots of different places to settle. Table tennis, badminton, a nice pool and very obliging staff. Downsides: restaurant a bit limited and pricy, and nowhere much to walk to locally - except the next door restaurant, which we actually preferred. Overall very good, we liked it.

Beautiful hotel, lovely staff, a bit out of the way to find, fabulous grounds. Two things to improve: shower temperature went from hot to cold constantly, and the bed pillows were too high. Aside from that we had a wonderful stay and will definitely recommend to other visitors.

The receptionist at check in seemed rude. I had booked 2 rooms for my friends and for us. The receptionist refused to believe me that the rooms were booked at the same time and put us on opposite ends of the hotel. We asked the bartender for a cork screw and he made such a fuss about it. He seemed to be not interested in working there. On the contrary, the staff in the restaurant were great and extremely friendly especially Joanne who directed us to visit a lovely village close by.

Great hotel, but it itself is not near anything. There are many resorts that are closer to the beach. That said, the room was clean, the staff was great, and they have shuttles to take guests to local beaches.

Lovely hotel staff very pleasant beautiful grounds to walk in bit to far out from town prob need a car

Overall rating is excellent - why is it red and others yellow?

This is a lovely hotel in peaceful surroundings. The staff are extremely polite, friendly and helpful. The breakfast included was a bonus, with a great selection - loads to choose from. Rooms and onsite free facilities - spa, gym, tennis and shuttle to town were good too.

This was our first visit to Portugal and teamed with car hire the hotel provided a good base to visit some places in the Algarve. The hotel had a genuine 4 star feel across all areas . Weather and facilities just warming up so fairly quite.

It was a good hotel for its price.

We went for a week away in the Sun with our 2 children aged 2 and 4. The hotel was fresh, modern and the grounds were pristine. We had a 2 bedroomed townhouse which was spacious and again pristinely clean and well appointed. Breakfast buffet was good, lovely freshly squeezed juices and English sausage, scrambled egg made from eggs (not powdered)! We had a hire car which was great for getting out and about - the location is fairly remote so for us the car was a must. There is a shuttle service to the supermarket (no shop nearby), into Carvoerio and to the beach. Restaurants are fab especially in Benagil but they are a drive away. Vanda runs the kids club and it was great for our little people. Fine for both kids to go whereas other hotels minimum age tends to be 4 which would have meant Thomas couldn't go. The room has air con and is very well equipped with toys and games. Also lovely touches like taking the kids to feed the fish in the pond, they loved it, big highlight for them. Note that the hotel's entertainment is fairly low key - whilst we were there, there was one parrot show and one bird of prey show. So basically it's fairly quiet at night time, no kids disco (which was a bit of a disappointment for the kids). However I guess the size of the hotel has an impact here, and I would rather have the relaxed atmosphere that goes with a smaller complex. There was waiter service to your sun bed :) Daily specials on cocktails at 4 Euros each which was good.