Villa Galé

The location was perfect and the Villa was so comfortable clean and well equipped. The management team were helpful friendly and very accommodating. We absolutely loved it.

Nothing at all.

Alles Privezwembad En het hele huis was perfect Vooral de accomadatie in de kelder

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Spacious and great outside seating

The spaciousness of the villa worked well for us. And having an ocean view from the garden and some of the bedrooms was amazing. We loved having the fireplace. Very good service from the host when we ran into anything.

The shutter doors need maintenance.

Excellent location

The property was advertised with a heated pool & it is not heated The property wasn’t cleaned during our stay

The villa itself was beautiful, clean, and very spacious. We were so grateful for the brilliant air-conditioning in all rooms, good bathroom facilities and a perfect pool. We loved the games room and the bedrooms were all comfortable and of a good size. There were plenty of bathroom towels and pool towels available, which were really useful.

There was only one standard oven, we all felt that a house for up to 16 adults required more extensive cooking facilities. There were no choping boards, too few serving bowls for salad etc and we had to buy cold drinks jugs as the one small jug provided was heavy cut glass and impractical. The bbq was small and placed in such a way that the cook was isolated from the rest of the family, it was also not directly accessible from the kitchen making communication and transportation of food awkward to and from the bbq point. On arrival, the garden had only one sun shade. We were disappointed as we had been in direct conversation with the holiday company during the week prior to our arrival to ensure that there would be enough parasols and sun bed cushions for our party. We raised this with the house manager during our introductory tour and were assured again that they would be provided. We then requested these items by phone and messenger on multiple occasions reminding him that we had young children and elderly family members on the holiday making protection from the direct sun essential in order for us all to safely use the garden and enjoy the holiday. We felt the response from the house manager was greatly lacking. Late in the afternoon on day 5 of our 7 day holiday one additional parasol eventually appeared in the garden. I would make others aware that the bank charged us an additional £299 fee on our holiday payment, on enquiring this related to currency exchange.

The property is a good size for a large extended family or friends. It was well equipped and the pool was good. The bedrooms were comfortable however the property only has one double bed and the rest are twin beds, not as advertised. Also when I originally booked it stated pool heating but the pool was not heated.

Some of the furniture is a bit tired and some of the bathrooms need updating, some of the shower curtains were not very clean and a lot of the shutters are broken and could do with repairing or replacing. If the owner of the property spent a bit of time repairing these it would be perfect. Also there is only one sun umbrella and four mattresses for the sun-beds. I did ask for more and although we were provided with extra pool towels we never received a reply to my request.

Location was perfect for a family holiday, 5 min walk to the beach and the beach cafe which was perfect for a snack and a quiet drink by the sea. Accommodation was spacious considering we had 15 staying in the villa, plenty of space to avoid tripping over each other, towels provided including towels for use at the beach. Supermarket within a 10 min walk, Uber service was excellent so the Old town and other areas were always very accessible. Cost to the old town by Uber was anything between 4 & 8 euro for 4. Uber XL slightly more expensive but takes 6. Waterpark was €19, algarve shopping centre was €11.