Hotel Baia Grande

Apart of a few tiny flaws, the hotel is definitely in a great location. Many beaches are within 10-15 mins walk and if you take the coast path you can see really nice cliffs. We got engaged there during a sunset! The food is fresh and nice every day. We had half board so the dinners had much better variation than the breakfast. The staff were very nice, especially a waiter named Paulo. He was very sincere, always smiled and remembered us. The room was very spacious deluxe twin room (a pity that we couldn't get a double room and had to sleep under separate sheets!). We had nice sea view from the second floor. Definitely worth the money for the upgrade. The outdoor pool was very nice and long. You can requeest for hotel towels where you need to leave 10 euro deposit and then change the towels as many times as you please and get the money back at the end of your stay. Reception guys were amazing at organising a taxi to a beach party close by and to the airport (46 euro fixed cost to Faro airport) and getting scooter hire for us. They also have car hire facilities in the hotel and an electric car charge point.

The internet was extremely poor and kept disconnecting so really we had to go to other places to get connected. The breakfast could have a bit more variation and more different fruit. If you're a coffee drinker, the coffee was not nice at all which came from the coffee machine, but was too sweet and didn't taste like real coffee. Also if you stay at the hotel for more than a week, then Thursdays are nice for barbeque, but the entertainment was exactly the same for two Thursdays in a row. Same songs and same performance. We left early to go somewhere else.