Algarve Hotels & Hostels (113)

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About 2km south of Praia de Monte Clérigo, this is a shady, well-appointed site with good views and tennis courts.

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Efficient and pretty, this place has a great, almost beachside, location, with sea views (costing more) and large, comfortable rooms. Prices sink in the off-season.

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Some 500m from the village or 1.2km from Praia da Bordeira, this big modern house overlooks a valley and has rooms with shared kitchen, plus a swimming pool and tennis courts. They don't accept c…

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Perched high above the beach, this big modern hotel is the choice for prime comforts, views, peace and quiet.

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This may look boring but it's a bargain. The spruce little rooms all have telephone, and downstairs is a restaurant adjoining a pleasant, plant-filled courtyard.

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Centrally located, these two bright, faintly crowded-feeling quartos are let by a mother with young children. One room has a street-facing balcony and one a terrace; both have cable TV and a frid…

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This modern, hilltop place is charming, with rooms with balconies and nice views.

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Bagging the best eastern spot, this is a modernish low-rise with harbour views and comfy rooms. The pool overlooks the sea and there's a tennis court.

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Right by the beach, this modern low-rise has comfortable rooms with satellite TV and balcony. Prices plummet in winter.

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A modern, comfortable-but-bland central hotel. If you pay a little extra you get a sea view, and some rooms have a Jacuzzi.

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Rooms at modern Dom Bernardo are comfortable, if daring in their colour combinations. Striped bedspreads, floral curtains and chocolatey brown tile floors are set with big windows overlooking a b…

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This huge 150-room hotel has spacious, attractive rooms, most with balconies and views. There's a rooftop swimming pool for more marina-gazing.

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Newly opened in 2006, this square cube of a hotel hides plush rooms with huge beds and marble-filled bathrooms. The top floor bar-restaurant with terrace is great for a sunset cocktail.

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Just a few steps from the beach, Salema is a plain, comfortable, modern hotel.

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Rooms here are small but comfortable, with wood floors and balconies (no view). Although the design is a bit dated, it's good value.

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With a great location on Ilha de Tavira, a flip-flop hop from the island's endless beach, this is the nearest camp site. It gets crowded and noisy in the high season (mid-June to mid-September). …

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About 17km northeast of Sagres, this is a much smaller site, 600m from the beach south of Raposeira, with shade, a restaurant and bike hire.

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Within earshot of the sea, this low-rise motel is among trees in a lush setting above the beach. Rooms are basic with some nice wooden furniture and strange mud-coloured murals.

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Surrounded by scenic walking country, the German-run Little Castle B&B is 6km east of Tavira. Homely rooms have a balcony; there is one apartment too.

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Some 2km from town, just off the road to Cabo de São Vicente, this is a super-shaded, well-maintained site with lots of trees. You can hire bikes here.

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A smallish municipal camp site (busy in summer) at Praia de Faro, this has a restaurant and playground. It has little shade but is a volleyball lob from the beach.

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Frequent buses go to this mammoth municipal site outside built-up Monte Gordo, 3km west of town. It has lots of shade and neighbours the beach but is jam-packed in July and August. There are disa…

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A small site 200m south of the Lançarote gate in the town walls, this camp site is a tent-peg's throw from the sea, has lots of shade, facilities for the disabled, a playground, a restaurant, ba…

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Near Alpouvar, this well-equipped, shady camp site has eateries, facilities for the disabled, three swimming pools, a children's playground and caravans for rent. Bus no 20 stops just nearby.

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This small, shady municipal site, is on the waterfront in peaceful Fuzeta. You can go canoeing from the beach, and there are also ferries to the offshore islands.

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Facility-loaded and pine-shaded, this camp site is 1.5km north of Odeceixe, and has lots of shade, and appealing wooden bungalows.

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This calm, shady site is 4km north of Aljezur, then 800m down the road to Praia da Amoreira (the beach is 2.5km further). It has wheelchair access, tennis courts, a playground and apartments, plu…

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Central and small, with homely, comfortable rooms.

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A short walk west of the turismo, this friendly and efficient place is the best among the pensões. It is clean and brightly tiled with a flower-filled courtyard and a warm welcome.

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A gorgeous gem with rooms overlooking a courtyard filled with brilliant flowers. It's 100m from the road at the southern end of the village. Meals are available here or next door at the tiny, no-…

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Also central, Marazul has comfortable, well-kept rooms with either sea views or inner balconies.

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This long-standing place has a faded feel, but its rooms are huge and it's easy-going.

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Rambling and old-fashioned, with big, squeaky-floored rooms, this pensão is good value but dour.

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This popular place has cool, tiled and spacious rooms with balconies overlooking the pretty square, though rooms at the back are quieter.

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Cosy, old-fashioned and functional.

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This charming old villa is set back from the esplanade but unfortunately close to the pulsating monster that is Discoteca Katedral. The Penguin's musty décor and elegant veranda speak of Praia da…

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The central Silva is pleasantly small-scale and offers cheap, small, basic rooms.

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A smashing if basic place, this hostel is set in green, tree-shaded grounds, with a restaurant and swimming pool. Renovations should be complete by June 2005 (call ahead). It's about 3km north of…

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A former holiday home of the Portuguese royal family, this is on the road to Fóia and has a balmy pool amid lush gardens.

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Just 1.5km north of Salema, this place is all about peace and quiet, so shhhh. (Music prohibited!) It has studios and apartments and even its own naturist camping area.

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