Rosamar Apartamentos

Absolutely awful in every way, more like a downtown back packers hostel...but worse. A scenario which ended up costing me €200 after refusing to pay a€58 euro "upgrade" a bully of a manager turns up who calls the police, then stopped our taxi transfer to the airport very aggressive, scared my wife. Having had to deal with the police in a foreign country who's English was non existent also whilst trying politely to put our case across was incredibly frustrating. Probably our 12th time to Portugal but have to say this experience has put us off and will never return. All I say is places don't get much worse than Rosamar 1 .

The apar**ent is outdated. The extra booked room with sea view, was a joke, since the sea wasn’t visible to us. It was very noisy. At least it was clean and the balcony was huge. The ac worked fine.

Basic hotel that met our needs as a base to sleep. Bit outdated but we knew this before we arrived having read the reviews. Great location literally a 30sec walk to the beach front and promenade. Supermarkets nearby easy to stock up on drinks and snacks. Reception is closed daily from 1pm-2pm and closed on Tuesdays too. We had to wait outside for almost 90mins waiting for someone to arrive to be able to check in.(we arrived around half 12 -seems they closed reception a bit earlier that day) Staff friendly even with the language barrier. Only downside was the noise of the next building doing construction work at 2am onwards. And noise from inside the hotel walls are pretty thin. Could hear the next room sneeze. Despite all that it was fine for what we needed wouldn't stay for a long time.