We had a great family holiday in this superbly designed, fully airconditioned property with it's brilliant awning covered veranda and pool which overlook Estoi, Olhão, Faro and the Ria Formosa natural park. This is a superb part of the Algarve if you want to get away from the madding crowd and packed beaches further west.
The villa is in a quiet, easily accessible position just above Estoi, yet Faro, and its shops, is just a 15 minute drive away.
Thomas, the owner, is very helpful and speaks excellent English.
We would have given the property 5 stars throughout except for two little things in its description. Despite the implication that there are three showers there is really only one proper shower cubicle which is attached to one of the downstairs bedrooms. Two of the bathrooms have waist height shower attachments to large corner baths without shower curtains which we found took a bit of getting used to. We were OK with this as a single family because we could all use the single shower cubical if we needed to.
Secondly, all being fair skinned, we keep out of the mid-day sun and it has become part of our annual holiday planning throughout the year to store up DVDs to take away with us. Although the property description says there is a DVD player, there is not. We solved this by buying an external DVD writer in Forum Faro (a superb shopping centre) and connecting it through a laptop but the description is inaccurate.
On balance, this was a superb property in a fantastic location and we would highly recommend it.
Would we stay again? - Definitely.