Property Location
With a stay at Vilalara Thalassa Resort in Lagoa (Armacao de Pera), you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Zoomarine and Senhora da Rocha Beach. This 5-star hotel is 6.7 mi (10.9 km) from Marinha Beach and 7 mi (11.3 km) from Benagil Beach. Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer.
- Cova Redonda Beach - 0.5 km / 0.3 mi
- Vale do Olival Beach - 1 km / 0.6 mi
- Senhora da Rocha Beach - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
- Nossa Senhora da Rocha Chapel - 1.4 km / 0.8 mi
- Armação Beach - 1.5 km / 0.9 mi
- Albandeira Beach - 3.2 km / 2 mi
- Marinha Beach - 4.7 km / 2.9 mi
- Percurso dos Sete Vales Suspensos - 4.9 km / 3.1 mi
- Salgados Lagoon Observation Deck - 7.9 km / 4.9 mi
- Herdade dos Salgados Golf - 8.5 km / 5.3 mi
- Portimao Town Market - 8.5 km / 5.3 mi
- Oceanico Faldo Golf Course - 8.6 km / 5.4 mi
- Praia da Corredoura - 8.7 km / 5.4 mi
- Zoomarine - 9.1 km / 5.7 mi
- Sao Jose Convent - 9.3 km / 5.8 mi .The nearest airports are: Faro Intl. Airport (FAO) - 54.4 km / 33.8 mi
- Portimao (PRM) - 23 km / 14.3 mi .The preferred airport for Vilalara Thalassa Resort is Faro Intl. Airport (FAO).
Rooms
Make yourself at home in one of the 131 air- conditioned rooms featuring minibars and LCD televisions. Rooms have private balconies. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature designer toiletries and bidets.
Dining
Enjoy Portuguese cuisine at BG Restaurant, one of the hotel's 2 restaurants, or stay in and take advantage of the room service (during limited hours). Unwind at the end of the day with a drink at the bar/lounge or the poolside bar. A complimentary buffet breakfast is served daily.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include limo/town car service, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
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Wonderful Stay at Beautiful, Relaxing Resort
One of the best hotels that I have been to. The resort is immaculate, with the most beautiful, semi-private, beach we had seen on the whole Algarve coast. Our room was substantial, clean, quiet and private - all while offering a lovely view of their manicured gardens and the sea off in the distance. The service was impeccable, friendly and attentive. The restaurants were also surprisingly good, so much so that we spent most of our stay in resort rather than travel about, as initially planned. Would love to come back.
Lovely hotel, quiet, beautiful beach, luxuriant gardens
We had a very pleasant stay, the hotel has a "village" feeling and beautiful gardens. The beach has very comfortable sunbeds, is protected by stunning cliffs and the staff is very attentive. Breakfast was very varied with lovely views of the sea. The water was too cold in the pools - maybe some solar panels would help? Thalasso pool exercises very good, unfortunately I couldn't try any massage because the spa was very busy. Our junior suite had lovely views with jacaranda trees and the sea in the distance. But it did have a very bare and impersonal feeling, with hardly any lighting which made it very difficult to make tea or coffee. It could definitely be improved by more lighting and some decoration. But Vila Lara is certainly a place we'd like to return to. Thank you!
Disappointing level of service
Although a beautiful resort the standard of service very disappointing. Beautiful room but bathroom was infested with little flies (which I later discovered are associated with sewage), I was offered a can of insect spray which defeated the object of a ‘detox’ break. The complimentary bowl of fruit was mouldy, I took fruit out in hope they would be replaced only to find they were just put back in the bowl! The spa facilities were surprisingly basic. Overall, I found the quality and service lacklustre and staff sluggish, no effort made to match or even exceed a standard one would expect of a 5 star facility. After my 5-day stay I felt I had wasted my time and money!
This is not 5*, not worth your money
This hotel is not value for money in the slightest. The prices are extortionate for what you get.. we paid around £350 per night for our trip to this ‘5 star’ hotel and we had such high hopes. Unfortunately the hotel did not live up to our expectations at all. We checked into a room that was underground and had an awful smell, after spending our first night there we mentioned to reception about the smell and it took 3 visits to reception for us to be moved. The hotel just doesn’t tick any 5* star boxes, staff at the restaurant/ bar were absent, the grounds were kept okay but not amazing, no pool or beach service and the restaurant lacked atmosphere in the evenings. This hotel does have potential the location is on the beach and the views are lovely and the pool near this is nice but has limited sunbeds. Food was fairly good and breakfast has nice views over the sea - but that does include lots of seagulls! If you can pay half the price than we did I’d say its worth the value! Otherwise I’d go across the road to villa vita Parc hotel.. an actual 5* hotel and not much more expensive. We visited this hotel for dinner twice and wow the views, the grounds, the staff everything was exceptional!
Give it a miss
We left this hotel wondering how/why it costs so much money... Paying around £350 per night, we expected a very good level of service, 5* amenities and and a relaxing experience. To be honest, we do not feel that we got any of the above. Apart from check-in (which was very professional and friendly), the service that we received across the whole stay was quite poor. Dinner service was slow, staff looked (and acted) unhappy, we had to ask 2/3/4 times for staff to even half go out of their way to provide us with anything... We ended up moving rooms because ours initially smelt, but it took asking three times for this to happen, we were served the wrong food for lunch/dinner twice because the kitchen were "out" of some of the ingredients, without telling us that was the case.. and serving it anyway (replacing a halloumi wrap, with Feta? :/)... The dinner was fine, but the service and quality was much better just going into one of the surrounding towns.. Also the AirCon was pretty terrible, we stayed in an AirBnb in Spain before which was much better.. and a nice hotel in Villamoura before that which was better... all for less than half the price. We kept waking up boiling in the night (it was only 27 degrees outside..)!. If you want to spend slightly more (we wish we did), I'd go to the Vila Vita Parc opposite... Quite an incredible service... and we had dinner/cocktails twice on our five night trip, but probably should have stayed there given the great level of service and much more impressive hotel. The Vilalara is a bit outdated, and needs some freshening up... there is a lot of dead space. Bit of a shame really.. as it does have some potential.