A bit old and a bit out of the way, awful Wifi, but cheap
I got a bit lost going to the hotel and ended up walking miles after going through the centre of town although it is actually 800 metres and an 11 minute uphill walk from the Rodoviário bus station.
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I got a bit lost going to the hotel and ended up walking miles after going through the centre of town although it is actually 800 metres and an 11 minute uphill walk from the Rodoviário bus station.
I got a good price of €60 through the application on my mobile phone. If I had booked on their website it would have cost €80 and even more on Booking sites.
The hotel is above the town centre and there isn't much around it and the hotel itself is dead, there's just a bar in the lobby and a breakfast room. My first impression was that it was old. You have to show your QR code with your Covid vaccinations or a PCR test upon arrival and you will have to show the same anytime you set foot in a bar or a restaurant. You need to wear a mask too but you can remove it in the street if it isn't crowded.
I had a room on the 1st floor at the back with a double bed with 2 pillows and a housekeeper brought me some extra ones. It was nice to have a small fridge under the desk. There were tiles on the floor so I was glad I'd brought some slippers with me.
There is a bathtub with a shower head in the bathroom, I would have preferred a walk-in shower, I'm not sure many people would actually bother taking a bath. There was a bidet but no individual toiletries, just a soap dispenser and a couple of bars of soap by the washbasin.
My only problem with the place apart from the location was that the Wifi was awful even when the helpful man at reception restarted the router.
The best location to stay in Faro is actually Eva Senses which is next to the port and all the excursion boats and just a few metres from the bus and train stations. There's also a new 5 star hotel in the town centre called 3HB which is the place to stay if you can afford it. less