Monday, January 8, 2018

The Pousada  Palace hotel and back to the Aire.


Well the eagerly awaited visit to a palace is now here. We are leaving the Aire to stay in a luxury hotel for four days. It was a Christmas present to the two of us from the two of us.
We arrived at the hotel, after asking to have open parking available for Helga. She hates being on her own in strange places, a bit like a lot of motor homers I believe. We had to park in an out of the way spot, which was fine until we needed to get out. But thats another story.
We had to pay to upgrade our room as we were in a garden room, which might have been fabulous in the heat of summer, but not December, no sun on the balcony don't you know.
The hotel is in two parts, the original palace which is seriously nice and the rooms, which are seriously functional. The beds are too firm and the pillows, while feather, were over stuffed. We were definitely not over stuffed. The food was a disgrace, we had booked Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas Day lunch. We cancelled the lunch after the woeful experience of the dinner. We never paid for the food nor the wine, and the night of the dinner we went out and fund a nice restaurant a couple of hundred meters from the hotel. Sorry, another mistake. We found the restaurant the previous night and enjoyed it, but it was closed on Christmas day so we just had a box of chocs and more wine in our room.
Christmas Day we had steaks and veg in the van and enjoyed it immensely.  Boxing night we had dinner in the we restaurant again, clean plates told the story. We met up with four lovely people from Surrey, and turned their heads all night. Good times.
We visited Faro itself on this trip, but because it was Christmas Eve, it was as dad as Hector. To be honest, the two of us couldn't wait to get back to normal living in Helga.
With great joy we went back to the Aire. There was a vacant spot beside our friends so we slipped in there. Oh yes, time for some real craic.
The beach, Praia de Falesia, which is a matter of ten minutes walk from here is marvellous. Goes for miles, one direction takes you to Albufeira and the other to Vilamoura. The dunes and rock formations are special, the sand soft and golden, and the sea, baltic.



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