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The duration in the housing was not bad, the accommodation is more or less well equipped. So I could recommend the housing

Contact with the owner is very good. Room is big, it is very cold in it, heater was not working. The apartment needs to be refreshed, my room was dirty, the bedding was dirty too, luckily I had my own. The kitchen cabinets assigned to my room were not cleaned either. The condition of the apartment is poor, renovation would definitely be useful when it comes to the common areas - kitchen and bathroom. The apartment is located in a convenient location, tram, metro, shopping center are close. For this price, the apartment should be in a different condition.

The apartment is in a great location with plenty of shops for food items and restaurants. The apartment is also close to one of the local bus stations where you can pick up the local bus and FlixBus. The apartment was nice but needed work. The beds were comfortable but the pillows were not. They seemed to be very old and should be thrown away as they were uncomfortable. The bedrooms needed work from painting to getting new baseboards. There seemed to be plenty of water damage in one of the bedrooms and the other bedroom appeared to have mold on the walls. Unfortunately, the pictures do not show this needed work. I would not have rented home where its apparent the apartment needed to be painted and patched up. The bathroom shower was amazing. Excellent water pressure. Both bathrooms appeared to have been updated. The second bathroom had a shower and tub but no shower curtain. Both toilet seats were loose. Upon arrival one of the toilet seats was broken so they fixed t the next day but it was a different color and not very secure but it worked. The kitchen area is nice and also appears to be updated. The stove, refrigerator, toaster and microwave all worked well. Dishwasher and laundry washing machine worked fine. Another pot or two would have been nice. The apartment has a very nice balcony but the table and chairs could be replaced with newer and more comfortable chairs. We only sat out once in my two month stay because they were uncomfortable. The management company were wonderful and were responsive to any questions or concerns in a timely manner. Everyone who replied and responded to me were extremely caring. This apartment has a lot of potential and I hope the owner takes the time to paint, re-plaster, and fix baseboards because I would stay there again if a little more love went into the work that is needed, including new pillows.

I am very torn about writing this review, as there were some VERY good things (the management company!) but also some very bad (the house we'd rate, at best, as "has potential"). Let me start with compliments. Hello Vacations is AMAZING! I would rent any property managed by them with full confidence that they'd take good care of us. They deserve their positive reviews. The house was very clean upon arrival. They left ample fluffy/soft oversized towels (more than I've ever seen in other properties!). They left an ample supply of guest soaps, shampoos and body washes - enough to last our entire month stay. They were always quick to communicate and SO friendly! They tried as best they could to resolve issues they could control. For instance, the stove didn't have a proper lighter to light it and there were no pot holders for cooking. Within 24 hours, Hello Vacations delivered pot holders and a proper lighter. Overall the house a great build with a good layout, but there are some things I think future guests should be aware of (and why we rate this property as mediocre at best; but all things that could be resolved, should the owners put a bit more effort into the accommodations for guest comfort). Only one bedroom had curtains hanging (the twin room). In the master bedroom, the curtain rod was off the wall completely and propped up in the closet (with wall repair needed to hang it again). The master also had terrible bed with a mattress that sinks in the middle, so not good for a couple who doesn't want to roll into the each other all night. Those two things made that room unusable as a bedroom for us. We chose the other room with a double bed, which also did not have curtains. But at least there was still a rod on the wall with folded curtains stored in the closet; so we were able to hang a curtain to provide privacy. But strange to arrive at a costly rental where neither of the double bedrooms had curtains hung (especially when the houses are SO compacted together giving no chance for privacy without curtains). While the mattress in the bedroom we used wasn't sunken in like the one in the master, it has to be the MOST uncomfortable mattress I've ever slept on. We booked this property for a month, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that after a month on that horrible mattress with coils digging into our backs, I can barely walk without pain. My back and shoulders are a wreck. That mattress should be disposed of and never inflicted on another guest; especially not a guest who is staying for any length of time. The twin beds in the third bedroom were not any better, or we would have slept on those. But we did not expect to pay this much for a rental where the beds are of the lowest quality imaginable. They're not even good enough for a nap, much less a full night's sleep. It's our 3rd rental in Portugal, and we've never had such bad mattresses. The house is also VERY damp and has a great deal of mould. Mould under the sink and other places. But worse, because the house was SO damp, we didn't realise until the day we moved out that all of our luggage that we stored in the master bedroom next to the wall were ALL covered in mould! I was in shock. Every morning you wake up to the windows covered in condensation and it takes hours for the moisture to go away to even see out of the windows again. It was too cold and stormy during our stay to have the windows open to try to air it out. So the owners should have dehumidifiers throughout the house. It's not healthy to be living with that kind of moisture and mould. And now our suitcases are damaged from being stored next to damp walls that caused mould growth. Also, guests should be aware that the furniture throughout the house is VERY cheap. Plastic and wooden chairs that are miserably uncomfortable in the kitchen/dining room, a cheap couch that feels more like Uni furniture than luxury home furniture. We took the house for a month as we were working remotely and there was not a single chair that could be comfortably sat in for any length of time. This also added to the back and leg pain caused by the mattresses. The outdoor furniture, while ample, is old and all plastic. The kind of furniture you see sold very cheaply at the exit of Aldi or Lidl. Not comfortable at all whilst relaxing at the pool. They creaked so much under our average weight, that we worried they might break. As the weather was SO bad we didn't sit outside much, but if future guests are coming to lounge by the pool for hours on end, be aware that you won't be comfortable. Also much of the cookware should be replaced. All of the nonstick cookware is scratched up SO much that it's not safe to cook with. Studies are out about the toxicity of cooking on damaged/scratched non-stick pans, so it left us with very little to actually cook with. These are issues that could easily be resolved if the owners invested just a little bit of money with a visit to Ikea to furnish the accommodations with guest comfort in mind. It's a good house and deserves to be more comfortable than it is. I should also mention that the patio doors do not lock. And the large metal shuttered doors are VERY hard to open and close (certainly not something you can do easily every night for safety). Those shutters don't lock properly anyway, so a determined thief could get in with very little effort. Luckily we had no break in's during our stay (and felt safe in the neighbourhood); but not being able to properly lock the sliding doors to the backyard is not a safe stay or fair to guests. The doors are old and probably need replacing (I'm guessing they are beyond fixing). Also be aware there are is no heater or air conditioner in the large main common room. It was cold during our stay and we had to wrap up in blankets during the day and night. The owners have a small space heater that we used in that room, but it's a weird one that has a huge bright panel light that emits heat and it's VERY uncomfortable to your eyes if it's placed anywhere in eyesight. But to get any heat from it directly you need to have it facing you, so whilst watching TV, we had to have it near us and then pile up blankets and pillows to keep from being blinded by it. Not a comfortable way to relax at night, and it certainly doesn't heat the entire room, only about the 2-3 feet directly in front of it if you're close enough to feel the heat from the bright bulbs. I can't imagine being in that room during the hot summer with nothing but a stand fan. There are heater/air con units in the walls in the 3 bedrooms, so you can sleep in heat or air conditioning. But with the high level of moisture in the house, be aware that if using heat, it will be like sleeping in a sauna. The sheets were wet and never really dried during our entire stay because of the moisture/humidity problem. Also be aware that the showers are very strange. They have a weird misty like spray that ends up soaking the entire bathroom floors in front of them. Thankfully they left ample towels as we had to cover the floor to sop up the water and keep from slipping. Due to the moisture problem, the bathrooms never fully dried (and neither did the towels). I also question why the owners haven't given any of the bathrooms proper shelving. We barely had anywhere to put toothbrushes; I can't imagine how women would manage with makeup and hair styling products. You'd have to store them on the floor! Nor are they any hooks to hang clothes, etc in the bathrooms. The other thing that I feel is misleading in the ads for this place, is that they show a close up picture of a 2nd floor balcony/patio. I'm a writer and I choose my locations based on where I feel I'd be inspired to write. I had intended to use that raised balcony the entire trip, only to discover it's locked off in a part of the house not made available to guests. I mentioned it to Hello Vacations, and they said the overhead picture of the house was just to show the layout of the property. That's fine, and the wide overhead shot shows that, but then why ALSO show a picture that is a close up of the 2nd floor balcony if that's not available to guests? I had hopes with being SO close to the ocean that the raised balcony would give me views of the ocean. Due to the houses and resorts all built up around, I suspect there'd be no views on any of the rooftops in the neighborhood. But still, a disappointment to have advertised an amenity in a photo that isn't accessible. The ad also stated laundry, but we discovered that was locked in the garage and not intended to be used by guests. I pointed out the ad stating laundry washer, and Hello Vacations made sure to get me a key for the garage. Future guests should note that if you DO use the washer, be sure to pull the drainage hose out of the garage and fully extend it into the driveway, as the garage does not have a proper drain for the washer; and if the hose is left in the garage, you'll come back to find the garage flooded. Be sure you pull it ALL the way out because the hose is VERY old and has cracks, so drainage water squirts out from it in several places. I found that as long as you pull it all the way out into the driveway, it'll drain properly. We also arrived to discover a high amount of dog hair embedded in all of the couches. We have asthma and are allergic to animals, so that was problematic. Hello Vacations came to see it and apologized profusely, unclear why there was so much dog hair embedded into the fabric of the couches; far more than we could remove with a fabric lint roller. I suspect with the house being SO clean at arrival that their crew vacuumed the couch, but this needs some serious attention as it's completely embedded in the fabric. So, while I believe this rental deserves a lower rating due to the lack of comfort and cheap furnishings (that seem to convey an owner who sees this rental not as the luxury property it COULD be, but instead a cheaply outfitted party house for the drunken stag/hen do short term guests looking to party), we believe these shortcomings have nothing to do with Hello Vacations and their servicing the property as a manager. They assured me that they've encouraged the owner to make improvements, but as managers they can't force an owner to invest in those improvements. It's rather tragic to us that a house with SO much potential ended up being a home we did not enjoy or feel was worth the money, due to the choices made by the owners in terms of what's provided in the accommodation for guests. Sad really, as the house is in a great location and has a lot of positives for someone looking to rent in Albufeira. I should note, because it was important to us and we found ourselves quite disappointed to discover the reality upon staying here: the beach is NOT easily accessible. Google maps will show you that it's a quick walk to a stairway down to the closest beach. That stairway (as of March 2025) is under construction and not accessible. A local informed us that without that entry, the nearest beach is a good 30 minute walk away (if you walk briskly!), due to the resorts/hotels blocking off access. We imagined ourselves walking the beach every morning. In our month here, we only saw an Albufeira beach once due to it not being easy to get to. And while the neighbourhood is quiet overall, if (like me) you are looking for peace and quiet, you should know that there are dogs in all of the adjoining properties that literally bark like mad from morning until late at night. Street noise was non-existent, but dog noise was incessant and tiring. These are all things I wish I had known in advance, as I would have chosen a different property. But if you're looking for a home base during your holiday and don't mind the things I've detailed above, then by all means consider this property, as it's a good location, walking distance from the strip and grocery stores; a little off the main path so not dealing with drunken tourists on your street; upscale neighbourhood with beautiful homes; a spacious house with a lot of light that has great potential; no lack of hot water for showers; a great coffee maker; a pool that is serviced weekly by a crew that also does a great job cleaning the yard. We even survived Storm Marinho here (which caused damage to other homes on the block but we slept safely with the shutters all closed). My hope is that the owners will read this and decide their lovely house deserves better than they've provided for guests. It could be such a great place. My last comment is more about Albufeira for those who may be new to the area: Having never visited the Algarves before, we chose it because it seemed central for us to explore where in the Algarves we'd like to eventually live. What we discovered is Albufeira lacks any of the charm of the other coastal towns; it's a party town that is built with massive numbers of buildings all crammed together for the party tourists. Ubers were plenty, so that was good. But it has nothing of the charm of Tavira or Lagos. During our stay, we visited Lagos and were heartbroken we didn't choose that instead. But if you're coming to party and be out in "hen do" mode in search of endless pubs, restaurants and bars/clubs, then Albufeira might be exactly what you want. But if you, like me, are hoping for relaxation and being surrounded by Algarve charm and natural beauty with ample peace and quiet, Albufeira is not it. It lacks any charm that I've come to love about the Algarves and the coastal cities of Portugal and Spain. All in all, not a stay we'd ever want to do again. BUT, Hello Vacations is most DEFINITELY a company we'd be very happy to rent through again, as I think they'd be very helpful in making sure that next time we chose a better accommodations more suited to our needs in a more ideal location. Hello Vacations is 10+. The rest, though, was meh, at best.

The condition of the property was bad. The condo is outdated, and it needed urgent repairs. It was very cold some days inside, and two electrical portable oil heaters were not enough to have normal temperature inside. It was a very bad smell from the kitchen sink. The managing company HostWise and owners of the property ignored most of our requests. For example, they didn't want to give us a key from a mailbox for a very long time. They gave it to us only after our threat to cancel our rental. They sent us monthly invoices for 2024 only after many of our requests for invoices, but ignored our multiple requests for getting invoices for January and February 2025 completely!

Staying at this apartment was not a good experience for us. First the apartment is way to cold in winter for not having heating devices to warm the spaces. It is a very recent renovation of an old building where the original walls were fully cover with plasterboard, I think that there's a space between the original walls and the new ones where humidity get trapped and that make it a very cold space. To deal with that cold, we have to asked the host, Amelia, to give us a portable heater. Also mold forms in the bathroom roof and even in your backpacks. The floor is so cold that if you walk only with winter socks you feel your feet not only cold but wet. To add, the apartment and everything inside is almost new, but some of the appliances were like toys or decoration, like not intended to be used, if you used them they last for very few times. As the toaster and hand blender that were very cheap and of low quality ("perfectly enough" average of 12.99€). I will highly recommend the host, Amelia, to spend at least a week on that apartment during the winter season and while raining to really live and experiences what she, at this very moment, can only just see. In addition to the apartment itself, it was not a good experience for me to comunicate with Amelia Estevao. During our stay there were 4 services usually provided by a host to it's guest and that could had being done very easily, but for one reason or another, Amelia make each of those processes difficult and time consuming for me. I wonder why she did them that way. The services were: 1) Extend the rent period. 2) Payment of services in excess 3) Inspection of the apartment and writing of the protocol from takeover of residential premises. 4) Keys pick-up The first one, I want to write about is the Inspection of the apartment, the first time I asked Amelia to tell me when she was going to come to make the inspection of the apartment was 17 days before my check-out date and I asked her again 6 days before my check-out date. It took her 12 days to answered that to me. She wrote to me that she was not coming to make the inspection but that her husband is coming the day of the check-out. If she was not coming to make the inspection it means there's no way that there will be agreements between she and me about the way to solve defects and therefore the conditions needed to write down The Protocol from Takeover of Residential Premises were not met. I think they'd don't realized that, because her husband asked me, on the check-out day, to sign a document previously written by them. That is not what "The Protocol from Takeover of Residential Premises" is it all about, it cannot be written unilaterally by the host on his own an previous to the inspection. Knowing she was not coming to the inspection and knowing I will have to correct the defects before I left. I decided to bought a new toaster and a new, exactly the same, hand blender. The ones on the apartment just stop working from one day to the next. I also bought a new, exactly the same, chopping board. I accidentally put a too hot pan in top of it and even it still works it's purpose perfectly it ends up with a black (burn) circle, so it doesn't look "as new", anymore. I consider I did the best I could to solve the defects, when the host, Amelia, didn't even take the time to come and check her own apartment. Regarding the keys pick-up, she asked me if her husband could pick-up the keys at 9:00 am when the check-out time was at 11:00 am. We really tried to have everything ready at 9:00 am but we run a little bit late. Her husband was hurrying us when we have the right to be there until 11:00 am. We asked him to go inside the apartment some minutes after 9 am. I gave to him the new toaster, the new hand blender and the new chopping board. I also turn on many of the appliances and invite him to see that they were functioning properly (TV, router, refrigerator, stove, water heater, etc), but he seem not too interested and said to be in a hurry. He was there for about 20 minutes and take a very good look of the apartment. Since they have already booked the apartment by new guests to check-inn the next day, it was the opportunity for him to check the apartment and show me any defect he could found. He left the apartment without mentioning that he found any defect on the apartment. For last, he told us to left the apartment before 11:00 am. so he didn't pick up the keys. We left the apartment minutes after he left, the time that took to take videos/pictures and after finding out the code for the key-box. Regarding the payment of services in excess Amelia notify me that I have to pay for them 12 days after she received the electricity invoice. I would like for her to notify it earlier so we can do something about it sooner. She add that our use of electricity was to high, I consider she told me so because she didn't took on account the following facts: • The price for electricity was 17.611% higher in December than in January, that's written on the invoice. I think she has to know that fact, since she lives there, but she forgot to mentioned it to me. • We were using a portable heater that she bought that don't have a label of energy efficiency and probably was not very efficient using electricity. • The water heater was at the maximum temperature and the refrigerator was at the minimum temperature when we get there. • Last but not least, it was December, a month of celebrations, we celebrate Christmas and the New Year, so we cooked (used the oven more than usual), hear music, go to sleep later, etc. It is not that we, the person's that rent Amelia's apartment's used to much electricity, is that all over the world people use more electricity in December. I really tried to agreed with Amelia, on the amount to pay for services in excess. So I wrote several message to her for 17 days to get to a number and it was far to difficult: • Begining with the rents I payed, the only thing she has to do is to copy them from the Amendment and sum them. But she didn't, she kept on writing to me wrong rents payments, always lower than what I really payed. • Then, I asked Amelia questions about the services as: Do this apartment shared the same internet with the other apartment upstairs? (she owns that apartment too) That simple question offended her. • Then, getting the invoices, she only send 2 invoices that were real invoices and that the whole period of time they were charging were when I was actually renting de apartment; 1 electricity invoice and 1 water invoices, their sum didn't exceed the maximum stablish by Flatio. I wrote several messages to Amelia to asked her to send the internet invoices but she never send a real internet invoice, just sent a screenshot of an e-mail from her internet provider. • And for last with some invoices it is necessary to agreed on how much of the charge was really used by us as tenants; For example, that screenshot of an e-mail from her internet provider was asking for the payment of 52.81€ for 30 days. We were not renting the apartment jet, for 25 of those 30 days. The same happened with a water invoice that she sent to me, we were not renting the apartment for 13 days of the 30 days that invoice was charging. One night at 01:24 am, she wrote to me this: "As despesas ficam por minha conta." Then, the same day few hours later 22:53, she wrote something that made no sense to me, so I asked her some questions to try to understand it, she just didn't answer them. She never send an invoice or mention anything about the payment for the services in excess anymore. What I can say is that, according to the meters, at the end of our stay we manage to lower 34% our electricity consumption and manage to lower 23% water consumption in relation to the December invoices. The last service I will mention is when I asked her to extend my stay, it took her about 4 days for her to register a valid agreed amendment at Flatio's Website. First she create one with a Rent that was almost twice the price of the Rent I had already payed. Then she create another that extend my stay for 2 years more than I was asking and with the same doubled wrong price. Repeatedly, Amelia was not involved in the service she has to give to us and she was not willing to accomplish each of them, also her communication with me was erratic and it became a bad experience for me.

Low value for money. Very high price for very low quality of apartment.

The apartment is nice with new things but it tends to feel a bit closed in since there are no windows. And there was a few things that didn't really function as it should in the apartment and it has a mold problem, although this is quite common in Portugal. There is also a construction site literally 1 meter outside of the door which is super noisy every day. When asking for something for the flat it could get fixed fast but sometimes I never heard back and had to remind the care taker. The rent is way too high for what you get. All in all a 5/10 experience

Classic bait & switch. Don't fall for the photos. Rented a corner unit (pictured) w/hot tub & view in direction of ocean. When arriving our key (once we had to call to figure it out) only worked to a middle unit. The listing had a hot tub but after arriving we were told it is closed for winter. We could of had a place for 600k but paid the 1000k for the extra view and hot tub. We never met a person during the entire month. When we had issues it would take days for anyone to respond to request. Responses were generated using AI for sure. The location was good & everything was modern. Be sure to only shower after sun has been out because the hot water is solar heated.

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After subscribing a contract for 4 months location for 3 people, the owner asked for an extra 200€ in cash !!!!! When I said it was not agreed in the contract she just asked me to cancel the location or pay. We did not have the choice .... It is really unfair

Pěkný pokoj, jen rozměry jsou menší než je uvedeno. Starostlivá majitelka, která dbá na čistotu, ale z kuchyně a předsíně si udělala tak trochu skladiště.

The Owner realy nice helpfull No problem att all.

Good location. Cleanliness and maintenance could have been better. Satisfactory for the price.

Appartement bien situé, transports à côté Appartement semblable aux photos A notre arrivé l'appartement n étais pas très propre, frigo sale.. Pas très bien équipé pour deux personnes ( une seule chaise pour s assoir et une seule clés, on devait nous les ramener mais on ne les a jamais eu) Propriétaire reactive lors des soucis ( électricité et eau) Dans l'ensemble nous recommandons

The owner is a good person, everything was great from his side, thanks a lot! Unfortunately it was very cold in December, not enough heaters in the apartment. Everything is very old and almost all electric plugs in the kitchen and in the covered terrace are non-working. The district is very quiet, there are many transports nearby and the city center in 30mins by feet. I suppose it is a very good place to stay in summer (and it is much cheaper than in the city center), but they need to perform a small repair of their equipment.

It's just the most basic apartment possible. By itself quite nice, but it has a very intense smell, especially from the bathroom sink, which sticks to the whole flat. Also, the price, compared to other options, also hotels and airbnbs, is extremely high for bulgarian standards

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Because it was Autumn we found the apartment was always cold and damp and clothes smelt of the damp and after the two months even mould was forming on clothes and shoes. Being on the ground floor the entrance door to the apartments was always very noisy which also spoilt our experience. The positive aspects were it was convenient to getting to the beaches and old town. The Wi-Fi worked very well. The interaction with the key holder Isabel was very good. I would not recommend this apartment in the Autumn/Winter and the noise from the entrance and the neighbours spoilt our experience and that is why we left earlier than originally planned.

Great location, communication without problems. I think the apartment can be better equipped. I think essentials are missing (usable pan, knives, cutting board, cooking utensils, towels...). Only hot water was flowing in the kitchen.

The house was nice and in spacious grounds with fruit trees. The property had lots of plus sides but also some negatives. The most problematic issues we had were: 1. Only two rings on the hob worked making it difficult to cook and prolonged cooking time for our family. 2. The electric tripped twice probably due to the issue with the broken hob ring. 3. The location is 30 minutes to anywhere so a little remote- but this might suit some. 4. Constant flies in the house made it unbearable to stay - we couldn’t leave the door open as hundreds would come in. The kitchen door also had a big gap so they would still enter when the doors were closed. We left early due to this reason. On the plus side, there is a lovely walk to a lake nearby, a great restaurant on the main road just metres away. We enjoyed seeing the goats herded everyday and collecting oranges and avocados from the trees.