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Vila Gale Lagos

Estrada da Meia Praia s/n Lagos, 8600-315 Portugal

Lagos beach hotel near Meia Praia Beach

On the beach
This beachfront spa hotel is located in Lagos, close to Meia Praia Beach, Dona Ana Beach, and Lagos Marina. Also nearby are Lagos Town Market and Henry the Navigator Statue. Show more
Swimming and tennis
In addition to 2 restaurants, Vila Gale Lagos features outdoor tennis courts. Other amenities include a full-service spa and a marina.
Balconies with views
Guestrooms open to furnished balconies with beach or garden views and feature LCD televisions with cable channels. Other amenities include balconies, air conditioning, and minibars. Hide

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3.9out of 5

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81%

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2 twinFurnished balcony with view of the beach and garden. Desk. LCD television with cable channels. Wireless Internet access (surcharge). Laptop-compatible safe. Minibar. Ensuite bathroom includes bathtub or shower with handheld showerhead. Bath amenities include phone, hair dryer, and bidet. Blackout drapes/curtains. Air conditioning.
Twin sea view
2 twinFurnished balcony with view of the beach and garden. Desk. LCD television with cable channels. Wireless Internet access (surcharge). Laptop-compatible safe. Minibar. Ensuite bathroom includes bathtub or shower with handheld showerhead. Bath amenities include phone, hair dryer, and bidet. Blackout drapes/curtains. Air conditioning.
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Hotel Policies & Fees

The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.

Know Before You Go
  • Advanced reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Policies
  • Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
  • Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
  • Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Fees
  • The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
    • Self parking fee: EUR 7.50 per day
  • The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

Accessibility Options

  • Accessible path of travel
  • In-room accessibility

Property Amenities

  • Total number of rooms - 247
  • Number of floors - 3
  • Ballroom(s)
  • Self parking (surcharge)
  • Business services
  • Air-conditioned public areas
  • Multiple large conference rooms
  • Elevator/lift attendant
  • Event catering
  • Exhibit space
  • Arcade/game room
  • Multiple small meeting rooms
  • Parking garage
  • Restaurant(s) in hotel
  • Number of meeting/conference rooms - 8
  • Year Built - 2009
  • Conference center
  • Sauna
  • Banquet facilities
  • Steam room
  • Swimming pool - outdoor
  • Number of coffee shops/cafes - 2
  • Complimentary breakfast
  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Full-service health spa Surcharge
  • Designated smoking areas
  • Beach/pool umbrellas
  • Billiards or pool table
  • Tours/ticket assistance
  • Wireless (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
  • Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
  • Children's club
  • Marina on site
  • Medical assistance available
  • Multilingual staff
  • Parking (surcharge)
  • Garden
  • Pool table
  • Poolside bar
  • Room service (24 hours)
  • Number of restaurants - 2
  • 24-hour business center
  • Outdoor tennis courts -
  • Snack bar/deli
  • Self parking
  • Suitable for children
  • Supervised child care/activities
  • Swimming pool - children's
  • Swimming pool - indoor

Rooms

Vila Gale Lagos offers 247 air-conditioned accommodations with minibars and laptop-compatible safes. Furnished balconies open to beach or garden views. LCD televisions come with cable channels. Bathrooms include bathtubs or showers with handheld showerheads, makeup/shaving mirrors, bidets, and phones.

In-room wireless high-speed Internet access is available for a surcharge. Business-friendly amenities include desks and direct-dial phones. Additionally, rooms include hair dryers and complimentary toiletries. Housekeeping is provided daily.

Vila Gale Lagos, Lagos,  Portugal, Rooms Guest Room

Room Amenities

  • Balcony
  • Desk
  • Furnished balcony
  • Air conditioning
  • Direct-dial phone
  • Minibar
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Private bathroom
  • Complimentary toiletries
  • Hair dryer
  • Bathroom phone
  • Bidet
  • Handheld showerhead
  • Makeup/shaving mirror
  • Bathtub or shower
  • Electronic/magnetic keys
  • Window opens
  • Blackout drapes/curtains
  • In-room safe (laptop compatible)
  • Cable television service
  • Wireless high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
  • LCD television
  • Garden view
  • Beach view

Dining

A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning in the restaurant between 7 AM and 10 AM.

Versatil Main Restaurant - Overlooking the pool, this restaurant serves breakfast and dinner.

24-hour room service is available.

Vila Gale Lagos, Lagos,  Portugal, Dining Restaurant

Recreation

Outdoor tennis courts and a marina are featured at the hotel. An indoor pool, an outdoor pool, and a children's pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a steam room.

Spa

  • Body wraps
  • Body scrubs
  • Aromatherapy treatments
  • Hydrotherapy treatments
  • Mud bath in spa
  • Turkish bath/Hammam in spa
  • Beachfront spa
  • Massages
  • Minimum age to access spa is 10
  • Body treatments
  • Facial treatments

Verified Reviews: All guest reviews are verified as submitted by our customers and reflect their stay at Vila Gale Lagos

3.9
out of 5
avg. guest rating
Hotel service:
3.9
Hotel condition:
4.5
Room cleanliness:
4.6
Room comfort:
4.3
Location:
3.9
Neighbourhood:
3.4
82%

of guests recommend

out of 11 reviews

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Lindsay B from Watford, United Kingdom
4.0
out of 5
Recommends this hotel
Posted 12 Dec 2011

“very enjoyable”

A beautiful, good quality four-star, although some facilities are an extra charge (eg Gym & Indoor Pool)

Area recommendations
Recommend you visit: Lagos, old town and marina - lovely All beaches - very clean and great rock formations Also Sagres and its lighthouse - worthwhile drive (about 30 mins away) Avoid Portimao (disappointing - couldn't leave quick enough!)
When to go
high season is best, our preference is July avoid the low season, as pretty deserted and many places are closed (early December)
Adrian P from CBS, NL,Canada
4.0
out of 5
Recommends this hotel
Posted 5 Oct 2011

“Great Hotel, Skip Dinner”

Hotel: Hotel was clean and in pleasant surroundings. Beautiful pools and grounds and close to the ocean and beach - 5 minute walk over strret and railway track. The rooms and hotel were very neat and clean. Had free internet when it was working. Staff were helpful and pleasant. Not much in terms of entainment . Food: The dining room served breakfast and dinner while a cafe at the pool served lunch. The breakfast was a buffett and served the usual fare with fresh cooked eggs, variety of foods with fruit ( sometimes not ripe ). Adequate meal with juices but very hard to get hot water for tea ( water was tap warm ). Dinner was also buffett but again the food was barely warm and not fully appetitizing.. The hotel gave me a coupon for a bottle of their house wine (only choice of wine in the hotel ) to entice us to eat there. The fee was 40 euros for a couple at their dining room. Water was not free . After eating on our first night at the dining room, we ate the rest of our dinners in the town of Lagos. The restaurants in Lagos were all pleasant and the food was good, at times great, and reasonablly priced. Water had to be paid for. Usually paid between 25-30 euros for a dinner with a small bottle of house wine. The atomsphere in town was romantic and very appealing. I would strongly recommend skipping the dining room and going to the town centre for your dinner meal. You will be entained in the side walk tables and the people walking along the streets.

Area recommendations
Lagos centre: The area was old cobble stone streets with wonderful sidewalk restaurants and small stores to browse. There are some gyspy markets in the surrondings communities that are worth attending.
Getting around
Check the bus tours in terms of picking up passengers. We booked a guided bus trip to Lisbon, a two and half hour drive from Lagos. We were picked up at the hotel at 5am but it took 5 hours to arrive at Lisbon- two hours was used to pick up other passengers for the tour. We left Lisbon at 3:30pm to head back home and it took 5 hours to return to our hotel. We arrived at the hotel at 8:45pm. It was 10 hours on the bus for the trip. The bus used their air-conditioning sparingly because a lady complained that she was cold. The air temperature was 28 C degrees. Never again
Maryann Pa from New Bedford, MA
4.0
out of 5
Recommends this hotel
Posted 1 Jun 2011

“Nice hotel. Very modern. Beautiful pool. Great breakfast buffet.”

My daughter and I stayed at this hotel for 2 nights. The desk staff was very friendly and helpful. The hotel is very modern and sleek looking. The pool and surrounding area was beautiful. The hotel was fairly close to the marina and town area where there were many restaurants and shops. The bus, however, cost almost as much as a taxi. The breakfast buffet was huge with a wide variety of foods that would please almost anyone. Very pleasant experience.

Area recommendations
The marina area was very close to the hotel. A short walk from there were lots of restaurants and shops. A fun area to visit. Touristy but enjoyable for us.
Jen from Bournemouth
5.0
out of 5
Recommends this hotel
Posted 30 Mar 2011

“Spring at the Vila Gale.”

We were very impressed with this hotel. It was clean, the rooms were comfortable and the staff were very attentive. It is also close to the beach. There was a good choice at the buffet breakfast each morning. We are planning on visiting again in the near future

A Traveller from London
3.0
out of 5
Does not recommend this hotel
Posted 30 Sep 2010

“Has potential but doesn't deliver”

Best features: - a very large pool - clean, well maintained hotel - very near to a great beach Worst features: - Food: no variety at all over 9 nine days in breakfast buffet and the 1 dinner we had in the hotel was pretty poor. - Staff really look like they are not enjoying their jobs. - Lack of facilities - despite large grounds very little has been provided, e.g. no table tennis or similar and what is provided is all chargeable, e.g. £7/hour for use of pool table. - Hotel design - I like contemporary and yet this was way of the mark as it lacked any sense of comfort and luxury. Some of this could be addressed simply by upgrading towels and bedding and removing some of the misguided decoration (e.g. mannequins). Others are more difficult to address e.g. the way that sound travels in the hotel meaning your room is rarely quiet.

Andrew from Menlo park, CA
4.0
out of 5
Recommends this hotel
Posted 26 Sep 2010

“Good choice but no charm”

We stayed in Vila Gale in July 2010. This is a new hotel located not far from Lagos (half hour walk). Since the hotel is new everything still works. All rooms face swimming pool (no rooms face the parking lot). The swimming pool is large, and has nice facilities (showers, changing rooms, bar). Yet, clear efforts to be modern and original have not been quite successful. The building looks heavy, color schemes are odd and all design lines are too simple. Every room has a balcony, but they lack privacy. The staff tries to be very helpful, but behaves a bit like good students following the textbook. Maybe they will pick up some flare with time. Buffet breakfast is OK, but nothing to write home about. The surroundings are ugly. Fortunately, once one crosses the road and the railroad track, one gets to a beautiful beach. One can walk east for about an hour one way on fine yellow sand. Forget the swimming pool, swimming in the ocean is great. Also, the old part of Lagos is nice, with many open-air restaurants and bars. Worth making a trip. In general, Vila Gale and Lagos in general is an OK choice (seems better that most other modern hotels and towns in the area) unless you look for old European charm and flair.

Teresa W from New York, NY
2.0
out of 5
Does not recommend this hotel
Posted 4 Aug 2010

“Not impressed”

We spent the majority of our trip to Portugal staying in bed & breakfasts. Vila Gale was our one "luxury" hotel, and we chose it for a relaxing 3 nights at the beach. We've stayed in luxury hotels before, and this hotel did not compare. Here are the few salient points: room service does NOT exist; WiFi is spotty at best; food selection and quality are mediocre; the live entertainment in the bar area that they say they have every night; does NOT exist (not even on the weekends when we were there); the pool towels are as thin as paper; the staff is friendly, but clueless (they constantly gave us misinformation; could have been a language issue - they were the least-english-speaking staff we encountered in all of Portugal, and our Portugese is minimal). The room was clean and semi-comfortable. The pool was nice, though you had to get there by 11am to get a spot. The beach is not too far a walk. For anything other than the beach, you have to drive into town. Lagos itself is a great town, and I highly recommend visiting this area of Portugal - just don't stay at Vila Gale!

Area recommendations
Go further up the coast. There's a great restaurant called Antonio's, and it looks like there are some really lovely places up that way. Or, stay more inland closer to downtown Lagos - a really great town.
A Traveller from london
4.0
out of 5
Recommends this hotel
Posted 29 Jun 2010

“Lagos May 2010”

Very nice modern and clean hotel, only let down was gate being shut at back of the hotel meaning the walk to the beach was twice as long and a long wait to get served at the bar.

Area recommendations
Would recommend Lagos and Luz
A Traveller from Manchester
4.0
out of 5
Recommends this hotel
Posted 4 Feb 2010

“Lovely winter break”

Went to stay at the Vila Gale hotel at the end of January and couldn't have wished for a nicer hotel to enjoy some winter sun. The hotel is very new so everything is in excellent condition. The buffet breakfast that is included in the price was excellent with a choice of cooked or continental. The rooms are spacious with very comfortable beds and a large balcony if it is warm enough to sit outside. The hotel has a very nice spa with a lovely pool, sauna and steam room though there is a small charge to use this. Outside there is a very large pool overlooking the ocean. The hotel is about a 20 minute walk into Lagos old town but we used taxi's in the evenings. I would definetly recommend this hotel and would stay again if i was in Lagos.

Area recommendations
I would recommend lagos old town for its variety of restaurants and bars
A Traveller from Ilkley, West Yorkshire
4.0
out of 5
Recommends this hotel
Posted 16 Jun 2009

“New & contemporary”

The hotel had only been open 6 weeks so everything was very new, black, grey or red decor to a decent standard, but no soul or traces of Portugese culture or flair. The Standard room was more akin to a business traveller so we ended up having to pay 200 extra for a suite to give us some extra space. We had a full sea view but the side sea view rooms (pool facing) have almost as good a view. Lagos marina is a 25 minute walk away and the town centre about another 10 minutes. The hotel facilities advertised tennis courts, sauna, gym, pitch & putt etc, but we were annoyed that this is run by a seperate business and evrything is charged as extra, plus equipment hire, so we boycotted it on principle and jogged instead (there is also a tennis centre in Lagos) The pool area was good and spacious and the 3 mile stretch of excellent beach only about 70 yards across a minor road and local railway line (not a problem as it only runs daytime), watch out for the naturists hanging out in the sand dunes at the far end. We were B&B only, and the breakfasts were good, although the omlette chef disappeared for the 2nd week as did the Cava. Evening entertainment looked/sounded lightweight, compounding the hotels lack of atmosphere. Overall an enjoyable holiday in pleasant accommodation, but not that memorable.

Traveller's tip
Twilight Golf @ nearby Palmares (2 miles) for 35 euros was good value (albeit currently under re-contruction to add 27 holes) Club & shoe hire was only 20 euros for both at the Lagos Golf Shop (near Lidl supermarket) A couple of worthwhile restaurants discovered in the town were No Patio and Vino Divino, both serving decent food which cost around 50 euros per couple (including a decent bottle of wine).

Vila Gale Lagos

Estrada da Meia Praia s/n Lagos, 8600-315 Portugal

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Nearby Points of Interest

  • Meia Praia Beach - 0.6 km / 0.4 mi
  • Lagos Marina - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
  • Lagos Town Market - 1.2 km / 0.8 mi
  • Henry the Navigator Statue - 1.7 km / 1 mi
  • Fort Ponte da Bandeira - 1.8 km / 1.1 mi
  • Arch of Sao Goncalo - 1.8 km / 1.1 mi
  • Santo Antonio Church - 1.8 km / 1.1 mi
  • Batata Beach - 1.9 km / 1.2 mi
  • Palmares Golf - 2.2 km / 1.4 mi
  • Pinhao Beach - 2.3 km / 1.4 mi
  • Dona Ana Beach - 2.5 km / 1.6 mi
  • Camilo Beach - 3 km / 1.9 mi
  • Mos Beach - 3.9 km / 2.4 mi
  • Luz Beach - 6.5 km / 4 mi
  • Tres Irmaos Beach - 7.4 km / 4.6 mi

Location Highlights

  • On beach
  • Marina nearby
  • Train station nearby
  • Shopping district nearby

The preferred airport for Vila Gale Lagos is Faro (FAO-Faro Intl.) - 62.4 km / 38.8 mi.

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Nearest Major Airport:

  • Faro, Portugal (FAO-Faro Intl.)

Area:

Lagos, Portugal: The region’s top resort, Lagos packs in history, character and wonderful beaches. The old centre, partly walled, features local shops next to fashionable restaurants and nightspots, favoured by independent travellers as well as package holidaymakers. The Algarve’s best museum, a gilded chapel, a sea fort and various monuments recall the town’s heyday. Its beaches range from a broad, long town beach to picture-postcard coves close by.

Vila Gale Lagos

Estrada da Meia Praia s/n Lagos, 8600-315 Portugal