Hotel Vila Gale Tavira

Traditional, Unspoilt Portuguese Town

We loved the Hotel Vila Gale in Tavira, great location, very spacious, fab pool area & lovely breakfast. (This was despite having a problem with our rooms on the first night & having to move on the 2nd day). In the end we had 2 ground floor interconnecting rooms which were just perfect. A small terrace lead straight onto the pool area which was great for children of all ages, my 2 year old really loved the baby pool which was like a bath! The only downside to the hotel was prices of drinks (3 euro for a can of coke!) & ice creams, etc, although BBQ nite was good value - 22 euro adult / 11 euro child inc local drinks. Tavira ia a beautiful place and relatively unspoiled compared to many other resorts in the Algarve. We have been to Portugal for the past 6 years and have always stayed in Lagos, which we love, but now feel we’ve found somewhere we like even more. I would describe Tavira as how Lagos would have been say 10-15 years ago. There are many good quality traditional restaurants to sample, you can stroll around the wonderful old cobbled streets, soak up the ambience in one of the many street cafes meet some very friendly locals along the way. Our children also loved Tavira, especially the evening street entertainers and the boat trip to Tavira Island. The whole experince was absolutely brilliant - we would definitely go back to bothe hotel & resort.

Traveller's tip on dining

Book a table in advance especially if you have young children. We travelled in August and found that most of the popular restaurants were very busy & you had to queue for a table, unless you arrived early i.e. pre 7pm that is!

Second visit and will be back

This is the econd time I have stayed at this excellent hotel the first time being in March 2009 when i was with a group on a golfing holiday.This time I was with my wife and the hotel was once again excellent.The level of cleanliness in particular is superb.The food in the breakfast buffet was also superb.New towels every day and excellent reception staff just another plus.The hotel location couldn’t be bettered and I am already planning anothr trip in April 2010.I’m a hard guy to plesae but this place ticks all the boxes.

Walk from the hotel into the main town centre about 5 mins and cross the first bridge not the old roman one.When you cross the bridge about 50 metres in front of you you will see a small cafe pizzeria.Best pizza in the area and a bottle of house white is 5 euro.

good reliable hotel with a good pool

great pool for swimming especially in the morning before breakfast

Traveller's tip

hotel does not allow access to rooms until 14:00 on day of arrival.