Praia da Rocha, Mirachoro Apartments Review

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jasonw1's Review of Praia da Rocha, Mirachoro Apartments Algarve

16th Aug 2007

Overall Rating

3 stars
  • Value for money
    3 stars
  • Board Basis
    Self catering
  • Accommodation
    3 stars
  • Food
    3 stars
  • Location
    1.5 stars
  • Date of stay
    08/2007
  • Tour Operator
    First Choice
  • Customer Service
    2.5 stars
  • Resort
    2.5 stars
Good Points

Very clean, spacious apartment and value for money. Room was cleaned every day with fresh towels.


Bad Points

Was a good 20 minute walk from the strip. Receptionists weren't very friendly. The pool area was much smaller than expected.


General Comments

My girlfriend and I got this apartment as a last minute deal for a week, when we arrived from the outside the hotel looks like the place you wouldn't stay and we had to wait near 2 hours for our room. But we discovered that are apartment was in a separate block and it looked really good. We were shocked to see how big our apartment was and it was nice to go into after the wait, it could have slept 6 people overall.
We discovered the beach on the first night and were amazed by it, without a doubt the best beach I have been to in my life, and the bars right along it made it even better!
The restaurants are amazing and total value for money, I recommend Big Reds, we went 3 times in a week it was that good, and the people were really nice.
One thing we picked up on was the attitude of the Portuguese people, they stared at you, walked into you and it was very intimidating to walk back to the apartment late at night so we decided to get a taxi, make sure you have the right amount because you don't get change off the driver and they already add a tip on! There was also a homeless man who shouted abuse after we said we wouldn't give him money!

If you go make sure you go to Ireland's Eye of a night as its superb, and they have two amazing acoustic singers on, we went every night and the people are friendly! There's also a great cocktail bar that overlooks the beach.

Overall the holiday was great and we really enjoyed it, I believe a week is sufficient as we went the water park and on a boat trip and through Portimao, doing everything really. Plus we don't think we could have tolerated the locals much more. Was a great get away, but we wouldn't go back just because of the people.

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