Praia da Rocha, Jupiter Hotel

The hotel was clean, rooms comfortable even though we did not have a balcony. Maid service every day . All staff pleasant and friendly. Pool clean and warm. Arrived 28 Feb 2008, the resort was very quiet but the weather was good, cool on a night. The food was poor about two choices and of poor quality. Breakfast most days at the best was only warm.

Sunset bar worth a visit very friendly .

Resort was very quiet although it was school half term, nice clean area with excellent beach.

On the whole I was a little disappointed in the Jupiter as a 4 star hotel, have stayed in nicer 3 star hotels, restaurant certainly let it down and seemed to have a take it or leave it attitude, well personally I'd rather leave it and won't be back.

Praia Da Rocha, Jupiter Hotel - We arrived at the Hotel Jupiter around 8.45 pm and we were told just to leave our luggage at reception and point it to the porter with our room number and to go right into the dining room where a hot meal was waiting for us. To me this was an excellent reception as being so late in arriving the most we expected was something cold. True to their word our luggage was delivered to our room whilst we had our meal.

The room was clean, big and the beds were very comfortable. We had a fridge (no charge), hairdryer in the bathroom and a safety deposit box all in our room. The bathroom and shower were brilliant and always loads of VERY HOT water no matter what time of the day or night. At first we had a slight problem with the safe as I couldn't get the key to work but within minutes someone was there to have it sorted out.

We were on a half board basis the first week and breakfasts were buffet and a great selection of cereals, fruit, yogurts, cooked meats, cheeses, etc., and always a hot dish as well. Plenty coffee, hot chocolate, juices and water. There was always something at dinner that suited everyone and the soup was always hot. It was waiter service and sometimes a bit slow but there were a lot of people to be served so they could have done with extra staff.

The swimming pool was very clean but also VERY COLD as the weather was not very good and therefore not hot enough to heat the pool. But no-one can arrange the weather. All in all we had a most enjoyable two weeks in the Hotel Jupiter and it is in an excellent location for all the local buses going around the Algarve and as far as Lisbon.