Cerro Da Marina Hotel

Cerro da marina is a lovely place to stay, put very noisy due to people not being considerent and letting doors bang. This a small hotel and noise seems to travel a lot, the noise from these issues shakes the room at times. Hotel is close to bars and restaurants, location is good.

Small and charming hotel in lovely area with marina and town near to walk to. Paulo gives you a very nice welcome and informs you of pretty much everything you need to know./breakfast times/evening meal if booked/honesty bar/bus stops etc very helpful. Pool and grounds kept lovely sun loungers are the best we've had plenty of areas outside and inside for relaxing. Breakfast covers everything all good. Didn't have evening meal because we always ate out but the menus always looked nice. Tried nice restaurants in both the marina and town lovely quiet hotel a really nice stay. Red carpet on entrance a lovely touch quite apt.

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Paulo

We went with Tui to this small and friendly hotel…just 23 rooms. It was up a hill from the town but just 10 minutes walk down and bit longer coming back up but not a problem if you are reasonably fit and we are 69 and 71. We stayed for two weeks and didn’t use taxis. There are lots of lovely places to walk to from here so we enjoyed our holiday even though the weather was a bit wet at the start and a bit windy sometimes. We had a a problem with our neighbours one night but the manager sorted that out straight away. All the people working in this hotel are lovely. We are vegan and they had soya milk at breakfast but only butter so I asked if there was any possibility of vegetable spread and they fetched some straight away and next morning we were presented with Alpro yoghurts too…much appreciated 😊 There was enough choice at breakfast for us although it would have been nice to have mushrooms on a few mornings instead of beans and tomatoes on toast every day 😂 plenty of fruit available, cereals, nice teas and coffee, loads of breads and pastries, cold meats and cheeses, bacon and scrambled eggs if you want them. The room we had was nice…spacious and clean, comfortable beds and plenty of storage. The shower was great…plenty of hot water but you have to be careful not to push the shower screen out so water floods the floor 🙄 I enjoyed the bath but it was a bit small so wouldn’t suit a larger person. There is a heater too which was lovely as it was a bit cold some evenings. The balcony was large enough for us to sit out and we had a sea view. There are places for evening meals within walking distance even if you don’t go down to the main square. The marina has quite a few nice restaurants…again finding vegan food wasn’t a problem…we went to Fatcats for a couple of basic pub style meals,..El Barrio for tapas and they had music too. Even closer was Veggie Mama, Jaipur Indian restaurant and we went to one in the town but can’t remember the name. Lots of places we liked closed at around five unfortunately so couldn’t go there in the evenings…Sugar Rabbit was nice and we spent quite a few hours at Iguana looking out over the sea. One thing…if you go on a bus get the return times before you go…we caught a bus to Salgardos to see the nature reserve and could find bus stop for way back but no times! Couldn’t get anything on the phone to check! The museum in the town is interesting and there is a free walking tour on Thursday 🤔 but it was full when we enquired. The beaches are lovely but the sea was too rough while we were there…the pool at the hotel is kept spotless but too cold at this time of year 🥶 there is a jacuzzi though. The small gardens were nice to sit in when the sun was out and there were plenty of sunbeds. Free tea and biscuits at 4.00 was nice although we were only there at that time once or twice. There was a bar and snacks …all self service…just take what you want and write it on the list…very useful although some people said they would rather have someone to serve them. We had a lovely holiday and would like to say thanks to the manager and all the people working there x

A lovely clean quiet hotel, just what we wanted, Excellent breakfasts and evening meals
Not far to walk into the old town which is very interesting, we found the walk back up quite easy but there are plenty of taxis if needed .
We would definitely stay here again
Thank you all.

First time in the Algarve since our 1988 honeymoon & first March holiday since 1986. We wanted a break with a good chance of warm weather & chose Cerro da Marina on both location + the excellent reviews.
Location is central - it’s half a mile down to the steps to the wide clean beach. Left brings you into the leafy town, right brings you to the Marina. Beach & cliff top walks in both directions are just amazing, lots of flowers out, - we clocked up nearly 50 miles walking & running during our week. Every bend brings a new cove to explore.
The hotel was superb - lovely friendly staff, absolutely spotless everywhere, there’s a great team spirit here we felt, with a pride in the hotel and it shows. (A couple of suggestions - the hotel is very quiet but if there’s any noise it does seem to carry a bit through the hotel & as some guests did tend to slam doors and drag furniture around for some reason, perhaps soft close fittings on the doors and felt pads under chair legs might minimise the noise? Because it’s such a quiet hotel, these things tended to stand out.- I am a bit noise sensitive though and appreciate this might just be me.)
Our room had everything we needed, was clean and comfy with a nice pool/garden view balcony.
Onto the food - it is exceptionally good. Breakfasts- everything you could possibly want is there. Everything. Fresh, top quality and regularly replenished- how we loved the breakfasts! & the Evening meals - Wow! So glad we booked half board for the 3 course meals - I am going to go out on a limb here and say I bet there isn’t better food anywhere in Albufeira- the chef(s) here really know what they are doing, I’ve googled some recipes and hope to try make them myself but they won’t be as nice as they are at Cerro da Marina. Probably my favourite - the Seafood Cataplana stew - but every meal was superb. The house wines are great accompaniments too.
We had a fantastic relaxing week at Cerro da Marina, can recommend it 100%, and would like to return one day.