As mentioned in previous reviews, the apartment is newly renovated, spotlessly clean and very well equipped. We called the manager, Emma, from the airport and she was there, with a welcome pack of goodies, to meet us. The pool is small but we prefer the beach, so that didn’t bother us. The apartment is also at the top of a steep hill, which was fine for us but may be a challenge for others. Top tip: buy your groceries from the local market - exit the apartment from the right and turn right again towards ‘restaurant hill’. We’d highly recommend this apartment. Although there were only 2 of us, it would comfortably suit 5. The only glitch we had was a water outage one night (affected the whole area) but alerted us to the dreadful water shortages in S. Portugal, which we were unaware of.