We fell in love with Casa Bonita on our first visit even though it was only half built at that point. The views are just amazing and our main thought in designing the house, garden and pool deck was in maximising those. We're a mixture of sun and shade lovers so we ensured we had a good balance of shaded terraces and deck area for the loungers.
We love this area, Luz is a beautiful village with cobbled streets, bars, restaurants, cafes and a gorgeous beach with childrens' play area. We also like to wander into Burgau and have a lazy lunch on the beachfront restaurant before a slightly slower walk home!
Lagos itself is beautiful to walk around, the cobbled streets are gorgeous and have any amount of great restaurants (Italia, Dom Sebastiao, Dom Henrique. We also like the marina and cafe Oasis.) There's always street entertainment in the summer months and the beautiful old carousel in the centre of the town is a great hit with the children.
We think we're ideally situated here to have a little bit of peace and quiet but perfectly accessible for the towns (we often taxi into Lagos for a night out) and sightseeing further afield. We've travelled up to Lisbon and spent a night or two on different occasions and the motorway makes it an easy run up and back. We're also just over an hour from Faro airport and, again, the attraction of the easy motorway journey almost door to door appealed to us for long weekends and travelling with the children.