Hotel Pestana Alvor Praia

With a private lift access to Praia dos Três Irmãos beach, well-designed pool and leisure facilities, and sea-facing rooms, the Hotel Pestana Alvor Praia is the perfect base for a week or two away in the Algarve. Due to its location, good-size guest rooms, decor, service, and food, the hotel can rightfully claim to be one of the leading five star hotels on the Algarve. A large free-form swimming pool outside overlooking the coast is one of the hotel's highlights, as is the health club with its heated saltwater pool and array of wellness facilities. Featuring innovative modern architecture, the ambience is low-key and relaxed and a short walk will take you right to the beach which is pleasingly undeveloped.

In the Hotel Pestana Alvor Praia's airy guestrooms, furnished balconies face the ocean or the garden. Other highlights include high-speed Internet access, overstuffed reading chairs, and marble bathrooms with robes and bidets. For dining, the hotel offers 3 restaurants: Harira, serving Moroccan cuisine; Almofariz, serving modern Portuguese food; and the Pool Bistro, serving light grilled dishes at lunch time. As well as the stunning outdoor pool, and indoor health club, there are 7 tennis courts (5 clay and 2 hard surface); Pestana Nautical Centre on the beach for watersports, a driving range and putting green, and eight golf courses within a 15 kilometre radius.

Hotel Pestana Alvor Praia is located in Alvor; the old town is set back from the expansive beach, with a grid of whitewashed houses and cobbled streets extending up from the Rio Alvor estuary. The partially undeveloped beach is an arch of soft yellow sand stretching between cliffs and dunes, with a wild feel, and the harbour still has fishing boats in it. Faro Airport is 74 kilometres and Portimão is 5 kilometres.