This is a really comfortable hotel. We stayed 3 nights and found it very convenient. The only thing that can improve is the breakfast - limited and only cold food. The beaches, supermarket, farmers market, and restaurants are all near by. Elizabeth, the receptionist was very polite and accommodating when we arrived before check in. The rooms are clean but the bathroom is a bit old (but clean). Make sure to try A Forja restaurant near the hotel (turn right and right again - 2 mins walk) best local inexpensive restaurant. Also make sure to take a trip to the Grottos. Instead of the big tour groups, walk along the Avenue towards the beach. Just near the Fort, you will see small fishing boats. Ask one of the local men for a trip (only cost 10 euro/person, 45 mins) make sure to go when its low tide as you will have access to most grottos. I took this advice from a previous post of TA and was quite pleased. Our guide was Marino, very nice and knowledgeable gentleman who was happy to stop for us to take pictures - make sure to ask for him

The people here, all 3 that I met, are wonderful, helpful and friendly. Free wi-fi is great. The breakfast lacks hot foods, but is otherwise fine considering the status of the hotel, with cold cuts, cereal and the like. The hotel, for this star rating, is beautifully kept, clean and modern. It is well located right behind the main square, too--perfect to get there in a hurry, and yet be a little insulated from the hustle and bustle. In many respects, this is a real find, a reasonably priced little gem in a faraway place. There are a couple of issues, unfortunately and one or more may be deal breakers: a) you can access the hotel either by a long staircase from the main square (Gil Eanes, an easy walk from the bus station), or by walking around to the back of the square (the street going up a little from the left arm of the Rei statue leads you to the hotel). It may be hard to get up the steps with a lot of luggage, but going around while slightly longer is pretty easy. Once in the hotel, though, particularly depending on what wing you're in (it is as if two buildings were combined at some point), there may be more steps inside that the elevator can't cover. So, if you're disabled or the like--this may be a tough place to navigate on the whole. That's the more minor issue, unless you’re disabled or really carrying lots of luggage. (b) The major problem—boy, the walls are thin, at least in my room they were! This is not a problem unique to this hotel, but it is a huge problem here. You can hear every word--or sex act--taking place in the next room without problem. It doesn't even seem a little dulled. I've run into this before, and at far more expensive and lofty places, but it is pretty blatant here, which is regrettable. It is hard to deal with when it seems like the people next door are actually in your room. I'm not sure I could stay here again.

My main complaint is that the shower water was not warm and that water got all over the place. The room is 70s-ish but big enough and has good wifi. Location is very central. Breakfast is a pretty good all you can eat buffet. I only stayed in one other hotel that had better breakfast in the Algarve. I thought it was sort of expensive relative to value, but this seems to be the general case in Lagos on a weekend.

Our room was comfortable and clean, the staff were friendly and helpful, breakfast was okay for the price of the hotel - except for the coffee, which was the worst we had in 4 hotels in Portugal.
Ideally situated for exploring Lagos, and a 10 minute walk to the railway station over the footbridge (fun to watch when it opens to allow a yacht out of the marina).