Just returned from Terceira, where I spent a few days at Hotel Beira Mar. Terceira is a fantastic place for a week long break, and the Hotel Beira Mar could not have been a better pick. The hotel ticks all boxes: location is wonderful (check the view from room 103), room and bathroom are very comfortable and clean, and the staff very friendly, hotel's restaurant is quite good and breakfast is excellent, with a good fruit-salad and some fantastic cakes.

We stayed for three nights as part of a tour of three islands. Our rooms were on the first floor facing the bay which meant something to look at all the time (they were busy making the beach ready for summer, big engineering machines sweeping the sand, men getting a bathing float and a trampoline afloat, putting up boardwalks and umbrellas)...one of our two rooms had a large balcony where we sat and had lunch at a few occations.
The staff were nice, and the restaurant was really good and cheap, only they played pan-pipe music every morning - not to our liking!

On the backside: We have never seen a smaller lift in any hotel! It hardly had room for one (small) person and one (small) suitcase! The electric wiring did not seem wholly reliable - in fact, the aircon in one of the rooms made the plug in the wall overheat and almost catch fire, so an electrician was sent in.

There were 14 of us that stayed at the Beira Mar Hotel. All of us were given seafront rooms as requested - in fact we took up the whole 2nd floor except for 1 room. The staff couldn't have been nicer, the rooms were clean and comfortable and felt bright and cheery with the breeze coming in the open windows. It's an excellent location with the beach being right below our window and the old town just around the corner. We enjoyed the generous breakfast and loved hanging out on the terrace over dinner. All in all it was an excellent stay, and I'd do it again anytime.

My Aunt and I shared a lovely room facing the ocean bay. The view was beautiful, the ocean breeeze refreshing. The morning meals included with our stay of two weeks were very good and offered a great variety of foods to pick from. We loved our stay here and on this beautiful Island. Although our visit was approx. 10 years ago, we still talk and revisit our wonderful stay often.