Myself and five friends travelled to the Cascais region of Lisbon on a golfing break staying in a 3 bedroom town house on the Vila Bicuda complex and I have to say it was one of the most relaxing holidays I have ever been on..
The complex itself is made up of 1,2 and 3 bedroom villas/town houses and within the complex there is a supermarket (reasonably priced) a restaurant (nice food, just not a lot of choice) a pateserie (amazing doughnuts!!!! and pastries) .
For us it was a great base as the 3 golf courses we played were within a 15min drive..
The town house had a great layout with two bedrooms downstairs and the 3rd upstairs , same with the bathrooms..
bigish kitchen and great lounge diner, outside there was a big terrace with a table and chairs with great views of the pool.. overall I would have no hesitation in going back to Vila Bicuda.. infact we have another golf break in the planning to go back in 2012..

Oh and before I go it was cleaned every day.... Spotless!!!!

We enjoyed our holiday with our 1,5 year old. The price & quality proportion is not good.
Advantage: friendly staff, play area, quiet, bakery / café / supermarket on site, pool within reach of babyphone, transfer arranged by reception. Disadvantage: bed is horrible, pool is not heated (23 Celcius), no security for children in villa (electricity / stairs) . You have to pay for wifi and safe. The kitchen is not well equiped (cloth, etc.). Bring your own wood & candles..not provided. Jumbo supermarket is nearby and look for Cascais Villa shopping (5 km up north), beach Quincho is nice and in the centre of Cascais.

very nice laid-out resort with 2 nice swimming pools, but not much else to occupy 4 teenagers, and with lots of little children around they got frustrated at times. We had a T3 villa, which was very roomy, but minimalist. Lots of annoying ommisions to the kit, like 2 small saucepans and a dish for self-catering 6 hungry people! No milk in the tiny 'welcome'pack, so get some before you arrive. We had to buy everything like cleaning cloths and liquids,matches. Again,given the level (4*) this property aspires to, this was unnecessary and annoying.The upstairs verandah had no chairs to sit out on, so we had to drag chairs up from downstairs.
The maid service is daily, and excellent.
There is no washing machine, only a dishwasher. this is really incomprehensible, given the target market (families with young kids) of the resort, and that leaves folk 2 options: either pay expensively to use the dry-cleaners/ laundry onsite; or hand wash and hang stuff indoors ( you are not allowed to hang anything outdoors, so everything takes a while to dry... be warned. There is a tiny rack-thing to hang clothes on, but try washing out swimgear for hefty teenage boys and hanging it on that!!!!)
The supermarket is well-stocked but really expensive. If you have a car, there is the Jumbo store and Continente in Caiscais.
The noise levels are high at this resort, because of having so many little children there, so it would be disappointing for a couple seeking a quiet relaxing break.
All in all, this was a pleasant resort, great for touring the area, but a car is a must.
Another plus, is you get the chance to mix with other nationals, as ther are very few Brits: mostly Portuguese and Scandinavians.
Our enthusiasm for Vila Bicuda is rather muted by the irritating lack of attention to detail, which would have made the resort so much more appealing, in our eyes.

If you just want a beach/sun/pool type holiday in Portugal, and don't mind where you go, then there are similar resorts of a much better standard and quality, for the same cost, elsewhere. We stayed at Quinta da Encosta Velha , one of the Vigea resorts last year, and it was in everyway superb, better equipped,more character, than Vila Bicuda.
I would recommend Vila Bicuda to a friend, but only if they really wanted to visit this area of Portugal, otherwise there are better places to stay.

We had'nt hired a car. my daughter took public transport from the Airport which is not to be reccomended.My wife and I took a Taxi. The driver agreed that the fare would be Euros 35 but on arrival it had gone up to Euros 49. The rooms are large and well furnished with aTV with a few English channels. The kitchen is top class with a dishwasher (tablet provided daily) Fridge/freezer 6ft +. The terrace was facing the swimming pool but separated from adjacent villas by hedges which afforded visual privacy. Good lighting allows the reading of books outside at night . Very little noise in the evening and none after 10.30. Great little mini-market and Italian restaurant on site.