Hotel Apartamentos Zarco
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Hotel Apartamentos Zarco is an excellent choice for travellers visiting Vilamoura, offering a family-friendly environment alongside many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay.
You’ll enjoy relaxing rooms that offer a refrigerator, a kitchenette, and air conditioning, and you can stay connected during your stay as Hotel Apartamentos Zarco offers guests free wifi.
Plus, Hotel Apartamentos Zarco offers a pool and a lounge, providing a pleasant respite from your busy day. For guests with a vehicle, free parking is available.
While in Vilamoura, you may want to check out some of the restaurants that are a short walk away from Hotel Apartamentos Zarco, including Salmora Live Kitchen&Bar (1.0 mi), La Pizza Loca (0.5 mi), and Willies Restaurant (0.8 mi).
If you are interested in exploring Vilamoura, check out a history museum, such as Cerro da Vila.
Enjoy your stay in Vilamoura!
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Ok so we couldn’t find any recent reviews for Zarco anywhere and my oh my we searched. The photos looked decent so we rolled the dice and stayed there. So glad we did. This is a super little 3 storey complex. All the good later but first the bad:
Travelling with an 18 month old we wanted ground floor accommodation. Numerous emails back and forth preceding the holiday confirmed our request. We arrive to be told ground floor not available for the first 3 nights, Grrrr. The in house management were loosely sympathetic; the outside management were completely unsympathetic, to the point of being bang out of order. We were offered a 5 euro discount per night with very much a take it or leave it attitude. We decided to stay and were glad we did. Just be aware if you have any issue at the hotel you may be left frustrated and annoyed at their attitude. Not typically Portuguese I would add and the fault is with the Hotel’s management.
So the good and there was lots of it. These apartments are ridiculously quiet. Fantastic for a toddler (ours slept 10-12 hours straight every night) which meant we slept too. The cleaning was superb and I mean superb, Every single day, fresh towels, floors mopped etc. Swimming Pools immaculate and the garden lush and green.
Ok no restaurant on-site but you can get coffee for 60 cents and ice creams, cold drinks etc all around the 1 euro mark. There is a supermarket literally just around the corner and a few local restaurants. The best by far being A Carpa
which does great simple food at a good price. Parky’s is, well what it is. Plenty of reviews of Parky’s on the net but I will just say we enjoyed a number of drinks there and found the entertainment of a comedy value (even tho it’s not meant to be )
Zarco’s is about 30 mins walk to the Marina, pleasant enough in the evening but tough in the afternoon sun. The Marina remains overpriced for meals so try the back streets for better food and prices. Highly recommend Sun Dragon Chinese, set buffet price of 9.90 euro, Food cooked fresh and was very very nice. Also ask for Concorde restaurant, great food in a nice square. There is also a bar a couple down from here ran by Al.
Zarco’s is part of a Portuguese chain called Clube Interpass which offers membership in Portugal and members can then stay at the differing hotels for cheap rates. This would explain the lack of reviews available as it has mainly Portuguese guests.
We hope if you have stumbled on Zarco’s this review will help you make a wise choice in staying there, a fantastic value for money holiday base.
However, when I got here, I was greeted by the most lovely lady. I was staying here for 1 month and my mum came along for a couple of days and they allowed her to stay for free and then they allowed my cousin to come stay for a week and a half for no cost.
I moved into my room which was at the back with no view of the pool and because of this, the woman came and asked if I wanted to switch rooms since I was staying for so long and they didn't realise which room I had - this made me feel very glad I chose this hotel as it showed they really did care about every guests experience no matter what they were here to do.
The cleaning is amazing here, the change the towels every day, ifni left to go to work without doing the dishes they would do them for me which I did not ever in a million years expect.
The food here is also really good considering.
The distance from here to the marina is about a half an hour walk or if you would rather, there are rental bikes right outside at the car park!
Considering everything that I had in the month I was here, I would NOT expect this hotel to be a 3* as it delivers such an amazing service in every aspect.
Cannot recommend this hotel enough, when my family visit or friends I will recommend this hotel straight away!
Reception staff lovely & helpful
Pool area quiet & loads of grass space if you wanted a quiet corner
Umbrellas - only 5 but we managed to get 1 every day & there's plenty of shady places u could move your bed 2
Has a main pool & baby pool - both cold but good when it's HOT! Main pool average size rectangle & from 1.1M - 1.6M
Snacks available until 1am - there's 2 cafes near Spar that are cheaper though , but they looked nice
Spar a 2 min walk & a larger supermarket about a 15 min walk & another 10 mins - near Marina a even bigger 1
Marina approx 2000M walk all flat & easy when u figure it out!
We had 1 bed apartment - cleaned daily & fresh towels - microwave, kettle & hairdryer (not very good though)
TV had a few English channels to watch while getting ready
WiFi was 1 of the best I've ever had! & free!!
Reclining sunbeds - padded cushions available but not for every bed
Air con in bedroom & living room
Shower excellent!
Would come again!!!
"I would like to return to a room overlooking the pool, no real view from the other side of the hotel"Read full review
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