Top notch luxury and 2 Michelin star standard cuisine. The Hotel Vila Joya is a superbly located neo-Moorish style villa, positioned as it is with the ocean at its feet and surrounded by pine woods and a wonderful garden replete with palm trees, cypresses and agaves.

Though inside decoration is modern and very elegantly done, there is a certain 1001 night’s feel to Vila Joya. On entering the atrium, for example, the visitor passes through a marvellous vault and is met by the Maître de Plaisir in his white gown reminiscent of a Sultan. As befits such a location, all rooms have views of the Atlantic and a terrace to enjoy it from.

This is also an excellent place for golf enthusiasts as there are a number of fine golf courses nearby, including the world famous Vale do Lobo, Penina and Quinta do Lago clubs. In fact, there are around 14 courses within shouting distance. In short, a perfect environment to relax, take in the sea and enjoy some of the best coastlines the Algarve has to offer. Vila Joya Spa provides gym, sauna, turkush bath, water corridor with experience showers, two inside treatment rooms with one of them being a couple treatment room, and two outside treatment rooms, of which one is used for Ayurvedic treatments. The hotel has a two-Michelin-star restaurant where you can enjoy your meals on a beautiful terrace with seaview.