If Baby-Friendly Boltholes could design resort holidays, Martinhal is how they would look. Having opened in summer 2010, this
fabulously well designed villa and hotel resort boasts both sophistication and
family-friendly appeal in spades. Plus it is pretty reasonably priced too.
The new resort is a smattering of funky cubist villas, a modern take on a
village square, a spa and a hotel set on the edge of a nature reserve near the
charming town of Sagres on Portugal's Algarve coast. It's contemporary but
comfortable feel is, in places, somewhat reminiscent of a Heals catalogue set
with high quality retro-modern furnishings set in front of huge picture
windows, often framing views of the unspoilt coastline.
From tots to teens, there's something for everyone in the wide ranges of
facilities on offer, which are carefully blended into the landscape so it is
easy to holiday in a chic villa by a beach and relax, but also seek out
activity or sociability as and w
