August 2008
Review Submitted: October 12, 2008
Date of Stay: August 2008
We stayed at “Uma Casa com vista para o mar” for 2 weeks in August and were absolutely delighted. We were a party of 5 adults with 2 teenage boys and this spacious villa had plenty of room to accommodate us all easily.
Antonio and Helena, who had been a great help with the booking process, greeted us on our arrival and showed us around the villa. They made sure that we were comfortable and answered any questions we had. They obviously have great pride in their house.
This four-storey villa with a large corkscrew staircase is spacious, well equipped, and has great natural light levels. The bedrooms and communal rooms are tastefully furnished, decorated and comfortably appointed with a lot of storage space. The bathrooms too are luxurious.
The view from anywhere at the front of the house, but especially from the upper dining room, is truly astonishing. While eating in here every evening we watched the coming and going of the many boats in the bay of Sesimbra, and as one of our party is a keen amateur astronomer it was ideal for star, and moon, gazing.
The secluded pool area is situated in the top garden. A gazebo provides plenty of shade on hot days and we found it lovely to sit and eat lunch here.
From our experience, Sesimbra is ideally situated for days out. Lisbon is only half an hour’s drive and the great Palaces of Sintra about 45 minutes. There are many stunningly beautiful well-managed sandy beaches within a short driving distance. Whilst Sesimbra with its narrow streets is quaint, with a strong fishing heritage, we found the beach here too busy and commercialised for our tastes particularly during the weekend periods.
We had a wonderful holiday and would highly recommend this lovely villa as a holiday home. Also a big thank you to Antonio and Helena for making it such a pleasurable and relaxing place to stay.
Owner's Response: At 4 years ago we were looking for a small farm in country side of the Arrábida Natural Park which is in the neighborhood of Sesimbra. But some day a misunderstand of a real estate agency took us to Sesimbra and to this house which immediately had captivate our emotions and makes to induce a 180 degrees turn in our projects and dreams.
Persisting what has became our new goal and since then, all our efforts were directed in a overall improvement of original house since the roof until the entire water pipe tubes including of course the interiors and all external areas such as the swimming pool and both garden areas. We though to recreate a beach house interiors, light but with a design approach in comfortable ambiences and we decide to offer this house to our guests as it was for ourselves. What we mean is that in spite we had decided to rent the house, nothing in terms of decoration, equipment and furniture has suffered a minimum change and stays just like we use it for ourselves. We simply like to offer a house that we would like to found if we were visitors looking for a holiday house.
And that is why we fill of course, highly rewarded specially when we hear or simply see and felt our guests pleasure for the house accommodations the decoration the interior architecture or the beautiful sea view.
We also fill that we have been rewarded by outstanding behavior of our guests which has been extremely careful and responsible in the house.
The owners Helena and Antonio
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