Monte Gordo holiday villa: Casas de Audiencia

What can I say?! This villa was truly amazing and offered us everything that we could have asked for!

As a group of athletes on a warm-weather training camp, we were after somewhere that was spacious, quiet, clean, near to the athletics stadium, close to local ameneties and close to the beach / trails... not too much to ask for!! Normally you would expect to have to sacrifice 1 or 2 things from the 'wish list', but this time we didn't!

The Villa was amazing - clean, airy, homely... we didn't want to leave! The BBQ area was a personal favourite, and the pool was a perfect place to relax after a hard training session.

The beach and trails were literally 3 minutes away, and Monte Gordo itself was only a 15 minute walk. We had a hire car to get to the track and supermarket, but this never took any longer than 10 minutes to get to.

To top it off, Andrew and Else are two of the nicest people you will ever meet - thanks guys!!!

Well, we had a fantastic holiday staying at Casa Elouise! We were a family of 9, and there was so much space. The villa was fantastic, in a quiet location, the pool is larger than it looks in the photos, and it really is just a 5 minute walk to the beach, which is absolubtly beautiful - huge and sandy, and definatly not crowded! There are some great safe cycle tracks in the area too which make it safe and easy to get to nearby towns. I have a strong feeling we will be going back here at some point, both the villa and location were ideal, and everyone had a fab time. Thank you to the owners Andrew and Else who were also great and made our stay very welcoming!

We wanted a place to chill out and relax and the villa succeeded at all levels. It has 4 terraces as well as balconies outside all the upper level bedrooms so everyone had their own space - but it was fantastic to have a huge table table to eat at al fresco by the inbuilt barbeque. Saying all that if you wanted bars, restaurants, shops etc the villa was close enough to Monte Gordo - was lovely to walk along the paths through the pine trees to gt there. The swimming pool and beach kept our children occupied for hours. Everything about Casa Elouise is of the highest quality and probably the highest compliment I can give it is that we have booked to go there again next year.

The villa is situated in a peaceful location and it is much bigger than we had realised. It exceeded our expectations, very spacious and comfortable, very well decorated and equipped. We always ate outside since the villa as a gazebo just outside the kitchen, in the barbecue area, and even on those windy nights (we were there in September), it was very relaxing to have dinner outside.
The swimming pool was great, we used it a lot. The beaches are stunning, long and with golden sand, it is possible to walk for miles.

We were welcomed on arrival by the owners, who gave us information about the house and the area, they are very helpful and friendly.

Overall it was a very enjoyable stay and we highly recommend the villa! It is ideal for a relaxing holiday with the family.

Having rented many houses in the past we have found that whilst factual descriptions may be correct the actual experience can fall short of expectation, this is not the case with this property the description does not do it justice and I would say it compares favourably with five star hotel standard. It was immaculately clean and well presented the owners met us on arrival and could not have been more helpful, everything necessary was clearly explained by them and there was a good information pack in the house. We would happily return here and highly recommend it to anyone.

The layout of the house gives a central living area on the ground floor and two separate bedroom areas, upstairs two double rooms and a twin all with en suite bathrooms and downstairs a master double room with walk-in dressing room and large en suite bathroom, adjacent there is another bedroom with twin beds and a dual sofa bed, this gives a useful split to the accommodation, and was ideal for us as a large family with older and younger children, it should also suit sharers. The house is on a corner plot and because of the site layout is not overlooked, although it is semi-detached you are hardly aware of this because it is stepped back and the rear terrace is higher than the adjacent house. The position of the pool also gives a feeling of seclusion and privacy.

We stayed here without a car and found this easily possible. After using faro airport transfers minibus, booked online 110 euro return for up to eight people, We used taxis for traveling locally, to Villa Real which is where the large intermarche supermarket is and from where you can get the ferry to Ayamonte, Spain. Also to get to and from MonteGordo the nearby town although it is possible to walk there in about twenty minutes which we did on some occasions. Taxis are easily available, coming to the house by telephone booking and from the central rank if in the town, cost for four in a standard car about 5 euro to town and about 10 to the supermarket. There is a small shop with cafe a couple of minutes walk away and two restaurants on the nearby beach so no need to travel far at all some days.

The nearby beach is excellent and not crowded there are parasol/sunbeds for rent and a small number of pedalos, the restaurant has a daytime cafe and coffee shop but overall it is not too commercialised here, more extensive facilities, Jet skis and kite surfing, are about a twenty minute walk away along the beach.