Casa Archipel - Lagedos♡

Unprofessional

2.0

Beautiful architecture & design crumbles under a blanket of mismanagement. This house comes with daily housekeeping while in fact this system is used to check whether your behave appropriately. Small notes are left on the table if you need corrections. The housekeeper also randomly walks into the house unannounced when you are there. Privacy is overrated for the owners. There's also a camera system installed, monitoring your steps. We treated this beautiful home with respect and got the opposite in return. Beautiful design becomes meaningless in this home.

Luxury and comfort in a remote setting

8.0

Beautiful house, a mix of luxury and rustic, comfortable and beautifully decorated. The pool is deep and cool, there are comfortable corners to relax, filled with soft mattresses and pillows. Definitely a home, rather than a rental vibe. A place to relax and switch off.

− It is remote. If you don't have a car, you need to be aware of that. The village is tiny, the shop very limited. There was a lack of useful information before arriving. The only restaurant reachable on foot does not open for dinner. You can pre order take away from them and pick up before they close, but this information wasn't available to us. The restaurant is, however, very good, I recommend it for lunch. The property is not actually located in Ribeira Fria, as both the booking.com listing and the address would have you believe. We had a long dusty uncomfortable ride to Ribeira Fria before discovering that the house is actually in Lagedos. Please change the listing to reflect the correct location. Also giving the house a name would be helpful, we didn't know how to ask directions with no property name.