Name: Apartamentos Nautilus
Address: Avenida do Parque 8125 Vilamoura,Avenida do Parque, Quarteira, Quarteira, Quarteira, 8125-404, Portugal
Rating: 8

Restaurant

Meals

Barbecue grill(s)

Picnic area

Recreation

Parking

Garage

Swimming pool

Outdoor pool

Pool and beach

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At the apartment

Vilamouratenis Center

Cerro da Vila Ruins

Rocha Baixinha Beach

Belharucas Beach

Olhos d Agua Beach

Maria Luisa Beach

Santa Eulalia Beach

Oura Beach

Aveiros Beach

Praia do Inatel

Fisherman's Beach

Albufeira Old Town Square

Peneco Beach

Albufeira Marina

Arrifes Beach

Sao Rafael Beach

Faro Island Beach

Coelha Beach

Faro Airport

Castelo Beach

Evaristo Beach

Manuel Lourenco Beach

Forum Algarve

Zoomarine

Carmo Church

Faro Marina

Jardim Manuel Bivar

Antonio Sergio Park

Arco da Vila

Faro Cathedral

Faro Town Hall

Hospital Faro

Faro Old Town

Archaeological Museum of Faro

Faro Municipal Market

Portimao Marina

Rock Beach

Portimao Airport

Portimao Museum

Fort of Santa Catarina

Portimao Town Market

Youth Park

Algarve Casino

Beach Três Castelos

Aqua Portimao

Vau Beach

João de Arens Beach

Tres Irmaos Beach

Beach Prainha

Beach Alvor Nascente

Meia Praia Beach

Algarve International Autodrome

Batata Beach

Pinhao Beach

Fort Ponte da Bandeira

Camilo Beach

Dona Ana Beach

Arch of Sao Goncalo

Lagos Lighthouse

Santo Antonio Church

Lagos Marina

Porto de Mos Beach

Luz Beach

Aljezur Castle

Ingrina Beach

Canal Beach

Penedo Beach

Arrifana Beach

Apartamentos Nautilus

Quarteira

child-bed

child-bed-fee

external-private-bathroom

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limited-time

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no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

sunrise-view

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water-view

with-view

annex

basement

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not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

Nice apartment, fully equipped. Neat and tidy. The surroundings are great and quiet. Swimming pool and private parking lot. Mariana was very helpful and attentive. Highly recommendable. We'll definitely be back.

Nice place

Nice apartments in a beautiful area. The rooms have a large veranda, which was used by us whenever we had lunch/dinner at home. The pool is sperated in 2 parts. A fenced corner for the little kids (30 cm deep) and a big part, which has to different depths (90 cm and 300 cm). The pool is nice and the bar next to it offers food, drinks and live football. ;)
A supermarket is withing walking distance (alisuper), but it isn't really the cheapest place. A bit farther is a Spar market, which offers better prices. The Marina and beach can be reached by foot within an hour. If you don't want to walk, a Deltrain stops by in front of the apartments every hour. It will take you to the beach and marina. One trip costs 2€, with a return ticket you will have to pay 3,50€.

Had a fantastic time

Hi everyone,

My wife (62) and I (58) just spent two weeks at the Nautilus Apartments, Vilamoura.  We have not visited Portugal before.  We rented a car for the whole of our stay and managed to visit most of the resorts on the Algarve.

The Nautilus Apartments are situated in a position about 1.5 miles from the centre of the town and its superb marina.  It is a good half hour walk to the marina, even if you walk fast.  If you stay at these apartments then, personally, I think that a car is a must.  The nearest supermarket is over half a mile away and the beach is a very long way away, probably nearly two miles.

The apartments are situated in a very pleasant and quiet residential area.  The accommodation blocks are in the form of an ‘L’ shape.  As you enter the complex, there is a large dirt car park.  There is a reception office, near to the complex entrance, which is open from 9am until 1pm and from 3pm until 6pm each day, except on Sundays when it is open for one hour from 4pm until 5pm.

The owners of the complex are Fernando and Isabel Mesquita who, very efficiently, run the complex from the reception office. Their son runs the bar/snack bar along with some staff.  The rooms are cleaned by maids on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.  Towels and sheets are changed once a week.

I don’t know when the complex was built but the whole place is very ‘tired’ and dated and needs complete refurbishment.  From talking to Fernando, I got the impression that the couple are trying to sell the complex.  Some of the apartments have already been sold and some are currently up for sale on an individual basis.

There are 66 apartments on three floors, ground, first and second.  There are no lifts.  Our one bedroom apartment was shabby and all of the fittings were old and worn out from the furniture to the beds  to the decorations and tiling.  The kitchen was reasonably well kitted out with cutlery and crockery, there was plenty of cupboard space, a cooker and a new fridge/freezer.  The beds were horrendous and creaked and groaned every time you moved in bed.  There was a satellite TV set in the room but CNN was the only channel entirely in English and, unfortunately, that channel flickered all the time.  Eurosport was on another channel with some English programmes. 

The bathroom was small with a bath and overhead shower, a toilet and a bidet.  The water was plentiful and constantly very hot 24/7.  Safes are provided in one of the wardrobes but there is a charge of 12.50 Euros per week for the key.  There was air conditioning in the lounge area and bedroom but there was a total charge of £20 per week for the use of it and the remote control, which is necessary to control it.

The pool area is extremely small.  The swimming pool is tiny but there is a very deep section (3m).  There is also a small children’s pool, attached to the main pool but it is fenced off.  The area surrounding the pool, on two sides, for sunbathing, is grass and there are about 60 sunbeds at the most.  There are no umbrellas in this area at all but there are a couple near to the bar area.  If you want to get out of the sun then it is necessary to move away from the pool and bar areas into one of the two garden areas.  These garden areas are very pleasant and consist of large areas of lawns which are dotted with mature pine trees which give good shade.  There are no sunbeds or chairs in these areas but it is possible to take sunbeds from the pool area, providing you claim them early enough, say before 8.30am.

My wife and I hardly used the bar/snack bar facilities as we tended to go out in the evenings.  The bar and staff seemed to be fine but there was constant, loud, radio music playing, all day, which was impossible to get away from unless you moved into the garden areas.  I cannot comment on the food available as we never ate there, however, it is fair to say that I never heard any complaints about it. Evening entertainment consisted of radio or CD music from the bar but on Friday nights there was Karaoke provided by the guests.  On another night, each week, a singer/guitarist played to tapes.  Entertainment and music usually ended at just after 11pm.

As other writers have described, there is a supermarket which is about a kilometre away.  To get to this supermarket, go out of the complex entrance and turn left in an easterly direction.  Walk/drive to the end of the road where there is a roundabout, turn right towards the town and then take the first left.  The supermarket is situated on the left after about two hundred yards. Next to the supermarket is a newsagents and there are a couple of bars/snack bars. There are also some places to rent cars and some estate agents.

In this area, there is also a great place to eat.  As you approach the supermarket, etc., immediately before is an uphill road, on the left, with lots of new apartment blocks. Walk up the hill for about 200 yards and, on the right, between two blocks, is the ‘Restaurante Snack Bar Marbel’.  This is managed by Jorge Costa Dias and his wife.  The premises are situated in a sort of landscaped area between about three of four apartment blocks, overlooking a nice swimming pool.  There is always pleasant background music playing and the food is great from fresh fish to steaks to pizzas.  I think that the bar is open until about 3am.

There is another complex containing a supermarket, shops, bars and restaurants, within walking distance, but we never used any of the facilities so cannot comment.  To get to the complex, turn right as you leave the Nautilus and walk in a westerly direction for about 600 yards, turn left and walk in a southerly direction towards Falasia Beach, the complex is on the left and there is a large car park infront of it.

We tended to eat in the Marina area or in the surrounding streets. There are hundreds of restaurants of all types and nationalities.

Mr and Mrs Mesquita work at the Nautilus until about 7pm.  At this time they leave and go and work in their restaurant which is situated near to the Irish Pub behind the marina.  The restaurant is called the O’Colonnial and is very nice.  Nautilus guests get their first drink free.

We did not use the minibus from the Nautilus into town but everyone praised it, the cost was 1.50 Euros each, per single trip. Many people used taxis to or from the town/marina areas, the cost was 5 Euros, either way.  Taxis can be hailed at night from behind the marina or near to the casino area.

My wife and I had a great holiday at the Nautilus Apartments but, as previously said, we did our own thing, eating out each evening and, on alternate days, visiting other resorts or towns from Vila Real de Santa Antonio in the east to Lagos in the west.  We also visited Faro.  The Portuguese motorways were toll free.

Many of the guests at the Nautilus had been before including one family who were on their third consecutive visit.  Everyone said that it was a great place for a cheap, quiet, family holiday and particularly good for young children because with the pool area, bar area and children’s playground being so small and immediately next to each other, it was easy to oversee their children. Also, whilst we were there, a children’s supervisor started work, for a couple of months, during her break from university, she also acted as a waitress at the O’Colonnial Restaurant during the evenings.

Vilamoura has two main beaches, the town beach, to the east of the marina and Falasia beach which is to the west of the marina but it is not easy to get to.  Both of these beaches are a very long way from the Nautilus complex and transport is recommended to reach them, particularly if you have children.  At Falasia beach there is plenty of ‘pay and display’ parking.

We took our holiday with ‘First Choice’ and their rep, in the resort, was Amy Fletcher.  She was very helpful and available twice each day from 11.15am until 12.30pm and from 6.15pm until 7pm, in the bar area.  As usual, she pushed the usual excursions, etc., and also car hire.  Most of the trips were cheaper if you either booked them yourself or through the Nautilus reception.  Also, car hire (with Alamo) was much cheaper if booked through the Nautilus reception than with First Choice.

I hope that this review is of some use to anyone considering a holiday at the Nautilus apartments.

Ian.


Nautilus Apts. - 8th to 22nd July 2004.

We have been visiting the Nautilus apartments for the last 3 years. We have had some great times and met some lovely people. Everyone at the Nautilus makes you feel very welcome, especially Fernando, who is a very good friend and along with all his colleagues makes your stay memorable. I would urge anyone thinking about booking their summer holiday to the Nautilus to DO IT NOW BEFORE IT BECOMES FULLY BOOKED, I promise you won't be disappointed. We are so looking forward to out fourth visit in the very near future!


Fun and very friendly

We arrived at The Nautilus not really knowing what to expect of Portuguese holidays.
It seemed really quiet and peaceful, and we hoped this would last.
While we awaited keys we rested at the poolside bar and gasped for breath in the searing heat (much warmer than early morning Manchester Airport!), while the kids ogled lustfully at the clear pool!
The accomodation was clean and satisfactory-quite spacious! Kitchen was well equipped (apart from a pair of scissors) but the electric cooker a little slow.
The bathroom was fine, bath with overhead shower, a shower curtain (quite a novelty after the Greek Islands), a WC, bidet and large wash-basin.
The pool is treated every night from 9pm onwards, and is open until then.
There are supermarkets 5-10 minutes walk away. (Out of main entrance, turn left, walk to roundabout, turn right, at next crossroads turn left and past the "Topiaza" snack bar (and Pub) you will find Alisuper the "supermarcado"
A walk into town is about 20 minutes-about 25 to the marina. There's a shuttle bus available too, from reception almost every half hour.
for a family of four it is probably cheaper to get a taxi...we usually walked in and then taxid back-fro less than 5 Euros!
We visited Aqualand which is near "Albufeira" - their coach stops at the Nautilus daily there and back! Take your sunblock!!
The 4 of us did a "sunset cruise"a 2 hour boatride total cost with 2 adults and 2 kids was about 27 euros.
Don't miss the Roman Ruin near the Marina. I'm no history type but they amazed me and my 8 year old is still excited about having seen them. There are amazing examples of preserved mosaic floors and the varios parts of the villa are incredible! Entry there is cheap too-we paid 2 Euros-for all of us. They give you an English map and there are info boards all the way round. At the end a small museum with some of the artifacts and SKELETONS unearthed there!
Do NOT miss the marina and the shops and snack bars there...and gorgeous ice creams!
Back at the Nautilus more kids arrived over the 2 weeks we were there and days around the pool livened up. However, at night time the bar called last orders at about 11pm ish (serves food till 10pm) and by 1130pm all is peaceful and quiet!
Another thing about the bar: It serves the best Chicken Piri Piri in Vilamoura! And that's a fact!
Would I go back? Absolutely. I might pack a dishcloth this time and a pair of scissors but that's all.



Nice Nautilus

As a family we had a wonderful time, it was relaxing, quant and the surroundings were beautiful
The apartments were clean and spacious and a great atmosphere.
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