At 2.30 am we drove to Rhys’s, left Ellie there for her holiday and Rhys drove us to Gatwick airport. We had speedy check in and also paid for the lounge which we really weren’t impressed with. I guess if you want to drink alcohol at 6 in the morning it is good but we didn’t! The food wasn’t that good either, as for the speedy check in there were so few people there anyway!
But it was an amazing sunrise as we left the UK.
A good flight and even better that it is only 3 hours. We were driven to Pestana Royal. This was not our original booking but the hotel we were going to stay at was closing half way through our week for refurbishment and so they sent us here and because they changed the hotel we had a luxury executive room with a sea view. The room was huge with a kitchen, sofa and armchairs. It also had a massive balcony. Very impressed.
The view from our room was lovely. We also discovered that there were 10 tables on the terrace outside the restaurant where you could eat. We don’t like eating indoors and managed an outside table for nearly every meal. You had the choice of red, white, rose or prosseco every meal and they keep topping your glass up.
In the evening we listened to a guitarist as we sat outside and drank a little too much!