Casa Santa Lucia, Zacatecas

Advantages: heaven on earth
Disadvantages: none

...the small newsagents in the back streets out of season. In august santa luzia is very popular with potrtuguese tourists, expect a long wait at any restaurant unless pre-booked. Restaurant O mourao serves a 3 course lunch complete with wine and coffee for just7 euros. There are a couple of late night bars notably meia pippa which boasts live music most weekends and Mundo run by a lovley scottish couple emma and fergus. Ther is an excellent B&B casa da Ria run by Jorge and Tensi Hermann where I have stayed many times prior to my property purchase and apartments to rent are plentiful but again it is essential to pre-book in august. A short ride on the ferry or a 1 euro ride on the mini train up at Pedras Del Rei takes you over to the Isle de tavira or Barril beaches. Over 11kms of soft clean sand to rival anything I have ever seen... Read review

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Advantages: quiet fishing village
Disadvantages: ?

...Santa Luzia is the fishing village in Portugal that we stayed in at Easter. We flew from Luton to Faro picked up our rental car and drove the 25 k to Santa Luzia. Santa Luzia is near Tavira. Santa Luzia is only about 30k from the Spanish border. Santa Luzia is a quiet fishing village on the Ria Formosa, separated from the long sandy beach by a shallow lagoon that opens out to the Atlantic Ocean. Fishing boats and a ferry use this as a harbour. The long sandy beach called Barril beach is easily accessible by either foot, a 15 minute walk or by a small tourist train, (1 euro I think. cars are not allowed. This is a blue flag beech. . When we went at Easter the town and beach was very quiet. One day we walked onto the sand dunes behind the beach and then along the beach. There were a lot of resident and migrant birds, terns, ducks... Read review

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Advantages: helpful staff
Disadvantages: none

...my family and i love the santa lucia hotel in palms nova on the idealyc island of majorca. the hotle is a thomson only hotel so the only fight for the sunbeds is with the british. on our recent visit there we had a problem in the airport with my daughter not being allowed to sit in the comfort seats after the tour operators had taken the extra cost off us. we sought the advise of the reps at the hotel and it was sorted out within 24hours and we ad a full refund of the excess that we had paid. the reps had a good knowledge of the area and was always available to advise if required. the hotel is of an exceptionally high standard and has recently been refurbished. can't wait for my next visit there.... Read review

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